The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-03
ALBEIT FOR ECONOMY.
The Governor Rebukes EXtravag-
ance in Legislative Pat.
r0nage.
Special to the Jersey city Ne,cs

TRENTON, Feb. g. 1892. Governor Abb
bett called a halt yesterday on the free
handed way in which pages were being
put on the pay roll of the House. He as
certaned that fifty-eight of these youths
were drawing pay from the State. being
almost one for each member. The num-
ber had been kept a secret, for no one
wanted to send his page home. When the
Governor learned the true state of affairs
he told the leader that part Of this
army of attendants must he peremptorily
dismissed, or he would send special
message to the House.
A caucus of the Democratic members
was called in the Assembly Chamber at
noon, as was wired you yesterday, and
the difficulty was freely discussed.
There was no alternative but to cut down
the number, and it was finally voted that
twenty-eight would be sufficient to at
tend to the wants of the members. OF
this number Hudson county is to have
only five and Essex five.
This conclusion was not arrived at
without some very disagreeable talk.
Thirty of the luckless youths will be sent
home this week with lean purses. Just
how the black list will be made out has
not yet been decided.
The Senators also caucused on the same
subject ana came to an agreement that
no more offices should be filled.
AGoNIZED BOARD OF CONTROL.
All day long the race track representa-
tives busted themselves in an effort to
come to some agreement with Gutten-
berg, but no bill made an appearance,
any ay t this al week. II no agreement is
reached, bill may be introduced any
way, with the hope that it can be pushed
through.
REPUBLICAN BUNCoMBE.
Senator Hudspeth had long-iooked-for
opportunity to pour out the walls of his
wrath upon the head of Senator Gardner
for his active part at the Stuhr-McDonald
affair. The bill increasing the salary of
tie assistant En9rossing Club, and As
sistant Sergeant-at-Arms came up on the
offered amendments intended to
kill the bill, and Senator Gardner
spoke his piece about the useless
extravaganza of such increases of sal
aries. Hudspeth returned fire in the
same vein, and referred to the Stuhr-
Mcdonald case. Gardner replied that If
the Senator from Hudson acknowledged
himself to be the spawn of the corruption
that was revealed i'll that investigation,
then he was only doing his duty to his
serpent mother, but as a citizen and SEN
ator he thought he ought to forgo the ex-
preston OIL MS ulidi ooiiSatlon SO pun
licly.
Senator Hudspeth retorted that he felt
honored by being the spawn of con-
stituency that had set its seal on that
case by relegating to political oblivion all
who joined in that conspiracy except the
Senator from Atlantic. who carried his
South Jersey boroughs in his pocket.
This was effective and MI. Hudspeth
said no more, though the Atlantic
Senator continued his partisan
diatribe. The amendments were
all voted down and the bill ordered
to third reading. 1t was the interest
ing feature of the Senates session which
was only a single protracted one, and the
honorable body adjourned until morning.
HUDSON BRIDGE.
Senator Werts introduced a substitute
for the Hudson River Bridge bill which
merely corrects errors. A bill introduced
by Senator Marsh gives City District
Court Judges power to appoint a Ser
geaut.at-Arms with full constable power,
at a salary of one dollar a day.
Among the bills passed by the Senate
was the one allowing the Jersey City Po-
lice Board to appropriate $4,000 to COM
pete police station.
The bill requiring spring elections to be
held the second week in April was amend
ed so as to only apply to first class cities
and was then ordered to third reading.
The marriage of Miss j oslo Jacquet and
ex.AIderman Prigge. which was TO have
count of the unavoidable absence of the
prospective brides father.
The Union Hill and West Hcboken
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