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him were entirely Intellectual, and the
bill went TO third reading with the
speed of the train which bore Nellie BY
across the continent
SALARIES or ALDERMEN.
Assem- olyman Prices bill providing for
the payment of $3.50 salary TO the New
ark Aldermen appears to have struck
a snag. 1t is safely locked up in
the desk OF the clerk TO the Committee on
seems TO be the Jersey City MEM
bers who object to paying their
Aldermen salary
Governor Albeit is Of the opinion that
the bill as drawn will apply to Jersey
City aid IL can go no further until It is
amended so as to let City Father Allen
and his confreres out.
THE VICE cHANCsLoRs' SALARIES.
Marsh's Vice Chanceliors salary bill
gives each of the -Chancellors a sal
airy OF $1,000 year, aud the Viee-Ordi-
nary, Nfce-Chancellor Van Fleet, $500
additional There has been more or less
dispute as to whether the bill raised any
body,s salary OF not It has been asserted
that II does not, but 1t does. The liked
salary OF each Of the three Vice-Chancel-
lois, Van Fleet, Pitney aud Bird. is 5000
q year. with a per diam allowance Of $40
for each days work. Vice-ChanceI-
lor Van Fleet receives besides his
diem allowance, salary OF $1,000 year
for assisting the Chancellor as vice
ordinary or yice-surTogate-g general. He
sits In court on the average 250 days a
year. His Judicial position yields him
50, 900 a year now, and the act before the
LEGISLATURE would increase his compen-
sation $500. -Cbancellors Pitney and
Bird also sit about $50 days year, and
they now draw very close to Sc, $50 per
annum- The pending bill gives them an
increase of 81 200 a year each. Some Of
the rural members are fighting the bill
so hard that Its passage is endangered.
THE PAY OF THE COUNTY JUDGES.
Senator Winton's bill fixing the sala-
| ries of Law or Presiding judges of Courts
or Common Pleas according to the popu-
lat1on OF the various counties affects
Hunterdon, Warren, Bergen, Cumber-
land, Morris add Middlesex counties.
Judges Richard 5. Kuhl, of Hunterdon,
and Irwin w Schultz, of Warren, will
have an increase from 81 900 TO 81, 600,
Judge j. NJ. Van Valen, of Bergen, will
get s., 800 instead of s., 600. Judge James
Il. Hoagland, of Cumberland, will be adj
vanced from s., 900 to s., 500. and Judges
Francis Child. of Union, and C. T. Cow
enhayen. of Middlesex, will have an in
crease from &, 700 to S, 800. Mercer county
Is not affected by the new law, and Judge
Stewards salary will remain the same.
The principle on which this change is
made is an amendment to the old law fix
ing the salaries at 81 800 in counties of not
more thad $4,000 population; $1,000 in
counties from $4,000 to SO 600; s. 500 in
counties from 5000 to $4,000; s., 500 in
counties from 1900 to $500; S., 500 in
counties from COCO to T9,000. Hudson
and Essex counties now pray their judges
$500 each; Morris, Monmouth and Mer-
Ger, $500; Camden pays Judge Hugg
S.. 100; Passaic pays s., 800; Somerset amp
Sussex, 500 each. The bill is still in the
hands OF the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate.
THE LAY JUDGES
Mr.. Nash's Lay Judge bill is likely to
meet with considerable opposition in the
House. This bill was drawn up in Cam
den county at the request of the lay
| judges there, who have been getting an
nual salaries amounting TO 500, which,
They claim, is too small for the amount
of labor performed. The judges in nearly
| all the second class counties only get fees
| and q per diem In addition, and the
amount of their salaries can only be esti-
| mated. The Camden Judges claim that
they are working for nearly the same pay
as they did when the county was much
smaller. This bill affects all the second
class counties having Law Judges. and
they are Mercer, Camden. Middiesex
Monmouth, Passaic. Morris and Union
The salaries under tht9 bin are to be
| liked according to population, beginning
at 81, $50 for counties having population
of from 1900 TO $1,000 and increasing
to 81. $50 in counties having a population
Of from 79,000 to $1,000. On this basis
the two lay judges in Mercer
will receive si,S50 whereas they now
get considerably below 81, 200. In Cam
den county the salaries viii be increased
| from 500 TO 81. 800; Union from 81. 500 TO
| 81, $50; Passaic from 81, 200 TO $3.50; Nor
| ris will go up to 81, $50; Monmouth from
81, 600 to ST., and Middlesex will prob
ably reach 81, 700.
This is large increase in many OF the
counties, and there will be some lively
talking against the bill from the north
ern part of the State when it comes
up before the House. Messrs. Harris
and Nash, of Camden, will do all
| they can to put the measure through.
Mr.. Voorhees, will be one of the gentle
men who will take hand in bringing
defeat upon the measure. He thinks the
lay judges in the State ought TO be
ashamed to ask for more pay with their
present work. The bill still sleeps in the
committee. G. A. r.