The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-16
NOT so SIMPLE AFTER ALL.
Voorhees, Inauguration Will
by Attended With Some
Pageantry.
POLITICAL CLUBS WILL PARADE
Legislation Will Be Slow Until
After the Senatorial Elec-
tion-Horde of Office
Seekers.
Especial to ..rhe Jersey city News."l

Especial to .'The Jersey City News."l
TRENTON. Jan. 16, 1Ss9.-Though Gov
ernor-elect Voorhees, has expressed a per-
iona dislike of any pomp and %pageantry,
there will be some considerable show at
his inauguration on Tuesday. There will
pc no parade of military forces, but a
number of Republican organizations in
various parts OF the State have decide
to turn up at all hazards, and the citizens
OF Trenton propose to turn out in force.
superintendent Bonnell, of the State
House, has been busy during the last
three days putting the interior of that
pudding in elaborate garb for the recep-
ton which is to be held there in the after
noon and evening of Tuesday. The i'm
mense chandelier which lights the rotunda
has been equipped with red, white and
blue globes, and the Executive chambers
awe been draped with the national col
ors.
place in the Taylor Opera House at twelve
O'Clock. Only those holding tickets will
be permitted to enter. and enough tickets
have already been issued to fill the house.
will be grouped on the platform with Act
lng Governor Watkins. G%oyernor-eleet
Voorhees, and Chief Justice Magic, who
will administer the oath of office.
Governor Voorhees, will deliver an in
Fugural address of about twenty minutes
length. It Is his purpose to make a
plumber of recommendations to the Legis-
~lature. Acting Governor Watkins, when
he sent the annual message to the Legis-
lature last Tuesday, purposely RETAINED
from making any recommendations. in
view of the fact that he was about TO re-
sume his place in the Speakers chair.
This has left it open for Governor Voor-
hees to make a fuller exposition of his
Views.
The Inauguration now is expected to be
rather ~unlooked-for incident in the pres
ence of ex-governor William A: Newell,
who took the oath OF oftice forty,twwo .
q number of years past has been living
in the State of Washington, is just now
back in New jersey, visiting his old home
town is but ten miles from Trenton, and
forty-two years ago; when DE- Newell
count of the heavy snow storm. he
walked the distance, and, reaching the
State House. took the oath Of office as
the States Chief. Magistrate. DR.. Newen
one of only foar living ex-Governors. The
others are George c. C. Ludlow, now a
Justice of the Supreme Court. George 7.
Werts. now practicing law in Jersey City,
and John w. GriggS, the present Attorney
General of the United States. David O.
for the past two months, will not be privi-
legged to be called an Ex-Governor until
after Tuesday, and even then II vii Pc
opinion in the Clifford case makes it quite
clear that a President of the. Senate or a
Speaker of the House who becomes the
person administering the government of
the State does not thereby become Gov
ernor. but merely exercises the executive
duties.
The Legislature will hardly get down
to work this week. The committees, II
is true, have been appointed, but until
some bills are introduced there is moth
ing for the committees to do. A batch
of bills will undoubtedly be introduced
in both Houses on Monday night, but
.biI9s do not get handled with much ce-
lerity until later in the session. Legislat-
ors do not get down to work in real earn
est until it becomes more or less 1mpera-
tive, and only the prospect of a nearby
adjournment impresseS members and
committees that the time to get on a
hustle has arrived. Unless human nature
changes very much it will always be the
same old story of the great buik OF the
legislative business being transacted dur
ing the last three or four weeks or the
session, even when the session Is a long
one.
The plans of the powers are to make
the present session unusually short, but
it is yet too early to predict whether the
plans will be carried out or not. Next
week the business of law making will be
interrupted again over the election OF a
United States Senator. The two Houses
will meet separately on Tuesday, Janu-
airy q, and vote on the Senatorship ques-
ton. and on the following day they will
meet in joint session and elect John
Kean, who has already been decided up
~on without opposition in the Republican
caucus. The Democratic Senators and
Assemblynlen have not yet held their
caucuses. but there is no doubt that their
complimentary vote will be given ITO
James Smith. the present senior Senator
from New Jersey.
Allan McDermott intends to force his
demand for an investigation into the eiec-
tion in Hudson County last fall. but the
present temper of the Republicans IS not
to investigate the frauds. which. It IS
alleged in certain Republican quarters,
OCCURRED in that county. The Hudson
County Republicans are not charging thatt
there were any frauds. The charges cdHae
from other parts of the State, where the
II. c10 Democratic plurality in Hudson -
looked upon as at least suspicious. as
an undisputed fact that the Hudson coun-
ty Republicans are very mucn dlsorgal.-
lied n split up. Congressman McEwan
at the annual meeting of the County
Committee last week, paid. his respects
in no uncertain tones. He said lnal Inc
Democrats honestly won the plurality
him IN view of the way the Republican
narfy in the county was being run, was
that the Democratic plurality was not
Tbe Hudson County Republicans are
now planning to take the Important mu,
nicipal Boards in Jersey ely out ~ tnn
. bill to put the Police and Fire Depart
Inenfs in control of bipartisan Boards n
Newark a de aIeeiiye Is B eelha 1 of Education u
sI1perseded by an appointive Boarq OF
smaller number of members, VITA pota
parties equally represented. Sucn a law
already exists in Camden, Trenton and a
few other cities.
Ii IS said that Governor-elect, voorhees,
u,ill have 10 ship the letters and petitions
that he has received from office seekers to
the State House in a dry, goods box, uP
to late nearly l,50O p~lace.hunters nase pul
Themselves on record with the Governor
elect, and there are more to follow. Re
publicans all along the line are urging
fhe leaders to insist upon the removal
from office of a large number of Demo
Gratis who nave held them for years that
places may be made.
EST demand are those of State Assessor
and Riparian Commissioner. The former
noekeffuI Of railroad passes; the latter
has vs. a salary OF 81, 500 a year, and there
IS but little work attached to It.