The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
VICIOUS BILL.
Proposal to Give the Board
of Aldermen Power of
Confirmation.
TO TIE WANSER'S HANDS.
Phases Of legislation at Trenton.
During the Holiday
Sessions.
Special to the Jersey citb Ne,cs.

Special to the JERSEY Citb Ne,os.
TRENTON, Feb %, 1898 Senator DAILY
has introduced the bin which the Two
Hundred Representative Democrats"
urged before the committee on partisan
legislation Monday afternoon. The bill.
it will be remembered, provides that ali
appointments of Mayor Wanser shall be
subject to confirmation by a two-thirds
vote of the Board of Finance. 1t will
also be remembered that all the ''repre-
sentative citizens'' who argued for the
bill laid great stress upon the eminent
fitness and trustworthiness of the Finan-
ciers to exercise the important functions
which the bill would give them. 1t now
appears that the Representative Demo-
Gratis. did not propose TO have the Board
exercise the check on the May or's
unlimited power when they spoke so eu-
logIstically of the Financiers. There is
DANCE , you know. of the Board of Ri u
auce becoming Republican some day,
aud then where would Tom" Jacobs's
poor but thrifty young men be. poor
things? So they have exposed 'de KUN
mel in de cocoanut,'' as Byron de- kaIb
would say. and have brought down an
amendment which provides that the Aid
u A0o1Ca4 VI Ia oAA04AA
have the confirming bower.
SNUBBED THE HOUSE.
The Hons was badly sDubbed by the
Senate yesterday. The Senate passed a
resolution providing for a joint meeting
to appoint Commissioners OF Deeds Co be
held Tuesday noon. At that time the
House was busy making avs for the i'm
proveneut OF the noble horse and-the
~bookmakers' pockets, and although the
Senators fused aud Tumed 10 the Seua-
torial dignity and kicked their heels
against their new desks as they waited
for b etsummons to the Assembly cham
her which never came As the time went
by and no tidihgs came from the House,
they got mad and Went home.
The expected message came yesterday
in the shape of q communication borne
by Clerk Kalisch of the House. which
announced that the Assembly would con-
descend to go into joint meeting at one
o'clock. The joint meeting was held.
When one O'Clock came the Senate mad
tried its hand at improving the breed OF
race horses and gone in search OF ref1ec-
Iicn.
BOULEVARD STRIKES TROUBLE.
The Boulevard bill mas struck trials
and tribulations. Mr.. Carroll has it in
his desk and says it won't go out until ne
has seen a thing OF two about it. but just
what he wants to see he doesn't make
exactly clear. Messrs. Kelly and Tahen
as well, have objections to the measures.
They don't like something about the
loops and there is also something the
matter with the cost mentioned in the
bill. DIR. Stout is another HUI ison man
who has doubts about the bill
He wants to know o little more
about who is going to handle the money
aud what it is going to be used for.
LIQUOR EN WIN.
There was an Interesting skirmish in
the Senate Yesterday morning over Mr..
Daly's bill which makes it unlawful to
indict for keepiug a disorderly house one
who ~unIawfully sells liquor. Mr.. Daily
spoke in favor of his bill and showed how,
under the present law, a liquor seller who
happens to keep open a little while after
midnight. or any time or the Sab
bath, could be indicted and convicted
as a keeper Of a house of i'll
fame. Senator Barrett also spoke in favor
of the bill. He sand that they had many
men in mis- town who were citizen5 OF
character aud good standing and men OF
families. II any enemy or spy should
happen to obtain d glass of beer in his
place ID Sunday, he could secure the
conviction of the man selling the beer AS
the keeper of a disorderly house. yhis
would bring an urdeserved disgrace upo q
the liquor seller and his children.
Senator Barker of Gloucester said:-"1f
violating the Sabbath law, selling liquor
to men, women and children is not keep
ing a disorderly house, what in Heavens
name isa6
Senator Marsh Of Union said he could
not agree with the gentlemen from Hud-
son and Essex as to their inter probation
of the law. A man could not be con-
victed of keeping Il disorderly house until
it had been shown to the satisfac tfon
of the Court that the man indicted had
habifually violated the law. Senator DAILY
asked Senator Marsh If the Courts did
not construe as habitual violations two
Offences against the law. He then sent
for the copy ofthe ACKNOWLEDGMENT for
keeping a d~isorderiy house and read the
many horrible things a man could be
indicted for under the clause of tue liquor
law he soughL to repeal by his bill.
There was some further discussion iu
the same line and then a vote was taken
Npon the bill with this result
Ayes-Adrain Barrett. Butcher, Cornish,
0aIy, Hinchcliffe, Keys, McMickle, Miller, Per
kins, Rogers, Skirm, Smith and Winton-14.
N~ays-Barker, Stokes@2.
The bill which provides that no mort.
gage on household furniture given by
husband shall be legal unless signed by
the wife was passed. So was tile bill pre-
pared by some Jersey City lawyers pro
viding that Sheriff Stanton can proceed
on executions Left in his office by the late
Sheriff McPhillips. The House bill
which authorizes the County Board OF
Registration to appoint officers for newly
erected polling places, also went through.