The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-11

Roll and Hutchinson. Messrs. Rogers
Tice and Duncan are not members Of
been promoted to the Senate.
The length of last years session was
eleven weeks and 1t looks as If this ses-
against the wishes Of the Republican
/ leaders.
The House is composed of older mem
bers than one would expect or That has
been the case for many years. The
average age of the sixty Assemblymen is
AZ years. AS already stated, Mr.. Bowers
Of Warren is the Oldest, being 66, Mr..
and then Mr.. Holdrum Of Bergen, who
is nearly 50. The youngest member rs
q ar. n s0ld eamer M Of H Hndson & T hsse Z 9 wbg
is rs: Mr.. Demarest Of Hudson VIII soon
be q, and Messrs. Klink and Evans of
a the tSa eni S0u membs srs a sass IS IS. These
are fourteen between 50 and GO. nineteen
between 40 and 50 and nineteen between
g and 90. In the length Of service MI MT;
being his fifth year in the House. but not
consecutively, as two years of his legis-
ia b4S career date dmes back 1t to M 20 and II M,, TIE
Essex served in Isl and IS, and
a shss mak Tser h,s a teiT s g gear' m altnSugh T ssg
natives Of New Jersey number 81. Of
the others. eight were born in New
cornsct tHar IN one re each in Main tive pela an
ware, Ohio, and Indiana. and there are
only five f~orelgn-born. ireland claiming
e ea. one, n ana G GsFFman ne and nug sfeilao of f fxo
eign-born legislators the smallest in
many years. TIL Irishman is Mr.. King
of Passaic. who was a Fenian in his day.
Union are Germans. and Messrs. Urqu-
hart n Macarthur of Hudson are the
Scotchmen. Mr.. Ebie. of Essex was
born at the home Of P-resident-elect Nc
kinley at Canton, o.
The House will nave twelve lawyers,
ten merchants, seven. contractors, fve
estate and insurance brokers, three plum
bers two harness dealers and one each
dealer baker, dairyman, o~yster-grower.
clothing manufacturer, editor, miller,
yacht builder, hotel keeper, undertaken
and and m ma MI; Derousse of Cam.
accountant. In all probability he will
be leader of the House this year, as his
experience Of two years in legislative
mendation for the comforting of that DIS
t'nction upon him.
The presiding officers of both Houses
VIII be lawyers. Senator Williams, who
IS only thirty-six years old. was admitted
to the bar in 1884. and he is the son of a
lawyer, the late Henry A. Williams, who
s rep Sc ,e1, Pa 7sza county in the Sen
pherson is four years older than Mr..
Williams, and was admitted to the bar
In 1873. He is now City Solicitor of
Trenton. Senator Voorhees,, no doubt,
will be the leader of the Senate, although
he does not banker much after the posi-
ton: He would prefer the substitution
or Senator Johnson. of Bergen.
The Essex and Hudson members had
they think was a successful busi-
ness caucus on Friday night in Newark.
Assemblyman Nelson of Hudson pre-
of the two counties. and it was rather
amusing to hear how the members of
the two counties peddled the votes of the
members of the counties not included in
the State of Hudson and Essex
Hudson county stood tenaciously by
the stand It took two weeks ago, and
cede to. According to the Slate agreed
to at the conference on Friday night Is
sex yielded everything. Hudson is to get
az 6ytv the grace psn,s ct the full caucus Of The
CLERK ELI assistant sergeant-at-arms and
Essex county is to get the clerk of the
keepers and two pages, The clerk is to
be ex-Assemblyman Charles B. Duncan,
but Essex has not settled the three-cor-
son and Benedict. The Hudson men are
not discussing any names in connection
M NTH tnelr offices. It is conceded that J.
Pills, and it is believed that ex-Assem-
blyman Henry Nutzhorn is to be the
journal clerk, but who the assistant SER
ton.
The officers of the House will probably
be as follows
ca Speaker ner George W; MACPHERSON, Mer-
Assistant Clerk. Samuel S. Lyon, Morris;
Journal Clerk, Henry Nutzhorn. Hudson:
Assistant Journal Clerk, G. b. MARITIME
Sussex; Engrossing Clerk, Lysander r
Watson, Monmouth; First Assistant En-
crossing Clerk, Charles H. FIowell. Bur
llngton; Second Assistant Engrossing
Clerk, H. c. Stratton, Middlesex; Ser
geant-at-Arms, Andrew J. Breidenbach.
Essex; First Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms'
+. Dyer, Bergen; Second Assistant Ser
geant-at-Arms, Thomas Graham Ocean.
Blli CLERK, q: Frank Sutherland, Hudson;
Assistant Bill Clerk, Frank b. Pauline
Cumberland.
The above list is subject to change by
the full caucus on Monday night, but
the opinion prevailed last week that
organization of the Senate, that is
definitely fixed, because the Senators met
on Friday night in Trenton in caucus.
the officers.
The wheels of the Legislature will not
be started at full force until the last
week in January, when the committees
sidered and reported.
During this session there are a num-
per OF commissions to report, namely
Inc special commission that is consider
ing the s~riDject of equal taxation, which
commission has filed with the Governor
their first presentation to the Legisla-
ture, a report of over lbs pages. Affixed
to 1t is a bill which will be for the con-
sheraton of the Legislature, and which
PHI VIII inspire innumerable hearings and
discussions.
The railroads will present a supple
mental report, which will contain ali the
facts, figures n arguments made by
their counsel before this Commission.
This VIII be an exceedingly bulky docu-