The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-18
REIGNS.
Measures Progress
Rdi1y in the LegiS-
1ature.
HUDSON DISTRICTS
Eembly Redistrieting Bill
lodueed-The Congress
sional Advanced.
OVER ELECTRICITY.
J HUDSON DISTRICTS.
OVER ELECTRICITY.
lies Bitterly Opposed to the
late Subway Commission
Measure.

Ieoiai TO the Jersey City Ne,os.
bN, March IS, 1s91.-There was
Joint caucus at the close Of the
session yesterday, which lasted
hour. Senator Werts. with
corated with plaster, his hand
n old linen and walking pain
the aid Of cane. was present.
he time was taken up in con-
he local differences over the
new Assembly districts. The
y between Messrs. Perkins and
Burlington county, which loses
nblyman in the redistrIcting,
by putting Mr.. White in the
district. The new Tax bill
q caucus measure. and three
Friday was fixed as
for final adjournment.
new bill providing for the APP
pf County Excise Commission
be introduced at the evening
brought forward. Mr.. DAILY
bill made caucus measure;
embers were getting hungry
r. DAILY to introduce 1t, and
consider it at the next caucus
probably be held today.
DN ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS.
nbly redistrictlng bill was In
the House yesterday after
lines of the first eight dis
Idson county were published
RsEY CITY NEWS yesterday.
Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
S.
srcr:-An that portion of the city
ginning at the centre line OF II I'D
nere it intersects the southerly
of said city, thence westerly and
leriy boundary line of said city to
bundary line of said city, thence
Third street, thence to Bloomfield
street, to Hudson River to place
sIcT:-That portion of Hoboken
of weenawken beginning at Hud-
Sixth street, Hoboken to Bloom
b Third street. to the westerly
boundary line Nj Hoboken to the inter section of
the boundary line OF weehawken and Jeffer son
street thence 10 Amelia street to Hackensack
turnpike to a pd&int opposite the southerly endof
Highwood Par1 thence at right angles to the
Hackensack turnpike to intersection OF the south
erly line of ''Hig bwood Park with the easterly
line of Bulls Feriy branch road, thence easterly
to tine westerly lbe of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company tct the Hudson river to the place
Of beginning.
Eleventh Districtt-An that portion of Hudson
ounty now includeA in the townships of Wee
hawken. North Berken and Union and the towns
of West Hoboken, duttenburg and Union except
that portion Of the tbwnship of Weehawken in
the Tenth district.
STATE ELEETRIcAL CONTROL
There is one bilh on the calendar which
is going to raise al lively breeze. 1t is Mr..
Trefz's bill empoJvering the Governor to
appoint a State BOARD of Electric Con-
troll. with unabridged powers. There are
forty electric light companies in this
State with an agdregate capital of s10,0O0-
GOO. and each was represented at hear
ing which was given on the bill yesterday
afternoon by th& Committee on Munich
pal Corporationsl
The bill has |been made a caucus
measure and B3by Trefz, the chairman
of the committee was opposed to giving
the electrical rhen a hearing. But the
pressure from all parts Of the State was
SO great, that after consulting with Col
onel Price Of Newark, whose "fine
Italian handy is discernable In every
section Of the bill, he consented to the
hearing with a{badlY concealed i'll grace
The clauses which are particularly OBJ
noxious to the electrical men provide,
than whenever in the Judgment of the
public welfare will be advanced by the
removal of ahy electric wires or poles
from any th4roughfare IN any city, it
shall be the duty of the commits
sioners toI order the wires
placed under ground. When the
commissioners make such order the COM
panies are obliged TO file with the com
missioners maps showing the highways
which they ptopose to use and giving the
general location, dimensions and course
of the underground conduits to be con-
structed. No tsuch subway or conduit
Tf.rf ffyf ~
the Board approve of the plan. For the
purposes of the act, all powers of local
authorities are made subordinate 10 those
of the Board.
No telegraph, telephone or other electric
>Iire or cable is to be constructed here
aiter until majority or the Board author
lzes it.
The Board is empowered 10 devise
plans TO meet the requirements OF the
act in any city, and it may enter into
contrast with any person or corporation
Tor the construction of subways. w hen
any sublvays has been constructed, the
terms upon which it may be used are TO
he fixed by the Board and approved by the
Governor.
OTTER OPPOSITION.
The first sp, ager before the committee
was J. }. Burlcigh. manager of the Cam
den Electric Light Company. He SAID he
represented a company with an invest
nient Of 100000, 100000 was recently
spsnt in erecting poles. Ii the bill be-
came law, the board would have the
power to wreck his company at once by
compelling it to take down its poles. He
designated the bill a. a malicious meas
nre to bleed every electric light company
In New Jersey 10 death.
Colonel Charles Fullrr of Bayoune
spoke for five electric light companies on
the same line. Several ethsr gentlemen
followed.
Mr. DAILY, member Of the committee,
want ed the bill to 90 over to Monday 50
that he could submit an amendment.
Mr.. Trefz said that the bill could not
be delayed, and suggested that Daily sub
nit his amendment at once and that the
discussion be continued 20 day.
AT this point Colonel Price stepped
into the room and glued his mouth 10
Mr.. Trefz's ear for few minutes I'm
mediately the BABY Of the House took
iirns stand and imperiously declared. 4
cam y agree to have the consideration OF
this Dill go over TO Friday"
AS uhis is M important measure aud
applies TO Jersey City, must know more
about it." calmly replied Mr.. Daily.
NT. TREK made afseble effort 20 retort,