The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-16
ISLANDER REBIKBD.
Governor Werts Will APP
point Ex-Governor Abb
bett Judge.
MR.. KELLY AFTER MAYOR WAESER
Tommy Lane Cleyerly 0utwits the
Race Track Men-0ther
Legislative News.
special to The Jersey Clty Nous.

1RtRset y AFN y ~ St'R ~'O'SFs
TRENTON, Feb. 16, 1893-Tne ma ignant
enemies OF Ex-Governor ALBEIT have
overreached themselves again. and done
themselves aud their cause more harm
thar good with the %sueaking charges
i wSich not one of them had the manhood
to own after they had surreptitlously cir
culated them among the Senators and
correspondents at the State House. What
effect these charges. as they are called for
want or q better naine. has had upon
Governor Werts is best judged from a
statement he made yesterday to a num-
Der OF newspaper men who called upon
him in regard to the matter.
II charges ave been made to me, nor
do ! know of any coming" said the Gov
| ernor. with emphasis. .Somebody came
here with IA slip of paper containing some
allegations, and said that somebody else
had told him that some other somebody
| could prove them. Nothing has been done
in the matter. / ave not been asked to
investigate anything, nor is any invest
CATION in progress SO FAR as l Know. OF
| course there Is plenty of rumOr. AS a
matter of fact, the situation has not un-
| dergone any material ohange since Mon
day night.
ABBETT's ENEMIES IN Fl LAS DITCH.
From this it is inferred that the Gov
ernor has not changed his Intention of
| appointing Mr.. AbbetG to the bench and
| his name will so to the Senate next week
probably Monday evening. The ex-Goy-
erpor's enemies, however, are hard to kill,
and now hat this last dastardly attempt
to defeat him has failed. they have struck a
| new lead. They are now trylngto get some
| of the ex-Governor's friends TO request
| the Governor to Withdraw his name, a
| request which the ex-Governor's friends
| will net be likely to make.
A. fha on on it.fnpriauy in x1h{ot fha
| Governor freed his mind SO emphatically
upon the question OF the nomination Of
| Governor Albeit, he very broadly init
mated that he would De guided by the
decision of the joint Democratic caucus,
held Tuesday noon in regard to the bills
which attempt to deprive Mayor Wanssr
of any of his powers and would not az
prove of any measur which seeks that
| end. Thus the outlook for MI. Carroll's re-
| cent bill to give the Board of Aldermen
power to confirm or reject the Mayors
appointment OF a police com mission to
succeed Mr.. Kelly has a very lugubrious
| aspect.
Among the bills introduced into the
House yesterday morning was one by
means of which the undertakes seek TO
raise their calling to the dignity of a pro-
fession and hedge 1t about with restric-
tions which will keen out the bungler and
quack, for they claim that there are NOR
bNatL AhASA5 tS V cS hlk4AStA III
The bill was introduced. by Mr.. Micajan
| b. Matlack of Burlington, and provides
| for the establishment of State Board of
Underwriters to consist of nine persons OF
sufficiently calamitous counteHance, to be
appointed by the Governor. Every prac-
ttcing or operating undertaken in the
State will have to obtain a license from
the local boards TO be erected ! by this
State Board before they can stand at the
first pew and with befitting solemni1y 10
vite the friends forward to take a last
| view of the departed. Mr.. Smith intro
duced a bill which seeks to exempt active
1remen from jury duty.
Mr.. KELLY AFTER Fl MAYOR.
Mr.. Hugh Kelly succeeded, yesterday,
In having his bill, which seeks to pay the
clerks in the City Collectors Office, whose
warrants Mayor Wanser refused to sign.
sent TO the Enerossing Clerk. After it's
eugrossed 1t will be placed upon tue cal
enGar for final passage, and Mr.. Kelly
will make a strong effort &c get is
| through. The full text OF the bill is:-
That In case 1t shall happen at any time
in any city Of the first class that the
amount appropriated in the annual tax
levy or tax ordinance for salaries or
clerk hire In any department shali
prove to be insufficient, the board
having charge of che financial affairs and
the duty hi power OF making or confirm
ing said annual tax levy or tax budget, is
hereby authorized and empowered to
borrow the amount Of the deficiency on
temporary loan. upon the request of such
department., in which case the approval
of the Mayor shall not be necessary. aud
In every such case the amount thereof
shall be provided fer in the next annual
tax levy or tax budget Of such city.
The Rrlnnfng couptenance and shining
wood pile of Mr.. Kelly's will be found
near the end OF the bill in these words:-
I'm which case the approval Of the Mayor
shall not be necessary" As will be seen,
this is another of those measures which
both the joint Democratic caucus
most forGibly. 1t takes from the
Mayor one of the powers he enjoys under
the charter, and gives the Board of
Finance the power to borrow money
without his approval, dangerous exper-
iment for the city TO make at this
Moreover. the Dill is intended to pay clerks
and employees rs to whose claim there Ia
ONE reasonable doubt; a doubt upon
which some courtot competent jurlsdic-
ton should adjudicate.
LANE oUTWITS THE FACING MEN.
Mr.. Lane seems most determined to get
his anti-race track bill through. What
ever his motives be, whether to avenye
himself upon the race track people for de-
feating him for the Speakership, as he
claims they did; or to gain prestige for
himself In the strongest antt-race county
In the State fog use when he runs for
State Senator there a year from next
fall, 1t is certain that he is working
most arduously to secure the passage
of the bill. 1t will bs remembered That,
when the measure was first introduced, II
was sent TO the Committee on Municipal
Corporations, of which Nj. Thompson
and several men of racing predictions
are members. Mr.. Lane was somewhat
disconcerted over that move, and was in.
clined to get blue over his bills prospects
of ever seeing the light OF day again.
But Mr.. Lane Is a young man of many |
resources, and after thinking over the
matter over night he hit upon a happy |
expedient. Ga Tuesday afternoon, Just
as the Speaker was about to puttEe mo-
ton to adjourn. Mr.. Lane sprang up hast
lily and requested permission to Introduce |
q bill before the House adjourned. No
objection was made and a page hurried
up to the clerks desk with the document. |
Everything was in confusion, members |
were locking their desks and gathering t.
gether their traps preparatory 10 leaving
the chamber and the Clerk partly read
the little of Mr.. Lanes bill, IAN act con-
corning corporations" The speaker
caught the words Concerning corpora
tIons" and Immediately sent the bin to
the Committee on Corporations of which
MIR. Lane Is Chairman. When the
correspondents came to look at the
bill they found that 1t was tho same