The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15

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lions of the man who had brought them,
and the election by which he had been sent
there, and should be unrestricted in hat
power.
at has been said that the Governor could
settle the matter by recognizing the Rogers
Senate. Perhaps, but | venture to say that
no United States Senator elected by such q
States Senate" Mr.. Stockton quoted from
the records of the United States Senate to
sustain that view.
whatever this Court says shall be done,
shall be done" Mr.. Stockton declared, in a
dramatic and emphatic manner
PLAYING HOMAS M'CARTER.
The Attorney General then numerically
scored Mr.. Thomas N. McCarter, who has
been one of the most bitter ~denunciators of
The Governor and the Attorney General in
this controversy. He said:-
1.-THE statement is put into his brief Mc-
Carter's) that there was a conspiracy in
which the Governor of this State was en-
gagged and in which !, the Attorney General,
was at least a party to the extent of having
sanctioned it by writing an opinion. Now,
may it please Your Honor, how dare any
| one of you write an opinion or file a decision
how dare any court, in the face of such a
statement as that, take jurisdiction or give
| an opinion? You would become conspirators.
You would become parties after the fact to
the conspiracy. You would sanction it, not
with an opinion purer or written with better
intentions than mine, but if you should think
that neither of these gentlemen had been
elected President Of the Senate and you
should dare to say so, you would be n
tioning this dreadful conspiracy and making
yourselves parties to it.
"That is all the connection that l have
had with this matter from the beginning to
the end, except to express freely,a | did and
have always done, my great regret that such
a question should have arisen in the Senate
of our State, and an earnest hope hat it
might be rectiied by the consideration of
good and wise men who know how to keep
their tempers, and If the members of the
Senate had sought advice of that kind they
would have gone, as | advised them to do,
into that body and fought for their rights.
They would not lave refused to do what l
have shown to you was their constitutional
duty to do. . / have not seen any evidence
that they ever offered their credentials, one
by one. | nave simply seen the statement
that some person in the excitement held up
some papers and said these were the creden-
tials. They were never offered to the body
to enable the body to judge on them.
HE LIBELLED THE
"But all ! mean to say in co-nclusion-and
they are my last words-is that l shall not
| degrade this case. l shall not degrade the
high position with which the people of New
Jersey have honored me for seventeen years
by denying, on my part, any accusations
made by Thomas N. McCarter. On the part
of the Governor, and taking the evidence Of
these two gentlemen who contradicted him
when the assertion was made and who took
the evidence (Messrs. Lindabury and Ste
vens), and who know What is in 1t better
than I do, / do affirm and declare that,
without any facts to support it whatsoever,
that gentleman (McCarter) has hbelled the
Governor of this State in making the
statement that he was connected with
any conspiracy at all. There is no evil
den ce, l am told, in the case connecting
him with it, nor any attempt to produce
such evidence. and I deeply regret that
partisan zeal has induced him to go to the
length he has, and l leave this matter, as
1 well as allthe rest, in the hands of the court,
with this suggestion, that when this court
does come to a conclusion it will consider
that point protested by Mr.. McCarter, and
give us a decision as to whether the Gov
ernor and myself nave engaged in a con-
spiracy against the rights Of the people of
this State"
Chief Justice Beasley said that the judges
would take up the matter in all its phases
at once, but when a decision would be
reached he could not say. The court would
not meet again until Monday and he was
confident it would have no announcement to
mo a in tho nnattaY then