The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-23
TRENTON 4A'lHLB.
The Legislative Poet Gets
in His Superfine
Work.
ERIES DOUBLE DEALING
Ticket of Leave Talk--How a Promi-.
nent Senator Narrowly Es-
capped Cremation.


ALI with one accord are tired of the
monetony Of the session and anxious to
shake the dust OF Trenton from their
feet, for the balance of this year at least.
Many members have already lost interest
in the proceedings, and ON "Wednesday it
WIS a difficult matter TO obtain a bare
quorum in either House. Over in the
Senate the talk of taking recess until
May or June, in order to allow the SEN
ate Investigating Committee to continue
its work, is becoming louder, and it was
thought some action in the matter would
certainly be taken during the coming
week.
BALLOT REFORM WILL PRoLoNG THE SEES
SION.
But the introduction in the Senate
next Tuesday of the Ballot Reform
bill, rs | wrote you Thursday, will
probably prolong the session two or three
weeks longer. 1t is hardly to be ex-
pected that every one of the sixty mem
eers OF the House and the .twenty-one
Senators will find the bill diawless and
permit it to go through without opposi-
ton.
On the contrary it is expected that the
measure will provoke one of the most
extended and acrimonious discussions
listened to.
THE TICKET OF LEAVE ACT.
The bill comforting upon the Court of
Pardons authority to release prisoners
from the State Prison on a sort of ticket
OF leave, which passed both houses last
week, Is receiving a great deal of adverse
criticism IN certain quarters. The bill
was rushed through the Legislature on
the plea that the State Prison was. so
crowded that it was impossible TO provide
Tor the prisoners as required by law; that
the State was too Door to erect additional
buildings and the only way out of the
difficulty was TO pass the 'sTicket Of
Leave bill This plea is the phase of
the matter at which the criticism is
hurled. The fault finders say they cannot
reconcile the idea that New Jersey is SO
poor that she must turn her criminals
loose upon the country, with the fact that
she can spend $4,000 year to give her
militia holiday each summer at the sea-
side Or spend almost the same amount
annually TO keep above ground some
moribund sheet in the rural districts
PINTARD THE HOUSE POET
Everyone who has visited the House of
Assembly knows Billy Pintard, the genial
journal clerk and the admiration of the
ladies' gallery. William was once an AS
semblyman for Two terms himself and
once practiced law in this city, having an
Office in the old Darcy Building which
Fuller Building. mr.. Pintard's position
is one of the softest berths in the House
and much of the time he has nothing to
do. William, however. is not INDECENT,
and when not engaged in keeping the
minutes he is cultivating the muse which
has smiled upon him. The latest result
of this cultivation is the following lines,
which are very true to nature:-
Mr. Speaker. this bill which hold in my hand,
have introduced here for no pelf.
It's object is clear. as all can understand
Aud, in fact, the bill speaks for itself
Our people all want it and it does not apply
To any other section but mine.
And with purpose so clear all men defy,
To say Chat II don't do 1t fine.
In fact every member shonld vote for this bill
II one don't, shall think him an ass.
But seriously now, all joking aside
It's a good bill and ought TO pass
THAT TENTH STREET PLATFORM.
There is nothing particularly slow about
the Erie railway people. AS Is well known
in Jersey City the Supreme Court decided
against their claims TO maintain plxt-
form Tor the delivery of freight in Tenth
street. An appeal was taken to{he Court
OF Errors, where the matter now rests
Fearing that it might lose the case the
Erie company had bill introduced into
the House making it lawful for them to
maintain the platform which the SUI
preme Court declared to be illegal In
order to avert suspicion Mr.. Zimmerman,
OF Bergen county, was requested to in
troduce the bill and did SO. The true in
wardness of che bill was discovered, how
ever, and the little game of the Erie was
exposed. Citizens whose property the
platform injured came down to Trenton
and worked against the bill so effectually
that 1t has not show its head outside of
the committee room
THE ERIE'S DOUBLE GAME.
While this was going on in the House
the Erie people sneaked over to the SEN
az "a M 0nt SapafOr ire, ar
down in Ocean county, to introduce
the same bill in the Senate. They do not
print the bills in the Senate except on
special order, and it frequently happens
that many an tniquitous measure becomes
"a law in this manner before any one has
had an opportunity to examine it care
fully.
This bill was not printed, and the Erie
people figured on that together with the
supposition that coming from South Jer-
sey and having a title which could apply
TO county roads such as they have in
view, it would slip through without at
tracing special attention | spoke to
Senator Cranmar about the bill and he
said that he did not know what it APP
piled to, as he mad introduced it at the re-
quest of member from the upper part of
the State. ! read Mr.. Zimmerman's
House bill to him and he said it sounded
nightly like the bill he had introduced.
Mr.. Cranmer's bill is Senate No. 1856, to
which the attention of DR.. Watson, Law
yer Yraphagen and the other Tenth street
property owners is respectively directed.
FIRE IN THE TRENTON HOUSE.
There arc very few people in this State
doubtless who are aware of the narrow
escape one Of their most prominent SEN
ators had from being suffocated Thursday
morning in fire which if not discovered
when it was would have undoubtedly
destroyed the Trenton House. About
$3.50 O'Clock Thursday morning one of the
guests of the hotel had occasion to visit
the office. As he passed down the stairs
he detected the odor of burnina CLOTH
He hurried to the office and breathlessly
informed Count Flanagan, the night
clerk that the hotel WAS on fire some
where.
The count said that he had smelled
something burning for some time but
thought that it was Imagination. The
two men then started upstairs to inves-
tigate.
When they reached the landing of the
first floor they sase smoke curling up
from between the floors The fire must
be there, SO the count tore up the carpet.
while the guest made anxious enquiries
for an axe.
A SENATOR IN DANGER.
They soon discovered however, that
the. rae was not there, although the
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