The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-01

IS IT A PARTY FLAG?
Republicans Will Have None
Desecrate the Stars
and Stripes But
Themselves.
GLEDHILL'S FACTION FIGHT
C~arroll's Patriotic Bill Held Up
Jersey City Bills to Be
Boosted Along.
Especial to ..The Jersey City News."1

Especial to The Jersey lily ASS"S.
TRENTON. March !, lSss.-ihe usuai
monotony of this humdrum Legislature
was somewhat relieved this morning by
a lively spat over the American nag. MT
Gledhill moved to reconsider the vote by
which Mr.. CarrolIs bill, which forplos
the dissertation of the American flag by
placing advertisements or other marks
upon it. had passed to a third reading.
Mr.. Carroll objected ~strenuously to the
motion. He said that the gentleman
wanted t oamend the bill and he had had
ample opportunity to amend it when it
was in COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Gledhill frankly acknowledged that
he wanted to amend the bill SO that It's
provisions would not apply to the use
of the flag for campaign purposes.
This brought Mr.. Allen to his feet with
a burst of eloquence in which he dwelt
on the s-acredness of the American flag.
1t should not be used, he said, by a po-
litical party and he asked if the members
wanted to see the names of candidates
tackled on to the American flag or wanted
to keep that emblem sacred. He wound
up in an appeal to the Democratic MIN
ority to vote against the motion.
The gentleman's appeal, Mr.. Gledhill
said, was in strict keeping with the con-
duct of his party during the last cam
paign.
The opposition to the motion was not
helped along much by a speech which
was next made by Mr.. Benny. He told
the story of Sergeant Jasper at old Fort
Moultrie during the rebellion, and asked
what would nave been Jasper's feelings
if. when he jumped over the ramparts, IN
the storm of shot and shell, and snatched
NE the flag which had been shot away,
he had seen the picture of Mark Hanna
in his dollar-marked clothes on the pan
ner He denounced the idea of any po-
litical party using the flag as a party EN-
blem. and told how he went to Ran
way during the last campaign TO
sneak. He intended to decry the
custom of the Republican party had OF
tacking the names of its candidates on the
flag. The first thing he saw when he en-
tered the room was the American nag
with the names of the Democratic camel
dates on it, and he said nothing aDout
the abuse of the flag. The Republican
flag was not adopted by the Repupncah
party. 1t was adopted by the Demoeratic
nartv before the grand mother OF the re
publican party was born.
Mr.. Porter,of Essex, tried to be funny
and then Mr.. Gledhill's motion was car
ried by a strict party vote. Then Mr..
Giedhill moved to recommit the bill. Mr..
Carroll hoped the motion would not pass.
He said that the Republicans had no
opposition to the bill until some or the
Republican papers in the State raised
the cry that it was for the purpose OF
preventing their party from using the
flag in campaigns. He denied that such
was the case and said that If the Dill
went back to the committee it would pc
killed. He read an article from the Jer-
sey City Journal to show that the
death of the measure was the object of
the motion to recommit. .
Mr.. Gledhilrs motion prevailed by a
strict party vote just the same.
The House passed the bill, which en-
powers Jersey City to compel contractors
to give surety company bonds.
The Senate passed the bill allowing the
Judges of Hudson and Essex to hold
Courts of Oyer and Terminer. The trad
ing stamp bill and the Police Pension bill
were recommitted-
There are a large number OF Grand
Army men here this morning to look af-
ter the bill, which enables the Soldiers
Monument Committee to spend the money
raised for the monument. 1t appears That
such an act is necessary before the WORK
can go on. P. H. O'Neill is most bitter
in his opposition, as the defeat OF the
bill will stop the work on the design.
which he and a number of Hudson veter-
ans so bitterly denounce. DR.. Gordon,
General Ramsey, Colonel Toffey. David
Lawrence and Colonel Charles Stahl OF
Trenton are among those who favor the
measure.
There was a hearing yesterday before
the Senate Judiciary Committee on the
proposed codifcation and sfmpliication of
the criminal code. Senator DAILY objected
to the provision of the law which allows
g prisoner to waive going before a Grand
Jury and be tried in the Quarter Ses-
sions.
Messrs. Brautigam and Simpson, of the
Jersey City Board of Finance, were in the
State House this morning looking after
the bill of Senator Johnson, which pro-
vides that the extra railroad tax money
which the city is to receive should be paid
this year instead of waiting until next,
as the Republican law officials have con-
strued the effect of the bill to be. The
bill is now in the Senate and the Jersey
City men are anxious to have it passed