The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-23
FORCING THE GOVERNORS HAND
A REPUBLICAN WILL BE NAMED
spccia. to the JERSEY Cttu Meas

Special to the Jcrseu Citu Ncsrs.
TRENTON, Jan. %, 1S95.-When the
Senate went into executive session yes
terday afternoon to consider the nomina-
tions sent in by the Governor, only three
were confirmed:-Henry S. Little and G.
" w. vroom to be Managers of the State
Asylums for the Insane, and Vice Chan
ceIlor Green as lay Judge of the Court
of Errors and Appeals. Much surprise
was expressed that these alone out of
the large batch were confirmed, and
especially so in the case of Justice Garrett
son of the Supreme Court, who was re-
nominated. When the Republicans held
their conference the mystery was in a
measure cleared up. The conference took
up the nomination of Judge Garretson.
All acknowledged that he had made a
good judge and no flaw could be found
in his course while on the bench, but it
was not considered good politics to con-
firm him until something definite was
obtained from the Governor as to what
he proposed to do in the case of the
successor to the late Judge Albeit. The
Republicans have made up their minds
that the ex-Governor's. successor must
be one of their political faith, and their
leaders thought it would be better to
have some certain understanding with
the Governor. They did not propose to
gersi any trap like confirming the
Deifl55tA 5tAs sisarretson and then having an
other Democrat sprung upon them, to-
gether with al controversy continued
until after the adjournment, and then
an ad interim Democrat.
HUMILIATING SPECTACLE.
The controversy which is now going on
in the Republican party for Governor
Abbett's shoes is enough to make any
Jerseyman, who cares anything for the
high reputation which the judiciary of
his State has attained, turn sick with
ing candidates are ex-Judge William Lam
ming and Judge Joseph K. Gaskill of
Burlington. Both are second-rate law
yers whose medioerity is we'll known in
the profession. Lanning gets his high
sounding title of ex-Judge from the fact
that he once presided over the District
Court of Trenton, a tribunal but little
higher than that of Justice of the
Peace. He was never considered much
through his connection with the Presby-
terian Church. When the race track
agitation began some three or four years
ago the law and order people of Trenton
appointed him member of committee
to take part in the agitation against the
gambling laws. The front which he
threw then gave him some sort of
standing in his party, 50 that when the
Senatorial controversy of last winter
got into the Supreme Court he managed
to be appointed one of the long train of
counsel which figured in the case-with-
out pay. All he did through the time
the case was in the Supreme Court was
tenfind the places in the law books just
like an office boy for Cortlandt Parker,
Samuel Gray and the other good lawyers
in the case to read to the Court
Q Governor Werts appointed him a MEM
Der of the commission which prepared
the Judiciary amendments to the Consti-
tuition and although he had a great deal
to say during the deliberations, the con-
tinual wonder was what he was talking
about.
LOG ROLLER GASKILL.
With Judge Gaskill the readers of 1.-THE
Jersey City News, are well acquainted.
BY one of those mysterious dispensations
of Providence that are continually trans
piring to perplex poor mortals, he came to
be Presiding Judge of the Common Pleas
of Burlington. No man of the ordinary
ability of Mr.. GaskiIl would aspire to
the Supreme bench unless he had the
consummate conceit which permeates the
Burlington man from the crown of his
head to the sole OF his Feet. No better
iGea of his caIibre could be afforded
than by the fact that he has left his
court in Burlington to come to Trenton
and lobby, logroll and solicit influence for
the appointment. He has been around
the. State House the last few days but
ten-holing everybody that is supposed to
I have any influence with the Governor
best eching them to help him. The gem
eral. tradition Of the State Of New Jer-
,,segI ,lias been that the high Office Of
Judge Of the Supreme Court should seek