The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-18
AFTER THE FAT"
Republicans Of Essex County Call
in the Help of Lawyers.

Special to The Jers6D Citu Ne'us.
NEWARK. Nov. IS. 1895. The conference
between the legislators-elect from Essex
County and the Republican County Com
mittee at headquarters in Chester Row
yesterday afternoon. resulted in the ap-
pointment of a committee consisting
mainly of lawyers whose services will be
at the disposal of the senator and assem-
blymen from this county in aiding to
draft bills for the repeal aud substi tuition
of the laws enacted by the democratic
legislatures of the past three years.
The committe consists of Chandler w.
Riker. John A. Miller, Joseph L. Mum,
Edward w. Jackson and E. B. Gaddis
with Major Carl Lentz, the chairman, and
William Riker, jr.. the treasurer of the
county committe. as members ex-off1cio.
The matters considered by the con-
ference pertained entirelyto local govern :
ment. The only definite conclusions that
may be drawn from the result of the con-
ference are that the bills providing
for the abolition of the offices of super~
intendent in the police aud fire depart.
ments and of seperate counsel for the
several departments of the local city and
county governments will be prepared at
the instance of the legislators~elect from
Essex and will be introduced at an early
day in the approaching session.
1t is also certain that the Board of
Works will either be reconstructed and
placed on a non~partisan basis or else
abolished altogether; but just exactly
what course will be pursed it is impos-
sible to say. Opinions expressed at the
conference yesterday were so diverse as to
render impossible a definite conclusion a.
to what will be done.
A q affairs ero todou Tho Daar1 of Uyo,1ro
and the Common Council are both equip>
ped with costly machinery. Each body
has its expensive corps of clerks and
counsel. In order to reduce expenses
created for the benefit of Democratic polls
tical workers, the Board of Works must
be abolished or else the powers of the
Common Council and its ~extravagant
retinue must be curtailed. Just which
course will be pursued is not known. AS
Hudson and other counties are as deeply
interested i'll the subject as is Essex. it is
very probable that the Republican State
Committee will be asked to undertake
the task of arranging q general conference
yers from all parts of the State, at which
the questions involved may be thoroughly
canvaSsed and some wise and equitable
course of action be determined upon.
The committee appointed at Yesterdays
conference was instructed to give atten>
tloQ 10 UUe SuDJeCG II report at q laGer
date. 1t will also consider methods of
electinR Aldermen aud Freeholders, the
recent decision Of the Supreme Court hay~
ing raised the question of whether some
new methods should be devised. Various
suggestions nave been made in this line,
but it is not likely that the legislators
elect fom Essex will come to any conclu-
sion until they have heard from the other
counties in the State that are Just as
much interested in the problem as this
county.
The conference discussed propositions
to prepare bills to amend the Election Law
so as to prevent the distribution of official
ballots outside polling places and to make
the last opportunity for registration fall
on a day at least two weeks before cleo
ton. The necessity for amendment in
the latter particular wa shown by the
numerous frauds that were successful at
the late election because there was not
sufficient time to properly examine the
registry lists. No positive determination
was reached in regard to these items
either.
Chairman Lentz and Registrar Riker
were authorized by the County Executive
Committee to issue an appeal for funds
with which to carry on the prosecution of
the ''repeaters" and "~colonizers'' and the
members of the Democratic ring who hired
these law breakers to operate at the late
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