The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-21
HUDSON ALWAYS SUFFERS
Young Mr.. Pitney's Spite
Is Not Approved by the
Fair Minded.
[speclal to ..rhe Jersey city News."l

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News"l
TRENTON, March 21, 1901.-The ladies
gallery of the House presented a novel
appearance yesterday. A large part of it
was occupied by about fifty young colored
girls whose ages ranged from ten to
eighteen years. They were the female in
mates of the State Manuel Training
School at Bordentown and the appearance
of the young women strongly evinced the
wisdom of the State in supporting the
school. They were all neatly dressed in
Dark blue suits of fashionable cut and
wore a modification of the mortar
board" cap. All were bright, intelligent
looking and watched the proceedings of
the House with a quiet, dignified de-
meanor.
There is bill before the Legislature
providing for the purchase of "Ironsides. .
the old Stewart homestead at Borden
town, the property of old Commodore
Stewart, the grandfather of Charles
Stewart Parnell, in which Mrs. Parnell,
mother of the great Home Ruler lived for
many years. 9he school now occupies the
building under a sort of free lease and the
bill proposes to buy the property and
erect buildings more suitable to the needs
of the school
In advocating the passage of the bill,
Mr.. Wright called the attention of the
House ot the girls in the gallery as
specimen of the work the school was do
ing. All looked up and the young women
bore the ordeal we'll They must have
made a good impression upon the law
makers as the bill went through without
opposition.
Governor VOORHEES, has signed the Hud-
son County park bill. The measure, how
ever, was SO amended in the Senate that
its friends hardly recognized it, and it is
far from SatiSfa ctory.
Pitney's bill for the proposed abandon
ment of the Morris Canal appears to have
run up against a snag which threatens
to effectually block its further progress.
The snag is Brother Kirkbride, of
Ocean Grove, chairman of the Commit
tee on Railroads and Canals, who mas
failed to report the measure up to date,
and who, rumor says, will persist in that
failure. The petty spite and resentment
against Democratic Hudson County and
Jersey City which young Pitney has made
no serious effort to conceal in this mat
ter, has prejudiced many fair minded
members of the House, and the measure
will have hard time of it at the best.
Senator Hudspeth's bill authorizing Jer-
sew City to issue 100000 of bonds to re-
fund water bonds and pay the back wa
passed the House without opposition after
a brief but convincing speech by Mar.
Marks.
The Governor, it is said. found some
fault with the bill authorizing modifica-
ton of Jersey City's water contract. and
in the Senate Mr.. Hudspeth introduced
substitute which gives the Board Of Il
nance the right to consider the modifiea-
tions in the water contract and requiring
that Board to concur in such modifica-
tion. No change in the contract shall pre-
vent the contractor from supplying the
quality of water he has agreed to FUR
nsh The bill was subsequently reported
by the committee and advanced to thlrd
reading.
Whether the bill will ever go into effect
depends entirely on the Freeholders, as it
provides that it shall be submitted to the
approval of the people at the first cleo
ton for Assemblymen after the Free
holders shall have decided to 80 submit
the act. The Senate passed the Senate
bill providing for bipartisan excise boards
for Jersey City and Newark.
Mr.. Stokes introduced the appropriation
and deficiency bills this afternoon. The
general appropriation bill foots IS. SR up tota
1900. Increase, $145576. The supplemental
or deficiency bill foots up 1891, 20 as
against 1851, ,554.55 last year. Increase,
SAC, .65.