The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-04-15
EpUBLICANS
WORRIED
Hear That Their Excise Law
Is to Be Sacrificed tothe
Passaic Sewer.
SOME QUEER JUGGLING
Although Governor Has Sign
ed the Bill It Is Not In the
Secretary Of States
Office.


The Passaic trunk sewer muddle has
| filled the Jersey City Republicans with
apprehension for the ultimate fate Of
their much desired excise bill. Although
the measure was signed last week no
action has as yet been taken by Mayor
Pagan under it's provisions and the many
candidates for the various positions
which the act creates are beginning to
clamor for reason for the Mayors in
activity. Especially anxious have they
become since they have heard that Mayor
Doremus of Newark is about to appoint
an excise board under the act for that
city.
To all these clamors the answer has
been given that the Mayor is waiting
to have another concultation with Sec
retary of State Samuel d. dickinson be-
fore he takes final action and that Col
iDckipson is in the South, and as soon
as he returns the new board will be
named. This satisfied the Office seekers
for the time, but new rumor which
reached then this morning has renewed
their apprehension. Some one has dis
covered that although the Governor has
approved the excise bill it has not been
filed in the Secretary of States office
and some other one more or less learned
in the NV has told them that the meas
ure could not be acted upon until it had
been so fled.
Mayer Pagan and Corporation Counsel
George L. eRcord We're in Trenton yes
terday, and it is said that they went
there to see why the excise bill had not
been fled in the Secretary Of States Of
fee. 1t was said in the City Hall this
morning that tM visitors were much
chagrined at the condition which CON
fronted them.
The Governor, it is reported, gave
them to understand that he was in a per-
picking position. The sewer bill was
passed with the aid of the vote of the
Democrats on the solemn promise OF the
Republicans that the Pagan excise bill
would not become a law. The manner
in which the caucus whipped the Repub-
ican members into line for the excise bill
and compelled the Essex men to break
their solemn promise is well known. The
Governor had received intimations that
the Democrats proposed, at the special
session, to resent this atreachery," and
would do all in their power to help the
Passaic men defeat the trunk sewer bill
unless they had assurances, which would
not be repudiated as the other promises
were, that the bill would either be re-
bealed or in some way rendered iRepera-
tive.
When this tale was repeated to Corpor-
alton Counsel Record, he emphatically
denied that he and the Mayor went to
Trenton yesterday on the excise matter.
They saw the Governor, he DECLARED, OH
an altogether different matter but what
that altogether different matter'' was he
refused to state. He was inclined to
doubt that the excise act was not on file
in, the Secretary of States Office, and was
anxious to know who had said that it
was not.
He said that Mayor Pagan was about
ready to appoint the Exice Commission
ers under the act, but he was waiting
until Colonel Dickinson returned from the
South. Mayor Pagan himself refused to
talk of his trip to Trenton.