The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-07
SEWELL CONFIDENT
His Friends Say He Will
Have a Walkover for
the Senatorship.
TO REVISE GAME LAWS
Commissioners Will Try to Form a
New Code Out of the Present
Conflicting Statutes,
Special to the Jersep Citp Ne,ss.

topeeadt 10 the JeYselJ City Ne1gs.
TRENTON, Jan. :, 1895.-The organizs-
ton of the Legislature tomorrow after-
noon will be accomplished with little or
no trouble The Senators held an in
lorhlai conference on Wednesday and
ssetieu on the officers of the Upper
house. Senator Edward c. Stokes of
cumberland, was selected TO be the
! s,resiaent- The two other candidates.
0shacorss Fogers of Camden, and Thomp-
| son of Somerset, yielded gracaf,,llv
Senator Foster voorhees, had no tro,,l1a
establishing the claim of Henry B. RoI-
linson to be Secretary of of the SENATE.
and EdWard Fielder of Monmouth, who
was Senator Bradley's candidate. viii
MI the same position he had last wear.
Senator Herbert of Middlesex, proved to
nave more strength than Senator Gould
| OF Sussex, and the former secured the
support of the Senators for B. c. Church
OF Middiesex County for assistant gen.
| eral clerk, the position filed last year by
dr. Robinson, James Stanton. Senator
Goulds candidate. will have to take a
cierkship or some other position.
The Senators did not consider anv
proposed legislation or the Senatorial
contest. They will hold a regular caucus
on Monday night and the matter Of leg
islation will be considered and the Sc
lection of doorkeepers settled. All the
| other officers will be reelected. The
United States Senatorial caucus will be
held on Monday night of next week and
the contest settled, so that the Legisls-
in the lobby after the conference in
dicates that there will be short session
Of the Legislature and that the work
that is decided will be done quickly
A WALK-OYER FOR SEWELL.
On the United States Sena torial fight
the drift OF the conversation was to the
effect that General Sewell will have an
easy thing and an informal roll call
showed forty-four votes for the GEN
eral and in Trenton it is conceded that
his viii be the only name presented in
the caucus. Chairman Franklin Murphy.
who is leading the opposition, is still
/ hopeful, and up IN Newark his friends
| claim that he is going to be elected
| easily.
| The latest move on the part of the
opposition is to declare that a large
amount of corruption money is to be
| used in securing the votes of the mem
bers above Middlesex county. This Is
done so as to make the members of the
Essex, Hudson and Morris counties keep
| IN line and to brand them in advance
There are three votes in Hudson and four
| in Essex claimed by General Sewell.
Monday night will show how the straws
NEWSPAPER MEN FAVORED.
Newspaper men will figure conSpieu-
ously in the new Legislature. PRESIDENT
| Stokes Private Secretary viii be jose 81
G. Kingdom, one of the editors of the
/ Mt Holly News" Speaker Cross Prt-
| vate Secretary will be Editor Charles
| Mcbride of the Elizabeth Journal" The
| Secretary of the Senate, Henry B. Rol-
| linson, is editor of the Railway "Advo-
cate" The Engrossing Clerk OF the
| Senate is John B. Shreve of the Atlantic
| City Review; the assistant is Editor
| Charles Patterson of the Toms River
Courier, lThe Clerk of the House
Brunswick "Fredonian.a The Engross-
Orange "JournaiS The assistant bill
clerk is G. Frank Sutherland. a Jersey
The Improvements to the, state House
have not been completed. The rotuntia.
has been repointed and touched up with
lively colors and plenty OF silver and
gold leaf. 1t is not finished much to
the chagrin of the State House Com
mission: The work has been stopped
GAME Law REVISION.
The New Jersey Fish ard Game Com
missioners met in this city Saturday with
the wardens of the various counties and
sportsmen generally, to ascertain their
views concerning general game and
FISH protective law which the comnlis-
sionerS will endeaVor to have passed this
winter, and which will repeal all existing
laws, of which several hundred have
been passed since 1904. They are con-
5icting and so confusing as to enlbarrasS
and hamper the Commissioners and War
denS.
President Pfeiffer said the New Jersey
forests, pine lands ponds and streams
formed natural game and fish preserve,
and there was no reason why the interest
should not be built up and foStered, so
that it would afford sport TO visitors from
abroad as We'll residents. Now it is
practically dead. There is no fishing with
rod and line, and comparatively little
shooting. This could be changed if sell
FISH interests of locality were put aside.
The discussion and suggestions showed
that all sections agreed THAI what is
known as the fall shooting, consisting OF
| quail, grouse, partridge, deer. rabbits and
squirrel, should be protected, at least
until October 14th. but the South Jersey
sportsmen wanted the date fixed at Mo-
venlber Is All agreed that deer shoot
ing should be allowed but ten days in the
year, and that the shooting of wild geese,
ducks and other web-footed birds should
be allowed from September TO April 10,
instead of till May l. a close season for
sturgeon was recommended after August
so, and a trespass cunning law inereas-
ing the penalty from six cents, the pres
ent law. The penalty for trespass in fs7.-
ing is $780,
The North Jersey sportsmen favored an
snow usually closes the sport about
Thanksgiving, and no true sportsman,
they said, would hunt after snow comes
In South Jersey snow comes later and
often not at all during the winter. A
compromise will probably result with a
uniform season all over the State.
Commissioners Pfeiffer, Page, Clark
and rockingham have prepared their re-
port to the Governor. In it they say
they have appointed thirty-three fish
ana game wardens, who. under the law,
haze been paid three dollars u day and
expenses when on duty. The wardens
employed assistance at will. and the re-
suit has been that from May to December
last bills amounting to $4,000 have been
paid. This amount the Commissioners
believe it's. disproportionate TO results ac-
complished, and they recommend the
appointment of but twenty wardens,
with jurisdiction over the entire State,
at a salary of $500 and allowance of 500
for expenses. A first and game protector
is recommended, at salary of S1,200
with allowance of $500 for expenses. All
are to be under control of the Commis-
sioners and be sent from county 10
county as needed, and are to give bonds.
An appropriation to establish a fish
hatchery is recommended, from which
fish shall be distributed for stocking pur-
poses. The regulation of pound fishing
on the coast is also recommended.
The proposition for a close day in the
middle of the week during the shad
fishing season is opposed, because the
season is short and two thousand men
are employed. The recent railing off in
the sAad catch proves that restocking
will soon be necessary.
try Is recommended; also, cooperation
with New York State for the protection
of oysters from destruction by oil re-
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