The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-10

- iiC IdElIOduS are IOrceu TO nav On
muen more taxes the people in the rural
districts will have to pay extra freight.
The people of Hudson County do not use
use ~ferryboats. / think that the rural disy
tricts Will be the loser, but l am omen IL
CONVICTION. Hudson County must certain.
emit Governor to know that he viii an
p tba 9Gnpetent men to make inquiry On
Assemblyman Queen then took the floor
ana said that by the very action of ~
Republicans in trying to secure j cnrn1
smISs I to investigate the subject they
nr5bt ! n mat the railroad laws could
ttha . Re urged very strongly against
the appointment of a Commission because
mar Was p nJa NEEDED. He then produced a
nap 70 snow that even with the small
area that Hudson County covered, is
taeapdes and its population were equal
and 'l tbey r,e oaher counties in the Stare
eoa iesrd thi hlass thew IL e. s Dd{ d T. ne !. other 5sT
81 ti nTlas w haslsd fbs and It is only q matter
~; ~ squai taxation; and so far as Hudson
f .uncerned they will continue to demand
II naa a ! the end of time; He rhen re-
hearings as to what equal taxation mean
aof oni e.. e e Hudson County, but to the
He admitted that there was politics i,
the Dill because of the very light clineh
mat the Republican COMMITTEES had m
%n n, /, ana stared that there had been no
IRON 4 by the committee. for the people
OF HUDSON had been a unit in the agIfae
s[on; he ssid that he would favor the re-
proviolng the committee would make
some report on the bill and the House
iooR some action, favorable or adverse.
measure, then he would favor the cam
MISSION. he said that the bill was wanted
p u tne peopis of Paterson; that Newark
Elizabeth Board Of Trade had favored #
As soon as Assemblyman Queen had
rHnlshea. Chairman Lower Of the Railroad
the committee. had been sitting almost
~entinuous on the bill to the neglect
OF other business, and they had given
to those who opposed it. They did not
propose to follow the example of tbe
pemocrats by shutting off the right of
b bes y w aha refusing to let people be
introduced the bill had been introduced.
put those who asked fer hearings were
had been such a mass of testimony that
It was almost impossible for the commit.
Tee to come to anv conclusion.
# As4sbe d {, Harvey also a member
had been hearing people on that Bill for
the past eight weeks. and he thought that
Il copies CT the evidence and statements
at these various hearings could be fur
nished to the members Of the Jegisla-
ture. they. could not reach a conclusion
II was 50 volun'inous.
Assemblyran Tice of Middlesex. also
9 member of the COMMITTEES. thought the
committee should not be criticised. for
the question was badly mixed up and it
took tirne to reach a conclusion. He pro-
r,fse7 that there would be a report on
Assemblvman Roll OF Union said thar
he had attended every hearing and heard
considerable. but he could not make an
IT would take several days Of canside~a-
ton. Ha did not think that the other
o oen ~ an shoald a hs asked to Pay s2aooa
result in a State tax in less than two
Leader Robertson said that Queen had
successful than any other man who had
taken it Up; and the only time il had
been forced to an issue like IT Is now il
Of the Government. The Democrats al
ways allowed the measure to go to
sleep. The question was s, complicated
that nothing short of a commission could
to vote on 2 question SO irnportAnt. and
he thought Mr.. Queen and all Of the mems
demnaticn if they went back to Hudson
County having voted for the creation of
Speaker Derousse then ordered the
- y chCli ia liz iioI DIS
Mr.. Allen was getting IN to talk, but
he was net recognized. The ayes were
Al, nays IA. The two Democratic members
from Warren and one from Hunterdon
voted with the Hudson County people.
Queen changed his vote, moved for 4 re-
consideration. and Allen moved the nos
ton for reconsideration be tabled. The
Republicans vera caught Mapping. and
voted for Mr.. Aliens motion. which put
Mr.. Reeds resolution on the table.
Queen ct once introduced the resoIu-
ton to discharge the committee. and
this gave him. an opportunity to give the
whole history of the case from the time
the bill was introduced until the hearing
yesterday afternoon. His motion to dis.
charge did not prevail. On the announce
ment of his defeat he gave notice that
he wel,ld move at some subsequent time
that the committee he discharged from
tho further consideration.
Fleming then called IN his motion to
DISCHARGE the Railroad Committee from
the further consideration Of the Ere.
track elevation bill. which wa. defeated,
ard SO was the motion to relieve the COM
mittee of Cagnev's two-cent ferry bill.
Mr.. Brighter of Morris tried the same
tactics for his repeater of the school law.
bit his enemies 50 mixed him UP in a
labyrinth of parliamentary motions that
heswas soon hopelessly lost.