The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-23
VIRTUE RAMPANT.
Leader Storrs Says Some One
Approached Him = Mr..
brakes Economy.
Special to the JERSEY City Nears.

hours G3Athe session We're enlivened by
a mosts kciting scene, in which Leader
Storrs declared that he had been offered
a money consideration to make three
minute speech in favor of a bill. The
statement made decided sensation. and
a number Of personalities were inter-
changed, some of them not very com
plimentary to Mr.. Storrs.
Directly upon reeonyening after recess
Mr. Ginder of Mercer caught the Speak
er's eye and moved to take from the
table the motion to reconsider the vote
by which the Trenton Battle Monument
bill was lost on Thursday. Before the
pmotion could be put Leader Storrs
sprang to his feet and in a highly dramat-
ic manner exclaimed
Mr.. Speaker, l am surprised at the
action of the gentleman from Mercer
in making this motion, particularly after
what l told him this morning. While
this bill was before the House was
approached by a man on this floor and
offered $3.50 to make three minute
speech in favor of it,. Instead of max
ing speech in favor of it / made one
against it. In this l voiced the unani-
nous sentiment of the Advisory Com
mjttee of both Houses. 1t was then in
timated to me that if I would go OUT
side for a few moments it could be
sneaked through, and then could come
back and express surprise that it should
have been passed in my absence.
I refused to listen to the proposition,
and now IL you want to pass this Dill,
pass it,
A vIRTUoUs DISPLAY.
Il think. Mr.. Speaker shouted Mr..
the name Of the person who attempted
to bribe him.
There is no, truth in the gentleman's
face was crimson with anger
1T seems to me the services of the
gentleman were valued at pretty high
rate" said Mr.. Eisele.
@ @ S'Pene PemarRed d M araber
IF any man had made such an offer
would have hit him on the end of his
face right there, and not waited to tell
the House about it.
Mr.. Usher continued to insist that Mr..
Storrs should name the person referred
to. but was met with a decided refusal.
A temperate speech in favor of the
motion by Mr.. Wilbur quieted the House
and closed the most sensational incident
of the session. The motion to take from
the table was lost by a vote of q to rs.
NO PAY FOR poUGHERTY.
payment of $1,000 to William H Dough-
erty for services in the Stuhr- Mcdonald
case. came up on third reading. A, mo-
was declared out of order.
Mr.. Usher advocated the passage of
the the bl1i, which was vigorously opposed by
had already paid enough bills in this
case.
Mr.. Robertson said the only reason, as
he understood it, why the bill had not
already been paid was because Dough-
erty was a Democrat, who had sided
with Stuhr, and for that reason Governor
Albeit had refused to allow payment of
the bill.
Mr.. Storrs said he had today been told
by Congressman Gardner, who was Chair
man of the Investigation Committee, that
no man was better entitled to payment
in this case than Mr.. Dougherty.
Mr.. Drake said from what he could
Roche in the contested electio case for
Director of the Board of Freeholders Of
Hudson county and not for Stuhr. For
that reason he should vote against the
bill
The question was asked why the clause
in the original bill giving ex-Judge Hoff-
man $500 had been stricken out, and Mr..
mans own request. The bill failed to
pass by a vote of q to 20.
BRAKES PECULIAR MOTION.
prise at the afternoon session by having
passed a resolution providing that the
Sergeant-a Arms be directed to turn over
to the Comptroller for the use of the
next Legislature all books, stationery and
other articles in his possession.
Heretofore these articles have been
looked upon as perqusites of the Ser
geant- -at-Arms, and the various officers,
in whose possession they were at the
close of the session. 1t was the univer-
sal opinion of those gentlemen that Mr. 4
brakes policy of economy SIS pretty
small potatoes
The bills passed by the House yester-
The State Reformatory bill
House 125-ProvideS that all property
must be taxed at Its real value
House "a, providing that all corpora
tons except railroads shall pay it's en-
ployes senli-nlonthly.
Senate 170-Prohibits attorneys occupy
ing Offices with any Judge from prac-
tising before that Judge.
teachers, was reported adversely at the
eleventh hour. The reason the commit
tee gave was that the city and not the
State should pension its teachers.