The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-24
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TRENTON, May IS, ls9A-Not since the
days of the old Pharisees whose consum-
mate hypocrisy won for them the appella
ton of "WhiUed sepulchres," have uhere
been men whose pretentions to high NOR
atty were loftier and their accomplish
ments more abject than the majority of
those who compose the present Legislature.
As soon as it became known last fall that
the Republicans would control both Houses.
the State began TO be flooded with mani
festoes from the State Committees inter
views with individual legislators and edi-
torials in party organs, all telling of the
great things which would be accomplished
The wrongs which the people had borne
so long the heavy burdens under which the
taxpayers groaned, and the political cor
ruption which, they claimed, deluged the
State, was all to be swept away; useless
Offices which were but drain upon the
Stats Treasury were to be abolished. and all
laws Incompatible with the best interests of
the people were TO be repealed.
In short. with enough votes at their com
1nand to override the objections of the, Gov
elllos. no earthly power was to prevent these
Republican reformels from establishing q
Utopia IN this Commonwealth which would
make New Jersey the most favored State in
the Union.
For nineteen weeks the Legislature has
been in session and how well have these po-
1itical Iiofalists fulfilled their promises to
relieve the ovarburdened taxpayer and legis-
late solely for the best interests of the peo-
pie.
LARGE NUMBER OF BILLS.
In the Senate. 2T3 bills were introduced,
and in the House, 5S3. OF this whole num-
ber, 365 were passed and 303 have become
laws, whIle the Governor has still under
consideration sixty-two. A large number of
these relate to towns and townships. amend
the Crimes Act, smooth out kinks in the
procedure Of the civil courts and do other
routine work.
The Republican organs like the guilty
conscience which is troubled before it is ac-
cused, are already beginning to defend the
Legislature, and point to this fact as proof
that very few partisan bills have been
passed, and that on the whole the young ac-
cidents who made up the Legislature were
pretty good bows after all.
The session had scarcely gotten under way
when the deluge set in, and the members
rained bills upon the Clerks desk until he
was almost swamped. All were in the in
terest of the people, that is, Republican
people. The seventh. eighth and ninth bills
were attacks upon the Governor, the Clerk
in Chancery and the Clerk of the Supreme
Court, and sought to reduce their salaries
OF course there was no significance in the
fact that the Chancery Clerk is Chairman OF
the Democratic State Committee and the
Supreme Court Clerk, a member of the same
body, whose political wisdom and sagacity
are known throughout the State.
TOO PREVIOUS AMATEURS.
1t is true these bills were never heard
from after they had been introduced The
amateur statesmen were soon informed that
they could not affect the present incumbents
and as there was a chance that their sue
cessors might be republicans who would
need the handsome incomes which the
Governor and clerks now receive, the bills
were put to death in the easiest manner
possible The pace which was thus set in
the first week of the session was maintained
fer a long time. Bill after bill rolled in re-
pealing everything that gave democrat an
Office, and then enacGing similar law to the
one repealed by which republican secured
the place Everything under the sun al
most was attacked in this manner, from
the Judiciary to the smallest position in
fourth class municipalities. In order that
there might be no hitch in these proceedings,
it was proposed to take the appointing
power out of the hands of the Governor aud
throw it into joint meeting, or give it to the
chief magistrate of the municipality should
he be republican, If not to some board
which was controlled by that party, and
bills to that effect came tumblng In one
after another SO rapidly that the Clerk
could scarcely keep track OF them.
So rapacious were these highly moral
legislators in their greed for Office that they
overdid the matter. The people saw week
after week pass by without any signs Of those
bills which were to ameiiorate their con-
ditiou and they. began to gfumbie Ihey
saw professional politicians: men who had
always followed the party for what they
could make ont Of it, securing the intro
auction of bills to put out of Office such