The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-16
ENDORSED MAYOR HOOS
Merchants Protective AS
ISOLATION Pleased at the
Weight Inspection
Veto.
TYING UP RAPID TRANSIT
Resolutions of Praise for the
Grove Street Blunder---
! Grocer VS.. Baker.
TYING UP RAPID TRANSIT

The Merchants Protective Association
of Hudson County held a lively meeting
at the Avenue House last night Mr. J.
w. Beach, of the special committee APP
pointed by the association to wait upon
| Mayor Hoos and endeavor to persuade
him to veto the new ordinance prescribing
the duties of the Inspector of Scales,
Weights and Measures, reported that at
least thirty merchants were present at
the conference. He praised Mayor Hoos
for his courteous treatment of the dele
cation, and said there was no Dub that
the conference had much to do with the
Mayor veto of the ordinance. Mr.. Beach
said that a new ordinance was being pre-
pared. It was a modification of the or
dinance passed and vetoed, and 1t em-
powered the Inspector to charge a fee for
only one visit, no matter how many times
he inspected the scales and measures of
merchants during the year.
James Newton, secretary of the asocia-
ton, said that he had received no official
notification that the new ordinance had
been vetoed by the Mayor. but said he
understood that it had been vetoed. He
thought the Board of Aldermen would try
another tack at tonight's meeting and he
suggested that the merchants should be
on the alert
On motion of James E. Banks the com
mittee was retained in power. and the
various organizations that had assisted
the Merchants Protective Associations
committee were thanked.
President Cough said that many of the
members were still of the opinion that
merchants should not be taxed one cent
to have their weights and measures in
spected. He expressed the opinion that
the association should keep its eye on the
Board of Aldermen.
Mr.. Beach referred to the fact that In
spector Rohde had declared tina after a
careful anvas he had found some de-
fective scales. Mr.. Beach said he could
not see why this great discovery of the
Inspector should cause all merchants to
be heavily taxed. He was of the opinion
that the measure was a political one.
The association then turned its atten-
ton to the matter of railway franchises
granted by the city. Mr.. j. S~chellenber-
ger said that Mayor Hoos should be COM
mended for his course in relation to the
Grove street trolley franchise. He said
that Jersey City should be emaneipated
from the thraldom it is at present suffer-
Ing under. He declared that it was the
heaviest taxed city in the United States.
IIe compared it with Newark, Philadel-
phia, Brooklyn and other cities which
were reaping a harvest of revenues from
franchises granted to street railway corr
porations. Mr.. S-chellenberger said he
had heard hat the Mayor was being
pounded from influential political sources
because he refused TO sign the Grove
street trolley ordinance. He moved that
a vote of thanks be extended to the
Mayor, and at his suggestion the Board
of Trustees was instructed to draft a set
of resolutions commencing the Mayor for
his stand in the matter.
Counselor Anderson said that one rail-
road concern alone paid Newark $4,000,
and that that city reaps an annual rev.
enue OF over 500, 900 by its fees from street
railroads.
Some desultory discussion took place
concerning the war tax on flour. Mr..
James E.. Banks alluded to the price Of
bread and declared it should be sold by
weigEt-so much weight for so much
money. Tt was not right. he said. that
a baker should sell heavier bread than a
grocer. This Won eventually work
harm to the grocer. Mr.. Banks said that
the law should fix the weight of bread.