The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-13
PASSED! AT LAST.
General Assault on the APP
preparation Bill in the
Legislature Yesterday.
REPUBLICANS CLAIM A SAVING
Attacking Armory Expenses and
State officials Salaries
The Figures.
REPUBLICANS CLAIM A SAVING
special to the jersey Ctr Nears.


TRENTON. June Is. 1S95.-The House
took up the appropriation bill at last
evenings session and a general assault
was made upon it all along the line.
MI. Olcott opened the fire with a reso-
tuition increasing the salary of the Adju-
tant General from $1,000 to $500. He
spoke of the responsibility of the office
and the large amount of work which
the General had to do. New Jersey, he
said, paid its Adjutant General less than
any of its neighbors and none of them
had a better general. The incumbent Of
the Office. he said. was not asking for
the increase. but justice demanded that
he should receive a better salary.
Mr.. Storrs said that there was a law
fixing the salary of the Adjutant Cen
eral and that could not be altered by the
appropriation bill MI. Olcott said that
he had taken advice of legal talent,
the best in the State. and had been told
that his amendment was proper.
The item for armory expenses was at
tackled by Mr.. Derousse. and Mr.. Robert
son denounced the manner in which the
Senate was trying to cram the bill down
the Assemblymen's threats without Civ
ing them an opportunity to examine.
Heretofore. when measures Of such mag
n.tude were laid before the House ample
opportunity had been given for a full
discussion of its merits. but an at
tempt was being made to rush that i'm
portant measure through under a sus-
pension of the rules.
REFERRED 70 COMMITTEE.
MIR. Storrs said that he had wanted to
have a conference On the bill but had
been advised that it would be better to
lay 1t before the House when 1t would
be thoroughly discussed. He therefore
moved that the bill be referred to the
Committee of the Whole. His motion
was carried n DR.. Wilbur was made
chairman of the committee.
.Mr. Drake moved that the bill be
taken up item by item. That raised a
storm of objection. Mr.. Derousse sar-
castically asked permission to retire for
q few minutes until he could go to the
hotel and engage a room for a week. the
time it would take to consider the bill
item by .te e MI, Drake wl dadldsd his rs
allow each member to offer whatever
amendments he wished. Mt. Wildes of
was the first to Ike a crack at the bin
and he went for the Governor and the
Judges. He wanted the Chef Exeeu-
e tiAs'sd down and to at S. 60. the aen Judges s 81 ths
Supreme Court and the Vice chancel-
lor's reduced from $1,000 to $1,000.
NAM AM from Newark, raised the point that
the clause of the Constitution which
forbade the decreasing of an officers
salary during his term, made the amend
Mr.. Wildes clamored vigorously
against what he called cutting off d.s-
f fo 5 MTl q 6le t = oil asse Ms eal fsat a5 f. haa
been advised by good legal talent tina
the Adjutant Generals salary could be
increased efs by d the bill ~ and d ne e, did ad not see lee
it. He referred to the manner in which
the House had given relief to those New
ark Mifn men qears w n t fame ey 1oWn and % w afsneo ON
yet It choked off his. amendment which
gave the people of the whole State re-
APPROPRIATIONS PASSED.
All Mr.; Wildes eloauenee effected was
Some one moved to lay his amendments
on the table, and there they went with
a suddenness thai did not improve Mr..
Wildes' temper.
Mr.. Derousse then went to the bat.
He thought that the regiments of the
National Guards which had no armories
were comfortably housed in new brown
stone structures and had to pay no rent.
He, therefore, moved that 5000 more be
appropriated for the former.
BY this time the members were getting
tired and were clamoring for adjourn
ment and Mr.. Eisele moved that the bill
be accepted as a whole just as it was
without any Amendments
ssHo, hoi Mr.. Chairman, I object"
cried Mr.. Robertson and then he made a
plea for the New Jersey Historical So
ciety, which is issuing the archives Of
New Jersey. He said that there should
else that valuable work would have to
cease. He was assured that there was
ample funds for that purpose already
provided and then he subsidized.
The bill then passed as it came from
the Senate. The entire amount appro-
pr.ated is 81 ,4Ss,80. This includes the
about s2,240, 900. Republicans say that
this is a saving of between. $4,000 n
$3.50, 900 over the expenses OF last year.