The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-19
FAINT RAYS
OF HOPE
Pagan RingsterS Think
They See Ways Of.
Getting Out Of
the Deep Ex-
else Hole.
ERRORS IN TIE BILL
These However Will Not
Prevent the Democrats
From Moving In the
Matter Tonight.
ORDINANCE WILL PASS
Gloomy Kommishes Look
J,ugubrious and Declare
They Have Nothing To
Say.
ORDINANCE WILL PASS

People about the City Hall were
laughing this morning over the ridiculous
( manner in which the Pagan gang and
their i'll advisers in the Journal" sane
tum are foundering about in the deep
hole in which their brethren in Camden
have placed them with this little excise
prohibition law which they got approved
five days after the Pagan act became a
law. The Faganites eagerly grasped at
the straw thrown out by the Journal
in the shape of statement to the effect
that the Democrats had not decided to
take the necessary steps to take advan-
tage of the Camden law.
Whatever comfort they found in this
was soon disispated when they learned
beyond any possibility of a doubt that
the ordinance providing for the election
of an excise law was all prepared and
would be surely passed at the meeting
of the Board of Aldermen which will be
held This evening.
City Clerk Michael O'Donnell came
to the City Hall today from Point
Pleasant, where he has been spending
his vacation. He said he would remain
in toTn tonight and attend the meeting
Of tlfe Aldermen, in his official capacity
as city clerk.
An effort was made again today to get
some expression of opinion on the mud
die into which the Mayors ill-advisers
have gotten them from the Excise Com
sioners themselves. But they were too
full of gloom and despair for utterances
All each conld do when approached upon
.le subject was TO look as lugubrious as
Goswick's undertaker and mournfully
declare he had nothing to say
The mournful Faganites have been en-
deavoring TO find some grains of comfort
in some errors which appear to have
crept into the Camden act.
ANOTHER VERSION.
The elective board act, which was de-
signed to benefit Trenton and Camden
particularly, was approved by Governor
Murphy on April 8, five days later than
the Jersey City act, and the Hudson
Democrats who made the discovery be-
lieve that as the later act contained a
repeater ID wipes out or makes nugatory
not only the Jersey City mayors ap-
pointments. but also the appointiye
boards iii Newark, Orange and other cit
les where the Common Council may pass
a resolution providing for the election Of
board under the Camden act.
HASTY AMENDMENTS.
It now turns out that the hasty
amending and passage Of the Camden
act in the closing hours Of the last legis-
lativc session led to an error that, the
Faganites say, may make the entire act
imperative and leave Camden and Trcn-
ton without any well authorized pro-
.edure or officials until the next Legis-
atnre enacts remedial law.
When the elective board bill was in
troduccd last winter by Assemblyman
Waite, it provided for board Of three
. commissioners at salaries Of $500 a year
each. Previously the Trenton and Cam
den boards have consisted of five mem
bers, at salaries of $500 each A new
act was necessitated BY the Supreme
Court decision that provision for a
minority representation on the fve-man
board made the entire act unconstitu-
tional.
TWO A MAJORITY.
In drafting the bill for a board of
three members, leaving out the minority
representation clause. it was provided
that two commissioners should constitute
a majority Of the board. In the last
days Of the session two cr three amends
nents were made to he bill. having the
-eeet of restoring the provision for fire