The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-24
DULLEST ON RECORD,
All the Interest Knocked
Out of the Election of
U. S. Senator.
NO GREAT MEN ON HAND.
But a Big Crowd See a Page
Faint in the Assembly
Lon Abbett's Chances.
His Friends Still Say He Will Be
Hoboken's Judge-The Corpor-
alton Attorney Bill,
Special to The Jersea city Ne,Us.


TRENTON, Jan. "a. 1S93.-"This is the
slowest night before the election OF
United States Senator ever saw" said
an old timer last evening as he pushed
bis way through the crowds that packed
the loboies of the Assembly Chamber.
To the uninitiated. the State House
looked lively enough. No sooner had the
thousands or more electric bulbs. which
make the Capitol as light as day. sent their
bright beams through the windows,
warning the inhabitants of Trenton that
the third week of the 1l7th Legislature
was about to begin. than the good clti-
zens of all ages and present conditions OF
servitude began to flock to the Halls OF
Legislature" as Tom McCran OF Passaic
used to say.
They tramped through ehe r1tunaa 1ad anu
the long corridors MP the thlckiy carpeteu
stairs to the galleries until every seat was
crowded and standing room was at a
premium. The ladies' gallery was
thronged with pretty girls, causing the
new members to pull themselves together
and look wise. Each. OF course, thought
that the two or three hundred sparkling
eyes were looking at him. and him alone,
and the way in which he raped for q
page, looked seriously over his bills and
posed as a heavy statesman generally,
was one Of the shows OF the season.
GREAT MEN LACKING.
What the old stager had III his mind
when he spoke of the slowness of the
evening was the absence OF great men,
and the lack of enthusiasm and other
things about the hotels. James Smith,
Jr., Allan L. McDermort. Miles Ross and
the other leaders were absent, and
ssNelse" Pidcock, as the boys love TO call
him, was almost smothered in the mautle
of greatness which he was obliged to
wear.
There were plenty of Jersey City folk
in the throng at the State House. Judge
Puster was there looking after an amend
ment to the act incorporating the s,,deI German
also around, starting with nervous
jump every time he heard the word '.gas"
mentioned. George HeRney came down
TO visit the scenes of his last years tri-
umphs, and James Moylan could not re-
sist the temptation to come down and
some chamber which he built.
Then there were those TWO
wide awake citizsns, Charlie Somers and
Billy Cook. who were looking after the
new pipe line bill, and Police Superin-
tendent Smith, too, whose dreams, it is
said. are troubled by Max SallDger's
bill repeating the act creating the SUPER
inteudents of the Fire and Police De-
partments. Norman L. Rowe was also
here, looking very much like judge,
and Phil Muldoon came down to see II 1t
was true that Johnny Murphy on Han
over street had bigger injun than his.
HE NEVER WILL BE MISSED.
While good DR.. Hartman Was beseech
Ing the throne of grace at the opening OF
the Assembly. to guide the Legislature in
the right paths, a smothered cry OF pain
was heard from the section OF the cham
ber occupied by the Essex members, and
one of the pages was seen to drop TO the
floor. He had succumbed to the heat,
which, Notwithstanding the expensive and
much Wanted system OF patent ventlla-
tion, was simply oppressive The lad was
carried into one of the Committee rooms
and after physician had fused over him
awhile, he was running over the hundred
and one other pages that encumbered the
face of the floor.
GRAB AT NEwARK's STREETS.
Assemblyman Studer introduced bill
which gives municipal boards having
charge of streets the power to grant
electric franchises to street railroad COM
panies. This bill Mr. Studer introduced
for his friend Thomas G. Barr, President
of the New Jersey Traction Company of
Newark, who wants some franchises
which he can't get. The same bill passed
last year, but Governor Albeit would not
sign it.
A decided attack was made upon the
subway commission, which was said to
have been directed by James Smith, Jr.
Assemblyman Kearns and Senator Drake
each introduced a bill TO repeal the act
creating the commission. The commission
at present consists of Miles Ross, Allan,
l.. MeDermott and George r. Gray and
they receive 81 800 year. James Smith,
Jr., was originally one of the Comnlis-
sioners. but he resigned last spring.
Miles Ross has not attended meeting of
the Board for some time, and IL is said
that both he and Mr.. Smith want the act
repealed.
LOOKS WELL FOR PAXTON.
AZ mentioned in my dispatches yester-
day. it looks very much as though it will
be his Honor, Judge Paxton, again
before many days. There was a long con-
ference over the Hoboken District Judge
at which County Clerk Mclaughlin, Rob-
ert Davis, Judge Hudspeth and the
Hoboken members were present. Mr..
Mclaughlin and Assemblymen Tahen
and Coyle were In favor of Leon ALBEIT,
Jr. and the others urged Judge Paxton
for the place. The conference was
lengthy, and when II was over those who
were present declared that it had been
agreed to recommend Judge Paxton to
Governor Werts.
The friends of Mr. Albeit do not take
this as final. They say that Governor
WeftS IS not gong 10 De }puueuceO Dy
any conference of that nature, and when
he sends the nomination to the Senate it
will be found that Leon Albeit, Jr., is
the man.
Governor Werts settled the matter this
morning by sending Judge Paxton's
name to the Senate. He was almost i'm
mediately confirmed.
Leon Albeit, Jr., did not go home en-
tircly disconsolate. He took with him
the promise of the position of Assistant
Counsel TO the Board of FreehoIders,
now he'd by Norman l.. Rowe.
Norman will have to resign that position
before he can be appointed District Court
Judge in Puster's place, as Governor
Werts has expressed determination not
to appoint a man to one salaried position
while he holds another.
The bill taking from Mayor Wanser the
power to appoint the Corporation At
torney aud Counsel OF Jersey City and
vesting it in the Board of Finance did not
lift its head last night. Mr.. DAILY thought
TO bring it up, but he discovered that a
formidable opposition to the bill had
Iprung up and it would not be healthy to
expose it 10 the chilling blast.
A BATTLE ROYAL.
Mr.. Daily, however, brought the bill I'D
his morning. 1t was Immediately at
acked by young Senator. Stokes. who