New-York tribune., 1901-01-16
NEFJERSEY POLITICAL NOTES

The fact that New-Jersey stands in need OF better
tax laws Is as freely admitted is the fact that
the present laws would meet nearly all necessary
requirements II they We're fully enforced The
complaint against the tax laws Is as common as
art and as constant. They have been mended
again and again by intelligent Legislatures but
the moss covered complaint remains But ~ the
demand for the enforcement of these laws was
the statutes themselves the issue Of equal taxa
more reason for discussng or H pe nt5Ie re
agtatlng or discussing the problem that de sun
The scheme to annex part of Hudson County 10
Essex County. which for some weeks has been a
matter of heated discussion. probably is as dead
rs the plan to annex all OF Hudson County to
Jersey City A bill introduced In the Legislature
by Senator Stokes would seem effectively to put
an end TO the Essex annexation scheme and the
discussion, inasmuch the act provides for re-
tlon so that Hudson County will be entitled to
late that some OF the Senator'S did not favor the
dismemberment Of Hudson County. and that
County Republican Committee. had walked around
out venturinS TO pick 1t up.
1t probably viii DE hoped by those Jerseyren
who believe in getting their moneys worth that
the cost of investigating the conduct of the State
Hospital for the Insane Morris Plains under
the resolution proposed by Assemblyman Marks.
will not be in the same ratio the of build
Ing that @ institution AS IT,, one time Governor of
genius Of it's architects and builders in the matter
men have been heard in their haste. to speak of
the building gold brick" But, doubtless,
they were prejudiced.
1t will be indication of heart disease If
the people of several other parts OF New-Jersey
pause for breath when they read the following
from ''The Sunday CALI of Newark: LAS soon as
the apportionment becomes law, the State
Legislature will have the task of dividing the dis
trcts Under the Burleigh bill passed.
gerrymandering is forbidden. The two MEM
County will be entitled to three Representa-
tiVeS. Independent of other counties The average
Would be 1855, ana Essex with SO 05s. would
have an overpus of 1000 with three Representa-
tives. Here is a task for the Essex Assemblymen
and Senator to perform to secure the county its
full dues
1t would be easy task to write two three
columns of speculative forecasts upon the subject
of the probable next Republican candidate for Gov
of New-Jersey. The number of ''combina-
tions, called, that politician of ordinary
ingenuity could weave out of the material so
to speak of possibilities. probabilities and portable
politics would make dizzy the head of the individ-
ual who should attempt to unravel the web Such
specuations would be more interesting than in
structive. Many of them necessarily would be as
saHacoas and iHass&e o the titles to the
shifting sands of South Jersey the reform move
ments In politics in some parts OF North Jersey.
But has been said. these stories of coming
political events casting shadows would be read
with avidity and swallowed perpetualIy. Neverthe-
politics of New-Jersey which is neither specuative
theoretical and that is the fact that the recent
publican Committee was intended, in no small
measure, to have cohesive and practical influence
State The selection of a committee chairman in
there is not a Republican of intelligence or pron1
inence in New-Jersey who is not considering with