The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-16
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swarmlng with big and little POLITICIANS
who pulls wires for the rich plums in
| the gift of the two houses. The Demo.
cratic caucus on Tuesday morning
| chose Jas. j. Bergen of Somerset, as
their candidate for Speaker OF the house
by a vote % to Is for Michael Mullone,
of Hudson.
When the House organized Bergen
was elected Speaker amid loud cheers
and applause. lie is an able man, an
old hand at lawmaking and laH.enforc-
ing. These House officers were then
elected:
Clerk, Thomas J. Noonan, Of llud-
son; Journal Clerk, John $. Nauright,
Morris; Heading Clerk, p. W. Stagg,
Bergen, Assistant Journal Clerk, Frank
P. Jones, Burlington; Engrossing Clerk,
| John IL. DeMott, Hunterdon; Sergeant
| alarms, William IIarrigan, Essex;
| Assistant SergeantS-at- Arms, Edward
| Korp, of Warren, and John Fee, Jr.,
| Middlesex; Bill Clerk, Joseph Thomp-
| son, Warren; Assistant Bill Clerks,
| William C.. Beecroft, Monmouth, aid
Joseph A. Malloy, Passaic; Document
Clerk, John ii. Brady, PassaIc; Door
keepers, John Welsh, William Parmen-
thai, Bernard McGinnis and Matthew
Fallehee, of Hudson; John j. Kelly. o!
Burlington, and Alexander Stone, of
| Essex.
There was no contest over the Presi-
dency of the Senate and Robert ). Adj
rian, of Middlesex, was elected and the
following officers.
Secretary, John Carpenter, Jr., Hun
ter1on; Assistant Secretary, Samuel c.
Thompson, Hunterdon; Journal Clerk,
William Pintard, Monmouth; Assis-
tant Journal Clerk, Thomas W. Hurff,
Gloucester; E%ngrossing Clerk, John j.
Matthews, Union; Sergeant-at-arms,
George X. Coleman, Essex; Assistant
Sergeant-at-arms, Michael Nathans,
Hudson; Bill Clerk, Jacob Edelman,
PaSsaic; Assistant Bill Clerk, William
j. Lowe, Morris; Doorkeepers, John
Van BusSum, Bergen, Jacob 1Iayter,
Middlesex, r. A. Coogan, Morris, and
William Beckman, Monmouth. John
z. Flynn, of Salem, whom Senator
Butcher wanted made Engrossing
Clerk, had TO be content with the APP
pointment as assistant to that office by
Secretary Carpenter.
As o o us the Senate was organic
ed Senator Werls introduce d a resolu-
ton calling for the resembling of the
resolution May 1890, oil which Senator
Mcdonald was unseated. Stuhr and
Gardner defended the claim of Stuhr
to the seat on The point that the case
could not be reopened, but by a patty
vote Is TO ! Mcdonald was granted his
seat.
On Tuesday the House was in session
long enough to feel a flood of bills,
among them these reducing the freight
III milk; requiring mining, q%uarrying
and manufacturing corporations to pay
their men fortnightly; abolishing the
poll-tax in the State; provi ling for an
Electrical Commission in i'll cities,
that shall see that all wires shall be put
under ground; fix-5 per cent. as tie
legal rate of interest.
In the Senate President Adrian ALI
nounced his committees as follows:
Judiciary-Werls, Barrett, Gardner.
Revision of Laws-Marsh, Barrett,
Cranmer. Finance-keys, Everitt, |
Rue. Municipal Corporations-Werts,
Mall9n. Gardner. Railroads and
Canals - Mallon, Brown, Cranmer.
Banks and Iusurunce-Cornish, Win
ton, Gardner. Education - Smith,
Keys, Rogers. Militia-McDonald,
Barker, Craumer. Game and Fisheries
-Winton, Mallon, Fowler. Agricul-
tuie-Brown, Smith, GardHer. Miscel-
laneous business - Smith, Marsh,
Leaning. Riparian Rights-Werts, |
Brown, Leaning. observation-disclosures
aid, Keys, Carter. Claims and PEN
sions- Morse, Butcher, Rogers. Un-
finished DISSATISFACTION, Keys, Car.
ter. EngrOssed Bills-Barret, Butcher,
Rue. Labor and Observation-Disclosures,
Cornish, Cranmer. Boroughs-Bark-
er, Cornish, Fowler.
Among the Senate bills introduced
were these: Prohibiting the killing of
reed birds within one.half mile of their
roosting place except between the hours
of 6 A. N. and I p. NJ, and compelling
the erection of gates or the employ
ment of flagmen at all street crossings
over railroads,