The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-08
WANT LEA0WIHG.
Voorhees, Committee Receive
Requests to Investigate
All Parts Of the State.
FORD ANXIOUS TO SQUEAL
Will Be Guaranteed Immunity
From Punishment If He Will
Involve Others in the
Scandals.
FORD ANXIOUS TO SoUEAL


Special to the jersey CITY NelCs.
TRENTON. April s, 1Ss5.-The Senate
Investigating Committee has given up
its intention of leaving Trenton and start
ing work in Jersey city or Newark. The
matter Of extravaganee in State printing
will be continued next Friday, and the
| committee. 1t is said. is not Yet through
with the State Board of Arbitration.
Some matters in connection with prob
ing into the printing question are ex-
pected to show fragrant violations OF the
law on the part of State officials In CIV
ing out to favorite publishers, at big
! prices, work that the law requires should
be awarded to the lowest bidder, under
| contract. The Secretary of States Office
has been responsible for a great deal OF
this. and experts are now at work dig
ging out facts and figures.
While the committeeman and Counsellor
Corbin refuse to make known in advance
the character OF the work outlined,
enough can be gathered from other
sources to warrant the statement that
the affairs OF every department at the
Capitol are being looked into. Unless,
however. the extravaganza, crookedness
or violations of the law are important
| enough to warrant it. some OF these
1880 1890 AS
not brought to public attention.
WANTED ALL OVER.
The committee and their counsel are
tconstanrly receiving requests from all
parts OF the State. and from both Demo-
! Gratis and Republicans. for Investigations
of all sorts Of Irregularities. There are
many from men OF prominence urging
| inquiry into the ooings of the Worlds
Fair Commissioners. the Sea Grit En-
eampment, the receiving OF bonuses by
State employees for moneys deposited IN
banks in, Burlington and Hunterdon conn-
ties, the Withholding of large amounts
| of moneys to their own use by State
| officials, when the law requires them to
be paid into the State Treasury at short
intervals; the green goods business in
Jersey City and Hoboken, the Ivy Hill
reservoir lob. and other alleged crooked
ness at Newark; the corruption of the
Middlesex and other municipalities which
have been spending money in excess Of
| the appropriations, and giving contracts
to faVorlte bidders without regard to the
| law.
There has been a change in the nature
/ of the pressure brought upon the COM
mittee. Finding that 4 Is impossible TO
stop the investigation. Interested parties
| here have been secretly working TO IN
duce the committee to leave Trenton and
| go to MG6GleseN. Essex or Hudson coun-
ties, in the nope thar enough WGuld pc
| the members Were compelled to stop work
through lack OF time. On the other hand,
interested parties in all those counties
it appears, to keep the committee busy
at tn. Capitol as long as possible. with
FORD WANTS TO seUEAI
chairman VOORHEES, said on brissy
tat pa,,r not ,6 only AZ Wo s9Iag there er D s,, g 5eos9''g e
regularities at the State House, bur the
committee would also visit Essex. Hud-
localities where sufficient evidence. was
Eye. who win draw the Grand jury in
6ngs OF the committee, and his presence
has given rise to the report that a jury
sons implicated in the apparent con
| spiracy. robbery and other crookedness
revealed. Chairman Voorhees, has said
sent 10 the Mercer county Grand Jury;
The fum0rS that eX-Superintendent Ford
is m Communication with the committee
that, through a third party, he has
offered to come to Trenton and make a
ishment is guaranteed TO him, with a
! promise that he will not be exposed to
Mr. Corbin's searching cross-examlnation;;
if he viii make a clean breast Of his
wrong-doing, but they have no hope that
many others of prominence. The com
mitteemen believe that FORD IS seeking
to obtain immunity BY telling what they
posea a 70 be- in or near Phfiadelprhia.p
congressman Gardner of Atlantic eoun-
| Mercer are the latest adaitions 70 the
list OF Republican candidates for Cover
nor, while announcement has been, made
| that Garrett and Hobart Of Hassatc ana
ex-Postmaster General Thomas I. James
of Bergen are not candidates. Both will
support Jeh r. Y " G sc5Ea s,a Wilo tI Is sag sro e
the Fourth and Fifth Congress districts.
with great strength in both Hudson and
Senator William D. Daily q, HUDSON
county is the latest a9dit,cn to the Demo
cratic c~andidates. He was the Demo-
the nomination if it YVES offered 10 him,
and is evidently not frightened at the
COUNTING THEIR CHICKENS.
The Republicans are beginning 70 count
and taking it for granted that they will
elect the Governor, are distributing the
The first appointment that will fall
to the lot of the next Governor will be
for the place held by. Allan, L. McDer..
Chancery and the Chairman of the DEM
ocratic Committee.
Next in line comes. Attorney General
Supreme Court. Secretary Kelsey was
publicans who are now voting were born.
b i. Lee has mad fgsntg years O. ol l.,
due TO the a%ppointive system which pre-
walls in New Jersey, and is the relic of
Besides these important state officers
there are Q number Of other excellent
ssgPpo,atEaRepgsaa r that hat viii IL fan n t. the bsv lot IF Ct
appointment of all Of the twenty-one
Prosecutors Of the Pleas whose ternsas ex-