The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05
NICE ECONOMY THIS
Republicans Sqabbling for
More Pap for Their
Hee1erS.
SARCASTIC CRITICISM FROM HUDSON
Leaders Wanted to Adjourn the
Legislature at Once, But
the Rank and File
Stoutly Object.
SARCASTIC CRITICISM FROM HUDSON
spscia1 to the jersey citu Ne,rs.

TRENTON, June S, 1ss5.-The extraor-
binary session of the Legislature, as
some of the Republican Solons, who are
just now more impressed than ever with
their Importance, like to call 1t, had a
very rocky time in getting under way
yesterday.
A few of the so-called leaders who have
been engineering the whole movement
of Reform (?), of which the voorhees,
Committee and the summer session are
the leading features, have been carrying
things with a high hand. They have
pushed the inquiry into whatever paths
their fancy lead them, consulting no
one. giving heed to no ones advice, Sc
cure in the conviction that the rank
and file of their party would take the
same view of the purity and unseifish-
ness of their motives. which the leaders
did themselves and risk life and limb
in their mad rush to do just they
were told to do.
So these leaders went ahead and ar
ranged their programme for the SESSION.
They fixed upon a number of measures
to be passed. and issued their fiat that
those and nothing else should be CON
sidered during the session. But they mao
evidently misunderstood the rank and
HE, anu THEIR security was ON2
shaken yesterday morning when the
Assemblymen and Senators began to ar
rive in tow and the air r~esounded with
discordant .~rumblings.
Good members of the party who ere
recognized in the districts and counties
as able politicians and men of shrewd-
ness and discretion. but whom the lead
ers in this holy war on Democratic
fraud and corruption had not thought
worth the while to consult, were heard
to be guilty of such lese majestic as to
question the wisdom of the extra session,
and the passage of the bills which these
leaders had made up their minds should
become laws. The ~grumblers thought
such important steps should not be taken
upon the responsibility of a handful OF
leaders however skillful they might be
in parliamentary warfare or eloquent
upon the floor of the Legislature. They
thought there were others as much In
terested in the welfare of the party who
should nave been consulted and their
viows obtained, especially on matters
which might do the party as much in
jury as they might benefit it. At any
rate they were measures which should
have been thoroughly discussed and con-
sidered by the real representatives of
the party, and not thrust down its throat
by one or two self designated leaders.
CLOVEN HOOP APPEARS.
For this reason they argued the session
should adjourn at once, and not one of
whisper ugly things about the real OBJ
ject of the highly moral and Intellectual
form foglnee They ~ s sn,i t fe was 'i ali in he inter-
est of a certain Gubernatorial candidate
and the Legislature was to be made a
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chestnut out of the fire for a certain in
dividual whom they did not name: They
were bitterly opposed to committing the
Claimed the proposed programme did.
and they also thought the session
should adjourn at once, and the party be
saved from the internal warfare which
would certainly follow If it was carried
out.
tended as strenuously. for adjourning at
once, composed of those wObbly indi-
viduals who don't want to a~ntag6nize
any. faction or individual and want to
on the ground floor whatever may
happen. They created more amusement
5ections upon the weather. They said
that it was altogether too hot to hold q
session now and wanted it put off until
October. Besides these there were the
Essex men who wanted the election law
fixed so that there would be more places
for the boys at 81 per day as stated in
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SMOOTHING RUFFLED WATERS.
All these th.gs worried the leaders and
they did not know what to do. There
was much running backward and for
ward, private conferences in corners and
hurried consultations. The malcontents
were argued with and their party fea1ty
appealed to. Matters were in a very bad
state of uncertainty when the hour for
the session to meet arrived. Soon after
noon Speaker Cross called the Assembly
to order.
Almost every Assemblyman was IN his
seat. Among the ~absentees were Elem
ing, Cagney and Parslow of Hudson.
The clerk called the roll and announced
a quorum and Storrs rushed through a
motion to adjourn until four O'Clock.
AT one O'Clock the same process was
gone through with in the Senate. except
the Senators received the Investigating
Committees report. Then the Senate
Immediately went into a conference
which lasted until after five o'clock. 1t
was said that they were considering