New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-12
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.

Governor Voorhees, started out we'll in sending
to the Senate on Tuesday batch OF nominal
lions including such excellent names as those of
Justice Job H Lippincott. William BEETLE, Major
E. j. Anderson and Ernest Rooster
Justice Lppincott has rendered conspicuous
services on the bench. He is man of courage
well versed in the law. and with strong serse
of the obligation of judge to be fair and Just.
No one of the eminent men who reflect honor
upon the State by their administration of the
higher courts Of New-Jersey is more profoundly
respected than Justice Lippincott.
In William Bette the State has a Commits
sioner of Banking and Insurance who has proved
in every way worthy of the confidence of the
people whose interests he safeguards. 1t is to
his credit that his department. though conducted
at cost which is trivial in comparison with it's
Importance, is of the most efficient in the
State Recently he has arranged to increase the
protection to depositors in State banks by more
frequent examinations of such institutions, and
he has already taken in hand the supervision of
building and loan associations.
Major E. ]. Andersons services as Supervisor
Of the State Prison came so little before the
public that 1t is not generally known how much
he has done by introducing approved business
methods into the management Of that institu-
tion To him quite largely is due the showing,
sage. of a decrease IN the cost OF maintenance
and a considerable increase In the income OF the
State Prison.
In Ernest Rooster the Governor has appointed
a Prosecutor of the Pleas for Bergen County
who will probably do much to reform the adj
ministration of justice in that county and reduce
the cost Of criminal cases to the county. The
fact that he was selected by President Johnson
and Judge Zabriskie with special reference to
his ability to conduct the ONCE of Prosecutor
with greater efficiency and economy is a suf1-
cien: guarantee that the right man has been
chocen.
Ait ough Governor Voorhees, has ignored party
lines in reappointng Justice Lppincott and will
probably give another term to Judge Child on
the Circuit Court bench although he, too, is
Democrat the same reasons do not exist for
the reappointment of Judge Bartne in Somerset
County While he has administered justice sat
isfactorily, it cannot be said of him that he
DOTTED his partisanship when he donned the er-
mine. and either of the Republican candidates
Lewis Schenk and Hugh Gaston-woud make
every bit as good a judge as Mr. Bartine. 1t is
only proper, therefore. that Senator Reeds rec
ommendation of one Of these men should be
favorably acted upon by the Governor.
One of the rural Assemblymen has tucked
away in an inside pocket bill prohibiting in
New-Jersey specializing in margins on cotton,
wheat corn and similar products. A fellow
member to whom he showed this asked why.
he didn't make his bill general''so as to cover
all speculation in margins The only response
to this was that his constituents were injuriously
affected by the gambling in farm produce; but
he did not explain how New-Jersey farmers
could be affected by speculation in cotton.
Whether the proposed bill shall be introduced
not is apparently unsettled. Several persons
who were spoken to said that 1t would be
good thing If the Legislatures Of New-Jersey
and New-York would agree upon and pass a
uniform law putting speculation on margins on
the same basis as ordinary gambling