The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-16
ARMBRUS7ER'S ABSENCE
By Keeping Out Of His Seat,
He Postpones the Demise
Of His Race Track
Bill.
spsctal to the ycrscu c.tp Nssrs.

TRENTON, March 16, 1Ss7.-The session
of the House last evening was unusually
short, although a considerable amount
Of business was done. One of the largest
crowds of the winter crowded into both
Chambers. The expectation that there
over the Eaual Taxation measures,
which have nGteyet been acted upon by
the HousescdEeWLA large number of Jer-
sey City people to the Assembly Cham
William d. Edwards, Ed1ow w. Harri-
son, JosephrA A. Dear, John Nevfn, David
DAILY, School Superintendent Snyder. Ed
ward w. Woolley, Frank Matthews,
Cashier Ross of the Third National
Bank, Joh w. Queen, Martin FfnclA,
Accommodations Reuben Simpson, Jas.
became apparent that the Equal Taxa
ton measures would not come up and
the crowd then went over to the Senate
to hear the debate on Jersey City and
Newark election extender.
The first ripple of excitement was caus-
ed over the race track bill. Instead of
the adverse report of the committee to
which the bill was committed, which
was to put the measure to sleep forever,
Mr. Armbruster, who introduced the
bill, presented a petition praying for its
passage, signed by 4,500 citizens. Mr..
Armbruster said that others would follow,
favor of the bill.
The committee had made up its mind
by. a vote Of four to one to report the
bruster heard of this, and kept out of
his seat so that the committee could not
give him the notice of their intention
required by the rules: The committee
to appear, but it waited in vain until the
calendar was cleared and there was
nothing to keep the House together.
When the Assembly had adjourned the
member from Gutenberg appeared in his
seat smiling, but the mischief a been
done, and the bill was given a new lease
of life. The bill closing the polls at 5 P.
WyckIe of Monmouth, who Introduced
the measure, briefly explained its pro-
visions. His principal argument was that
the law had worked well in.New York
1t would tend, he said,s to lessen the
abuses which have sprung up in some
sections Of the State under the darkness
Of the late hours at which the polls were
sition to the measure, and it passed by
a vote of Al tqaM. The bill authorizing
local Boarasoef Health to adopt and al
ter ordinances prohibiting the sale of
milk contaminated with any unhealthy
ingredients was passed by the House.
So did the bill requiring fire. insurance
companies to appoint three appraisers,
within ten days after "a fire, on the writ
ten request Of the person sustaining the
loss or the persons insured may do so
shimsfelf. Mr.. Hopkins measure author
A1AAA IL OfCAAAo " 0RRtilk Two PER
sons to erect a monument at Anderson
vile in honor of the New Jersey soldiers
who died there, after a 1owerys and po-
etc speech by Mr.. Hopkins. The meas-
ure giving Hoboken's Board Of Educa-
ton the exclusive power to- purchase
n to erect schoolhouses wentsthrough
after some opposition and debate. The
bills to make Asbury Park city also
got through, as did the bill ~authorizing
colleges n schools to appoint special
policemen.
The Senate passed the bill fixing a fine
of 800 for any person making a false
return of axes. The Heuse bill, which
extends to Jersey City the provisions of
Newark's law for the appointment of
deputy collectors for the collection OF
arrearages of taxes, and the measures
which authorizes Hudson County to APP
point an Italian interpreter at d salary
of $120 per annum also passed.
h Senate went into executive session,
but failed to confirm any of the remain
ing nominations. Mr.. VOORHEES, and the
other friends of Mr.. Stokes are still
smarting under the wound inflicted by
the Governor when he turned down Mr..
Stokes to make room for William s. Bet
tie. The Governor Gent to the Senate the
names of Albert Clark Martin as Judge
of the Common Pleas Of Ocean county
and Theodore J. r. Brown as Prosecutor
of the Pleas of the same county.