The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-25
GAGNEY'S GAS BILL
Queerest Way on Record Of
Killing An Anti-Corpor-
alton Measure.
JUST LOST IN THE SHUTTLE
Though introduced Weeks Ago, It
Was Only Turned Over to q
Committee Yesterday.
JUST LOST IN THE SHUTTLE
Special ,the Jerscy City Nears.

Rouse yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Gag.
ney moved that the Committee on Mu
nicipal Corporations be relieved from fur.
Their consideration of his bill fixing tht
price of gas in irst-class cities at s.
per thousand feet. Mr.. Robertson asked
II the gentleman had given the twenty.
four hours notice of such a motion re.
quired by the rules of the House, and
when he did SO.
MI. Cagney replied that he had two
weeks ago.
MT. Robertson then raised the point oil
order that the rule requiring the twenty
four hours to be given meant that the
motion should be made at the expiration
OF that time, and at no other time. and
lnasmuch as Mr.. Cagney had allowed
W weeks to elapse his motion was out
OF order.
The Speaker promptly ruled the point
out of order.
Mr. KIM chairman of the committee,
was then asked when he received the
Dill, and much to every ONES astonish-
ment he said it was only handed to him
the night before. This brought out the
question how it was that a bill which
was introduced four weeks ago only
reached the committee to which it was
referred Monday night. The Speaker said
that the Clerk would explain.
Ihe Clerk said that the bill had in
some un~accountahle way become mixeo
up with the original bills which were
Hied away IN the safe in his room. The
chairman of the committee, Mr.. King,
had not said anything to him about it
unsl Monday night, when ne was sur
pTised TO ind that the bill was missing.
he searched high and low for it, ana
finally thought of the original bills.
Wnere IT was found.
cumstances, Mr.. Cagney,s motion was
out OF order. That of course kills chean
f Yas' & as sx Iar as this al session is concerned;
ADJOURN today, and there is no time ia
make a hight on the subject. 1T was q
i tSe acclaent, + It was an accident, for
expense and the trouble OF a long. bitter
hg FILL IKE that ofllast year.
as 70 who got the best of the trolley
and Senate 1872. AS stated in yesterda y
NHiornsng's dispatches to THE News
cislon the courts might make III The
SUITS now pending, which grew out of
the right given to the horse ear companies
n ~ 9hs authorities tn Of certain mu-
power to electricity. No. Isl. It was
declared de- a rave the trolley compa-
Montclair. It viii be remembered t y 4
the local. authorities of Montclasr have
s1cceeaed up to this time, in keeping
Mr.; Roll, early In the session. Introduced
a Dill giving the Freeholders the right
To- grant franchises to construct electric
they had control. This bill was SO MAIN
" aimed at Montclair that It attracfed
general attention. It was claimed that
to Keel, the public attention directed to
this bill while they sneaked through No
l lsc. which accomplished the SAME OBJ
House discovered this, and held the hills
up. Then the trolIeynen got a fit. The
practical workers were relegated to the
Lish Gaddis. Joe Coults and FranE R 1tae
ger, were. eaaaed in. They got the com
mitLee OF the House together and labored
Coults resorted to all his oily powers 81
persuasion and subtle causistry to ner-
suade that the bills were perfectly harm
and. fn nnSy t sao 'piils l @egs and ansn earnestly
way which Messrs. Skinner Reed and
others,swho opposed them, declared took
their sting out of them.
The joy sevinced by the lobby AT this
result made many who are familiar with
the ways OF the traction. gentlemen to
harmlessness. of the bill, nor was this
skepticism abated to any great extent
Mnen the workers started out to secure
Y tt1li ty-Uuc fOuSS necessary tn mass
them Members were taken out into TIC
hallNand the cloak room by the el,sive
MI Gaddis. the chesterfieldian Mr.. Cod
uinG and the chld-Like Mr.. Reading The
result of their Nlabors was apparent 81
passed. Ills
in the lobby when the day before and Al
yesterday was gloom and lugubriousness
MT Gaddis could hardly restrain himself.
and gave ventsto his exuberance by iok,
ing with the c0rrespondentS vvbi1o ~,
faiptest trace of a smile lowered aronnS
me sepnlchra features Of Mr.. Berger.
THe unusuaf exhibition of hilaritv upon
the part of the lobby in face Of the fact
p thesanti-trolley peoples positive dec
laration that they had clipped the wings
could not fly far enough to do anyone
any harm caused. such universal com
ment tina the trolley people felt restrain,
this 'wise:-They said. Without ex3fain.
ing their fright Of Monday night and
their efforts to get. Engrossing CLERK
never cared I'VE Two cents eaas f for my ny
Fred IS the fate Of A No Isl. Taa f asav
for the purpose Of reaching Montclair'
The law of 1894 compelled trolley com
panie fd 70 ilse maps with their applioa
act position of their poles and the So.
preIne Court had held that such map
z plan was an intrinsic part Of the
vitiated the franchise. Now, It eften
happened, they SAID, that when they
came TO greet the poles according t.
was impossible to plant them. as for in
stance n the centre Of a mans drive
way lsaasng from BIS barn to the street.
the decision above referred to, made the
ordinance null and void, and they had
o}bs essln Nal az 81 eyer nag again ! and dhl secure an. an.
dif1cu&ty by allowing them to secure two