The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-06
WAITING FOR SMITH.
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TRENTON, April 5, 1SS9--The fortunes of
the Jersey City charter furnish plot for
q comic opera. The scene is now in the
sand dunes of Long Beach. The ocean
groans on one side, Barnegat Bay is pre-
pairing for next summers crop OF mosqul-
toes on the other, and Barnegat Light
flashes and twinlzles to the northward. A
few specimens of second hand Christmas
trees are seen in the background, and sand
may be had for the carting This is Har-
yey Cedars
Enter Feeney and O'Neill on hand car.
They are attired as members of the House
of Assembly of the State of New Jersey,
but are really pre9eieres ddqlseatses dsso-
littas. They perform some stunts on q
hand car. This is followed by the topical
song, "But Where Is Senator Smith,"
Sergeant-at-Arms Mccormack Is in the
left centre All three have sworn to find
Senator Smith and bring him to Trenton
in time to vote for the Assembly amend
ments to the Jersey City Charter tomor-
row morning
THE SMITH RELIEF EXPEDITION.
In the opinion of knowing ones Stan
ley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha
foreshadows the fate OF this expedition to
find Senator Smith. The odds are in favor
of Senator Smith finding the expedition in
case it gets anywhere within his reach,
which is not at all certain. Senator Smith
is described as prince of good fellows
when he is duck hunting, and half the
Legislature is sorry it didn't go along on
the search expedition, instead OF staying
here to play poker. Ocean county apple
jack is said to be immense Frank Nc
Dermit is authority for this.
The expedition got off this afternoon.
That is all that is known of it for certain.
Its subsequent adventures are veiled with
the same mystery which marked Stanley's
march through the Dark Continent.
Feeney's imagination is just as good as
Stanley's; so let Jersey City prepare for
weird tales. The hand car idea is Feeney's.
1t seems that people are satisfied
to go once or twice a week to
the. part Of the world ~ where Senator
Smith is duck shooting. That is enough
for them. 1t is not certain that the
search expedition will catch the train and
so Feeney took O'Neill along to work the
hand car. Orson Goble says the apple
jack about Barnegat Junction is tre-
mendous. It may upset the hand car.
understood. solemnly declared himself in
favor of the Werts Excise law before he
started, and on that condition was allowed
to go as ballast for the hand car.
AMONG THE DUCKS AND APPLEJACK.
Senator Cranmer is the cause of this ex-
pedition Senator Smith came down from
Sussex county with his gun on Monday
night and asked Senator Cranmer where
there was any good duck shooting down
his way In Ocean county duck shooting
means applejack, and Senator CPanmer
thought Senator Smith knew this. He
told him that some of the finest and old
est duck shooting in the whole State of
New Jersey was to be found down near
Harvey Cedars. Some of it was seven
teen years old Senator Cranmer was
surprised when he learned that Senator
Smith had taken his gun along. He was
overheard to remark that he didn't know
it was necessary to carry out the illusion
as far as that.
Senator Cranmer is beginning to feel
anxious. Senator Smith has been gone
since Wednesday. kilograms have been
sent to all parts of New Jersey inquiring
for him, but without result. Appleiack
down in Ocean county is mighty ticklish,
Colonel Heppenheimer has been informed.
If the hand car does not break down; if
the appleiack behaves itself if the Feeney
O'Neill combination finds Senator Smith,
Senator Smith may get back tomorrow
morning and may vote for the acceptance
by the Senate of the Assembly amend
ments to the Jersey City charter. 1t is
also possible that he may not have
chance of voting.
There is a most terrible winged word
fiying about tonight, carrying dread with
it, In effect it is that the Republican
Senators are seriously contemplating the
adyisability of talking from the time of
SENATOR Smiths arrival if he does arrive,
until midnight, to prevent vote. If they
did this it would be impossible to
submit the charter to vote
on Tuesday. But they would be
obliged to talk plumb up to midnight.
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS has already
stated the opinion of some friends of the
charter that an advertisement in the even
ing papers Saturday and Monday would
be compliance with the two days notice
requirement. Later opinions go still fur
ther and assert that any sort OF procla-
nation by the Mayor before midnight
Saturday would do.
THE REPUBLICAN TALKING SCHEME.
This talking scheme of the Republicans
would supply another scene of the charter
comic opera That they could do it mo-
body doubts. Ex-Governor Albeit once
made a speech seven hours long under
similar conditions; but to the very end he
was bright and witty, keeping his OPP
moments Interested in spite of themselves.
What the result would be of seven
hours speech from Senator Gardner, for
instance, is too shocking to contemplate
Ali this results from allowing Senator
Smith to go duck-shooting. The fact that
he intended to start on the expedition
was known to his colleagues, as was the
fact that the House would insist Oh
amending the BILL and thus necessitate the
presence of all the Democratic Senators
at the end of the week.
AQOGneT IlyStcl y III SehhSSeAoh WIN biiC
hill is the disappearance of ex-Speaker
Sam Dickinson. 1t has been related how
the Republican ranks were closed when
he was here, and how they wavered and
went down before the Democratic forces
on Wednesday when he was missed.
Wednesday morning, it is also Observed
Potts and Patterson were away. Wednes-
day afternoon they were here.
There is talk of amending the charter
in one of two ways If Senator Smith is not
on hand tomorrow. The provision requir-
ing two days notice may be stricken out,
or 4 section may be added providing for a
special election.
See Joseph Warren, auctioneer's advertisement
improvements, No. 81 Bright street, to be sold to