The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-06
OUR own S0L0hS
What Hudson County Legis-
1ators Did, Tried to Do
and Failed to Dc.
DAILY A BETTER SENATOR
Max salinger as a Forty miner;
MoEwan's ANTI Corpora
ton Efforts.
DAILY A BETTER SENATOR
Harding Ousted Bob Davis and
Provided a Way to Abate the
Mill Creek Nuisance.
Special to the jersey Citp Nstes.

TRENTON, June ., lS94.-Iho members
| from Hudson in the last Legislature as be-
comes the representatives Of the largest
county in the State, took an active part in
the work of the session. Senator DAILY in
PRODUCED sixteen bills, only three of which
he succeeded in having passed. His first bill
amended the law in regard to licenses, max
ing it more favorable to the liquor dealer,
but the amendment failed to pass. His next
bill was for the purpose of giving Hoboken
the power to erect and maintain its W
water works, and chat too died an untimely
death. Water was more influential than
rum. A.
Then the Senator started in with four bills,
one right after the other. The first amended
the act concerning the descent of real estate;
the second went for the official s~tenographers
| and reduced their fare to FIVE cents a folio the
| third prohibited double track street railways
when the street is not fifty feet wide, and
] make null and void privileges heretofore
| granted to such railways in narrow streets.
This bill was aimed at the North Hudson
| Railway Company, and sought to prohibit it
| from laying double tracks on Grove street.
1t failed to pass, as did also the other two.
Mr.. Daily had better success with the bill
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| township, over which there was some doubt
as to its legality, and it became a law. The
next bill of the Senator from Hudson
| amended the act relating to the punishment
| of crimes, and this, also, went through. A
| companion measure, amending the act pro-
viding for the trial of small causes. died on
| its way through the Senate. Another bill
provided for a trial by jury in appeal cases,
| although the case had no jury in the lower
| court. 1t met the sam fate.
Hl-fortune still continued to pursue Mr..
| DAILY, and his next bill providing that a hus-
| band or wife should be competent to give
| evidence for or against his or her partner in
| any action for criminal conversation also
| failed to pass. Another of Mr.. Days bills,
which repealed a portion of the crimes acts,
| died young, and so did one which amended
the practice act by allowing the same costs
| and fees in actions in Circuit Courts and
Common Pleas as are now allowed for like
| services in the Supreme Court.
His next bill, however, met with better
success. It relieves the County Board of
Equalization from sending out individual
| notices, and passed both Houses. A bill pro-
viding that no consents obtained from prop
erty owners for the laying of street railway
tracks before the first of May, 1894, should
be valid for action by any governing board,
was killed. His last bill, providing that the
| clerk of each board in cities shall file with
| the City Comptroller, within six months
| after the close of the fiscal year, a complete
list of all claims against the city, was like
wise killed.
ssALINGER's FoRTy-NINE.
In the Assembly, Max Salinger not only
led his delegation but all the other members
| as well in the introduction of bills. He put
| in no less than forty-nine, while Mr.. Erlen-
koetter was the lowest with only thIe e.
Mr.. Salinger started in On the first real
| working day of the session, with five bills
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| 10 provided for the admission to the bar of
| this State of lawyers from other States. No.
IA repealed the act of 1892 requiring the pub
| lication of the names of applicants fer liquor
| licenses; No. Is provided that writs of error
in criminal cases punishable with death,
| should issue as writs Of right; No. Is pro-
| vided that mono but licensed attorneys
| should practice before Recorders or police
justices, and No. II gave all criminal courts
| authority to sentence offenders to the State
Prison or to a penitentiary or the work
house. None of this quintette passed.
This somewhat discouraged Mr.. Salinger
and he kept in the background for some
time when he suddenly burst forth with two
bills, Nos. 101 and 102, both Of which met the
same fate. Maybe they deserved it as they
sought to change the prevailing methods of
conveying real estate. Success crowned Mr..
S~alinger's eighth effort and he will long be
remembered for the measure as it was the
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provided for a State water board and was
wrecked In the rapids Of the water syndi-
Gates. His next two measures were philan-
thropic and met the fate of many philan-
thropists, they died young. One provided
for the discharge of poor prisoners after ten
days confinement, when It was shown that
they could not pay their fiues and the other
enabled women to become lawyers.
One providing for trial de nouo for causes
in District Courts when judges do not give
a decision in ten days after trial and one
authorizing the judge of the Common Pleas
to take bail also failed to pass. Another
amendment to the Grimes act proposed by
Mr.. Salinger was killed and so were a brace
compelling The use Of fire escapes in cities
and providing that appeals from District
| Courts tofbe heard in the Common Pleas
shall be tried before a jury On ten days
notice.
GOOD AND BAD.
Next came Mr.. Salinger's 81 gas bill, which
got lost somewhere in the shuttle, and one re-
~duiring pleas to befiled in the District Courts
in all forcible entry and detainer cases went
to- keep Mcompany.S
MIR. Salinger's next bill was intended to
provide q means of getting rid Of the manure
heaps on, the Hackensack meadows, and he
succeeded in forcing it through the House,
| but nothing has been heard from it since it
went to the Senate. His effort to stop the
gas companies from taking q meter out of a
| mans house without his consent deserved a
| better fate than the death it met In the
House. Mr.. Salinger broke the monotony
at this point by making q law. He passed
his bill which makes it unnecessary to make
| affidavit to a plea when an affidavit of merit
has been filed. No. $50, giving aqueduct
and other boards WI to condemn lands,
water and rights for the purpose of securing
pure water the Hobart-Bartlett. water job;
+ No. 240, authorizing attorneys and coun-
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giving persons arrested under the disorderly
house act the right of a trial by jury, three
of Mr.. S~alinger's "excellent" measures, all
died in their earliest stages.
The next three bills Mr.. Salinger put in
were those giving Jersey City and Newark
two Republican Police Justices, which be-
came laws. Tho energetic representative
of the Second district of Hudson then took
d long leap and landed seven bills upon the
Clerks desk in regular sequence, none of
which, however, passed. They repealed the
act OF 1889, under which Jersey City was re-
Distracted for Aldermen; amended the act of
1888 SO as to authorize Jersey City to pay
alleged back gas bills; amended the work
shop act; made the Mayor Of tho cities that
had adopted the non-partisan Fire Commis-
sioners' act a member OF the board, and
legislated out of Office the District Court
Judges
Mr. Salinger's next bill, providing that
policies of assurances upon which five years.
| premiums had been paid, should be MONITOR
feitable. was killed, and so were the two fol-
lowing providing that any person twice con-
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