The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-28
A MOMHu9OUS NIGHT.
Senator's to Pass Anti-W a
ser Bills - Catholic
Schools Riddle
Hoffman.
sn.c;o, to The .ye,sev city Ne,vs.

SkatiS aNAN
and resolved to make the bills providing
that the Board OF Finance shall appoint
the Corporation Attorney Il Counsel,
and shall have the confirmation of the
Mayors appointments, caucus measures.
The former bill passed the Senate during
the evening, and was hurried over to the
House. The bill providing that a portion
of the license money shall be devoted to
the repairs of streets was amended sc
that the Street and Water Commission
ers cannot expend the money without the
consent of the Board of Finance.
PARoCHIAL SCHOOLS.
The Rev. Father Corrigan of Hobokep,
Father Connolly of Perth Amboy, Father
Whalen of Paterson, Father Muligan of
New Brunswick and O number or other
Catholic ciergymen came down here last
night with the bill which provides that
a portion of the public school funds shall
be appropriated to the p~arochial schools.
The provisions OF the bill were exclusively
published In The JERSEY CITY NEWS last
week. Father Corrigan first approached
Senator DAILY with the bill, but Mr.. DAILY
told him thai he would nave nothing TO
do with it.. He understood that Bishop
Wigger and many leading priests in the
oLdb6 WcIc OppO5CA ~ obSa" o. olA paa ~
could not afford to a K sides in such a
controversy.
Father Corrigan hen suggested to
Senator Barrett that he introduce the
bill, but the Essex Senator emphatically
declared that he did not believe in touch
ing the school fund for any purpose.
Senator Keys was the next gentleman
approached by the clerical lobbyist. The
Somerset Senator asked Father Corrigan
why he did not get Senator DAILY. his own
Senator, to introduce the bill.
"On, he's q little afraid of it" said the
good but unsophisticated Father, some
what incautiously.
"Then l don't think | can introduce 1t, p
replied Senator Keys.
The good Fathers became somewhat
discouraged over their abors in the Sen
ate Chamber and withdrew to the Gov
ernor's anti-rocm. where they held q con-
ference with United States Senator
James Smith, Jr. Their talk with the
Essex p%otentate soon convinced them
that they could not get the legislation
they wanted. and so they buttoned their
bill IN in their pockets and took it nome
with them.
TO UNsEAT HOFFMAN,
The long-expected report in the Riddle
Hoffman contest came into The Senate.
Senator Daily, the Chairman of the Special
Committee, submitted a majority report
showing that Riddle was elected, and
submitted a resolution that he be de-
clared entitled to the seat.
Mr.. Smith submitted the minority re-
port, which stood by Mr.. Hoffman. Mr..
Winton moved that both reports be print.
ed ana the matter laid over to March 8.
Mr.. Drake wanted the matter considered
at once, but Mr.. Winton's resolution pre-
vailed.
Following is the full text of the major
ity report:-
1t is impossible to read the evidence concern
ing the registration of voters in Atlantic City
without concluding that long before election
day there was a conspiracy In progress to Sc.
cure illegal voters for the benefit of the Repub-
lican ticket. With the men engaged in this work
a popular method seems to have been to register
the names of persons who work at the hotels il
| Atlantic City a couple Of months during the sum
mer season. The case of Joshua Forman, who re
sides at No. 90i Baltic avenue, presents a start
ling illustration Of the methods used
This colored man resides in a small
house, the number of rooms and sleeping apart
| ments in which is left uncertain by his testi
mony. On page 81 he teslifes that there are
| seven bedrooms in his house, one of which il
| occupied by his family, but his evidence on page
96 and OF shows that there are only four sleeping
room in the house, two on the second floor and
two In the attic.
From this house Forman caused tht
name of Joshua Forman, Edward Am
Michael Green, John Green, John Harris
Arthur Harkins, Henry Platter. Edward
Ross, James Smith, Joseph Hamer, John harris
William Loney, Levi Van, william White
tered. OF these Forman cannot remember the
names of more than three men, including him
self, who slept in his house the night before
how Forman and others committed the crime o.
| obtaining false registration of voters, nor the
party in whose interests the crime was com
mitted.
| r~ar rNpN Aeic crnpv -
Forman testified that he gave the names tt
the election officers from the roll book of a Re
publican club which met at his house. He in
sists that the club is a social one, but the pro
duction Of the minutes of the organization
| shows that its name was the Young Men's
| Union Republican Club 1t is possible tina
this man Forman, who was not a candidate fol-
office, who does NOT hold any official position
was moved by an unhealthy zeal for his party
to commit these frauds, but IL is unlikely
Many of the houses from which persons were
registered, and from which they are recorded a.
voting are empty. In all these cases the vote.
were cast by colored men. They cannot be
found at the places from where they votel, ant
| it is attempted to explain this in many ways
one being to show that the houses were wrongly
numbered and that persons having the name
| lived in adjacent houses.
The testimony would be entitled to more credi
| if it was not for the fact that those who voted OF
| the names must have given the registered resi-
deucAs to the election officers on election day.
Several witnesses were called to prove that
l c0lOI6u luOu tSSlAC0 Ia " SltJ jill Ct6CiiOl
day, but c-ross-examination shows that tn,
only claim to a residence is in the fact that
satchel or trunk or q coat was lief
IN the house of witness. The manner il
which these names were voted upon car
be easily surmised. During the summeI
months many colored men are employed
at the hotels which are open for the season a
Atlantic City. They leave in September o
October, but their names are registered from
the places where they slept in the summer
These names are voted upon by somebody. i
may be that the colored men who are registered
| return from Philadelphia, Wash ington and NOR,
distant points to vote on election day. Thi
would be a way of accounting for the exodus Of
negroes from Atlantic City on election da,
which is testified to by John H. Campbell.
CENTRE OF FRAUD,
Formap's house and many others from which
voters we're Illegally registered are in tbs
Second Ward uf Atlantic City. The Total regis
over two hundred cennot be found in the city
directory. That book being offered in evidence
the tma of the city is called by the in
cumbent to attack its accuracy, but names only
three residents of the city whose addresses hay
been omitted. He says that thu director is un
trustworthy. but cannot recall a siugle name bJ
which he has proved its lnaccurracy during al
official experience in the Post Office covering
period OF seventeen years.
In the opinion of your the pre-
ceedipg s in this ward are tainted with such
frauds of Illegal registration and voting that tn
official returns are worthless. Your committe
is further of the opinion that the frauds resuite
in placing to the credit OF the incumbent a nue.
larger number of votes than the official ma
jority returned to him.
There is undisputed testimony that bribery
was resorted to to obtain the majority returne
for the incumbent. John Newman testified thai
on election day, Daniel Waters came t
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