The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-19
DULLEST ON RECORD
Legislative Monday Night
Without Excitement
of Any Sort.
FRANK HIGGINS LANDS A JOB
Davis and Dickinson Confer But
Nothing Drops-Klink's Equal
Taxation" Bill Put In.
Special to the Jersey CITY Nesss.

TRENTON. Jan. 10. 1S97.-The memory
OF the Oldest lobbyist and habitue OF the
State House cannot recall a duller or
less interesting Monday nights session
of the Legislature than was last nights.
This to a large extent was due perhaps
to the small lobby. Although the gal-
leries in both Houses were apparently as
crowded as ever the floors and iobbies
wer comparatively deserted. There was
mons of that surging, pushing mob which
on every Monday night crowds the
aisles, sits on the members desks, runs
over on the floor and raises such a
hubbub and confusion that the Speaker
Is compelled to suspend the proceedings
n threaten to order the S~ergeant-at-
Arms to clear the floor. There was room
enough for every one present, and strug-
CLING and elbowing for a place of van
tage to see the floor was unnecessary.
Hudson was fairly represented in the
small throng. Robert Davis n Sheriff
Heller were among the Hudson men and
attracted much attention among the
members from the rural districts who
paid more attention to the two men than
they did to the Speaker and the pro-
ceedings. None the less conspicuous was
the great Colonel Sam" Dickinson, and
when he and Mr.. Davis held a short con-
fab together the rural members held
Their preath in dread apprehension as
they waited to see something drop.
Mitchell sat together and talked over
matters with the Hudson member while
Alex. Dusenberry and lesser Republican
statesmen % leaned their chairs against
the wall and kicked holes into space.
Frank Higgins was here, there and all
over hsaming like a child with a new
made known. The price which the Hud-
son member were paid for sacrificing
their Independence and f1ocking like poor
silly little lambs when the bosses snapped
their wits, was paid in full, and Frank
was made clerk to the clerk.
Whether the fact that there was a new
was to take place there between a rig
ger gent from Rordentown and a white
gent from Philadelphia. had anything to
were rushed through in lively style, and
at five minutes of nine the Legislature
had adjourned. The opening bout at the
After the opening formalities of the
evening had been oberved the Speaker
a%nnounced that he had appointed. Frank
Claude j. Fell his Assistant Private Sec
rotary. Both gentlemen are from Mer-
Ger.
Board Of Trade was read, requesting the
bankruptcy law. The resolution of the
Jersey City Commissioners of Appeals re-
q~uesting the Legislature to pass the
Equal Taxation bill. was presented by Mr..
Nelson and referred to the Committee on
Railroads and Canals. The Pennsylvania
Fish Protective Association wants a bin
passed to do away with fish pounds along
the coast In the petition which. the
association presented It declared that
and keeping them from the rivers and
esluarles, OF the Jersey coast.
There Is an old man down in Camden
who is e.ghty-two years old, and who
for many years past has made two hand
some gavels which he has presented at
each session to- the presiding officer of
the Senate and House. He turned up as
usual and Nj. ScoveI of Camden present.
ca one to the Speaker. and Senator
Johnson of the same county gave the
other to President Williams, both max
ing appropriate speeches.
Mr.. Watkins of Gloucester appeared in
the role of a hurnorist, and presented to
Mr.. scovel, in whose family an Import
ant event has just taken place. a nursing
bottle filed with milk. The Speaker de-.
clared him out of order. and after Mr..
Seovel had replied, the House adjourned.