The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-18
TROLLEY SET BACK
The Lobby Dazed By Mr..
Bauer's Passage Of His
Five Cent Fare
Bill.
HAYsEED ELEMENT RAMPANT
Lower Beaten Again on a Bill That
Looks Like a Strike-Queen's
Good Work.
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TRENTON, March Is, iS9S.-The trolley
lobby received another shot between wind
and water yesterday. which completely
dazed the members. 1t is a long time
/ since there has been such a badly de-
moralized third House as that which
has been here this winter taking care of
trolley legislation.
The cause of their Generalization yes
terday was Mr.. Bauer of Hudson. who
has astonished his colleagues by the
extraordinary fighting qualities which he
has developed. He followed up yesterday
his victory of last week in getting his
transfer stations bill through, by secur-
ting the passage of his bill which COM
pels all trolley companies to carry people
within the county limits for five cents
and furnish the usual transfer privi-
leges.
This was a far more difficult bill to
pass than the ransfer stations measure,
but Mr.. Bauer tackled It Is fearlessly
| as he did the other. He made a long
| and forcible argument for the measure,
in which he ~recounted the many diff
| culties and the cost of travelling by
trolley In North Hudson. He also gave
the distances traversed by some of the
lines in Jersey City as well as North
Hudson, and showed the very small ride
many of those gave the people for a
nickel and denied them the transfer
| privileges. He told of his adventures
getting around in old Hudson City on
one of the Consolidated Company's lines,
and showed how by the fault of the COM
pany.s employees he had to take two cars
and pay double fare. He also argued
| that a five cent fare would increase the
value of real estate, as it would bring
| people out to the country districts in
| search of homes.
The ever ready Abraham sprang to
the defense of the trolley companies with
the argument which, parrot-hke. he has
advanced against all measures which
seek to regulate the trolleys, to the effect
that the measure was one for municipal
regulation alone and the, Legislature
would belttle itself to legislate on such
Mr.. Queen gave the Honorable Abraham
a fine dressing DOWN. He said that the
/ Assembly he represented the entire State
and every other county in it as well
~threadbare argument and said that he
| ought to know by this time that when
the municipal authorities granted g
franchise their jurisdiction ceased and
it was the Legislature alone which could
act in such measures. He also spoke OF
the many hardshtps the people Of HV I'd
sui WIFE COillpCltCQ u oliuCl 81 W liC
Traction Companies, and said If the
members could go up there and see for
themselves they would all be with Hud-
The bill was opposed by Mr.. Jones of
Essex, who said that the companies could
not afford to carry passengers to ali
result would be that extension would be
at a ~standstill, and Millburn, for instance,
which wanted q trolley line to Newark,
Mr.. J. Martin Roll. the farmer states
man who nominated John Eean for
governor and who Is so e Of the @1olliest
Of gardeensS for the Hudson men, SO
that they would not get on the wrong
Bauer did.
Mr. Benedict said that the trolley conn
paaleI he w fayo treating psfti Mewa me,, all sn right
alone. The companies could not afford
to carry the people for FIVE cents at all
would be stopped IL the bill passed.
Mr.. Hoos said there was no danger of
to go where. there was any business and
nothing could stop them.
Mr.. Bullock quoted some statistics of
Detroit, and said that if they can afford
TO carry people there for three cents
they can afford to do It in Hudson and
call the bill received twenty-sevep votes.
Mr.. Bauer called for the absentees n
stuck to it until the measure received
the thirty-one votes necessary to pass it.
in which it had been cutting the trolley
companies lately the House turned right
around and killed another bill aimed at
the Traction Companies. This was Mr..
ullman's measure and 1t provided that
the companies should light the streets
and roads through which it passed.
Mr.. Queen denounced the measure as
an unjust one and would place an I'M
called for burden upon the traction
companies.
Then appeared one Of the funniest Incl
dents of the session. Mr.. Lower adyo-
ca |, the passage Of the bin and used
nents Of the Traction Companies had
employed in urging the passage of the
other trolley bills. He repeated what
had been said of the valuable privileges
which the trolleys obtained from the
people without giving in return the
the least that could be done would be to
make them light. the roads through
which they passed. It was an OF day
for Abraham. however, and the House
jumped upon him once more in fendish
glee: The bill received only four votes.
fer station bill was advanced to second
reading and is now on the calendar FOR
! final passage. Later in the afternoon
Mr.. Bauer's bill which provides that ali
trolley cars should be properly heated and
ventilated passed by q vote Of q to z.
The plight Of the lobby att ct tb XII ro,,t
was a sight, They fell back dismaved.
and obtaining copies of the check lists
began to study them closely to see who
had deserted them.