The Jersey City news., 1892-05-14
THE LICENSE SCANDAL
Ma1feaSant Aldermen Ask
Help From Judge Werts
to Break the Law.
"JOURNAL" AND ''NEwS" OFFERS
Lawyer Thompson Clearly Shows
the Misconduct and Efrontery
of the s'Staats Zeitung" Job.

of the "Staats Zeitung" Job.
Judge Werts today heard argument on
motion to modify the certiorari proceed
ings brought by the City Publishing
Company against the Board of Aldermen.
The Aldermen recently designated the
Stodts- -Zeitung an alleged German paper.
as the official paper to publish tho
notices of applications for liqu or LICENSES
This action was absolutely illegal, and
the matter was brought to the Supreme
Court for review. The writ OF certorari
&C is as a stay. and no notices can legally
be printed, and therefore NO liquor
licenses can be granted until the Court
passes upon the case, unless by speciaI
arrapg ement.
In order that the business Of the city
nd the men engaged in the liquor trahc
should suffer no Inconvenience or hard
ship rom the legal proceedings. the City
Publishing Company sent to the Board
of Aldermen proposition to this effect.
The Company would agree to publish
the notices in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
and not charge for such publication IL the
| Court did not sustain the writ OF certiorari
when the case should be finally deter
| mined. II the decision should be against
| the Board of Aldermen, however, then
| the Board of Aldermen should pay The
JERSEY CITY News for publishing the
| notices.
The managers of the EUenSng Journal
sent to the Aldermen similar propo-
sition.
| wILFUL MALFEA sANCE
The Board a,,s Of ,.1 ana
to take the risk of deprfving the city OF
dpDss deprSe sslJ sSO ss e tHs gss to sell
liquor.
Today Corporation Attorney Hudspeth.
on behalf Of the city. applied to Judge
Werts to have the writ OF certtorart
modified SO that it would not act az b stay
and prevent the advertising Of the Rppltr
cations for license. He said:-"The writ
Stddts Zeit1tng is not an official paper
such as conforms with the intent OF the
statute. The writ operates as stay.
The statute appears to be mandatory, and
demands THAT the names OF applicants
for liquor lcepses shall publish their ap-
plications for( five days before license
shall be grahted The hardship the
stay works can be appreciated BY Your
Honor when inform you thar mere
are about 1900 places to be licensed.
which will give the CITY revenue OF more
than 100000. Thirty applications for
licenses are neT on file In the City ClerK,s
office and six notices have been pnbiisned;
None of these iitsenses can be tfiIs5S a z
unless your Honor fi6dsgates the writso
that it will not act as q stay"
what objection is there to bhe public
cation in the Zeitungs" asked Judge
Werts
"How many daily papers are thereT
the Judge enquired:
"Three or four" replied the lawyer,
II would say here that received q notice
publish the notices and not charge for
the advertising If the suit should bs DE-
termined against the City Publishing
Company"
THE LAW SET FORTH
| Mr.. Charles Thompson OF the firm OF
Dickinson, Thompson and McMastsrs, ON
behalf of the City Publishing Company,
objected to allowing the writ TO be so
modified that the Stats Zettureg could
continue to publish the notices. "Ihe
Court" he said. has recently held that
publishing English advertisements In
a German newspaper is not a
publication but is a printing The
Euentng Journal and THE JERSEY CITY
of Aldermen that they would publish the
notices. providing they were paid IL the
certiorari was sustained. If it should
not be sustained they would not
charge anything. This proposition gives
the Aldermen all the power they require.
Both of these papers are English and are
Enthusiastically within the intent Of tho
statute. No person ever buys German
paper to find an English printed adver-
tisement.n
''There is an act," said Corporation At
torney Hudspeth, "that makes publica-
tion in German papers legal"
eyes," said ex-senator Edwards. "but
those papers are additional papers,"
| Counsellor Thompson resumed his
argument by saying:-"H these notices
should be published only In the German
newspaper and the Court should
declare them void, it would
work greater hardship than now exists,
for all licenses will expire July l. It
comes with bad grace from the Board Of
Aldermen to ask for q modification of the
writ when they tabled a suggestion that
would have given the relief"
Judge Werts took the papers in the case
and said he would render a decision as to
the modification in a day or two and that
the writ would come up for argument on
the first day of the term Of the Supreme
| Court.