The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-02
THE LEGISLATIVE MILL.
Some Of the Grist it is
Grinding Out.
THE CHIEF JUsrIcESHIp GOSSIP.
Mr.. Boyle's War on the Fertilizers
Objections to Increase the
judges Pay.
Specie. to the sundav Mor,sino Ne,cs.

/ TRENTON February l. 1S90.--Those who
are acquainted with the true fnwardness
OF the affair are quietly laughing over
the state Of mind in which the hayseed
Senators will find themselves when they
obtain view Of the contents of the boxes
which the Senate is now attempting TO
inveigle out Of the possession of City
Clerk Scott, Of our city
They have had their mind so saturated
with tales of the Hudson bug-a-boo man
/ ever since they entered the political nurs-
/ cry that as soon as the boxes are opened
they expect to see something with horns
on. and with hoof and forked tail
They are all deluding themselves with
the same chlnera with which the Repub-
lican leaders SO successfully hoodwinked
! General Edgewater Grub last fall when
ever they contemplated raid upon his
ancestral millions. They fervently be-
| ueve that il the votes were counted in
in Hudson as they are cast. they wofild
| carry the State, and all they have been
waiting for is the slightest pretext which
| would warrant them in getting possess
| sion of the boxes. So when Stuhr came
/ down with his protest these Way-backers
rushed at the chance TO investigate q
| Hudson county election in much the same
/ manner rs the foolish young trout darted
| for the i'll concealed hook, and with the
| same result as will hereafter more fully
| and at large appear, as the lawyers say.
OF course there are men in the Senate
| who know very well that the late Sena-
torial election in Hudson was as hon
estiy and fairly conducted from the
opening of the polls at sunrise on
election day to the final canyassing of
| the vote by the board of canyassers as
any in the State, and look upon
the whole proceeding as the farce
it is. But these can DO nothing with
your member from the sand belt who
sees great capital for his party in
the investigation, and SO the comedy pro-
! ceeds.
Among the assistant sergeants-atrarms
/ which the Senate sent up to your city to
seize the boxes IS Henry G. Garrison, who
| is detective of Gloucester City, with an
excellent record for ferreting out chicken
coup burglaries, murders of game out of
| season and other grave offences.
THE CHIEF JUsTIeEsHIP
| There is much gossip at this early day
over the chief justiceship. although Mer-
GER Beasley's term does not expire until
| 1899. The general opinion prevails that
the present Chief Justice will not be reap
| pointed. He will then be seventy-seven
| years of age. and there is strong opinion
prevalent that he should make way Tor
| Younger blood The Chief Justice how
ever, is very reluctant to relinquish his
hold, and although he would be eigh ty-
four years OF age at the expiration OF an
other term he does not think he is any too
old.
His friends claim that his mind is I'M
! affected By his age and is as lucid and
\ clear as II ever WIS. In proof of this they
| refer to his opinion in the case of Henry
Georges works which is acknowledged to
be one of the most logical piece of legal
reasoning extant in the State. Moreover
they refer to the fact that the great John
Marshall was Chief Justice of the United
States at nearly eighty, and that his sue
cessor Roger B. fancy was eighty-seven
when death removed him from his Office
Notwithstanding all these arguments,
Mr.. Chief Justice Beasely will be retired
at the end of his present term and the
knowing ones say that it will not be so
| much on account of his age as it will be
on account of his vote in the local option
| case.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,
An excellent measure will soon be in
| troduced into the Legislature providing
! for civil service reform in the misgoverned
municipalities of the State.
| 1t will provide tor special qualifications
| for the various executive officers of q
municipality. for competitive examina-
tions, and forbidding removals from such
offices except for good cause. The bill. ii
| it becomes law, Will revolutiOnize the
| system of government for municipalities
| which now obtains. and it win perma-
| nently retire crowds OF local politicians
and heelers from business.
! The need of such a measure is particu-
| larly felt in the election of Tax Commits
| sioners in other than Jersey City
| The law provides that IL each election
| for members of the Municipal Tax Board
one Republican and one Democrat shall
| be elected on their respective tickets and
each to hold Office. TIE idea of the la w
| is to make the Board non-partisan, but
! the effect is that the Tax Commissioner
| is practically elected when nominated In
| his party convention, so the choice of the
Commissioner is made entirely in the po-
! litical primaries under the control of the
most disreputable elemen ts of the party
! 1t is pointed out that there is no rene
| dy, either, when bad candidate is nomi-
mated, and it is declared that the average
| Tax Board in New Jersey is incompetent,
reckless and unfaithful to the interests it
represents, and hence, while $500, 900 600
of personality evades taxation. the aver
| age rate of assessment on real estate does
| not exceed fifty per cent. 1t seems that
in Newark brewery property, which was
sold to the English syndicate for half
million dollars, was assessed only $4,000
| for taxes, and another property, which
brought 81, 100000. was assessed for
Mr.. BoyLE's BosfBsHELL
The large fertilizing works and soap
| boiling establishments along the Passaic
| River and in other parts of the State have
| been shaken up considerably this week
| by bombshell in the shape of bill in-
| troduced by MIR. Boyle, of Hudson. The
| bill in question provides that it shall be
unlawful for any person or corporation
| to maintain or operate any bone-boiling
| or fat or refuse rendering establishment
within the corporate limits OF any city of
| the State, or within one mile of such cor
porate limits. Any person or corporation
offending against the provisions or the
| act shall forfeit and pay penalty of $25
| per day for each day the bone boiling or
| fat or refuse rendering establishment is
| used and occupied for such business.
The county board of health of the county
where the offence may be committed is to
sue for and recover the penalty, with
| costs.
The bill has passed TO a third reading
| in the House without any dissent. but be-
! fore il finally passes it will doubtless en-
| counter serious opposition. It's effect will
| be to drive the great Lester Il Fowler
works from Newark. 1t will interfere
with Assemblyman MeCran's soap boil
| ing establishment in Paterson, and will.
| no doubts INCLUDE in its operation Col
gates ard the other soup works in Jersey
| City. McCran may be expected TO OPP
pose the measure tooth and nail, and
1 what the larger firms will do remains to