The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-15
TO UNSEAT ADRIAN
Republicans Talk Seriously
of Throwing Him Out
of the Senate,
SAYS He HOLDS TWO oFFieEs
Great Crowds and Lively Times
Expected at Trenton Tsnight
The Situation.
SAYS He HOLDS TWO OFFleEs
spsciol to the Jersey Gil, Ne,c..

TRENTON, Jan. 10. 93.-Th war between
the Republicans and the Democrats for the
right to organize the Senat will be resumed
today, and judging from the advance de-
mand on the hotels for chairs and cots, the
capital is to be invaded by a tremendous
throng of people to see what the session of
onight will bring forth.
The Republicans are to meet at eight
o'clock in the Senate Chamber, but the DEM
ocrats on Saturday morning adjourned until
seven o'clock, and that will give them posses
sion of the Senate Chamber and leave the
Republicans out. They viii attempt no acts
of violence, but wiliimeet in some other part
of the State House, probably IN one OF the
committee rooms of the House of Assembly,
if they find the court rooms locked.
All the future movements hinge on the
opinion of the Attorney General, furnished
to the Governor by request, in which the
law is to be defined, so that he will have IN
formation as to what enate he shall recog-
nize. Many of the wiseacres on the street
purport to know the character OF the opln
ion, and that it sustains the Democratic
Senators, while others are of the opinion
that he only quotes the law without any
conclusions. The Attorney General has
placed all the safeguards about the docu-
ment, so that its contents should not become
known, until the Governor has read and con
sidered it. The general presumption is that
it win favor the Democratic situation n
have the effect of prolonging the hostilities.
TO GUST ADRIAN.
The Republicans are more than ever de-
fermined to fight for their constitutional
rights. The rousing demonstration in New
ark, and the Indignation meeting at Asbury
Park, and the references in some churches
in the different parts of the State, have
warmed the Republicans to more firmness
and activity. 1t cannot be foreshadowed
lust what will be done, but the Republicans
say they will move cautiously and do moth
ing but what is warranted by the Constltu-
ton and the law. 1t has been the Demo-
cratic claim that the Republicans could be
easily frightened into terms of compromise,
but this is not so, and there will be no COM
promise, but the position will be maintained
and some moves will be made that will startle
the Democrats.
The statement of Lawyer Thomas N. Nc
Carter at the Newark mass meeting that the
Governor should be impeached was greeted
with tremendous applause.
1t was not the first statement of the kind
that has been heard since the trouble began.
The Republicans hold such a course is entire
ly within their control.
There is some talk about moving against
President Adrain of the Senate. He con-
tinues to violate the Constitution of
the State by occupying two State
offices. He has for three years been the
Prosecutor of the Pleas for Middlesex
county. This makes him a State officer, for
a prosecutor is the representative of the At
torney General and an officer appointed by
the Governor and confirmed by the Jena
Section 4 Article 4, paragraph 5, reads
Nc Justice of the Supr eme Court, no Judge
or any other court offic er, Sheriff, Justice of
the Peace, nor any pers on possessed of any
Office of profit under the government of this
State shall be entitled to a seat either in the
Gano<a ~ Hanaro1 AcCaTah1u h11f on folInn
his seat his office shall be considered vacant. !"
THE CONSTITUTION
Senator Adrain is the Prosecutor, and
claims exemption because he is only a pro
tenn prosecutor. Yet he has been in the
Office for three years. In 1890. while a Sen
ator, Robert Adrain had Prosecutor J..
Kearny made the Law Judge of the county,
and the Judge in return, falling back on the
act of 1916, which gives the Court power to
appoint such person to prosecute the pleas
during the term, made Adrain the Prose
cutor. He has induced the Court to
because Adrain could not confirm his own
appointment in the Senate. Governor
Werts is a close and confidential friend of
Robert Adrain, and knew that he was a pro
tenn. prosecutor of the Pleas, and that there
was a vacancy in the Prosecutors office in
New Brunswick. The Constitution requires
that when a vacancy happens during the
recess of the Legislature, which is to be filed
by the Governor of the Senate, or by the
Legislature in joint meeting, the Governor
shall fill such vacancy, n the commission
shall expire at the next session of the Legis-
lature. There has been considerable talk
about the manner that Adrain has kept him
self in a profitable office by the combination
mads with Judge Rice and by juggling the
law MANY prominent lawyers say that he
stands in violation of the Constitution which
he has sworn to uphold, and must be forced
to vacate one or the other, or perhaps both.
RACE-TRACK PEOPLE
The race-track people are in a gleeful mood
because they exoect the complications to con-
tinue aud they will be able to race this year.
The opinion of the Supreme Court, which
declares the race-track acts of last winter
unconstitutional, is to be taken into the
Court of Errors. The race-track repeater,
which the Republican House of Assembly
and Senate have passed and which is to be
made a test bill. is to be attacked by the
race-track people, should it ever become a
law, because of the gerrymander decision
and the doubt as to the legality of the acts
of the Assembly. The also claim tina the
bill was passed in violation of the rules of the
Senate The Democrats hold that the rules
of last session hold over until the new rules
are adopted. The Republicans claim they
adopted the rules of the last Senate, with
the exception of rule 50, which requires two
thirds of the Senators to suspend a Senate
n hlO dhA4 L v q " Jill "a NNAAAAN dO OALO
sitting.
The temporary Committee on Passed Bills
have not yet delivered the race track re
pealer to the Governor. If he refuses to ac-
cept, they are practically blocked, for the
Secretary of State cannot file it without it
passes through the Governors land. The
time of its receipt is certified on the back, so
that time is defined to the Secretary of State,
and so that he will know whether the Cover
nor has had it for five days. The statute
also requires it deli to the Secretary of
State by the Governor himself, and a receipt
given for it.
H Law L THE CASE.
The Republicans say not only have they
moral support in their position, but the law
is perfectly clear, and that part OF the Con-
s~titution on which Ethey stand is so plain
that it is worth repeating. Here is the
language OF that instrument in Article ",
Section VIII, Paragraph t.
members of the Legislature shall. be-
fore they enter upon the duties of their re-
spective offices, take and Subscribe the fol-
lowing oath or Affirmation
81 do solemnly swear TOR affirm, as the
case may bel, that l will support the Con-
stitr.ion of the United States and the Con-
stitution of New Jersey, and that | will
faithfully discharge the duties OF Senator,
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