The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-15

SAID SALINGER LIED
Carroll's Repeater Raises
a Storm in the Assem-
bly, Chamber.
ALL OYER THE TAX APPEALS BOARD.
Teddy's Desire to Save the Tax
Payers $4,000 Per Annum
!. Causes Him to Lose His
Temper.
ALL OYER THE TAX APPEALS BOARD.

Special to the Jersey City Neics.
TRENTON, Feb. 10, 1S94.-Had it not been
for Timothy ]. Carroll, who represents the
Sixth district of Hudson county, yesterdays
session of the Legislature would have been
one of the dullest of the year. He and Max
Salinger got into a wrangle over the dolngs
of the Jersey City Tax Board, and Carroll
in his high falsetto told Max that he lied in
such loud and uncertain tones that several
members Jumped to their feet and called him
to order.
Mr.. Carroll has been very much disguised
with the Republican c~lap-trap..which has pre-
vailed during this session, concerning the
deep regard they entertain for the will OF the
dear people, which just now demands that
all boards, commissions and other governing
bodies which draw a salary from
the State or municipal treasures
should be abolished. The weary air
which has crept over the face of the MEM
Der from the Sixth, as the Chamber vi
brated with the school boy el%oquence of
Storrs. Ginder and the other underdone
statetmen, setting forth the beauties OF the
new era of economy which was TO bring upon
this State the political Millennium, has been
a sight indeed.
Like many other citizens throughout the
State. Mr.. Carroll has seen the hollow hypoc
ricy and cant of these ~pretentions,. and be-
come convinced that its real object is to put
good democrats out of office and bad repub-
ncans in, SO that the Republicans can build
up a machine which will make John Kean,
Jr., of Elizabeth, Governor, and General
William J. Sewell Of Camden, United States
Senator. At any rate, Mr.. Carroll proposed
10 test the question. So he introduced a bill
abolishing the Board of Appeals in cases Of
taxation in cities of the first class. The
board in Jersey City, as is well known, is
Republican. Mr.. CAROLS bill went to the
Committee on Judiciary, of which the great
and only Max Salinger is Chairman, and
the greater and onlyer John Atkinson is
Clerk. Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Salinger
reported the bill adversely, and then the fun
began.
MR.. CARROLL START TIE BALL.
Carroll took the floor and moved that the
report be not concurred in. He said the bill
repealed a law which he had had passed him
self. The Board of Appeals cost the tax
payers of Jersey City $4,000, which, accord
ing to Republican doctrine of the session,
was an unnecessary drain upon the City
Treasury. Mr.. Carroll expressed the deepest
concern for the poor outraged taxpayers of
JERSEY City, and most earnestly begged the
Republican majority to relieve them OF this
crushing burden of $4,000 per annum by
voting not to concur in Mr.. Salinger's re-
DOIG. linen ne cOdNSu SdTcdSliC Ike anu
said he was anxious to see the 'reformers,"
with whitening scorn on the "Reformers,"
go on record on this measure of economy,
which happened to wipe out a Republican
board.
Max replied in opposition to the motion.
He told OF the history OF the board. lie
said the law creating it was passed by a Demo-
cratic Legislature, but the Mayor happened
to be Republican when the time came to fill
the offices, and that's how it happened to be
Republican. 1t was a necessary law, he
commended and saved the taxpayers annually
much more than the 81, 900 which Mr.. Car
roll said it cost to maintain 1t, but he dis
puted that and said it only took $500 to
run the Office.
He then went into one of his sporadic
~orations upon the iniquity of the present Tax
Board of Jersey City. He said that it was a
well known fact that the valuation of the
property of some men was increased because
the owners were Republican and that
of others materially decreased for no
other mason in the world than that they
were democrats. He knew of cases where
the valuations of republicans had been in
creased beyond the market value of the prop
erty. The present board was Republican,
there was no doubt of that: but it was com
posed of three honest, conscientious men,
free from party bias and willing to do what
was right between man and man.
CONCERN FOR TAX Y E
MI, OaITOll bOOkfUle IOOI d ScCOuu tlIuo oHN
raised a great clamor tor the tax payers and
the $4,000 per annum he wanted to save
them. He said that'if the bill was passed
the Tax Board would have the authority to
hear and determine appeals and that that
board would soon be in the hands of the re
publicans, as the Mayor would undoubtedly
appoint a republican to succeed Mr.. Prigge.
Then he again explained how he was pining
away to save the tax payers OF Jersey City
$4,000 per annum and sat down.
It is a much colder day than it was yester-
day, when Mr.. Beeknan of Middlesex fails
to poke his oar into any debate that is in pro-
gfess. He has an idea that the interests of
the entire State ere in his keeping. next to
those of Miles Ross. He took the floor and
told one of his funny stories about the old
darkey who took his ebony grandson over
one of the famous battle fields of the South
and told him all about the war. When he
had finished young ebony wanted to Know
"What dey was fghtin' foah, enyhow." So
Mr.. Beekman said he'd like to know what
tsde gemmen from Hudson was fightin' foah,
enyhow.n
He did not receive much enlightenment
from Salinger, who next took the floor and
attacked Mr.. Carroll. He said Carroll did
not tell all the facts. He did not tell of the
law passed by democrats last winter, which
required a four-fifths vote of the Board of
Finance to confirm an appointments by the
Mayor. He knew very well that, although
tuc mayor lulSuU dppolAp a 1OPuDAcoh3 onC
Republicans hadn't four-ifths of the FL
nance Board and the Tax Board would re-
main Democratic. Then Mr.. Salinger re-
iterated his remarks about the discrilnina-
tions against republicans by the Demo-
cratic Tax Board. Carroll and Beekman
both clamored for the floor, but the Speaker
recognized Mr.. Beekman, and he asked Mr..
Salinger if the passage of Mr.. CAROLS bill
would not cut down the number of office
holders in Jersey City.
Mr.. Salinger replied that he would do
away with three.
well, then, I'm in. favor of abolishing
these wicked ofice-holders," said Mr.. Beck
man, as he took his seat.
THE LIE GIVEN.
Mr.. Carroll was then recognized. He was
full of that stage wrath and Indignation
which flashes from his eyes when he is on
floor, and relapses into sarcastic smiles at
SaIinger when he is sailing around in his
patent revolving chair. With q high voice
full Of wrath and pious Indignation Mr.. Car
roll declared in a very loud voice so that no
one could mistake his words, than when
Salinger said that the Democratic Tax Board
increased the valuation of a mans property
because he was a republican and lowered 1t
M AN full ri Dainc