The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-15
speaker to the chair, and discharged
their duty with grace and dignity.
Upon taking the chair General Heppen-

speaker to the chair, and discharged
their duty with grace and dignity.
Upon taking the chair General Heppen-
heimer said:-
In accepting this office, gentlemen Of the AS
sembly, am profoundly sensible. of it's duties,
obligations and responsibilities, and pledge you
to discharge them TO the best of my ability, IN
voking at the same time the hearty cooperation
of every member of the House in assisting me
to maintain the high standard established by my
predecessors.
trust that the session which we are about to
inaugurate will prove to be of great benefit to
the people of this state whom We are sent here
to represent. From all parts of the State comes
the cry for ballot reform.
Bribery intimidation and other election evils,
1 trust, will be rendered impossible In our State
by laws passed at the present session. Tax
alton should bear equally upon all property,
corporate as well as individual.
''This question should receive careful and inn
mediate attention. 1t will be our duty to enact
such laws as may be necessary to raise addl-
tional revenue to pay the expenses of the State
Government, economically administered.
'This revenue, however, should not be raised
by the imposition of State tax upon the prop
erty of individuals, which is already too heavily
burdened by local taxation.
I'VE should carefully consider. the matters
presented by the great laboring interest of the
State, asking for remedial legislation. For this
legislation we can unitedy labor irrespective of
party ties
LET us bring our session to as speedy ter
nlination as will be consistent with the public
utfndutis anu Wnen Tile SNel lailS Ou lue nay VI
final adjournment sincerely hope we will have
earned the gratitude and thanks of the public OF
this commonwealth.
John J. Matthews was elected clerk.
The other officers, as announced in The
JERSEY CITY NEWS of this evening, were
elected.
Routine business was then taken up.
Assembiyman Harris, Of Camden, opened
the ball by entering a protest against the
seating of Assemblyman Nash.
A COMMITTEE ON INAUGURATION.
Mr.. Marsh moved the adoption of the
rules of last year. Mr.. Potts offered q
substitute which added rule that all
bills should be reported by the committee
to which they were referred, written ten
days thereafter A little skirmish be-
tween Messrs. Potts and Marsh followed, /,
in which Mr.. Marsh was victorious and
the substitute was defeated.
Reading Clerk Noonan, who had by this
time become perfectly at home in his po-
sition, attempted to read a resolution, but
after several efforts gave it up in despair.
Speaker Heppenheimer took the resolu-
tion and rapidly read it off without diff
Guilty.
This rather staggered the eloquent
Thomas F., but the mystery of his defeat
was explained when the speaker an
nounced that it was in his own hand
writing. The resolution called for the
appointment of joint committee to
arrange for the Governors Inauguration,
and under it Messrs Mullone, Schroth,
Stull, Synder and Wykcoff were ap-
pointed to represent the House. The
Senate appointed Senators Werts, Cram
mer and Mcdonald.