The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-23
MAD EXGRAYAGANCE
Last Sessions Appropri-
ations Supplemented by
a Big Deficiency Bill.
HEAPING UP THE BURDENS
Enormous Demands on the State
Treasury in the New Bill
Pap for the Faithful.

IL was given out that Saturday noon had
been fixed upon as the time for winding
up the l21st Legislature. If this an
nouncement was a sounder it was sue
%cessfui. and called forth expressions from
all sides. Hudson's expression took the
shape of a caucus held in an upper cham
Der of a popular restaurant at which
Colonel Samuel Dickinson n Mr.. Ed
ward w. Woolley we've present. They
resolved to stand out as a unit against
adjournment his week. 1t also re-
solved 10 support the bill providing a
Board of Finance for Hoboken. Each
member after considerable discussion was
lett to follow his own ~nelinations IN the
matter of the Jersey City auditors bill.
The measure once passed the House, but
1t is expected to be amended IN the SEN
ate and come back to the House.
Other members opposed Saturday adj
jeurnment, while many favored it. The
matter is in a very uncertain situation,
M the chances of another week of the
session are even. Everything possible is
being done to hurry things along. The
House sat until midnight rushing bills
through, and the joint appropriation COM
mittee began at ten o'clock in the morn
ing and gave hearings on the appropria-
ten bill.
DR.. Henry Mitchell, Secretary of the
state Board of Health, appeared before
the committee and asked thai the appro-
priation for that Board be increased $780,
600 Last year the appropriation was
but $1,000. The additional $4,000, DR..
Mitchell explained, was wanted for the
following purposesas4,0 900 for two in
speetors whose business it will be to go
| q r01ypA7 n l~1,1 l1z-l- - - \
give advice, etc. The inspectors are to
receive $500 a piece and $500 a piece for
travelling expenses. The Board wanted
5000 for legal expenses and 5000 for the
proposed meteorological laboratory. OF
this latter sum 5000 was to pay the sal
airy of a bacteriologist and 81, 900 for fit
ting up the ~labratory.
Prof. Bracket of Princeton University,
supplemented the remarks of DR.. Mitchell.
The work of the State Board of Health,
he said, is recognized by the people gem
orally and ought to be carried on eff
GENTLY. If it is made the duty of the
Board of Health to make Investigations
then the means must be Forthcoming.
Local boards OF health as scattered
abroad are in a very unsatisfactory con-
dition. He concluded by saying that no
sum could be expended more judiciously
for the benefit of the commonwealth than
the one asked for by the State Board of
Health.
N. S. Rue, President of the Board Of
Trustees of the Reform School for Boys
at Jarnesburg, was presented to the com
mittee. He explained that he had been
a member of the Board of Trustees for
t~welsty-three years, and this was the first
/ time he had ever anpea rod hefore the An
nranriation rommittoe ~ +ba 7 aa;ss.4,,rs
IA ths, ,rasen+ad ~ $500 60
tendent of the Jamesburg School.
Mr O+terson. avnladned +bo+ 4ba sohooa
- aoys1s s.sAs 49,
For fifteen years, he said, the school had
| been asking for am ~annronr.atton to erect
asa.as -" 800
an appropriation of $1,000 was made for
| the n,,rnoso IF arac+;nr a obsnaa b,,+ -
snn,iaa4ioa a. ! -
money was NOT on hand. In 1895 the APP
| nrnor,a 4a,n was renaalad with o+bor mn.
[, 10y =
priation was first asked, there were 2G6
| hove in tho cnbaol u,baraas - rrosa,+
49, = ooz
mere are SsE me room now being used
for chapel purposes, Mr.. Otterson said,
is greatly needed for Office and dining
room purposes All the records of the
! school since its foundation are now kept
in shelves, and 1t was very desirable 10
have a vault for their safe keeping. The
total amount appropriated for improve
date has been but S61, 600. He asked that
$15,e00 be appropriated this year for the
purpose. OF erecting the chapel.
member of the Board Of trustees. said the
assembly room was a question of abso-
lutte need
Skirm. Superintendent Otterson exnLained