The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-19
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Mr. VILDBS KICKING
His Salary Reduce
ton Bill Was Defeated
Illegally.
ELECTION LAW REPORTED
Provisions Of the Committees
Substitute Legislatures
Slow Work.
ELECTION LAW REPORTED.
Special 70 the Jcsgcv ggtv Neary.

TRENTON, March 10, 1897.-The House
wasted most of yesterday and /. accom-
plishssd very little. The morning session
was taken up with the joint meeting n
the Afternoon was occupied with giving
Mr.. WIdes. the champion of reform, an
other chance to pass his salary reduction
Dill. Mr.. Wildes had, an idea that he a
been buncoed and that his bill was de-
feated by unfair means.
While h vote was being taken ON the
Dill on Wednesday, there was a call for
a~bSentees in progress and a motion was
made to discontinue the call.
Although by the yiva voce vote taken
the motion was plainly lost, ex-Speaker
Derolsse, who was In the Chair tempor-
arily, declared the motion carried and an
noualced that the bill was lost. AT that
time twenty-nine votes had been cast
for the measure, Int Mr.. Wilde is con-
fideirt that had the roll call been con-
tinued he eould have been able to secure
the other two votes necessary to pass
the bill.
He has been chafing under what he con-
siders Mr.. Deronsses unfair treatment,
and saying harsh things against the for
mer Speaker ever since. His continual
complaining became so wearisome that it
was finally determined to give him an
other chance, so at the afternoon session
Mr.. Kltnk moved that the vote by which
the bill was lost be- reconsidered.
In speaking to the motion Mr.. Wildes
pitched into Mr.. Derousse. He spoke of
the vote on the question to suspend the
roll call, and said that although it was
lost, Mr.. Derousse did not announce it,
but did declare the bill lost. This he
denounced as unfair and improper. Mr..
DeTousse, in reply. said that he readily
understood the gertleman's position, as
the sun rose and set around the bill. In
fact, the gentleman from Burlington was
SO worked up Wednesday that he did not
Know what he was doing. He had been
assailing him CMr. Derousse) on all sides.
He had been assailing everybody who dis
agreed with him and the House had pa
tiently allowed him a great deal of lati-
tude. Now it would have to stop, at
least as far as he (Mr. Derousse) was
concerned. The motion to reconsider
was lost by a vote of Is to 10.
Mr.. Wildes was not satisfied yet. He
commended that the motion was carried,
as a majority of the votes cast was in its
favor. The Speaker explained that 1t
took t~hirty-one votes, the same number
required to pass a bill, to reconsider. Mr..
Wildes still thinks he has been buncoed,
and the salary reduction bill is dead for
this session at least.
MIR. Wildes' great anxiety for the poor
farmer and his overwhelming desire to
lessen their taxes grows out of selfish
purposes. He is anxious to succeed DR..
Parry as Senator from Burlington next
fail. The one great fad of the Burling-
ton agriculturist IS economy and lower
salaries. Farmers who by the hardest
kind of toll manage to. scratch a bare
existence from the soil cannot understand
why Judges and Chancellors, who have
nothing to do but sit on a bench all day
ard just listen to lawyers wrangle, should
be paid such big salaries as they receive.
If a bare living is all the farmer, the
salt of the earth in their estimation, get,
that Is all nyone else should get. Thu
it happens that every voter almost in the
county favors this indiscriminate and
wholesale reduction of salaries, n Mr..
Wildes has sized up this situation, and
that is the reason he is making such an
uncomprornising fight. He has come to
be the idol of the economy loving agri-
cllturist, and thinks he is ahead in the
Senatorial fight. Blu he is not without
rivals. Senator Parry is a candidate for
reelection, and Isl ON the same tack. It
was he who SO sstrenuously fought the
resolution -appropriating money to send
troops to Washington to IKE part in the
inaugural parade and succeeded in de-
feating it in the Senate. Had Mr.. Wiides
succeeded in passing the bill in the House
Mr.. Parry expected to spread himself
upon 1t in the Senate.
In addition to these two gentlemen Mr..
Borton, the other member from Burning
ton, quietly sits i'm his seat and keeps his
eye on both gentlemen. He, too, is a
candidate for Senator, and is taking all
rivals make. Mr.. Wldes appears. to be
the foxier of the three, and his chances
are considered the best.
has submitted a substitute for the bill
introduced by, Mr.. Golden1orn, amending
the election law as applied to Newark,
and Hoboken. The bin originally pro-
vided for a blanket ballot and personal
registration Under It no voter could
board Of registry. The blanket ballot
feature has been eliminated entirely by
name can be placed ON the registry sim
ply by affidavit as ait present. Tf1ereNare
certain restrictions, aoweyer, placed
member of the board may ask the fol-
lowing q~uestions.-
Are you a citizen of the United States
and t~wenty-one years of age?
Have you resided in this State one
year, In this county five months and in
this district or precinct thirty days.
Are you entitled to vote in this pre-
cinct at the coming election?
Are you of nsptive or foreign birth?
The person desiring to be registered
have resided in the ward or district
at least thirty days prior to election day.
The county Board of Elections, which
now sits some days before election n
on election day Ito d lanes to the reg
istry, Is not permitted, under the amend
ed bill. to issue any certificate for the
placing of any name upon the registry
to the last day fixed by law
for the registration of voters by district
board, outside Of the cities MENTIONED.
to any person who has moved into another
election district In the same county, to
have his name erased from the registry.
shall contain the name of the city, town
township, ard ward or district where
in said persons resides on election day.
The original registries made and
checked by the district boards at the
general election and delivered by those
officials to the clerks of cities, towns
and townships In which the municipal or
ait least two weeks before the first day
of registration preparatory to such cleo
toms. There shall be one election booth
erected in each polling place for each
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