The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-07

FAR AWAY AS EVER
Little Hope That the Legis-
1ature Will Adjourn
This Week.
STILL FIGHTING FOR ANDERSON.
Speaker Holt Remains in the Ring
His Friends Warn the
Major to Withdraw.
STILL FIGHTING FOR ANDERSON
sneeinl to the Icrscu Cttu Neacs.

TRENTON, May 7, 1S94.-The Legislature
enters upon its eighteenth week tonight with
a fair prospect of becoming the longest SEES
sion in the history of the State. The longest
session thus far, that of 1890, lasted nineteen
weeks, and this bids fair to sit twenty weeks
if not more. Considering,that the introduc-
ton of bills continues and other complications
arise almost daily the day of adjournment
is as far removed as ever. The House did
pass a resolution that the going-home time
would be last Friday night, but the House
had not consulted the Senate in fixing this
time of adjournment, so it did not secure
any attention whatever in the Upper House,
and the 117th Legislature still continues to
exist.
The Senate has been trying to finish its
work, and hopes to be through by Saturday.
If Senator Bradley is well enough to be here
tomorrow, all the business now in sight can
be finished, barring unforeseen impedlments.
| The Congress Redistricting bill is the only
| important one that will need %hurrying. A
| proposition is being considered to have all
the bills passed this week; then to take a two
| weeks recess and come back and repass the
| partisan measures which will be vetoed by
the Governor.
THEY WANT TO STAY LONGER
When it will shut up shop and go home
| finally or temporarily will not be known un-
| til at least a few hours before the time. a
majority of the Senators or Thursday were
of the opinion that adjournment could be
accomplished this week by Friday after
noon, while the members of the House do
not think they can possibly get away much
before the 10Th, and if they intend to put
through to final passage some OF the I'M
portant bills, as they call their rank par
tisan measures. that they introduced during
the past week, they will be very lucky to be
able to steal away at that time.
There is doubt whether the Legislature
will pass the bill a~hoishing the Common
Please and other minor courts, u provid-
ing for elective County Judges by which the
| Republicans hope to secure larger represen-
tation in the Judiciary. The bill was intro
duced and will be discussed with the view of
agitating the subject preparatory to decisive
action next year This and several other
important matters could be decided prompt
ly in a Joint caucus, but the experience of
the Republican Senators was such at the
only one held at the beginning of the session
that they have since rejected all the over
lures toward another, and the pending
confirmed them in their determination not
| to permit the fresh young statesmen in the
Assembly to bind them by caucus action.
AMY APPOINTMENTS TO BE MADE.
There are a great many appointments to
| State Boards and Commissions to be made
by the Governor under the new laws re-
| organizing those bodies on q non-partisan
basis. 1t is understood the Governor is
waiting until the end of Republican reform
is reached before. he makes any nominations.
Whether they will be made this week will
depend upon the prospects of ending the
session by Saturday. With Senator Bradley
present. the Governors recent vetoes Will
receive attention in the Senate tomorrow
night OF Tuesday.
The bills overturning the Boards of Works
in Newark and Jersey City and the Boards
| of Freeholders in Hudson and Essex coun-
ties will not be repassed, and the veto of the
| Passaic, Mercer and Camden Freeholder bill
may also be concurred in. Major Carl
Lentz, the Chairman of the Essex County
Republicans, came here on Thursday to find
| out why the vetoes had not been o~verridden,
and was told by Senators Voorhees, and
| Stokes that they believed the Governor was
| right, and that they could not vote to pass
| the bills over his vetoes. Other Republican
Senators held the same views. They said
the Essex and.Hudson county Republicans had
made the fight last fall on the issue of home
| rule. and chat the methods of appointment
provided in the Objectionable bills did not
! give home rule. Major Lentz promised to
have new bills drawn making the member
of boards of Public Works and FrceholderS
| elective.
TO RETALIATE ON NEW YoRK.
Assemblyman Lewis of Passaic county has
a bill before the Legislature which has so far
| escaped attention. It is intended as a retail
iatory measure against the States that tax
| New Jersey corporations, and il comes from
the State Comptroller's department. All
corporations other than banking, insurance
and railroad companies are to be required to
pay an annual tax in New Jersey before DC
| IT, OuynJ m do ,,csanc har.n Tbora fc
a provision rernitting the tax against COM
panles chartered by States that do not tax
| New Jersey concerns. The bill is aimed par
\ ticularly against New York because of the
passage of ono by the Albany Legislature,
and now In Governor Flowers hands, taxing
the many companies doing business in New
York city. but operating under New Jersey
laws, in order to avoid taxation.
An influx of country newspaper publishers
is expected tomorrow night to protest
against the passage of Senator Hinchliffe's
| bill providing for the publication of the ses-
| sion laws in pamphlet form and their dlstri-
button to the citizens of the State. It now
costs about $4,000 a year to make the pub
location in 100 newspapers, each OF which
| gets about $500. Senator Hinchliffe believes
| that better results can be secured with his
method by the expenditure of S25, 00J.
THE TIGHT.
One of the matters that nave helped to
lengthen out the time OF the session has e e
the controversy over Major e.. J.. Ander-
sons confirmation. He was appointed, as is
well known, as Supervisor Of the State
Prison, a position paying but $1,000 a year.
| His appointment was made at the time
when a bill was pending, changing the APP
pointment of this officer from the executive
to the joint meeting. There were several
candidates for the Office waiting for the
passage of the act. The Governor himself
| did not wait, but, acting undsr the old act,
gave the appointment to Anderson, believ-
Ing that he would be promptly confirmed,
and knowing that he really needed the APP