The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-15
WHICH COMMITTEE /?
Shall Hoos' or 0'Neill's Have the
Right to Hand Out the
Liquor Licenses

There's apt to be q lively time at the
meeting of the Board of Aldermen next
Tuesday evening. The breach over the
committees hasn't been healed, and
there's no present indication that it will
be in hurry. The new committee fac
ton went away from the meeting last
Tuesday evening after adopting motion
to mold an adjourned meeting
next Tuesday evening. The old commit
tee faction sent out yesterday a notice
that special meeting of the Board
will he held at the same hour. The spe-
cial thing to be considered at the 'sspe-
cial meeting" will be the granting of IL
censes, and il it be regarded as a sspe-
cial meeting nothing else can be done:
But il 1t be held TO be an adjourned
meeting,o then any business that comes
before it may be transacted.
HOW THE MINUTES HAVE IT.
The big struggle viii be on the adoption
of the minutes. Alderman O'Neili and
his confreres will probably insist that if
the meeting be either a special or an
"adjournedn one the minutes cannot be
acted on: that, in other words, the min
utes can be approved at regular meet
ing only. They will not. at least, be con-
tent to have the minutes adopted as City
Clerk Scott has prepared them. for those
minutes recognize the proceedings after
Chairman Allen had declared the motion
TO adjourn carried, and after the five
Democratic members had withdrawn.
This is the way the record, as sent by
Mr.. Scott to THE JERSEY CITY NEWS,
reads:-
alderman O'Neill moved that the
Board do now adjourn The motion was
declared adopted, and thereupon Alder
men Connolly, Jordan, keogh, Norton,
O'NeilI and President Allen retired from
the Aldermanic chamber.
ION motion of Alderman Schermer-
horn, Alderman Salinger was appointed
called and Aldermen Hoos, Kaiser, Nc
Arthur, Salinger, Schermerhorn. Smith
and Ward answered their names'
Mr.. Scott follows this record with a
record of what was done by the seven
concerning the appointment of the new
committees and down to the sadoption of
the motion to hold an adjourned meeting
next Tuesday evening and thence to the
adjournment.
Alderman O'Neill will probably claim
that the minutes should have stopped
when his motion to adjourn was de
clared adopted and that everything on
Mr.: Scott's record that follows it has no
right to be there. Alderman Schermer-
horns party will Of course fight TO retain
the record in it's entirety.
A QUESTION OF LIQUOR.
The contest over the control OF the COM
nittees centres on the granting of the
licenses A large number OF applications
have already been received by City Clerk
Scott, and as rule the applications
are considered by the License Committee
during the latter part of June, and re-
ported to the Board for action on or be-
fore July |. when most of the licenses ex-
pire. The whole question in the arena of
aldermanic politics is shall O'Neill's Com
miItee have the honor OF handing out
their new certificates to the liquor deal
ers? or shall Alderman Hoos' Commit
tee have the honor? There would seem
to be but little point to O'Neill's fight.
The opposition has the votes, and
Mr.. sO'Neill cannot possibly force recog-
milton OF his right to report the Licenses
to the Board. The only thing he can ac-
complish is delay in their granting, and
If the police begin arresting saloon keep
ers who have been unable, because Of the
squabbles in the Board, to secure their
licenses, the friends of the Hudson
County Liquor Dealers Association will
be after him with a sharp stick.