The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-18

the PleasTTsfor Monmouth county. II
looks asf the vacancy on the State
Board Of Assessors WIN go 70 B%nrlington
to whether Justice. Van Syckel will be
reappointed 70 the bench Of the Supreme
Court, but as to the Attorney Generalship
Grey Of Camden is slated for that office.
1t is reported that a joint meeting of
the Legislature viii be held next Tues
and State Treasurer Swain will be re-
elected for another term of three years
each.
9 clerk OF the. House of Assembly for
the third time Is a remarkable procedure
in the face Of all the facts. Some years
ago clerks OF the House of Assembly
We're accorded tho honor of a third term,
Democratic days. the most that was CIV
The fact that Parker should capture a
th1rd term, IN the face of all the good
luck that has gone to Passaic county, is
remarkable, particularly in q year when
eighteen of the twenty-one counties have
republican member sitting In the House
q Assembly. and other counties have
dneIr; lnii quota OF anxious men who are
Parker cares a rabbit foot" and one
that was secured at the right time, for
ever since he has jumped into politics he
has managed to lane solidly on two feet.
Notwithstanding that he is reelected for
the one term. and will receive a compen-
sation of $500 from the State of New Jer-
sey, he draws 81, 800 in the city Of Pater-
SON as h City Comptroller. If Essex
had not shown so many deals which irri-
tated the members from the rural dis
tricts, Mr. Parker would not have sue
ceeded.
Mr.. Parker has a thorough knowledge of
his duties, and has a claim upon the affec-
ton of the old members because he has
been one of the most obliging clerks that
the Legislature has had in many years.
In the Wqv Of nlaainp rr1lra burden IN
the Legislators, the announcement is made
that the farmers demand a repeal of the
township school law. In view of the long,
tedious fight of last year this is not en-
couraging news TO the members of the
Legislature.
It was decided at the meeting of the
State Board of Agriculture. held dur.ng
the past week., that the township school
law, enacted several years ago, which did
away with the old district school trustees,
and placed all the schools in vel town.
ship under the government Of a township
school committee of seven, was unsatis-
factory OF the farmerS and they wanted
it wiped off the statute books. The State
Board did not pass a resolution introduced
to recommend the passage of a repeater to
the Legislature.
stood sponsor for the bill last year, and 1t
will be remembered that the demise OF the
bill was celebrated by the ~undignified act
Of the legislators placing it into a aninia-
Isl Jill cA34As 4AS ~ 4 Ii tlEC dp-
pearance of grief, as the coffin was ex-
posed in front of h Clerks desk.
Assemblyman Fighter announces the re-
pealer is coming again, and back of vt are
several thousand farmers who are going
to insist ON its passage. An Invitation was
extended to Superintendent Charles J.
Baxter to be present, and to participate
in the discussion, hui Mr.. Baxter evident
ly suspected and did not come for several
Democratic farmers, who regard the re-
pealer as a Republican measure, were go
ing to entrap him in a discussion and use
what he said against the Republican party
in the fall campaign.
The chances. of the passage of the re-
pealer are not good. The State Board of
Education was against the repeater last
year. The Governor is a member of the
State Board of Education, and the in
fuences of the Governor and the State
Board of Education in educational legisla-
ton is notatoEb be despised. So there is no
more reason to suspect the passage of the
repeater this year than last.