New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-25

=, Education will be asked 10 appoint Breath
Inspector
From Washington comes the news that 1.-The
nar,ocratic Congressional Committee feel rea-
.onahlv sure Of carrying the LIST IIId. lVth and
With New-Jersey districts Two years ago
Congressman I.oudensager carried the LIST Dis
,r,c, bv 1880 plurality. This year he will have
more Two years ago Congressman Howell had
co-6 plurality in the lid He viii double that
,h,s time Congressman .McEwan was elected
hr ooS plurality in the With District in 1894. His
plurality will be four times that next November.
Al the special meeting OF the Newark Common
Council called to consider the suspension OF Tax
Receiver Finger. Alderman MunS'e said that
Finger had only followed the custom of his pred
ecessors in depositirg the money of the city in
hanks 10 his own credit. and giving his own check
IN return TO the city" For this mischevous and
untrue statement Alderman Mungle was prompt
IL called ia account by Alderman Harrigan Isn't
II strange that the old Eighth Ward with all Its
intelligence and public spirit should have the ILL
luck ~ be so often represented in the Common
Council by men Of obtuse moral perceptions
Tho denomination of Congressman Thomas Nc
Evan means his reelection. and this leaves the
WITH District the only one of the eight in winch
tho Republicans really have 10 fight for their
lives Even there Congressman Pitney should
win II he gets between now and election all the
all that he deserves.
passaic is awfuly jealous of it's big neghbor
Paterson. and that is probably why The News
Of the former town publishes this cruel editorial:
one Of the sixteen peanut statesmen who com,
pose the Paterson Board ~ Aldermen is named
leagues say he is boiling and Boylan Is not nor,
ma uriil he gets mad, HI has come to be called
'Bo,an Mad" He boiled and sizzlei like the
tail Of kettle az the special meeting OF the
Board last Monday night. called for The purpose OF
The idle men Of the city and providing funds to
deficit in the appropriations
Those who are complaining so bitterly of hav-
ing been cheated at the Democratic primaries in
Hudson County last week have the consolation
Of knowing that the Grand Jury now in session
can be depended upon to investigate thoroughly
all charges Of that kind.
The LAWYERS have succeeded in making fine
,angle Of the case of ex-Township Collector
Moses p Smith. of South Orange. Plain laymen
don't know much about the cloud Of legal tech
ncalities raised. but they do know that Smith
misapproprated public funds, and that there
ought to be restitution and punishment.
The Jersey City Board of Aldermen adopted
this resolution at its latest meeting:
Whereas On the ninth day OF June. 4. ID. 1895.
resolution passed by this Board directing the
Jaw officers insert in all contracts 10 he executed
for work and materials upon pablo buildings IN
lrovements and on the streets of the city a provl-
SION recurring the contractor to employ upon sdcl
work only persons who residents and citizens
of this ,ity which resolution was duly forwarded
v the CITY Clerk 10 said law officers. and the varl.
olis Boards of the city: .
Resolved, That said law officers ana the Board OF
street and Water Commissioners be requested Ia
notify this ard IL said provision has been inserted
I'm ali citv contracts since awarded. and II not why
not
The answer to that may be the same as given
in other cities where similar attempts have been
made namely. that such conditions would not
IN. legal or binding Where contracts are given
out under competition the contractors naturally
want to get the work done cheaply as posi-
Bile If the city did its own work the matter could
be regulated without any difficulty
Colonel F. L. Price has been elected chairman
of the alleged Democratic State Committee to
succeed Senator James Smith Price has been
for some time the brains Of the Smith machine,
but the Senator always kept him In the back
ground except when the outlook was hopeless.
Price is fighter and he Is no hypocrite.