The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-18
BOONERANGS!
Governor Werts Will Not
Sign the Rlngsters'
Bills.
THE BAD SENATOR'S BAD BREAK.
W. D. DAILY Gets the Liquor Deal ers
Into Deeper Water Than
Before.
THE BAD SENATOR'S BAD BREAK.
PREPARING FOR SPRING ELECTIONS
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Special to The jersey City Ne,us
TRENTON, March Is, 1S92-GoVernor
Werts has given notice to the Jersey CITY
Ring leaders that he will not approve Oh
the bill making the members OF tne
Board of Education elective Instead OF
appointiye, nor of the bill authorizing tae
Board of Aldermen TO change the distr)cI
lines, Both bills were designed to henent
the Democrats in Jersey City at the ap-
preaching municipal election.
The Board of Education bill provided
for the election Of thirteen members
one at large ana two in each OF the SIX
Aldermanic districts. The present Board
is composed of seven members appointed
nv the Mayor. -Four of them are Repub'
l,cans ana three are Democrats.
The Ringsters want to get control OF
the Board, and they thought they coula
do SO if the members were elected instead
of apoointed. To make doubly sure OF
carrying majority OF the districts IL was
nranosed that the lines be changed SO as
to make four of SIX districts Democratic:
This could not be done without an act Oh
the Legislature, and Senator DAILY intro
duced bill TO meet Ine emergency.
a Committee of Democrats called on
Governor Werts at his residence Oh
Tnursday night and asked him TO sign
both bills, a.,
II have carefully considered the bills
said the Governor. "and | have decided
not to sigu them. Will give my reasons
when tlle the bills"
ANGRY RINGsTERs.
The visitors are angry with the Cover
nor. The terms of Directors Reid (Hep.)
and Muldoon, Moran and Garrison Oem.)
expire this spring. Mayor Wanser will
appoint their successors. Tns Board Will
DOUBTLESS continue in control OF the he
publicans.
Among the bills which received the
Governors signature Yesterday was NO.
l6S. introduced by Assemblyman Carroll,
OF Hudson. 1t is designed to abolish the
sweating system, anu PROVIDED thaG no
apartment iii tenement house snail De
used by persons engaged in the manu-
facture OF any kind OF garments or artI-
1lcial flowers or cigars. L. also providesa
penalty for punishment OF manufacturers
who will employ persons TO worK IN teue-
nIent apartments. The other pllls signed
were mainly local measures.
me Governor still has upward OF
hundred bills that await his attention.
and he is going to dispose OF tnein as
rapidly as possible. Some. which he mas
examil ed casually, have been laid asld5
b cause he does uuL propose 10 act upon
em until he has heard from their spons-
lis.
The Governor will go to Trenton, Mon
nv ornIug. thence TO PhiIadtl ma. He
will return W Trentsr, TUESDAY, when he
will a cord hearings to everybody who Is
lnLere .Leu i'll The bills tnas are still III his
hands. He has not yet signed, the Hud-
sou County Boulevard bill aud Will not
until he examins it closely.
BAD SENATOR DALY'S BREAK.
That particularly brilliant individual
in his own estlmaLion and particularly
blatar. in tue estimation of thinking
pt ople, Bad SeDat DAILY, appears TO have
made d pretty mess of his law to savo
saloon keepers from indictment for main
taining dIsorderly houses ~hen tnelr
offenss is merely selling liquor illegally,
would appear to be most remarkable
niece of legislation. The act does not
tlke effect until July LAWYERS who
have scanned the measure say that under
i5 saloon keepers may escape indictment
for maintaining disorderly houses. but the
punishment for the illegal sale OF liquor
ls-tiade much severer.
The act provides that the unlawful sale
of spiriuuous. vinous. malt or brewed
liquors snail not be considered as main
tanning common law nuisance. or as
maintaining or keeping a disorGerly
house indlctable under section l92 OF the
Crimes act, but that in all cases the lu-
uictment shall be in form for the sale of
intoxicating liquors contrary to the law"
The law then provides that on convic-
tiou of such unlawful sale the person so
convicted shall be punished as In aud by
said section 1872 of the said act entitled,
AN act for the punishment of crimes is
provided" The penalty referred to is
s.imprisonment at hard labor not exceed
lug two years, or by a fine not excseding
$500, or both"
WORSE THAN BEFORE.
"The penalty Tor selling spirituous
LIQUOR :, unlawfully,shas been $40 for each
aL..o o.ery offence. aud for uulawfully
selling vinous and malt liquors $50. So
that i5 would appear that la enacting the
DAILY law. instead of mitigating the puu-
lshment, as 1t was understood the bill was
designed to do, It's authors have attached
tn s4verer punishment to the milder
offence of single sale OF liquor, unlaw-
l.ny Ine OLD laws Tor unlawfuiselling
it Will be noticed, provided only for d
fine. The Daily act not only makes the
person convicted liable to heavier fine,
bur also to imprison ment.
The bill, it was understood, was passed
at the request of the Hudson County
L.auor Dealers Association.