The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-03

tice if the State was not willing to pro-
vide for. 1t. Thu General explained the
sorb nearly $4,000, and considered that
the money would be well spent. He said
that one of the evidences that the men
appreciated rifle practice was the fact
that one hundred and ~ninety-nine sharp
shooters were made last year; and that
eas't time nU0A to me come 1leu to Sea as ' GIFT f for thai
practice and highly valued the medals.
bars and crosses that they received.
Spencer or General Donneiiy. but from
what was stated by members of the com
that no more money is 10 be expended
for rife practice than has been allowed.
Garrett D. W. vroom of Trenton and
George P. Richards of Dover, both man
ayers OF the New Jersey Hospital for
the Insane. were before the committee in
the interest Sf the appropriation; par
Plains Asylum, where they, have started
q new building, having laid the fcunda-
then tlSn wells wers a appr thsFs sds0g siss' ooo. L 600 Se e
be used in this fiscal year and $4,000 in
the next. They have only used s57,651 of
ing lapsed back into the treasury. Now
they want the difference between that
and the $4,000, which they Will use to
provements; and they. will need 100000
to erect this new building on these foun-
dation walls. They argued that they
walls are there, the plans drawn. and
the top of the house must match the
bottom. They want the. money quick SO
plans of the new building, which had
been deposited with the Governor, were
sent for and examined. There were
numerous suggestions made as to the
cutting off of some of the fancy work
and the reduction of the height of the
building, SO as to keep It within the
sisted that this was a case where there
could be no seraping, for it would be
better not to put up the building until
they could put up one that would cor
respond with the rest of the work. and
would not be a disgrace in future years.
They explained also that delays We're
now 1,146 patients, with only room for
800. The committee promised to dream
over these matters.
Dairy Commissioner Mcclure said that
he would have to, have another $1,000 put in
the deficiency bill, as the 500 appro-
priated in the June bill was, not enough.
garine around through the country and
still a disposition on the part of some
farmers to work the pump handle too
vigorously. Commissioner McGuire was
going along very nicely in explaining the
usefulness of his department when As
senblyman Stranger, who had gone
Dairy Commissioner, ran up against him
and started to catechise him. He told
the committee how he was prosecuted
fer having color matter in some oleo-
margarine. He explained that the trouble
with the law was that when a dealer
was imposed on by the commission mer-
chant or the wholesale man, that he had
to he the victim.
To make Assemblyman Stanger feel
good. the Dairy Commissioners tod OF a
boring grocerymen sold oleomargarine
and one was lined for having ~coloring
matter in his and the other was not.
Tho man Whn pSaanadr ha nDan6dA tn Inv
of a concern that had learned to max
up an oil which was proof against the
ali the committee joined in in saying
that such a prosecution was a shame
and that the Dairy Commissioners ought
to have exercised some judgment. That
some.
Assemblyman Roll, however, who sells
CURE out a bit, by saying that the oleoe
margarine law was entirely too strict.
but the milk law was all right. He told
sold hundreds of gallons of milk at five
cents a quart and was creating quite a
monopoly in the business until the Dairy
he was not putting out the right kind
of goods and practically drove the man
out of the business.
tell similar stories, and the committee
commenced to think that the Dairy Conn
m~issioner's work was up-to-date, SO he
lis IL dP NY ~ tiAo LILO 6PPAOI
priation be made $1,000 "a year.
Road Commissioner Budd with Engin-
eer Armstrong appeared before the com-
mittee with rather a unique appeal.
Their case was all nicely typewritten,
and Armstrong went on to tell how in
the incipiency of the present State aid
scheme, numerous amounts placed to the
credit of the Road Commissioners had
lapsed back into the treasury because
they had never been used, making the
sum total of / $1,000. and this amount he
asked to have put in the deficiency bill
so that it could be available at once to
aid the Road Commissioner On. account
of the unusual demand made for roads,
the regular appropriation being already
spent. He stated that there was a pre-
cedent for it in the United States. where
$10,O 600 had been appropriated for one pur-
pose and not being used had been given
back to the road bureau.
ASsemblyman Tice said that-he was in
favor of doing all that possibly could be
done to help the hard road cause along,
for it was a great benefit to the people
much more than rifle practice was at Sea
Grit.
This. of course. led to a free and easy
discussion of road building and brought
out some facts from Commissioner Budd.
He stated that fourteen counties la
now applied for State aid in road build
ing.
All these matters are to be considered
further by the committee. Comptroller
Hancock will assist the committee in
an hour with them yesterday afternoon
explaining State finances ito them so that
they might know just where to use the
Ratchet when the time comes to do the
~chopping.