The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-01-08
being only 50. Mr.. Cornish may be con-

/ sidered as serving his second term because
he was a Senator few years age.
The oldest Senator is Mr.. Stanger, Of
| Gloucester. who is 64-in fact, he is the
oldest member of the Legislature. Those
| Senators over so are Messrs. w. M
johnson, Foster, Van Cleef, Miller, Mar
tin and Cross. and those under 40 are
Messrs. McCarter and Stokes. Mr.. Pitney
is Al and Mr.. McDermott 45. The average
age of the Senators is Az years.
| The Father of the House is John King
| of Passaic, who is in his seventh year OF
| service Next to him comes Timothy ]
Carroll, of Hudson who is beginning his
4 sixth year as an Assemblyman. The third
| year members are Messrs. Smith of Sus-
sex, Wright, Horner, Bradley, Benny
Murphy and Welsh. Those serving their
second terms number twenty-three, while
| there are twenty-seven first termers. Mr..
| White, of Warren, is the Oldest Assembly
man. being 62, and Mr.. Groves, of Middle
sex, is the youngest, being only %. Thir-
| teen members are over so, while seven are
under 80. The youngsters are Messrs
Groves, Stalter, Steelman. Marks Brock,
Fallon and Walscheid. The average age
is Al years.
With three exceptions all the Assem-
! blymen We're born in this country. Mr..
! King is the only native Irishman, Mr..
1 Weseman the only German and Mr.. Rees
the only Englishman. Twelve are natives
! of New York, five of Pennsylvania and
one of Maryland. There are thirty-eight
native Jerseymen, divided among the
! counties as follows:-Essex, seven; Hud-
son, six; Passaic, three; Somerset, Mid
dlesex, Burlington Ocean, Sussex, Cam
| den and Cape May, two each, and Hunt
| erdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Cum
berland, Warren, Atlantic and Glouces-
| ter, one each.
and able debaters, such as Messrs.
Stokes, Pitney, Cross, McDermott w M.
! Johnson, A. McCarter, Reed and Martin.
| Mr.. McDermott must hold up the Demo-
cratic cause all >by himself, with what
! little help he will receive from Mr.. Mar
/ tin because the other Senators on his
In that connection the Republicans have
| a superfluity of talent. MessrS- Benny,
! Albeit, Murphy, Marks and Walscheld
| will represent the Democratic debating
| talent in the House. 1t cannot be said
| that the Republicans in that branch are
well fortified in that respect, because
| there is not one among them VINO mas
sufficient ability to contend successfully
| with Mr. Benny Unless Messrs. Bachel-
! Ter and Campbell of Essex, shine forth
as new stars in debate, the majority
Wood and Lewis to depend upon. But as
votes count more than debating talent,
and with Speaker of their own in the
| chair, the Republicans need not worry
over the outcome of any contest which
may be precipitated by the minority Lead
ers.
cuses out Of the way there VIII n NOT th3e pc
city tonight except the reception tnat
United States Senators Sewell and kean
will hold for couple OF hours IN room
100 of the Trenton House.
Already many of the politicians nave
announced their intention of not coming
upon the scene until tomorrow.
The Republican leaders have declared
that the session will be short and busi-
ness-like, and that there will be no par
! tisan legislation, but this promise is not
likely to hold good because OF the char-
acter of the legislation that will be con-
sidered. The most important bill that Will
come up is to change the ELECTION laws OF
the State. 1T is a scheme conceived by the
Republicans of Hudson County for the
purpose of patching up the broken for
tunes of the party in that county. The
principal feature of the proposed Dill IS
|. time, the municipal, State and National
elections to be held in November. 1t is
argued that the large percentage OF
citizens who commute to New York and
Philadelphia cannot be made to interest
themselves in the spring elections. and
the Democrats, they claim, get their
strength because of the lack of interes.
of the committing Republicans. The No
vember election day is a legal holiday,
and many are at home and attend to their
duties as citizens.
The railroad corporations will be placed
on the defensive. The representatives
from the more populous counties, like
Hudson, Essex, Passaic and Union, will
stand close together, notwithstanding
| franchise tax from a corporation getting
| public privileges. The passage of the bill
| means an increase of taxes of all the
| corporations of the State. The united
energy of the corporations, both railroad,
| electric light gas and telephone COM
panies, will be employed to oppose it.
The Democrats will endeayor to get the
miscellaneous corporation laws amended
SO as to remove the Objectionable features
| of protecting the names of the stockhold-
ers and the dummy incorporators, as fur
niShed by the corporations whose business
| it is TO incorporate.
4 A fight is expected on the new school
| bill, which has been prepared by special
commission appointed by. the Governor to
| codify all the existing school laws and to
secure such reforms as are needed to per-
/ feet the school system. The principal
| difference of opinion is over the method
of creating school commissioners and trus-
! tees
The pollution of the rivers of the State,
a problem too gigantic for other Legis-
| latures to grapple with, will be considered.
Governor Voorhees, message will be
short, and contain about 5000 words. His
| principal discussion will be on franchise
| taxation, and he will present scheme
| which he thinks will be both beneficial to
| the municipalities and to the State.
| The special committee named by the last
Legislature to revise the rules of the Sem
ate and House have not found the task
| an easy one. The principal snag occurred
| in their attempts to make some reguia-
4 -tions concerning the printing of bills, in
| connection with the new system of having
! all bills come directly under one man
| When the law creating the office of su-
| pervisor of bills was enacted, it was given
| out that the assistant to be named in each
| house would be a Stenographer and type
| writer, who would make copies of the bills
| for the printers. But with the approach
of the time for making the appointments,
it was found that there were so many Re-
publicans out of Office that the naming OF
| stenOgraphers was out of the question.
| The committee are. therefore, puzzled as
to how to furnish a copy of each bill to
| the printer and retain copy for compari-
SON unless a rule is made requiring all
i bills to be introduced in duplicate. 1t is
probable that such<a rule will be made.
1 All bills after they are printed will, if any
amendments are offered be reprinted be-
i fore final passage. Two copies of each
bill. as it finally passes the Legislature,
are to be printed ON bond paper. one to be
i the official copy that goes to the Cover
| nor, and the other to be retained by the
bill supervisor