The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-04
ALL READY FOR TUESDAY
Attorney General Gray Has
Outlined a Plan Of Pr o.
cedure for Watkins.
He WILL Be ELECTED SPEAKER
Senator johnson Still Thinks
He Has a Chance to Be
President Caucus
Tomorrow.
WILL Be ELECTED SPEAKER
Tomorrow.

Especial to s'The Jersey City News.v1
TRENTON, Jan. 4, 1sye.-Acting Cover
nor Watkins and Attorney General Grey
held a consultation yesterday and a plar
Of action was decided upon for thu
Speaker at the opening Of the Legislature
next Tuesday. Mr.. Watkins will be
present in the House at the hour Of open
ing and will be duly elected Speaker. He
will then ascend the rostrum, formally
accept the honor, and call some one else
to act as Speaker pro tenn. The Acting
Governor will return at once to the execu-
tive office and there wait the House and
Senate committees appointed to notify
him of the organization of the two houses,
The House committee will be named by
the Speaker pro tenn. 1t is understood
that George A. Squire, of Union county,
will be Speaker pro tenn. The Acting
Governor will have his committees, as
Speaker of the House, prepared, and they
will be announced by the Speaker pro
tenn.
The Acting Governor. after being noti-
fed by the committees, will at once trans
nit his message to the Legislature. The
message will be brief.
There was a fair sprinkling of states
men at the State House and most of the
talk was in regard to the inauguration.
1t is settled beyond any doubt that there
will be no parade and that the ceremo-
MES will not differ in any material way
from the outline already given. "A close
friend of Governor-elect Voorhees, said
that she Governor himself was not at all
capt.Nls over the inaugural and would
not be aveTse to a civic demonstration.
1t is anticipated that there will be many
large delegations from various counties,
and it may be that a sort of informal pa
to the Governor-elect from the State
House to Taylor Opera House, where the
oath of office will be administered The
Republican Indian League of Newark,
be down about 200 strong. The Carrot
A. Hobart Association of Newark has
also arranged to come down in a body
and have engaged Turner Hall to feed
the delegation. 1t is expected that the
Hobar Association will mi at least
two hundred.
down in a special train, and it is antici-
pated that there will be at least 500 in
the delegation.
Senator johnson of Bergen was among
talk with Clerk in Chancery Lewis A.
Thompson, of Somerset, who is anxious
to see Senator Reed, of Somerset. de-
feated for the presidency of the Senate.
Senator Johnson claims that the presi-
dency is still an open fight, and will not
be decided until the Senatorial caucus,
On thursday night. MT. Reeu Iflc4IdS,
however, claim that the Somerset man
had more than enough votes to secure the
caucus nomination. The caucus will be.
held in the Senate Chamber.
Essex county virtually succeeded in
shaking another plum from the legisla-
tive plum tree yesterday by the announce
r1ent that Noah Morrison, a bookseller
of Newark, is to be journal clerk of the
House.
The berth was apportioned by the House
caucus to Union county, and the candi-
date had been endorsed by the. Union
delegation.