The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-11

members of the committee are of the
| opinion that it would be profitable to the
State to demolish that part of the refor-
| matory already constructed and rebuild 1t
\ on a less expensive plan. So far they hold
the work has been for effect rather than
for use, and it is better to stop now than
| to proceed further on the same line. rms
may be one of the recommendations OF
| the committee, which will, 1t is expected,
embody many radical changes in existing
customs. There is also much talk OF shaw
ing departmental appropriations.
Among other important changes which
the committee will recommend and for
which it has made provision in the APP
| preparation bill is one to dispense with the
| custom of allowing mileage to Judges OF
| the Court of Errors and Appeals. The
| has found that the allowance
| for mileage has in some instances ex-
| ceeded the per diem compensation of the
| Judges. The members are of the opinion
| that the Judges are or ought to be sup
/ piled with passes over the railroads, and
| they found also that one of the Judges
| living but a short distance from the State
| House had a charge for mileage the same
| as his colleagues, but not quite as large
11dl, llty oodiliC - tAS ANo
! system. and to remedy it, SO that all the
Judges may have IN equal rate of COM
pensation, they propose to increase the
per diem allowance and abolish the mile
age allowance system.
Another change the committee will prob
ably recommend is the abolition of the
engrossing departments in both Houses.
1t entails at present a cost of s., 800 in the
Senate and 81. 800 in the House, or a tctal
of $4,000. In lieu thereof it is proposed
to employ a typewriter and -stenographer
for each House, together with some per-
son, preferably a young lawyer, whose
duty it will be to examine and make a
logical synopsis of each bill introduced.
The cost of this system will not exceed
81, 500 for each House, and hat will mean
a saving of 81, 800 a year. By this method
it is expected the object of bills will be
more clearly stated than at present.
Assemblyman Yard yesterday presented
a measure to have Henry Young of Mer-
Ger county restored to citizenship. Young,
on April "a, 1879, was sentenced to sixty
days in the county jail for s%natching a
pocketbook. Since serving that sentence
Young has been leading a respectable life,
and Mr.. Yard thinks that he should be
restored to citizenship now, as nineteen
years have elapsed. 7Young resides in
Washington township and is a laborer.
The Senate Committee on Railroads and
Canals reported the bill providing for the
reorganization of the Erie Railroad. This
bill was being held up pending the pass
age of the grade crossing measure, which
had been introduced and urged by Sena-
tor William M. Johnson of Bergen coun-
ty. The grade crossing measure was yes
terday passed by the House and is now
ready for the Governors signature.
The Governor yesterday appointed as
commissioners to confer with similar
commissioner from Delaware:-George D..
Shannon, Penns Grove; b.. w. Andrews,
woodbury., and J. f. Sinnickson, Salem.
The object of the special commissions is
to settle the differences between the
fishermen of New Jersey and Delaware.
Governor Voorhees, yesterday signed
four, bill, two Senate and two House
measures. They were.-
Senate 113, authorizing towns to issue
bonds to raise money to pay certain bonds
and improvement certificates and interest
thereon.
Senate 90 incorporates the borough of
bTdUCIlflllG III 0uSScA COullty
House 126 provides that in cities with
out police boards disobedient officers may
be disciplined by "a committee or board
established by ordinance.
House las, amends the practice act.
There was a lively hearing yesterday af-
ternoon before the House Committee on
Railroads and Canals on Mr.. Dawson's
bill giving the Consolidated Traction
Company the right to connect the town
of Verona with the city of Newark. The
objection to the bill came from Montclair,
where the residents object very much to
having a trolley put through the city. In
order to make the proposed connection
it would be necessary to run the line
through Montclair.
A big delegation of people from Mont
clair, Caldwell and Verona, including sew
eral ladies, were on hand to oppose or
speak for the measure. Among those who
spoke in opposition were Town Counsel
Alfred L. Badgeley of Montclair, Charles
H. Johnson of Montclair, s.. J. Murphy
of the same city, while among those who
advocated the measure were limo
Condit, Robert ]. White and Rev. James
A. Hensey.
Mr.. g. Frank Sutherland has again
come into prominence and by a shrewd
stroke of business.
People often wonder where the small
salary of $500 pays a man for all the
trouble he takes to secure the hard posi-
ton of. bill clerk. They are not aware,
perhaps, that the Office is worth twice
that sum in perquisites. These perks
as the boys cali them, consist of fees for
furnishing copies of the bills introduced
to corporation lawyers and others. Ow-
ing to the fact that there is such a large
number of corporations in other States
Incorporated under the avs of New Jer-
sey the list of those requiring bills~is
very large. These corporations and 9TH
ers wanting the bills pay for them all the
way from 500 to s25 a session, and it can
readily be seen how the position of bill
clerk is one of the best in the gift of the
Legislature. This has always been con-
sidered an exclusive field for the bill clerk
and no one has ever venture to intrude
upon it. Sutherland was bill clerk last
year, and this year when he was not maze
bill clerk, he went to the various parties
who had been buying bills from him in
previous years and made contracts to fur
nish them with bills again this year. Then
he made an agreement with the bill clerk
of the House, Who comes from down in