The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-05
LEGISLATIVE PICTURES.
Interesting Facts About
the Members of
Assembly.
HUDSON COUNTY'S DELEGATION.
Several Familiar Faces Missed but
Not Regretted-Republican
Sorrow.
Sorrow.
Special to the Jersey caty News.

Special to the Jersey City NeDs.
TRENTON, Feb. 5, 1885,. Speaker Ber-
gen is as punctilious as a schoolmaster,
and is even more severe in the mainten-
ance of proper decorum than he was last
year. His gavel, like q schoolmaster's
rod, raps for order at the earliest sign Of
disorder or levity. A delegation of prac-
tical jokers went down to Trenton on
Monday night, and. according to pre-
arrangement, they were going to W
the Assembly Chamber and turn the ses-
sion into a farce-comedy performance.
Perhaps Speaker Bergen had received an
intimation of theif purpose. or it may
have been that he was only following out
his programme Of Keeping strict order,
and he looked a trifie more severe. and
several times early in the session brought
down his gavel with emphatic severity,
and the members saw 1t would be unWlSe
to incur his displeasure, so the Newark
practical jokers did not IA their farce
comedy. They managed to have intro
duced several burlesque bill but as no.
body outside of the few men who prepared
the bills were aware of the contents of
the bills. they were seriously accepted.
unnumbered and referred to committees.
The men who introduced the burlesque
OlllS W6Ic Olu UudU uH0 SCSClS OPCphOi
might MAKE things unpleasant IL he
learned of the contents of the bills. SO
they were all Withdrawn on Tuesday
morning.
HEANEY TALKS WELL.
Heaney OF Huuson Is one of the most
eloquent takers on the Democratic side.
Hardin of Essex is not called upon for
any prolonged addresses or profound
logic, so his little explanatory speeches
do for the occasion. Engard. Republican
of Camden, is one of the most logical
talkers. Coles, Republican, of the same
county, is one of the most persistent
speakers. The members among them
selves refer to him as Camp-meeting
Coles. Potts, Republican of Hudson, is
one of the brightest Ualkers in the Assem-
bly,. His occasional witticisms generally
go without any attempt at retaliation.
He is a frequent talker. Glorieux. Re-
publican, of Essex. keeps his seat as ii he
was pasted fast to it.. ketchem of Essex
is Il frequent claimant for the Sneakers
eve. Unlike most OF the other Republi-
can members, he does not confine his
speeches to Republican bills. Cavanagh
of Essex, thus far has been
eloquenIly silent, and apparently
has not yet got used to his surroundings
Dempsey, of Essex, has not been called
upon to distinguish, himself. but may do
SO later on. Nieder and Ulrich, of Essex,
have paired off, and look upon the session
as a huge joke. Nieder Is trying to get
his confreres to help him to pass a bill
for the formation of an artillery COM
pany. Mr.. A. e. Seliger and some other
ex-military men of Newark are anxious
to see an artillery company organized in
Essex county.
LAM OF UNION.
Snyder, Of Orange. just fingers around
and takes things easy. Lane, of Union, Is
one of the busiest men in the Chamb-r.
He has. already introduced several bills
,nI hDo n Fayya m ~ Mandy for ipf.o6 n |
ton. The young Assemblyman from
Union labors under a disadvantages this
year. He incurred the enmity of the Hud-
son county men last year by being too
fresh," they said, and this year he made a
strong fight for party leadership, but his
old Hudson county enemies defeated him.
He has been impolitic to the extent of
wounding severll members by little sar-
casms,a and In consequence they oppose
almost everything he advocates.
Patrick H. O'Neill of Hudson claims the
floor very often. He is one of the few
men in the majority who give no quarter
to the minority. His references to the
latter would be considered harsh, to put
it mildly, but he is Sc much in earnest
that his hearers think of nothing else.
He is a fighter from away back.
White or Burlington is one OF the
youngest men in the chamber. AID he is
making a clean and strong fight on the
tramp question. Smith of Essex IL go
full OF the Worlds Fair subject that he
has but little rime or attention for any
thing else. His chief idea seems to be to
have New Jersey well represented in Chi.
cago.
THE NEW CHAMBER.
The new Assent bly, chamber is still q
source of ad miration to a great number
of visitors who go to see 1t every day. TIT
garlaries are always full at the niRhC ses-
slons, and the large audiences are attri-
butable to the interior beauty of the
chamber rather thar to any rhetorical
brilliancy displayed by the Assemblymeu.
The chandelier now uspended from the
dome is to be replaced shortly by a larger
and more gorgeous one. The new chan
delier is to be a thing of beauty aud In
harmony with the surroundings.
Several familiar faces of old-time lobby
lists are missing this year. but it must not
be supposed that they have left no success
ors. The lobbyist is there in various
guises, aud he has a comparatively easy
time OF 1t Just now. The vote is 80 pom
derously onesided that his duties are
more concentrated and less harassing.
Everybody knows that anything to be
or to be ~emphatically undone must
be done through the Hudson-Essex COM
bination. The big Democratic majority
In botn houses is not an unadulterated
of Joy.
One legislator was heard to remark
complainiugiy;-I wish this wasn't Presi-
year, for / suppose we'll have
Just such a majority sent here next year.
I'd rather see Things a little closer. Then
a fellow has n chance to do some negoti-
This was said In a h~alf-bantering
but the men who were in the
and heard him. knew that this
same man would not be averse. to any
kind OF negotiating" where u pecuniary
profit would be the result.
There is not the plenitude of railroad
passes there was last year. The railroad
re representatives have not been MS liberal
IN their distribution OF passes as on pre-
yious occasions. TIL reason for this, as
given out by the railroad representatives,
is taat the pass privileges were abused in
n disgraceful manner. Nearly every man
who had a pass in his name Kept it In
constant circulation among his friends.
Not only were the passes abused in that
but ~oficeholders and others applied