The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-01
MEADOW NUISANCBS,
Also Boards Of Health War
Before the Legislature
"A Strange Steal.
specfal to The Jersey city ge,os.

TRENTON, March /, 1893. Corporation
Attorney Spencer Weart. H. w. Winfield,
Counsel TO 1.-THE County Board OF Health.
and ex-Judge Abel 1. Smith went before
the Committee on Revision of Laws yes
terday to be heard upon the bills which
provide for the abolishlng Of the manure
heaps and other stencil breeders on the
Meadows, and giving the County
Board Of Health jurisdiction over
the Hopoken Board. Mr.. Win
field spoke for both bills, while
| Mr.. Wear6 opposed the enc aimed at the
manure heap, and Judge Smith the one
which seeks to place the Hoboken Board
in a state of i%nnocuous desuetude. Mr..
Winfield soon quoted Mr.. Weart by
agreeing to an amendment, which pro-
vided that the law should not apply TO
any nuisance which had been before the
courts. The Board had vRinly tried to
abolish the AMI heap nuisance before
the Chancellor, but had been defeated
for want of just such legislation as the
bill sought TO effect.
He mad it out however with ] Judge
Smith who showed that Hoboken was
as much entitled to nave a Board of
spoke. OF the embarrassing CONFLICTS
which were constantly arising between
the two Boards, and argued that the well
fare of the public demanded that they
cease. MIR. Winfield is confident that
both bills will be reported fuvorably,
while the opponents of The bill are just as
positive that they will be reported adj
verseiy.
QUEER CORPORATION DODGE.
Mr.. lane made a curious complaint
yesterday. A bill. affecting railroads.
was called up, and the young man FROM
Union began looking through his files for
it. He could not find 1T, aud then he de-
gone through his flies and taken
out every bill which related to
railroads and other corporations. Sew
eral others made the same complaint
and the Speaker was asked what could
be lone under the circumstances. He re-
piled he did not know, unless a watch
man was employed TO watch the cham
bers when the members had left. The
bill files are kept under the mel bers'
desks, where any one can nave access
to them, and it is a COM
mon practice for those who want
bills when the bill room Is locked, to help
themselves from the files OF the member
whose desk is most convenient. But the
s~traugesG thing about the matter yester-
day was the fact that SO many of the As
semblymen had been despoiled Of the
bills. elhs a4
LAUGH NOT ON FRANK MCGOWAN.
They are telling a good story here OF
ex-Mayor Franz Mcgowan. the Young
Republican hustler, who has the Guber-
material bee buzzing in his bonnet. Frank
and Louis Perrine are rivals in
the electric light business n
are both anxious to secure the con-
tract for lighting Trenton's streets.
Last Tuesday at the meeting of the Com
mon Council Perrine put in a bid which
simply paralyzed Mr.. MCGOWAN and cap
tivated the Councilmen. Everyone
thought that Mr.. Perrine would receive
the contract. But at last nights
meeting of the Board MCGOWAN
sprane upon them a certified copy
of a. law which had been signed
by the Governor during the day and took
from the Council the power to consider
the contract and transferred it to the
Board of Works. Mr.. MCGOWAN, through
u leading Republican, had rushed the
bill through the Legislature without any
ones discovering its real interest. One of
the most amusing features of the bill was.
the fact that Assemblyman tanning. one
of McGowan's most bitter opponents
voted for the bill without the slightest
idea that he was playing right into the
hands of his rival. Mr.. MCGOWAN cele-
brated his victory last night with cham
paign, oysters u terrapin.