The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-08
A
KILKENNY WARFARE
Republican Assemblymen
Have a Lively Time
in Caucus.
M'EWAN COMES OUT AHEAD
He Triumphs Over the Underdone
Statesmen-Yesterday After
moons Session.
COMES OUT AHEAD
Special to the Jersey citu Nens.

Special to the Jersey City NeMs.
TRENTON, Feb. 8, 1S94.-It took the Re
publican Assemblymen another hour and a
half, yesterday afternoon, to complete what
called s'd~isciplining the obstreperous
MEMBERS Mr.. McEwan was all smiles
he emerged from the Speakers room,
where the disciplining process went on, and
gave those who spoke to him upon the sub
ject to understand that it had all been fixed,
and that hereafter everything would go
along smoothly. The proceedings of the
brief sessions which followed certainly bore
him out in his statement. "The wheels OF
Legislation" as the country members liz to
call it, spun around without a jar or hltch
as though running over a most improved
rock ballasted roadbed. When 1T was over,
Mr.. MeEwan's smile was broader than ever,
and he declared thai that was the way
things would go after that.
1t is amusing to hear the Republicans
talk about the peace and harmony which
abides in their midst; to hear their solemn
declarations that there was no dlsclplln1ng or
sscalling down. at yesterdays aucus, and
then in the mex breath hear MI. McEwans
friends talk about the manner in which he
made Storrs, Olcott and the other amateur
i u1c1S julio NblOUA
perch, while his opponents maintain that he
never made any stand at all or threatened to
resign the leadership, for if he had they
would nave accepted it gladly and have
given him a resolution OF thanks.
THE FAMILY QUARREL.
Notwithstanding all this, the Republican
majority is in a bad way and is INDUCING in
an internecine war, which is all the more
emphasized by their ridiculous efforts to
cover it up. The trouble is of long standing
and goes away back to the Speakership fight.
There are some members among the major
itY, who are political accidents. They were
nominated in districts which the Republicans
never dreamed of carrying or they would
never nave been put up. They are not
politicians and do not understand the first
principles of party politics OF party discipline.
Because they were caught up in the ffeshet
which sprang up in the State last
fall and swept along by the force
of its irresistible current into the Assembly
Chamber. they have become pulled Up with
the idea that they nave been especially called
to reform everything n everybody but
themselves. The effect of a red flag on q
mad bull is not a circumstance to the frame
of mind into which the mere suggestion OF a
boss or leader throws these underdone states
men.
They cannot see the difference between
the boss, who owns a man body and soul and
compels him to vote and speak as the boss
dictates. and the leader who is chosen to
speak and act for the party, SO that the
party may take a definite course Oh
a measure and not go h~ounderlne
about in the mud OF Ignorance
as some of the Republican members did Oh
Tuesday. These are the mem who are EN-
barrassing Mr.. McEwan and throwing al
sorts OF obstacles in his path, which IS rocky
enough at the best. For a new member wht
has never before had any legislative expert
ence, MI. McEwan makes a capable leader
| He is a lawyer of training, n competent tt
lead his party in debate on any questlol
which may come before the House. Il
some of his colleagues would think a littl'
less of themselves and more OF their party,
the Republican majority would be better OF
THEY GO FOR THE SENATE.
Mr.. McEwan does not please these radio
partisans. He does not move fast enough
for them in the matter of rushing through
| the bills to take off Democratic heads. 1hey
want the heads to go into the basket so qulcl
| that the democrats will never know VIVA
struck them and they are incensed at Mr.
McEwan because he Will not put the Demo
cratic office holders to death without giving
| them the usual chance to make a dying
| speech bv moving the previous question
That Mr.. McEwan fatty refuses to do. III
a V he will not sanction any gag law, bu1
| will see that all members have a chance t.
| debate all questions according to the rules ol
the House. Some of the republicans have
gone SO. far as to move the previous questlol
| on their own responsibility, and that was on
| of the matters which was discussed in tn
| caucus
Not content with making trouble in thu
House, these same underdone statesmen nav
begun to attack their Senate. They hay
been growing all the week that the clever
Republican Senators are so much molasseS L
point of speed. They don't like the deliber
ate manner in which the Senators are exam
lining some of their rank partisan measure
and they chafe at the idea that any republi
can should question the ACCESSIBILITY OF dis
placing an office holder when he is a demo
4 crat. They heaped all sorts of malediction
upon Senator Bradley's head the other da.
because he refused to vote to abolish tn
County Superintendent until ne could 100
a little further into the bill. 1t was thes
amateur reformers hat led a shrewd politi
clan, the other day, to say that the Demo
Gratis should nave allowed the Republicans t
control the Senate; because the Republlcan
would have made such q record with thei
rank partisan measures that the people woul
bury them SO deep next year that it woul
take them another decade to dig out.
YESTERDAYS SESSION.
Yesterdays afternoon session of the Hous
was very brief, and only a little work wa
done. Mr.. Cross bill giving surrogate
power to appoint guardians in ~unconteste.
will cases was passed. So was Mr.. Salinger'
bill which repeats the act of 1892 giving de
PENDANTS the right to chose the justice OF IN
peace before whom they may be taken for
hearing. Mr.. Wilson, democrat of Warren
opposed the bill strongly because he though
it repealed the law which compels an office
to take his prisoner before the nearest jus
tice But when it was explained to hir
that it was to repeal the bill passed for tn
Gutenberg booklnakers he withdrew his OK
position. Mr.. Lewis introduced a measur
repeoling the act which authorizes the ap
pointment of sergeant7at-arms In count
courts.
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