The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-10
LEGISLATIVE ALL SORTS.
Partisan Observation-Disclosures Rights
borough Gerrymanders.
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TRENTON, Feb. 10. 1s9l.-The Joint
Committee on partisan legislation met
yesterday afternoon and discussed the
measures introduced by Mr.. DAILY to take
the control of several State institutions
and the expenditure OF large sums OF
money out of the hands of Republicans.
The committee resolved to recommend
the measures to the joint caucus today.
The bills will then be made caucus meas
ures and their speedy enactment may be
looked for.
Governor Albeit sent the name of
Hiram ID. White, as lay judge of War
rem county, to the Senate last evening.
Mr.. White was nominated last year but
was rejected by the Senate. He was ap-
pointed, however. by the Governor and
has held the Office in the interim. The
nomination was referred.
There was lively time at the meeting
of the Committee on Agriculture yester-
youthful representative OF the Third Bur
lington district, pleaded for his bill which
provides that anyone on trial for selling
adulterated milk can plead that he did
not know it was loadedn or rather adul-
terated Leon Albeit, Jr., who is counsel
to the Dairy Commissioner, opposed the
bill, claiming that under 1t the board
could not obtain single conviction. He
maintained that the farmers of North
Jersey opposed the bill and Mr.. White as
stoutly maintained that i5 was in the iu-
terest of the South Jersey agriculturists.
The fight will be renewed at seven O'Clock
this evening, when the Committee will
give a hearing on the bill. The Hudson
County Board of Health will have intro
duced bill which will provide for an ad-
ditional health inspector at $1,000.
THE TAX BILL.
The Tax Commissioners expect to have
| the bill which they have been at work on
| all winter introduced this week 1t was
| the original intention of Commissioners
to tax all church property, but they have
changed their minds. and all houses Of
worship with one acre of land in cities
and five acres In the country viii be eX-
empt from taxation.
| Senators Barrett and Cornish received.
| last evening, q delegation of twenty-five.
| representing the employees of the New
| Jersey Central and the Pennsylvania
railroads. the men want a law enacted
which will prevent the railroad COM
panies from compelling the men to be-
| come members of the relief associations
| which the companies maintain. They
want the law framed on the basis of the
| one of last year which was defeated, only
| they want it stronger and more in favor
| of the workingmen. In their opinion it
| should be made unlawful not only for the
companies 20 compel the men to join, but
| to discriminate against those who are
| non members. A majority of those pres
ent this evening are members of the
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and IL is said that all the other orgniza-
tions Of railroad employees favor the
| measure. The reason the delegation
| sought Senators Barrett aud Cornish is
| that these two Senators are not supposed
| to be corporation men.
BOROUGH BILLS.
| In the Senate last evening Senator
| Everitt introduced new borough bill 10
repair whatever damage may have been
| caused by the repeal of the Borough act,
which was accomplished so hastily last
| week. Speaker Bergen drew the new bill
| and Eugene Cole tinkered it up little.
| The new act does away with several po-
| litical deviltries which were possible un-
der the old law. 1t will permit no gerry
mander to supply Freeholders. The
courts are 10 have power 30 examine bor
ough lines and determine whether they
have been erected for partisan purposes,
in which case the courts are 10 Interfere.
A bill will soon be introduced to legis-
late all Freeholders out OF Office VINO
represent boroughs. In Ocean county
there are said to be Freeholders repre-
senting boroughs which contain all the
way from 16 to AZ voters.
Poor Ed Mullins mangled body is not
under the ground yet, but u hungry
hoarde of Office seekers are looking for
his clerkship in the State Prison. The
place pays $3.50 a month. Colonel Will
lam II. Farley OF Trenton, is the leading
candidate, having been an aspirant for
the position before Mullen was ap-
painted. Charles Yard, of Trenton, and
Thomas q. Madden, of Cape May. also
think they would like to keep the pris-
ems accounts Madden Is now door
keeper in the prison. There is some talk
of the position going to Hudson, but no
candidate from this region has yet ap-