The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-30

the electric light companies the streets of
all the cities in the State. This bill be-
came law, but ended the political career
of many of its supporters.
Mr.. Benny introduced in the Assembly
bill to make one city of Hudson county,
chiefly for the purpose of providing
means whereby the consolidated city
might own and control the trolley, gas,
electric light and water franchises. I'm
der this bill Governor Voorhees, appointed
a consolidation commission, which was
composed largely of friends Of the mag
mates of the interests referred to. This
commission naturally reported against
the project
FIGHT FOR RAILROAD MEN.
On the unanimous request of more
than twenty-five thousand railroad men
Mr.. Benny introduced in the Legislature
of 1899 bill to provide for the adequate
manning of trains, which passed the
House almost unanimously, but was
killed in the Senate by Senator Miller,
the Republican chairman of the Railroad
Committee, who refused to report the
measure. Mr.. Benny introduced this bill
in the next Legislature, where it met
with like fate. A similar measure has
since been introduced in Congress.
Mr.. Benny has ever been an intelligent
and forceful friend of the public schools
and the public school teachers. In the
Legislature of 1898 he introduced bill
to compel cities to provide sufficient
school accommodations for all their chill
dren, and was the author of the plank in
the Democratic platform of 1898 that
declared: Every child of school age
must have a seat"
FRIEND OF THE TEACHERS.
He was active in securing the Murphy
law, under which the teachers of Jersey
City have obtained substantial increase
of salary, with the certainty of steady
improvement. He advocates tenure of
Office law for principals and teachers,
and elective instead of appointive boards
of education. He also holds that all the
judges of our courts and the United
States Senators ought to be elected by
the people, who should surrender no part
of their political rights. While in the
Assembly he refused pass on the Penn
sylvania Railroad upon being told that
the road expected legislative favors in re-
turn.
From the beginning of his political
career, Mr.. Benny has been an earnest
advocate of the Municipal Ownership of
the public utilities
TARIFF PROMOTES TRUSTS.
He believes that the tariff has promot-
ed the "infant'' industries until many of
them have grown so rich and powerful
as to be menace to the Republic. The
law of the land is said to be inadequate
to reach these monopolies and trusts, and
the President of the United States urges,
as the only means of curbing them, an
amendment to the Constitution, whereas
a judicious revision of the tariff BIZ Com
gress would remedy many Of the evils
that threaten our institutions and would
lessen the cost of many of the comforts
and necessaries of life.
The American people will never be
satisfied with a tariff that increases the
price of goods to consumers in the United
States while permitting the same arti-
cles to be sold in foreign countries at a
much lower price.
In 1900 Mr.. Benny was made Bay
onne's City Attorney and last January
was reelected for two years
Mr.. Benny does not use intoxicants or
tobacco and is noted as home body,
but in all Hudson County it would be
difficult to find man more popular with
the boys than Allan Benny.