The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-26

Henry Lembeck Chosen to Fill Mr.. Hard
enbergh's Place in the Board of FL
nance--A Tilt Between Mr. Jordan
and Mr.. Salinger.
The adjourned meeting of the Board of
Aldermen, which was held last evening,
aside from the election of Henry Lem
beck as member of the Board of Finance,
to fill the unexpired term of Mr.. Harden
bergh, and little tilt between Aldermen
Jordan and Salinger over the insurance of
the City Hall, was an ordinary affair.
Aldermen Marinus, O'Rourke, Elliott
Salinger, Shawda and Hauck were the
members present at six o'clock, the hour
fixed for the meeting. City Clerk Scott
called the Board to order, and Alderman
O'Rourke was chosen chairman i'll the ab-
sence of President O'Neill.
Mr.. Marinus offered resolution ap-
pointing Mr.. Lembeck q member of the
Board of Finance, and everything ran
along smoothly until Alderman Hauck's
name was called, when that gentleman
arose, and addressing the Chair, said
Il am not opposed to Mr.. Lembeck and
would like to see him a member of the
Board, and have done my little toward
having him appointed by the Mayor. But
am opposed to dual government, and l
wish to he excused from voting"
Chairman O'Rourke declared that Mr..
Hauck could not be excused, and the lat
ter refused to vote. Every other Alder
man present voted in favor of the resolu-
tiOn, and the chairman formally declared
Mr.. Lembeck elected. At that point AL
derman Jordan came in, and upon earn
ing what had been done, desired to have
his name recorded in the negative but
Mr. GROnrlxp faDiad hic Yor11oct
THE RAILWAY MATTER GOES OVER.
The ordinance providing for the extern
sion of the tracks of the North Hudson
County Railway was called up and laid
over until the next meeting of the Board.
Several bills were ordered paid Among
them, one in favor of Charles LIE Vaire for
$40 for obtaining $4,000 insurance upon
the City Hall, was strenuously objected
to by Alderman Salinger upon the ground
that it was excessive. He said that he
could get the insurance for $35, and wanted
the bill to go over.
Alderman Jordan replied by saying that
if the Alderman from the Fifth had in
formed him that he could obtain
the, insurance SO cheaply he
could have had the placing
of it, but he, Mr.. Jordan, had obtained
it as cheaply as he could. Mr.. Jordan
also remarked that it was all right as Mr..
Salinger was going out of the Board, any
how. This brought Mr.. Salinger to his
feet as though some one had touched
spring under his chair.
Il want the Alderman from the First to
understand" he shouted, emphasizing his
remarks with vigorous raps upon his
desk, that am here in the interests of
the city,
''You seem to think that everybody in
this Board is crooked snapped Mr.. Jor-
dan
well, have my opinion of that, too,"
retorted Mr.. Salinger
Further discussion in this line was in
terrupted by the chairman's gavel and the
vote was taken. When Mr.. Salinger was
reached on roll call he made another in
effectual protest and the bill was ordered
paid.
ADJOURNED IN A HURRY.
President O'Neill entered the room at
the clerk to record him as being present
A motion was then carried that when
the Board adjourns it be to meet at four
p. m. Saturday, and was Immediately fol-
lowed by a motion to adjourn.
President O'Neill and Alderman Jordan
Immediately jumped to their feet and
tried to gain the recognition of the chair,
but Mr.. O'Rourke took no notice of them,
and after hastily swallowing q large
mouthful OF air, expended it in the pro
nunciation of one long word, as follows
Moved -That-we-adj Observation-Disclosures
say aye-all opposed-no-this-B -Board-stands-
adjourned" +" rap.
AS Mr.. O'Rourke bolted out of the chair
President O'Neill caught him and wanted
to know why the business of the call had
not been transacted. When he was in
formed that the North Hudson County
Railway ordinance had gone over, he ap-