New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-09
AFFAIRS IN NEW-JERSEY.
THE NEW TAX LAW AND WHAT IT Is Elk
PECTED TO DO.
THE KILLvoN-KULL WATER FRONT AND THE
BILL TO EXTEND THE WHARF LINE OF
THE JERSEY SHORE - THE
NEWARK COMMON COUNCIL.

Ann tOMpiON OOONNi"
Trenton, N. j.. Feb. s.-The construction OF the
new tax law Is going ON with Barker Gummere as
chief builder He is making it about fifty typewriter
pages long, and it may be ready to introduce In one
house of the Legislature the other some time this
week 1t is intended to simplify the present laws ana
TO make some Of them more stringent and more
effective. AS far the law can make assessors ana
collectors and similar necessary evils both wise ana
prudent this law Is expected TO do II. and as Mr..
Gummere Is a Republican and high priest OF taxa
ton and Governor Albeit approves his work, and Is
a Democrat and also high priest, why 1t is supposed
that the law will go through the Legislature without
much objection for legislators in NewJersey are learn
ing to do as they told and not as they happen 10
think they should do, which saves great zeal Oh
trouble OF course, the main object OF the law is 10
catch the taxpayer and make him pay more Tor the
pleasure of beng governed 1t Is supposed that no
likes It, for he insists upon choosing men VINO VIII
do this detective work The fact that the bill Is chiefly
aimed at persons who try TO escape taxation VIII %
SIRE TO commend IL TO those who are forced 10 pay
and there is expected to be great rejoicing when IL %
comes n law The state is gaining wide celebrity for
its success In reaching property for taxation ana III
this respect 1t compares particularly well with new
York. which is always sort Of competitor ana eA'
emplar for New-Jersey In fact, NEWCOMERS do not
nav nearly so much to support their government as
Jerseymen in proportion to their means, wmch parity
accounts for the fact that many Jerseymen nave
their Offices and bank accounts In the bg CITY ihsVen
Of where their factories located IL is TO De hopeu
that the new Tax bill Will come into the Legislature
before long, and that the political measures VIII nos
be delayed The session is already losing It's YOUTH
and il IS time the work to be done was under way
long session Is always unfortunate and 1t is san ths
a shrewd observer can invariably name the weeks Oh
a session that have elapsed by careful examination
of the moral and intellectual and physical decline Oh
the members Certainly they do not at all Improve
with time.
The old New.York Harbor and XII Won Kull Water
front bill Is before the Assembly again In sieh''y
modified form. The measure has been INTRODUCED
and urged by some of the railroad companies III
former years but now it Is said to have the support
% the State authorities 1t gives them more control
~ the matter than was provided for In the PLAIN ran
road schemes The object of the bill Is TO eaUehu
the exterior wharf line of the Jersey shore near 'on
munipaw and southwest Of that point AS all VINO
navigate New-Yorll Bay are aware, the deep-"aV'i
channel from XIII Won Kull to the main harpor 70
far over toward the Staten Island shore ana Det"ee
II and the Jersey mainland is long stretch Of shoal
wafer that is OF no value for shipping purposes wafer
front which will not serve shipping is not OF much
use and the great railroads owning lands on the
NcwJersey Shore look across to the channei WIN
covetous eyes To get there they would Dc Whit
to pay large prices for the shoals ulas are ia" hui"
cred with a few feet Of water, aud W0ula ou uI
ong wLarves and fill in the shadows untll tley NJ
got IN the Mace where they aud the ocean-golnB We
81 conId meet The state owns lands under "a'er
Iut II has long ago fixed exterior wharf INES DeY oh1
vbch riparian lands cannot be sold or letseu' ~
evtcror wharf line between NewJersey ana oa ~
island does not reach half way to the deep water en-
mel The bill In the Assembly proposes 70 aiT Gne ' ny
Rinarion Commission to extend the wharf me %
Ear a. nav be necessary and then TO sell OF fease
IN the best advantage all the riparian Hilus ua,is
ADDED To the domain. The railroads would DC the
huyers as they would have first claliil, Delhg o.e
owners OF the adjoining shore lands. Inc SVa i
,ponId nrobablv get "a good deal OF money, ana ulo
raiiroads would certainly be happy. the New norh
city people have objected TO this plan before incl
have an idea that II those shoals were nIleu III aiu
nccnnied the harbor would be injured: that the shqI
yaters form sort of reservoir Tor The harDOr, aiu
TO change ii would make dangerous currents anu eu
other trouble. Government engineers nave iookee
mt tho matter and are somewhat DIVIDED I'D their
nnnionS The bill in the Assembly VIII provoke
SpeaI of discussion, and 1t would be no surprie 70
see the struggle carried to New-forK ana W WASH
The election Of Democratic candidates for state
Treasnrer and Controller last week. showed thtl te
Hudson County folks have thought best TO give UP
their proposd revolt against the present Leaders OF te
PARTY The means by which they were hducta 10
come to this conclusion are unknown, put II -
Sbreydiv fessed that they were told that they WQuu
he made 10 suffer severely If they continued tner
rebellion The backbone Of the Jersey lily rlIS
he civ government and nothing would he easier ih
~ enact law that would turn ont cleveland anu az,
his lang in a jiify-a cOnsummation dev0uty 10 De
rbc Newark Common Council, after having wasted
a month i'm deciding who should nave the Onic4s, the
Connect being tie, has organized on substantially 'io
basls originally proposed by the Repuohcals'