The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-22

motion again, this time calling for the
'ayes' and noes" The clerk called the
roll and during the vote there was much
confusion. Some of the Essex members
started out to labor with those who had
voted aye" while representatives of
both sides crowded about the clerks n
watch the roll call Senator Tom Nc
Carter came over from the Senate and it
was noticed that he devoted himself en-
tirely to the Hudson delegation. The
ayes" were in the majority, evidently,
but before the result was announced Mr..
Bacheller, the Essex leader, called for
absentees.
The missionary work had its effect and
Hudson members began to change from
aye to no" Every time vote was
changed those about the clerk repeated
it, so that there was SO much confusion
about the clerk that the Speaker ordered
the sergeant-at-arms to send the members
to their seats. This was done and the
clerk finally declared the motion to ad-
Journ lost. Mr.. Stalter of Passaic ques-
toned the accuracy of the vote, and the
Speaker directed the clerk to call the
roll again. By this time the work which
Tom McCarter and the Essex men had
been doing bore excellent fruit and the
second roll call showed large majority
with the Essex men.
Mr. Lewis held conference with some
of his friends and concluded to give up
the fight. His next motion was to ad-
Journ until eight o'clock, which was car
ried. The Hudson men voted with the
Essex men, and it was said that Thomas
McCarter had promised them that if they
voted with Essex on the bill he would
help them get their bills through the
Senate" Old timers said the Hudson men
had bought gold brick, as Tom might
help their bills in the Senate without do
ing them much good.
The members somewhat resented the
manner in which the Essex men had
driven them into the night session and it
was five minutes before nine o clock when
the session began. Soon afterward Mr..
Bachelor moved to suspend the rule and
place it on second reading, the bill au-
thorizing the publication in the Trenton
paper.
Mr.. Lewis vigorously opposed the mo-
ton in one of the most forcible and eff
fective speeches of the session. He spoke
vigorously against the Governors inter-
ference in the matter and cited the clause
of the constitution which the Governors
message said had been violated This
provided that notice of the introduction
of bills of this kind must be published in
newspapers in every county likely to be
affected by the bill Here was a measure
which affected Passac, Hudson, Bergen
and Essex counties, and it was proposed
to advertise it in county which
was in no way affected by the measure
simply to correct an error made by the
Essex Senator. AS originally introduced
the bill affected the counties of Essex
Hudson, Bergen and Passaic, Bergen be-
ing subsequently stricken out Yet the
bill under consideration proposed to pub
lfsh the notice not in any of these coun-
ties, but in Mercer, which Mr.. Lewis
claimed was plain violation of the con-
stitution
Mr.. Racheller made a feeble effort to
reply to Mr.. Lewis's forcibIe argument
He said the Ds-. had been exploited in all
the newspapers of the State and there
was hearing on it which was largely
attended and at which the bill was so
thoroughly ventilated that there were
very few parts of the State where its
provisions was not well known All the
bill did was to conform to the law
The safest way in the matter, Mr..
Wright of Burlington, said, was to vote
the motion down. House bills had been
held up in the Senate for weeks and
although he would not advocate a policy
of retaliation he would vote against the
motion.
Mr.. Boyd of Newark, made a specious
r,Ia fo,. fl hill II
not be defeated on a technicality. He
then launched into a harangue on the
merits of the sewerage district bill and
the general subject of Passaic pollution
Mr.. Lewis tried to get it a point of
order, but Mr.. Boyd would not stop and
went on until he had had his say.
Mr.. Lewis replied that it was simply a
question of whether the constitution
should be observed and Mr. Statter made
a strong plea against the bill. The mo-
ton was lost by a vote of rs to 90. This
time only three of the Hudson men,
Messrs. Tenant, Brock and Rice voted
with the Essex men. Young Tom Nc
Carter was standing in the lobby during
the debate and when the vote was an
nounced ne could hardly contain himself
for rage.
Rushing up to Mr.. Tennant he declared
that he was going over to the Senate and
have reconsidered the bill providing for
three battalion fire chiefs in Jersey City,
in which Mr. Tenant was deeply inter-
ested. Then he started almost on run
for the Senate chamber.
Mr.. Tenant followed him and was talk
ing to Senator Hudspeth when McCarter
rushed across the chamber and addressed
to him the foul and blackguard language
which begins this despatch.
Some of the Republican Senators came
up and McCarter went back to his seat
He soon recovered his composure suffi-
ciently to vent his petty spite by moving
to have the battalion chiefs bill recon-
sidered and his motion prevailed. He
next moved to have the bill recommitted,
when Mr.. Hudspeth objected saying that
the bill had real merit. He said that he
heard something about a bargain over
the DILL but he was no party to any bar
gain and he knew nothing of any such
agreement. On motion of Mr.. Reed fur
ther action in the matter went over until
today.
What Mr.. Hudspeth referred to was the
cause given by Mr.. McCarter for his low
lived ruffianism. He claims that Mr.
Tenant promised him that if he would
secure the passage of the battalion
chiefs bill he (Tennant) would secure the
eleven Hudson votes for his sewerage dis
trict bill. Mr.. Tenant denies that he
ever made any sueh ha roa n, yU},af he