The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-06

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by the traction companies The bill giving
the Police and Educational Departments
full control of their buildings, ETC., were
measures Of his which passed both Houses.
He failed to secure tho passage Of his bill
which requires indictments to be either tried
or notle pressed not later than the term fol-
lowing tho term in which they were found.
His measure amending the Martin act SO as
to allow adjustment up to date was signed
by the Governor, but his measure to pro-
hibit express and telegraph companies from
transmitting any lottery or green goods
matter failed. presumably because Mr..
Dewsnap's bill, which became a law, COW
cred the same ground.
No. $50, Mr.. McEwan'slast bill, was intro
duced to correct some defects in the Bob
Davis Jail bill, and after being amended in
the Senate, passed both Houses.
MR.. H.sRDING'S FRS EXPERIENCE.
Messrs. Harding and Carroll came next,
each with fifteen bills to his credit. Mr..
Harding waited ONE time before he jumped
into the fray, and the session was well I'M
der way when he popped up with two meas
ures, neither OF which became o law. One
made the fees Of notaries public rs cents for
an affidavit and so cents when they wrote
out the dispositions, while the other COM
PEELED railroad companies to have in each
car O complete outfit of knives, bandageS,
lint and medicines. No. 217, his next bill,
was more successful, and became a law, 1t
took the appointment OF Jersey City's law
officers from the Board OF Finance, and gave
it to the Mayor.
Mr.. Harding then tried his hand at taxing
corporations, and met the usual fate. His
bill to tax oil passing through pipes at one
fifth of a mill per gallon was never heard of
aftergbeing committed to the Committee on
Municipal Corporations. His next brace, which
abolished the present District Courts and re-
moved the Lamp Inspector from the tenure
of office act, met the same fate. His next
measure, legislating Clerk Connolly of the
Tax Board out of Office also failed, while
the measure ousting City Collector O'Neill
went through.
authorized the Sheriff to appoint detectives
for the Prosecutor, but did not pass. One of
his next three passed and two were defeated.
The successful one exempts the Raymond
Roth Pioneer Home from taxation, and the
two that failed sought to turn Poormaster
Hewitt out of office. No. 479, which he next
introduced, amended the Police Commits
sioners act; that is, it would if it had passed.
His last measure taking from the Governor
the power to appoint Port Wardens, was
another failure.
ME-. cARRoLL's MODEST SHOWING.
Mr.. T. j. Carroll started off under full
pressure of steam at the very opening of the
session and got in the first two bills. No. l
liked the price of gas in first class cities at
S1.25 per thousand, and No.. 2 required all
electric light wires and poles to have red
~insulators to distinguish them. 1t is need
less to remark that neither passed. Gas IL a
great power among republicans. No. 80,
requiring all State banks and manufactur-
ing corporations to observe all legal holidays
and half-holidays, was Mr.. CAROLS next
measure and Joined the big procession of
failures. His following one, providing for
the completion of Jersey City's reservoirs,
also took its place in the procession and
then came his famous No. SO, which sought
to compel the Erie Company to elevate its
tracks.
Another unsuccessful measure of MI. Car
rolls required the salaries Of all city officials
to be paid monthly, andit was quickly Joined
by his two bills seeking to abolish the Tax
Appeals Board Of Jersey City.
Another pair Of failures belonging to the
gentleman from the Sixth Hudson district
were the bills limiting the amount to be
expended each year for Armories to $4,000
and increasing the appropriation for Jersey
City's Armory to SlS5, 600. Success then at
last lighted upon Mr.. CAROLS banners, and
his bill authorizing Hudson county to ex-
pend $4,000 for steam heating plant
for the new Lpnatic Asylum be-
came a law. His bill to pension
police officers, however. failed n
SO did his repeater of the act increasing the
number of paid firemen In Jersey City. He
had no better success with his bills Licensing
social clubs to sell liquor, but his last bill,
which allows the Freeholders to use part of
plant for other purposes passed both Houses.
AssEMBLYMAN BEtRY's WORK.
Next on the list is Mr.. Berry with fourteen
bills. His first two were failures; they pro-
vided the manner in which buildings should
be shored. UP when excavations are being
made in adjoining lots, and the manner in
which buildings shall be moved in first class
cities. His bill to build a bridge over New
ark Bay between Bayonne and Elizabeth
port passed both Houses, but his next bill
repeating thes act making the terms OF
overseers of the poor in second class cities
three years was lost.
Mr.. Berry's next bill abolished the Dis
trict Court OF Bayonne,s and became a law,
while his measure providing for the regis
tration of druggists failed to pass. No 2S7,
his next measure, passed. 1t authorizes the
Aldermen of Jersey City to regulate the
erection of wooden buildings. Mr.. Berry
then brought In three bills repeating the act
salary; repeating the act authorizing the
Register Of Deeds to employ persons to re-
produce maps filed that ave worn out, and
the act providing that city marshals shall be
elected for three years, all OF which failed
to pass. Then he tried his hand at reducing
telephone rates. and met with no better sue
cess. Next he tried to have Bayonne's Board
OF Education appointed by the Mayor in
stead of elected, and failed again, but he
had better success with his bill appropria-
ting $1,000 for Sea Girt's camp ground, and
it became law. He wound up with an
other failure which sought to give pilots
the authority to use steam on their vessels.
Mr.. KER OF KEARNY.
Mr.. Kerr followed Mr.. Berry with ten
bills. His first was q failure. 1t authorized
Kearny to spend 81, 900 on an electric plant.
Two others sought to compel all railroads In
the State to maintain block signal systems
and also failed. His next, however, Great
ing commissioners of the sinking fund for
townships, passed, and SO did his next which
repeats an act providing for the election of
school trustees in third class cities.
Then came the famous Harrison and
Kearny annexation scheme, which passed
both Houses and was only defeated by the
Governors veto. This was followed by a
bill increasing tho salary of the Comptroller
of Harrison to SO, 900, which failed, I'M one
fixing the number Of MEMBER of township
committees in Hudson and Essex at five,
which passed and became O aw. Then came
the new Hoboken police department law
which the Governor vetoed, and Mr.. Kerr
rested from his labors with another failure
which sought to amend the act relative to
stray animals.
MR.. EGAN'S LABoRs
Mr.. Eqan comes next with five bills. He
was successful with his first measure which
provides for o sewer in Mill Creek and the
doing away with that nuisance. 1t passed
both Houses. His next three provided for
new Police and Fire Boards and Boards Of
Straet and Water Commissioners. but as