The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-20
WORKING DAY AND NIGHT.
Roth Houses Pass a Large Number
of Important Bills.
Speciol to the jersey City Neus.

TRENTON, April 20, 1s94-The Republicans
of Camden gave President Rogers a rousing
reception Wednesday night. The Repub-
lican Senators all went down, including Mr..
Bradley. They kept up the reception" until
haI-past two o'clock Thursday morning, and
the Senators came pack to Trenton on the
train which gets here at nine o'clock. This
was the cause of a session last night which
lasted well into this morning. Among the
large number Of bills passed were these
OTHER BILLS PASSED.
House bill 40, provides for the building of
a bridge uniting two counties, expense to be
borne equally by each county. This is Il I,
bridge from Bayonne to Elizabethpcfe :.
House bill Isl, allows Boards of Aldermen
to elect their clerk for term of three years
House bill 1876, prohibiting the betting. BY
pools or books on horse races, House bill 70,
transfers the moneys received from the sale
of riparian leases to the School Fund
House bill 212, abolishes the Public Road
Boards Of Hudson and Essex.
At the three sessions OF the House these
bills were passed
Assembly 347, authorizes Hudson county
to issue bonds to the amount of $4,000 to
build a steam or heating house, baths, etc.
for the County Lunatic Asylum. the money
to be expended under the direction of the
courts; Assembly 437, authorizes the Cover
nor to appoint four Deputy Quartermasters.
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list with the rank Of B~rigadier-G General,
John Watts Kearny, formerly Inspector
General in the National Guard; Senate rs,
allows a reasonable compensation, to be fixed
by the presiding Judge, for counsel for de
PENDANTS in homicide cases.
Senate 127, exempts religious societies and
charitable associations from the fees paid by
corporations for fling certificates of incor-
p~oration with the Secretary OF State; Senate
IS, confers power of Commissioner of Deeds
on Deputy Surrogates Assembly 35S, pro
vides that Sheriffs may kill MANNED, sick or
wounded animals found upon highways, and
fixes fine for abandoning any such sick
beast or animal; House 29S, repeats act pro
viding that City Marshal Of Jersey City
shall be elected for three years Tim Longs
bilD Assembly 113, provides for the estab-
Iishment of a laval militia, to be connected
with the National Guard to consist of two
battalions; Assembly $40, repeats act of 1891,
recurring sales to be advertised in the Ger
man language; Assembly 81, regulates ex-
cavating below grade in Jersey City; Assem-
bly, 2S7, authorizes Common Councils of
first-class cities to pass ordinances regulating
and prohibiting the erection of wooden
buildings therein; House 400, relieves the
Raymond Roth Pioneer Home, of Jersey
City, from taxation.
FONT Resolution No. /, appropriating
81. 600 to complete the interior of the Trenton
Battle Monument, was opposed on final pas
sage by Mr.. Flynn, who said that the State
had already appropriated $4,000 to the
Monument Associations and when that sum
was given the Commission assured the Legis-
lature that no more would be asked for. Mr..
Tnommon made q eloquent plea for the
resolution, and declared that the State could
wels afford to appropriate 5000 to finish the
shaft that commentaries the greatest bat
tie Of tho Revolution. Mr.. McEwan also
favored the resolution, and it was passed,
43 30 Mr.. Flynn