The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-20
RUBMPLBR'S FIGHT
The Pernieious Activity Of S
Frank Sutherland Defeats
the Search Bill.

TRENTON, March 20, 1S96-Mr. Ruemp-
Ter made a gallant fight last night for
his bill, which ike the fees for city
searches and requires all UGH fees to be
turned over to the City Treasurer. Mr..
Ruempler. in advocating the passage of
the bill, explained to the House the
workings of the present system OF city
searches, and claimed that their cost was
altogether too high.
While he was talking Mr.. G.. Frank
Sutherland, the bill clerk, left his office
in charge of a page, and started in to
lobby for the bill. His pernicious activ-
ity soon began to bear fruit, and Mr..
Thorn, the sweet young innocent from
Mercer, took the floor when Mr.. Ruemp-
Ter had finished. He asked Mr.. Ruemp-
Ter how long these exorbitant fees had
existed.
For twenty or twenty-five years." was
the Hudson mans reply.
Then Mr.. Thorn wanted to know why,
made to reduce the fees. Mr.. Queen re-
piled because there was no necessity for
a reduction until recently. Previous to
that time the Clerk had to go away
formed was well worth the S. he re-
ceived. But now the Martin Act had
greatly 1simplified the work.
Mr.. Thorn Sair humph to that. and
declared that the measure was one to
decrease the fees of the City Clerk of
Jersey City because he was a Republi-
can: He then made a stump speech on
that line, which had the effect of bring
ing his Republican colleagues to his way
Of thinking, and the bill was lost.
MT. Woolley. is under obligation to Mr..
G.. Frank Sutherland.
The Hous was stricken with a fit of
virtue and did the unheard of thing of
refusing to put a Democrat out Of office
for the purpose of putting a Republican
in - SENATOR Skirn1, hill 70 rrn+ r;d Af
George Mcclure, the State Dairy Com
missioner, by providing hat the incum-
bent OF the office shall be appointed by
the Governor instead of the State Board
of Health, was taken up. Mr.. McPher-
SON of Mercer stood sponsor for the
bill. He made his little speech about the
passness. One of the Democrats de-
nounced the measure, and Mr.. Skinner
and other Republicans denounced it so
heartily that Mr.. Mcpherson said, sar-
life he had to blush for being a Repub-
lican. He made another appeal for the
bill, but it was no use.
~ The shed House ] msss held ID t h,1Ss sessions and
were
Senate g. releases interest Of State in
1 belong n pd to Ml feunt gim weich fna formerly ana1y
nouffe artist, now owned by Charles
Senate Sc. allows Bayonne to elect
school boards the same as larger cities.
Senate 81, Days free crushed stone
House 80, provides that all persons en-
gagged in business as plumbers shall pro-
cure license.
Senate 247, prohibits Common Pleas
Court clerks from practicing in courts
Of which they are clerks; House 312,
adjusts the differences between East
Newark and Kearny, relating to a divi-
sion of the bonded indebtedness of those
municipalities; House 233, permits the
Central Railroad Company to build a
new draw in the bridge over the Shrews-
bury River; Senate 1874, amends act for
limitation of action by requiring action
to be commenced within two years after
cause Of such action shall have occurred
House $40, provides that Police Justices,
Recorders and Justices of the Peace shall
transmit to the Prosecutor of the Pleas
a copy of every complaint, warrant, re-
+~cognizance and execution; o 1888, au-
thorizes municipalities in extreme cases.
to erect voting booths in the street.
beyond the curb; senate 107, a~ppropriates
5000 for the erection of a building on the
grounds of the Home for Disabled Sol
diers, for the accommodation of w,nen
nurses; House IA. seclres creditors an
convey or assign for the benefit of
of any Common Council to resign and
accept another position in the gift OF
that body; House 1886, removes the limi-
tation upon benevolent associations as
to amount of property they may hold;
House 217, amends Orphans Court law;
Senate 1877, provides for codification of the
laws relating to incoruorated towns