The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-02
THE House AND SENATE
Majority Of the Members Are
Jerseymen = A Dozen
Lawyers.
speeial to the Jersey city Ncus.

TRENTON, Jan. 2, 1S94.-The Speaker, who
ever he may be, will not be short of republi
can lawyers to fill up his committees OF
Judiciary and Revision of Laws, because
there will be eight altogether in the house.
Messrs. Storrs, McEwan, Matlack, Zabris
kie, Salinger, Cross, Codding and Lewis
There will be only one democratic lawyer
Mr.. Beekman of Middlesex-and he will fiji
in nicely at the tail end of each of those com
mittees.
The Senate will contain four lawyers, who
are evenly divided between the two parties
Messrs. voorhees, and Hoffman are Republi-
cans and Messrs. Adrain and DAILY the Demo
Gratis, just enough to make up the necessary
representation on the two legal committees
EIGHT
There will be only eight farmers in both
houses, three in the Senate and five in the
House. The Senate will contain six mer-
chants and the House twice hat number,
There will be two manufacturers in each
House, including Senator Bradley of Mon
mouth, who is still at the head of q brush
house in New York, with which he has beer
connected for thirty-four years. Senator
Ketcham and Assemblyman Woolsey OF
Essex Inc Erlenkotter of Hudson are the
other manufacturers. Senator Hinchlitfe OF
L DOCt Is bh0 O4A1 14SNSA LII N"O t-N5-N
ture, and Assemblyman McKelvey of the
same county is a collector of a brewery, The
race track interests, of course, will be repre-
scented by ex-Speaker Flynn and Messrs,
Thompson and Carroll, all of whom were re
elected. The new Senator from Gloucester,
Mr., Packer, who hammered at the anvil for
forty years, enjoys the distinction OF
being the Oldest man in the Leg1sla-
ture. He is sixty-five years of age. He
served two terms as Sheriff of Glou-
cester. The Senate will have an editor, Mr.
Winton; a bank cashier, Mr.. Stokes, who is
the youngest member of that body; a con
tractor, and a Grand Army veteran, the last
named being Mr.. States of Warren.
In the House other professions, business
and trades are represented as follows: Con
tractors, four; real estate men, three; in,
surance agents, physicians, hotelkeepers ano
bottlers, two each; a clerk, matchmaker CMr,
Holt, the candidate for Speaker, oyster
planter, telegrapher, baker, potter, sanitary
| engineer (Mr. Alcott of Essex, schoo
teacher, glassblower and tailor.
SENATORS L BORN HERE.
All of the twenty-one Senators were borr
in the United States. There are fifteer
natives of New Jersey, as follows:-Hunter-
| don two, and one each for Salem, Burling
ton, Cape May, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson
| Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset n Warren
| That steadfast young Republican, Foster
I n0OS, WdS OOlA III IL Olo
county of Hunterdon. New York city wa
| the birth place of three Senators, Messrs
Bradley, Winton and Hinchliffe; Massachu
| sets of one, Mr.. Smith, and Philadelphia o.
| one, Mr.. Stokes. Only two Senators are ovel
sixty years of age, Messrs. Packer and Prad
ley; five are under forty, Messrs. Stokes
VOORHEES,, Rogers, Perkins and Miller. Thu
average age of the Senators is forty-fvt
years, while that of the Assembfymen i
forty-two.
THE OF Il HOUSE.
Mr.. Dewsnap Of Bergen, who was recent,
married, is the youngest member OF tn
House. He will be only twenty-six mex
February. Mr.. Alpaugh of Hunterdon
who was sixty-three last August, is the old
| est member. He and Messrs. Salinger ant
| Coursen are the only ones over sixty. Be
| sides Mr.. Dewsnap, there are three other
under thirty-Messrs. Schuchardt, Austin AM
Wilpur. Ireland produced seven, German,
four and Canada one Assemblymen. Tn
United States did the rest, as follows:-Ney
Jersey, thifty-eight: New York, six; Phila
delphia, two; Ohio and Connecticut, on
each. The counties of New Jersey are ere
dited with the births of AssemblyInen a
| follows:-Essex and Passaic, four each
Mercer, five; Morris, three; Bergen, Bur
lington, Hudson, Hunterdon, Somerset, Mic
dlesex and Monmouth, two each, and Cam
den, Cape May, Cumberland Gloucester
Salem, Sussex, Union and Warren, on
each.