The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-13
PATERSON BEATS JERSEY CITY
I'm a Preliminary Skfrmish Over
ArmOrfes-Passa1c Men win.
SnecinL TO the .Lefsen CifM Nelra.

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TRENTON, April ID, 1s94.-The afternoon
session of the House yesterday was taken up
by a pitched battle between Jersey City and
Paterson in which Paterson won. 1t was
not the Justice of her cause or superiority in
eeneralship, or better fighting qualities
which brought victory to the Patersonians;
but it was an unholy alliance between Essex,
Camden, Middlesex and Passaic and the
other counties which never miss an oppor-
tunity to down Hudson, no matter how
righteous her cause.
The trouble Yesterday was over armories.
Paterson wants an armory and Jersey City
wants more money to complete the one she
has started. According to the. law only a
certain sum annually can be appropriated
for such purposes. If Jersey City got what
to wait another year and vice Uefsd. Mr..
Lewis, the able young member from Pater-
son. introduced q bill on Wednesday, which
provided that Paterson should get all the
money this year. The measure was sent to
the Committee on Militia OF which MI.
Berry of Hudson is chairman. He naturally
sided with Jersey City and tried to keep the
bill back until the bill to give Jersey City
the money, which has passed the House,
would get through the Senate.
AS soon as the House had convened yester-
day Mr.. Flynn moved that the chairman of
Gle COmn1UUeo Oh Mllluld Do uIIeCU6u W I0-
port forthwith MIR. Lewis bill. He said that
four out of five of the committee had agreed
to report the measure favorably, notwith-
standing which the chairman held it back.
Mr.. Carroll raised the point of order that,
under the rules, twenty-four hours notice OF
such a motion must be given. Speaker Holt,
| whose home is in Paterson, ruled that the
motion was not one to relieve the committee,
| but one by the committee itself to make its
chairman produce a bill he was holding
back.
Mr.. McEwan pleaded for delay. There
was some further talk, and Mr.. Flynn's
| motion was carried by Al to z, Mr.. Berry
| voting with the majority.
The bill was soon afterward put on second
| reading when Mr.. Carroll moved an amend
ment which was meant to throw the Pater-
sonians off their guard. In order to bar Jer-
| sey City out the bill states that $780, 900 only
shall be appropriated for Jersey City this
year. As the city has already received that
| amount she could get no more provided the
bill becomes a law. Mr.. CAROLS amend
ment proposed to change the word thirty"
in certain lines to '.sixtyn which If adopted
would give Jersey City the $4,000 more she
needs.
discovered the scheme and opposed the
amendment. Mr.. Salinger in advocating it
said that Jersey City had eight companies to
home to Paterson's three. This Mr.. Lewis
denied and said Paterson had eleven COM
panies. Mr.. Eisele wanted to'know how
much money Jersey City had already had,
and, when he was told, sarcasticaliy said it
was too bad she had not received more. Mr..
Beekman made one of his rambling speeches,
the purport of which was that, since Jersey
City had eight companies and the Naval Re-
serve to Paterson's three, he was in favor of
giving the money to the city which had the
most men to take care Of. Mr.. Lewis re-
iterated his assertion that Paterson had
eleven companies.
The whole trouble, Mr.. Flynn said, was
that Jersey City was vain. She had made a
contract for a complete arInory for $135, 600,
which was in course of erection. But it was
not beautiful enough for her. She had seen
another prettier armory somewhere, and
now she wanted one like it, and she was
going to keep Paterson out of one until her
vanity was gratiied.
Mr.. Thompson moved that the bill do lie
over. He said that he thought Camden
could get in under the law, and he didn't see
why that city shouldn't have an armory for
her soldier boys. Mr.. McEwan was quick to
see the advantage this motion would give
Jersey City and he promptly seconded it.
Immediately Mr.. Flynn ran over to Mr..
Thompson and began to argue with him,
while Mr. McEwan clamored that Mr..
Thompson's motion to lie over be put to
vote.
The Speaker hesitated, and finally Mr..
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