The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-10
Mr.. Hudspeth's Bill Killed
by Mr.. Barrett's Cues
tionable Tactics.
OYSTER AND CLAM INDUSTRY.
Important Amendments to the Mar
tin Act and the Method of Sell
ing Lands for Taxes and
Assessments.
Special to the Jersey city News.

TRENTON, March 10, 1S92.-The Senate
bill which sought to give Jersey City a
supply of pure water, and for which Sen
ator Hudspeth has fought SO ~valiantly
during the session, was killed in the Sem
ate yesterday afternoon by an adverse
report.
Mr.. Barrett. Chairman OF the Com
mittee on Municipal Corporations, to
which the bill was referred, made the re-
port. He has all along declared that the
bill should not pass, and took this means
of killing it.
Mr.. Hudepeth denounced the report as
unfair and claimed that Mr.. Barrett's
course with the bill was legislative Jug
glery. He wanted the bill brought before
Senate and debated on its merits. He
said that the Senator from Essex was
not representing his constituents In
this lmatter, but a gigantic corporation.
"The East Jersey Water Company"
which is but a puppet in the hands OF the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. He
felt sure that IL the facts in this case were
known to every Senator as they were
known to him, they would all favor the
bill. II the Senate concurred i'll the
report it would abet this gigantic monop-
oily In dealing out the waters of the state
by the gallon.
~BARRETT's CHILDISH IGNORANCE.
Mr.. Barrett, in replying TO the Senator
from Hudson, said that 1t was the first
tilne he knew that he represented any
such corporation. He then went over the
old, threadbare argument that Newark
had asked Jersey City to come in and
help it get a supply of pure water, but
thai Jersey City had refused, and now
wanted to profit by Newark's foresight.
industry ana expenditure OF money. he
said that Jersey City could get water if
she wanted it, and then he denounced the
bill as a most vicious measure, and de-
clared that the States money should not
nave been expended in printing it.
The report was then concurred 10, only
two Senators voting against it, Hudspeth
and Rue, the Republican Senator from
Mercer.
The Senate remained in session up to
six o'clock and passed a large number OF
bills. Among Them was Mr.. Moylan's
bill increasing the salaries of the Jersey
City and Newark Fire Departments.
ELECTRICAL SUBWAY COMMISSION.
Mr.. Heauey's bill providing for an
electrical subway commission came up
and just squeezed through, receiving but
eleven votes, the statutory number neces-
sary to pass it,. Senator Winton opposed
the measure in lively fashion. He called
it an unjust measure and SAID that 1t in
flicted Il burden upon every electrical
light company in the State. 1t also
worked a hardship in that it gave the
commissioners control of the streets OF
every municipality
MI, Gardner also opposed the bill and
grew funny in his characteristic way
pointing out what he called the evils OF
the measure.
The bill pensioning school teachers on
half pay who have served over thirty
years was passed BIZ q good vote.
Alwer lyman, the Speakers page. has
been taken 10 his home In B~oundbrook
suffering with smallpox. The boy
boarded on Genesee street, in the neigh
borhood in which the dread scourge has
been prevalent. and was taken i'll some
days ago. 1t is said some members of his
family rave been taken down with the
disease since his return.