The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-26
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Senator MCPHERSON Doomed
by Cadmns for Presi-
Dental Honors.
HIS FIGHT FOR A SOLDIER.
How New Jersey Figures in Postal,
Agricultural and Pension
Controversies.
!sp.cia, 10 The lerssu cftu Ne,rs.

Sptctut ~ tue Jersey Iitu NeNSs
WASHINGTON, April 26, 1S92.-In sup
port of the measure to increase the limit
of cost of the public building improve
ments at Paterson the Committee OH Pub
lie Buildings present the following
facts:-
The question in this case is not whether
a building shall be constructed, but only
as to whether the building to be con-
structed is adequate to the necessities of
the public business at Paterson. A build
ing was authorized and the expense was
limited to $50, 900, which amount was APP
propriated. 1t was soon ascertained that
this sum was entirely inadequate. A
proper site would alone cost $4,000.
Paterson is a city Of 30, 600 inhabi-
tants, with a near suburban population.
The population in 1850 was 1000. In
1880 it was $1,000. In 1890 it had reached
$500 and is rapidly growing. its indus
tiles have kept pace with the Increase OF
population. 1t has 400 factories. employ
lug $4,000 hands. A plain building OF
limited size, hreproof, upon u suitable site,
can not be provided Tor less than the
amount named. No immediate appro-
pilation Is necessary, as the amount al
IedQy dppEODildtcu Will SGChIC olIO hho
carry Oh the work for a year at least.
MCPHERSON ON TIL MILITARY.
At the Instance OF senator Mcpherson
the Senate Committee on Military Affairs
recommended the passage OF u resolution
directing the Secretary Of War to revoke
and set aside the special orders of the de-
partment, dated March 80, 1868. dismiss
ing from the service, for absence without
leave, Henry Lane, late Mrst lieutenant
Company +, Thirteenth New Jersey, be-
cause he WAS then on duty In the field,
and to grant him an honorable discharge.
This dismissal was one of the many I'm
just administrative acts OF the war, and
The committee says it should be cor
rected.
The Senator has also asked the commit
tee to report u bill allowing the legal
representatives of the late Colonel james
V. Bomford to enter suit III the Court OF
Claims for any balance that may be due
to MIN from the government.
CADMUS' MCPHERSON
Representative Cadinu is has started out
to 'boom" Senator John X. Mcpherson
for the Presidency. 1t Is one, as yet, of
small dimensions, but, like Topsy. it can
grow. The initial premises OF our Con-
gresham are that II neither Cleveland
nor Hill can assure success in New York,
and policy dictates the nomination of Al
Eastern man, the most promising indi-
vIdual can be found in the person of New
jerseys senior Senator. No one gainsays.
at least no one here, the proposition that
Senator Mcpherson is popular with all
classes of Democrats, ana MIR. Cadmus
CLAIMS that he would not only sweep
New Jersey. but can also carry New
York. OF course, the Senator himself ID
u Cleveland man, and Is not seeking the
nomination himself, but many prominent
Democrats here believe him TO be ''more
available timber" than Ii other Eastern
man named, outside of New York, not
even exec ting Arthur ?. Gormun.
In the Senate he has come to be a
pow eli, being honored by his Democratic
associates with IL place on two of the most
important commute es- Finance and
Naval Affaira-and. besides. holding one
of the few cnairmanshlpS awarded to the
minority OF that body. No one, of course.
puts Senator Mcpherson forward AS a
great orator, but it can be said that he
stands we'll up head with that class OF
Senators known for business wisdom and
practical sagacity, Ii whose views, there
lore, are listened to with much respect on
both sides of the chamber, and whose
counsels largely prevail in legislation.
Such men possess u peculiar value in this
modern age, when mere oratory, it can be
affirmed. is at a discount.
JERSEY PoSTMASTERs NOT IN 1T.
Postmaster General Wauamaker has
got into a controversy with the House
Committee on Post Offices about the pay
ment of the expenses of the convention of
p~oaL;naslers recently held in this city.
The New Jersey postmasters Who attend
ed ''are not in it," as both Conklin of
Newark, and Dickinson of Jersey City
are among the few postmasters who have
made no claim to have their expenses
paid.
Secretary Rusk, in forwarding to the
Senate a statement giving the principal
employees of his department who are not
ESPECIALLY authorized by law, but who are
employed at the discretion of the depart
ment, says there is only one from New
Jersey. This is DR.. A. NJ. F~arripgton,
who receives a salary of 81 $50 as Chief of
the Divisions of Field Investigations in
the bureau of Animal Industry. The
doctor also audits the expenses of the
bureau.
The Senate Committee on Pensions,
after hunting every nook and corner for
white pensioners, has at last got down
to meritorious red men, not believing
with General Sheridan That the only good
Indian is a dead one. In short, the COM
mittee has begun to recommend pensions
for Indians, whose chief merit. according
to this report. lies in the fact that they
have never killed "paiefaceS." The first
beneficiary of their klndness 10 Teuday. a
B4nnock .chief, and a pension of $50 a
mouth is recommended for him because
he has been a friend of the white settlers.
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