The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-04
AGAINST THE INCOME TAX.
The New Jersey Congressman DO MOI
Believe 1t to BE J~ustifable.
Sneci1I to the JerseA Citu NelCs.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 1S94-The New Jer-
| sey members, without exception, SO far as
your correspondent has been able to see
| them today, are against the income tax
! which the Ways and Means Committee pro-
poses. Representative Cadmus Is partlcu-
| iarly outspoken, He said that he did not
| believe the tax was justifiable, and he felt
! that to enact it would be to imperll the con-
~tinuance of the Democratic Party.
1t is expected that the entire New Jersey
| delegation will vote against the tax.
The Secretary of the Treasury took under
| consideration the papers In the case OF the
Internal Revenue Collector for the Fifth
district. There are two leading candidates,
| Joseph w. Haines of Newark, who has been
| recommended by Senator Smith, and Samuel
| Clotz of Newark, who has been endorsed by
Senator Mcpherson. The application OF j.
| w. Ballentine of Somerville has also been
| fled by a friend, and w. w. Springer of
| Plainfield is another applicant. The place
! lies between the two first-namsd, with the
| chances in favor Of Clotz.
Secretary Carlisle also took up the papers
| in the Somers' Point case today. Enoch A.
| Higbee will be appointed the Collector of
Customs.
An interesting discussion regarding the
| military record of a New Jersey man is rum
| ing through the local papers here. B. +.
WorreIl of Elizabeth, a republican who has
been in the Treasury Department for a great
! many years, has been asked to resign, and the
| fact that he has but one leg led one of the
papers to speak Of him as a veteran who left
| one of his legs on the battlefield.
This publication excited Charles E. Diemar,
| formerly of Company A, Forty-ninth Illinois
| Volunteers, now a resident of this city. He
| came forward with a severe arrangement of
| Mr.. Worrell, as follows
ssMr. Worrell is not a veteran of the war,
| and did not lose one of his legs on a battle
| field. His leg was shot off by the provost
guard, On patrol, in Alexandra, Va. IN
April. 1862, in a drunken row while he was
| absent from his regiment and camp without
leave. and not in line of duty. He was
granted a pension in 1865, without inquiry,
which pension was suspended i'll 1870 until
1882. when he was then restored, improperly,
over the heads or reports OF the special ex-
aminers and law reviewers by the arbitrary
action of the commission. He was dismissed
from the classified service by Secretary
Manning in 1886 for cause.n
Robert w. Mccullough, who was a private
in Company A, First Regiment New Jersey
Volunteers, has another version of the way
in which Worrell lost his leg. Here is Mr..
McCullough's statement
~ Joined Company A, First New Jersey
Volunteers, after Mr.. Worrell had organized
the company. This was the day after For
Sumter was fired upon. | served with hin
until the night he was wounded, April IA
1862. which occurred on the Little Rivel
road. near Fort Ellsworth, Va, Mr.. Worrell
together with myself, were under detail tx
superintend the loading of the brigade Wagon
train, and to forward ~stragglers to the camp
preparatory to an early movement to thu
front. After performing our duties, we wer'
on the road to the camp, and 1t was ther'
that he received his wound. | assisted II
carrying him to camp, after first trying Z
ascertain from whence the shot am il
which we were unsuccessful. He was no
under the influence of liquor at the time
there was no drunken row, and the foregoing
statement should be convincing proof thath'
is a veteran and that he did receive nI
wound. which resulted in the loss OF his limb
while in the line of duty"