The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
VOORHEES,
AT WORK
Selecting Sites For Bury
ing Bodies Cast Upon
Our Shores.
BOARD OF PlRDONs 70 MEET
In a Quandary Over the Mon
ument For Maine Victims
From Jersey.
Especial to "The Jersey city News.ul

L
TRENTON, July Is, 1899.-Governor
Voorhees, and the committee of the Board
of Pardons appointed to inquire into the
applications for pardons visited the State
Prison yesterday. Besides the Governor,
there were present Judges Adams, Hen
erickson. Bogart, y~redenburgh and Nix
on There are an unusually large number
of applications to be considered this term,
and the committee was kept busy for sew
eral hours examining the cases of prison
ers. There will be a meeting Of the fun
board next Thursday
While at the prison, Governor Voorhees,
took occasion to inquire into the
recent scandals that have been
circulated relative TO the SNUG
CLING in of supplies Of d~elicacies
n other articles to the prisoners. AS a
result of his Investigations the Governor
was satisfied that the stories he had heard
were grossly exaggerated. There was
nothing so far as he could see, he said
afterwards, in the occurrence that seemed
to demand an official investigation.
After the visit to the prison the Cover
was kept busy until a late hour attending
to the duties of his office.
HI Governor is at a loss to know just
what to do with respect to the law passed
by the last Legislature appropriating
s0W lor me erecsiVn = : L
memory u ne 8 1852
perlshea Wheh ehe naine we p'o"n
The law authorized the Governor to APP
point a Commission to procure the erec-
eaoh OF Inc monument .ae
5ust now Wohoefans Mhat hlilu ! -
ment can pc erec'eu ior s9'o a.sei :
pense Of sehuils q colriil1 = =
vana has been deoueeea' HoM sne TO-
ton or the monument = ~ os CHOSEN -
the smart put IN place y I Hta
will be credltapie 70 9he Seate
some = gong % HdFata' tne 0ose
nor is at q loss 70 undeFstaha- ohouiu
some patriotic citizens peslring a TIP ~
Cuba, tender their servces IN ehe MISTER
to the Governor and oIer 20 pay theil
own expenses, II would relleVe Inc cli!et
Executive from the quandary IN Whlch ne
is placed.
The Governor said yesterday that the
4 500 medals authorized by the Legislature
to be purchased, and for which So'Vov was
appropriated, for the Volunteer soldiers
of the State who enlisted for the Spanish
American war, would be delivered ABOUT
August !. They viii be sent TO the com
handing officers Of the regiments, who
will distribute them to the soldiers about
the middle of August. There will be no
public display about the presentation OF
the medals. The Naval Reserves will be
! / -11t.ot1N4- re r,o101d Enc wall &c 4ha
infantry.
The presentation to Rear Admiral
Sampson of the sword voted him by the
last Legislature is not likely to take place
before fall. Governor Voorhees, yesterday
received an answer to a letter he wrote
to Senator Ketcham. who is one of the
committee on the sword. Senator Ketch-
am sadd he had received a communica-
tion from simond & Brothers saying they
a had to send to Germany to have the
blade made. After the blade is received
it will have to be engraved and fitted to
the hilt. so that it will probably be at
least September 1 before it is.
Governor Voorhees, has just returned
from Ocean County. where he has been
with the Commission appointed by the
Legislature in 1898 to procure places in
which to bury unclaimed bodies washed
upon the shores Of the State. The Conn
mission consisted Of the Governor, State
Comptroller William S. Hancock. Clerk
Of the United States District Court George
T. Cranmer, of Ocean County; Matthias
Wooley and Elwyn S. Green, of Mon
mouth County.
While the act was passed in 1898, there
was no appropriation made for the pur-
,,ntil after the session Of tbe last T,ea-s1a-
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