The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-11
MAD EXTRAVAGANCE.
The Incidental Bill Over SIS, 600
and Hardly an Honest
Item in 1t.
g Special to The Jersey CITY Nelos.

TRENTON, March II, 1s93.-The Incl
dental Bill. or rather that part of it that
comes in with a suggestion of what has
been frirtered away by the Legislature, was
distributed late last night,and it is docu-
ment that needs very careful study and
much reflection. All the Senate items
are not yet included. and yet it adds mp
the magnificent sum OF S,063.92. This,
as the title of the bill suggests, Is the par
tial total of only the Incidental eX-
penses, and when ii is added to the legi-
innate expenditures, 1t will bring the
cost of The session up to about Sl3O, ,OO0,
the highest yet expended for Legis-
lature.
1t took considerable stationery to equip
these law makers for their duties, for
they consumed about S, 600 worth. Noar.
Day e. Noar. come in for 81, 1874; McCrel-
rish SS Quigley, S567, and The Jordan
Stationery Company, a familiar corpora
lion in ali incidental bills, supplies writ
ing material and books to The tune OF
$4,124 There are scattering stationery
items amounting TO several Thousand dol
lars.
FLYNN's GAvEL
Speaker Flynn was hard on gavels. He
punched the head OF dozen common
everyday gavels, but he received two ivory
engraved gavels for official use, one per-
haps tor race track legislation. The Jor-
dan Company charges for one, and Il.
Gray, Jr., turns up with an item tor the
other at $40.
Thomas f. Noonan charged $3.50 for in
dexing last years minutes. and the
Blairstown Press asks for SAL for pub
lishing the notices of some committee
meetings. Elizabeth Kucker kept the
towels clean at a cost of 500. d
b. F. Methoen furnished some files
away back in 1887. for which he asks
$3.50. The Newark Sunday Standard
did not get paid for printing The laws last
year, but they appear in this bill and ask
for S7l6.
Nearly every officer of the House and
Senate wants an extra 500 or more for
extra services, presumably for the long
hours they put in. ALI the pages cut out
of the official list help to swell the many
items of this bill. james Dugan of Mercer
wants $3.50 for being Ventilation Clerk,
and George Barlow, protege OF Assem-
blymau Lanning of Mercer, asks for $3.50
as a procarer of ministers 10 lead in
prayer.
The cost of towels, brushes and soap for
the House of Assembly was $4o9.
PRETTY ROW OVER IT
The Committee on Incidental Expenses
held an interesting session over the bill
this morning. There were allegations
that many of the charges were not only
exorbitant. but downright steals. Many
of the articles down on the bill wera
never delivered, some declare, and it is
held that goods alleged to have been
furnished were inferior in quality aud
short in quantity. Hardly an item on
the bill is above suspicion. There
was talk of cutting some of
the items down fifty per cent.
aud wiping out other charges entirely.
So glaring do some OF the accounts ap-
pear, that the Committee decided not to
tamper with the bill at all. They agreed
to report the grab measure to the House
without comment, and ventilate the out
rageous claims OIL the floor.
The bill was minutely on the floor of
the house, but was shamelessly put
through.
EXPENSIVE CONTEST.
The Riddie-Hotfman contest old not
stir up much excitement. but the cost was
unusually nigh. The expenses is IS. 702. 20,
just oce half of the famous Stuhr-McDon-
aid contest which is sl6,e 600 not all paid yet,
Sc nstor Daily last night introduced bill
to defray the expenses of the tontest and
furnished an itemized account. The
items are as follows:-
Samuel E. Perry, stenographer, fees,