The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-03
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TRENTON, April g. 18S9.-The Jersey City
charter was reported this morning with
the amendments indicated, except that
two days notice is required. 1t is evident
that the Republicans have decided to op-
pose the bill Voorhees, made a speech
attacking the vote and declaring two
days notice not enough, and that few per-
sons knew what the charter was
Heppenheimer and Feeney replied that
everybody in Jersey City knew of the
charter and that it was necessary to pass
it without delay, so that it could be sub
spoke for sing1e-headed commissions.
Heppenheimer favored three commits
sfoners declaring that they worked salts
factorily.
The amendments were adopted by a
party vote of thirty to twenty-one Brown
moved that the bill be reprinted with the
amendments. This would cause delay and
was voted down. The amendments were
then ordered to be engrossed for a second
reading of the bill.
Ex-Speaker Asa Dickinson is on the
ground giving points to the Republicans.
When the State Tax bsll came up plli tnis
morning the Democrats offered no Substl-
tute. Riker, Republican, said he wanted
to offer an alternative measure, and the
discussion was adjourned till tomorrow
The prospect now is that no legislative
action will be taken, the Democrats be-
be met without extraordinary measures.
Sunday baseball received severe blow
Feeney's bill making it lawful was re-
ported adversely by Chairman Bale, of the
Committee on Miscellaneous Business.
Mr. Feeney moved to disagree with the
report, presenting petition signed by all
the pages and picturing the delight
which the youth of Hudson county took in
the pastime when they ought to be at
Sunday school. Harris, of Camden, had
introduced that morning a bill making
Sunday ball playing misdemeanor. He
Jumped up with speech in which he de-
scribed how hordes of Philadelphians
crossed Sundays to the ball games
q. Gloucester City, drank beer from
kegs they brought in carts and disturbed
the Sabbath quiet generally. The Asso-
citation had planned thirteen games on Sun
day next summer and he wanted to pre-
vent them all. Goble, of Ocean, who is a
preacher, besides being a politician, a
school teacher and chum of Frank Nc
Dermit, got on his feet with his hair all
mussed He said the title of Feeney's
bill should be ''An Act to repeal an Act
passed on Mount Sinai centuries ago."
and descanted on the immortality of Sun
day baseball. Feeney retorted that camp
meetings were sometimes worse than base
ball games The House voted against
Sunday ball playing.
Who says Feeney doesn't look after his
that he had got away with $50 of the LOCO
extra copies of the Werts law, about ten
times as many as he was entitled to. Most
of the other members who wanted copies
of it got left in consequence. The House
ordered an extra supply of 2,000 with a
special proviso that Feeney was not to
have more than his share
The Governor sent a veto of the bill re-
storing political rights to Isaac N. Thomp-
son, of Newark.
The bill giving police surgeons in Jersey
City salaries of 81, ,500 and authorizing the
Freeholders to build, at cost of $500,
u hospital for contagious diseases at
Snake Hill, were passed.
Frank McDermit's diamond brooch
blazed cheerfully over the House from the
Speakers chair while Speaker Hudspeth
fought the Battle Of the Bridges"
on the floor. The proposed structures
acoss the Kills to Staten Island
would be things of beauty, he
said. $50 anxious were the projectors
to do the right thing by New Jersey that
they were willing to pay an engineer ap-
see that they lived up to their promises.
The bridges were to be of the cantilever
type, with no obstructing piers
in the stream. To calm the appre-
tensions of those who feared that the big
coal companies at Perth Amboy would
cross the bridge to Staten Island, he said
that the gentlemen connected with the
companies knew nothing of the bill till it
was introduced. The bridges were to be
twenty feet higher than the Baltimore and
Ohio structure to Staten Island, and there
fore could be of no interference to naviga
tion. The bill was laid over at Mr.. Wied
enmayer's request.
hours a days work on cable and steam
&ailroadS