The Jersey City news., 1906-03-05
Assemblyman Martin Will
Endeavor to Awaken Them
By Denouncing the Com
mittee Whiok Guards
Them
WHY THEY ARE OPPOSED
Mr.. SCOTT SAYS He IS QUITE
PREPARED TO REFUTE ALL
ATTACKS BY PROVING THE
PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO
BE VICIOUS


! A clash between the Administration
and Colby forces is likely to result tomor-
row from the demand of Assemblyman
Martin that the Committee on Elections.
of which Assemblyman Scott, the Dick
inson leader, is chairman, be relieved of
the three primary election bills which he
introduced These bills were once re-
ported by the committee, but when it was
discovered that their adoption would seri-
ous1y interfere with all the machine or
ganizations of the State, and primarily
were intended to force the Hudson and
Essex organizations to hold the primary
election at the general primary in Sep
tember instead of giving the county or
ganization discretionary power, they We're
recalled and referred back to the com
mittee. They have been lying in~the
committees graveyard ever since, and
when Mr.. Martin realized that the COM
mittee never intended to take any further
action of them, he decided to fght.>
That Mr.. Martin will denounce the
machine leaders who were responsible for
the holding up Of these bills In unmeas-
ured terms is almost foregone conclu-
sion. Under the rules he is entitled to
speak upon his bills and explain their
purport with as much freedom as If they
were before the House on final passage
Assemblyman Scott said to-day that
he realized his committee would receive
an nnmerciful scoring at Mn Martins
hands for its refusal to report his bills,
but he stated that he was prepared for 1t
and would explain the committees rea-
sons for refusing to report them at the
proper time. The bills. he claimed, We're
vicious measures and intended to give the
Record Fagan-Co followers an unfair
advantage over the organization. He be-
lieyes the House will vote down Mr..
Martins motion and thus sustain the
committees action.
Assemblyman Joerg, one of the Rec
ord Pagan Colby followers, of Jersey
City, will also have fight on his hands
tomorrow, when he seeks TO relieve the
Committee on Municipal Corporations of
further consideration of his West Hud-
son water supply contract bill Although
Mr.. Record appeared before the commit
tee several weeks ago and pleaded hard
for report on the bin, the committee
for some unexplained reason refused to
report it, either favorably or adversely.
Mr.. Scott is also member of this
committee. and it is reported that it was
throul1h his influence that the committee
failed to make any reporta it did with
the Jersey City bond "sweetening" mea-
sure. Colonel Dickinson. it is said. was
opposing the bill on the ground that II
was instigated by Mr.. Record, his arch
political enemy. Any measure in which
Mr.. Record is interested, it can safely
be stated. will never receive Colonel
Diekinson's support. The latter wields
a powerful influence among the House
members
That Mr.. Joerg's resolution will meet
the same fate as the Jersey City bond
'sweetening'' measure is almost fore
gone CONCLUSION. The administration
men will line up to defeat it when the
Colby men give it their support.