The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
AT WASHINGTON
Engemann and His Ivy City
Traek-The Trenton Post
0daee Fight a Tangle.
Speeiatt 10 the Jerscu On Neus.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. Is, 1895. The
Trenton postoffice matter is in more of a
tanglc than ever. An effort is now being
made to have the selection of @ candidate
postponed until after the holidays, or at least
until next week, III order to allow some dele
cations from Trenton an opportunity to get
down here and have conferences with the
Postmaster General. The latter has not yet
stated whether he will agree to this request.
The repeated publication of Senator Nc.
Pherson's intention to allow the Postmaster
General to decide The matter has directed to
that official all the pressure for and against
the candidates. 1t was said at the Postoffice
Department today that mnnberless letters
and kilograms on the subject have arrived,
and it was also added that the largest pro
portion OF these were against Nh. Walker.
This would indicate that the friends of the
other candidates are leaving no stone In
turned to accomplish Mr.. Walkers defeat.
The candidates who are i'll the city were at
the department today, but they were not
IN seeing the Postnlaster-General
as that official was surrounded by a throng
of Senators and members forty feet deep.
1t looks now as if an appointment would not
be made Immediately, as Mr.. Bissell is more
likely to decide cases upon which there is no
controversy. Still, the papers nave been
taken up for consideration, which is at least
"a step toward final settlement.
MR.. KLOTz IN WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Samuel Klotz of Newark, a candidate
for the Internal Revenue Collectorship, is in
Washington with reference to that office.
EX-GOVERNOR PRICES CASE.
The case of Rodman NJ. Price, Ex-Governor
of New Jersey, ex-member of Congress and
formerly a Purser in the Navy, is still drag
ging along in the courts here. Justice Hag-
ner has issued an order restraining him from
receiving any part of the $50, $50 which is to
be paid him from the United States Treasury.
Mr.. Price is in this city at present, and is
lying i'll at the Elsmere. Chancellor McGill,
in the court at Jersey City, postponed the
case against him there on Monday for two
weeks, until he shall recover his health sufi-
GENTLY to be present. The charge against
Price in New Jersey is contempt of court, in
that he did not return the checks received by
him from the United States Treasury.
THE RACE RAG QUESTION.
A large delegation of New Jersey race
track men are hanging on the ragged edge
of uncertainty regarding the continuance of
tina races at Ivy City. Judge Jere Wilson.
one of the foremost lawyers of the Capitol,
is now engaged at the request of President
George IL. Engemann to examine into the
and see whether the obstacles which
the authorities are throwing in the way of
winter racing can be overcome. If the de-
cision of Judge Wilson is favorable to the
race track men they will go ahead with the
races and makes test case for the courts. In
the mean time the horses are standing idly
in their stalls at Ivy City.
Il have several thousand dolla: IS locked up
in the Ivy City course, " said Nh. Engemann,
land am naturally anxious to get it back.
If I do race it will only be in good weather,
and not on rainy, snowy or sleety days"
Mr.. oRNrSH AND HIS
Representative Cornish, who has been
steadily %upholding the new tariff bill, has
returned to Washington all the more
determined to stand by the majority.
Il have been among my people,
said Mr.. Cornish today, and I
find that they want Democratic pledges re-
deemed. In the first place, they are for Mr..
Cleveland, in whom they believe and whom
they are willing to follow. Then they think
that when a committee of the House labors
faithfully and honestly, as the Ways and
Means Committee has done, to prepare a bill
in accordance with the Democratic platform
they should stand by them. I find that the
position which 1 have assumed from the first
is sustained by my people,"
The Lambertville p~ostofice is not the only
one which is causing Representative Cornish
serious consideration. The presence here Of
the Lambertville delegation was mentioned
in these dispatches yesterday, and Mr.. Cor
nish has been busily engaged in showing
them every courtesy. TIL trouble is, Mr..
Cornish says, that there are so many good
men in the place that he does not know whom
to select, and it will take him some time to
make up his mind.
Mr.. Cornish was considerably disconnected
by the receipt Of a letter from the Post
master General regarding the Newton Post
office. The Congressman had recommended
Thomas G. Bunnell, whese mental and moral
fitness for the place is acknowledged by a
large number of hearty endorsements. The
POctroo cfn1s fLof,nr-o1 hnVxyaxyan y1r.oc n
doubt as to the physical ability of Mr.. Bun
nell to undergo the strain of running the
office and suggests that another recommend
alton be made. This decision will compel
Mr.. Cornish to select some one else, some
thing which he is very 10th to do.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.
Herman j.. Kohlhaas of Paterson is an
other candidate for the Internal Revenue
Collectorship for the Fifth district. He has
sent a n~umerously signed petition to Con-
gresham Cadmus asking for his appoint
ment, and the papers will be duly filed. No
action has been taken by the Treasury De-
partment regarding this matter.
AN ExoDUS OF JERSEYMEN.
The approached the holidays and the ces-
sation Of the races at Ivy City nave both
combined to result in an exodus of Jersey
men from the National Capitol. James D..
O'Brien, the Clerk of the Excise Board of
PasSaic county, who was Assistant Secretary
at the Ivy City track, has resigned and gone
home, and Martin Connolly, one of Senator
Smiths appointees on the Senate side of the
Capitol, has departed for his home in New
ark, where he will spend his holidays. Mr..
John N. Courtade of Paterson, one of the
most popular and efficient of the Senate
messengers, will leave today for home.
He a had as his guest his brother, Jacob
A. Courtade, who Is on a trip South, com
bining business with pleasure.
NEW JERSEY APPOINTMENTS.
Two New Jersey Congressman were fortu-
nate enough to get places for their constitu-
ents this this week in the Capitol. Paul
Duffy, of Mr.. Cadmus' district, was sworn
in yesterday as an employee of the House
postotiice, and j. E. Cole has been appointed
a folder in the folding room, Upon the recon-
.mendation Of Mr.. Cornish.
PERSONAL.
Thomas OConnor, of Jersey City, who
was file clerk of the House in the last
Congress, is an applicant for a foreign con-
sulate.
John Walls, official time keeper at Ivy
City, will leave for New Orleans after the
holidays.
Lawrence Fell, Assistant Postmaster of the
Senate, is i'll at his home in Newark.
E.. s.. Doughty, who has a place at the
Capitol under Senator Mcpherson, is enter
Mr.. Silas Jones of Somerville.
William j. ST. Lawrence one of the coun-
sci of the Clifton track, is here aiding Presi-
dent Engemann Of the Ivy City track, in the
effort to have the racing here continued.
John Loughlin of Paterson is also here for
the same purpose,
Congressman Fielder of JERSEY City win
spend the holidays hunting in North Caro-
lima.