The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-04
STOCKTON TO RETIRE
Rumor that He Will Be Made
Vice-Chancellor and Sue
ceeded by Samuel
Grey.
JOHN KEAN T'WASHINGT0N
Dimes the congressman, Drives with
Reed and Has His Eye on
the S~enatorship.
KEAN AT'WASHINGT0N

| Yesterday that the contest for the Presi-
lent of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House is practically settled. Only a few
of the Senator's and member were pres
emit. and although both Messrs. Skinner
and Derosse. the leading candidates for
Speaker. graced the occasion with their
presence. only a little real live cam
paigning was done. This is taken by
those who are considered politically wise
to mean that the contest is practically
settled. while others declare that it
means that a still hunt is going on, in
that way SO familiar to the initiated and
so mystifying to those who never get a
peep below the surface.
The Presidency fight is generally con-
coded to be settled and that Senator
of Somerset will WELD the
gavel in the Upper Chamber. Senator
VOORHEES,, with his usual long headed
ness has seen the damage which would
be done his future prospects if he made
a fight for the place and lost so soon
after his disaster at the State Conven-
ton. and realizing how useless it is to
kick against the corporation pricks. has
,itharaurn fror, a. aan+o.t
One of the lobbyists who was in the
throng made a wager of 800 to STE that
Mr. Sl;nnar Womb not c.nt,,re the
speakership prize and there was no one
who would take him. AS this lobbyist
is the representative of the railroad
oomna, r-hio,, nanorou, 80 - -
"hich geheraly gets what II
wants from a Republican Legislature.
this is taken to mean that Mr.. Derousse.s
WIN is an amn1ove If tho west Tersov
Railroad, IS assured OF the position. He
will come to Trenton with every vote
south of Mercer. his s,,pnorters claim
That nil, s;ra him on,,t 49, .sata.
iHae VIM give MN ohly lWeiVe Votes
out of the twenty-five he will require
to secure tha ca,,cus nomination Mr.
skinner Claims 10 nave the entire eleven
from Essex and the three from Middle
sex, which Mr.. Hicks has turned over to
him FOR bic s,,nnort for uio1s Gov Iooaar
suppoie ioi 1iieAs ~ ieauei
OF the House.
AS this would Civ him fourteen votes
TO start with there are MANY who he-
ae inany "no oe-
heve that Mr.. Skinner knows what he is
talking about when he says that his
prospects are most enco,,ra ging
Mr. Derousse,s demeanor yastara.u
W. Deiousse Nenieahof yesterday
was that OF a man who had a sure
thing, while Mr.. Skinner onducted him
self like a man who was not sure, but
Mr.. Louis F. Peale, Franklin Murphy's
private secretary, was among the small
group in the rotunda for the first time
any man deserves Wen from his party
Mr.. Peale is that man. He has always
Pen1b1iean and au.rine The IaSt fagg,
wears has rendered his partv val,,a abM
I psa, Of the State Commits = MT.
Teales oH1y otner aclive opponent IS
been sergeant-at-arms Of the House.
AS unere are SO many hungry Republi-
cans to be fed this year and the porridge
distribute 1t among as many as possible,
there is a tendency among the leaders to
Years fed at the public crib. Should hat
edly secure the position.
the s Paterson labor I man w lane IN. I Ransh,
of Passaic turned down because he
was an anfi-Sewer man and who neverfhee
less mss ran s1ac as an o1 nde p Ga IT, candidate frIt ana
ance He receiyed manv onpratt1lpaPpion
and much ~gsodenatured chaffing, ali Of
Wnlch ne seemed to enjoy immensely.
He bore ms lhonors modestly,. although
tones when he told the story Of his t RI
W Siiasa reef recital iAf he fI inyaria SS'n Wou nGsss ap
Griggs."
Mr.. Bullock declared that he would
a strictly independent attitude
during the session and would partici- |
pate in the caucus proceedings OF
party. He objects to the man
ner in which the Secretary Of State has
classed him in the printed list Of the
member of the Tegislaf1re which he
has issued as an fndependent Demo
crat. He saws he IS not a Democrat |
ana althoueh the Democrats endorsed |
him they did it of their own free wills
and without any solioitatio1D on the |
part of him or any of his friends. Mr..
bullock withdrew from the throng for
a short time and when he ~reappeared
he loosely remarked that the independ- |
ents had held a conference, gone over
the ground carefully and unanimously
to support Bullock. Of Passaic. |
for Speaker.
one Of the topics of conversation
the Statesmen" was the goings-
on of John Kean, of Washington, during
the past few days. One evene |
ing last week he dined the New Jersey |
Congressional delegation at Chamber
lain's and set before them a dinner
which has seldom been surpassed. eveil
in the National Capital. All the Com
gressmen We're present except Thomas |
Tom thinks that if he at
tended it would be taken as a sign
that Kean owned him and he wished his
constituents to know thai he serves no
master except the people of the Seventh
Congressional District of New Jersey,
even if he had to lose q good dinner