The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
Disposition of Judge, Commits
sioner and Inspectorships
Eagerly Awaited.
WIDEST INTEREST in
STATE ASSESSORSHIP
Baird's ReappOintment General
ly Held in Doubt-Some
Other Big Positions.

Legislature, Governor Fort will have
the naming of large number of Of
ficials, most of whom will need con-
firmation by the Senate. He will have
the naming of about thirty without the
consent of the Senate, but these latter
are mostly of an honorary nature. Small
salaries are attached to those that
have any.
Among those needing the Senate con-
firination are ten places which are now
held by Essex county men. In the other
list are FIVE Essex men at present. The
most important of the former is the
prosecutorship, now held by Wilbur A.
Mott, who is filing out the unexpired
term of the late Henry Young. In ad-
dition to the importance of the office.
it carries a salary Of $4,000 year for
five years.
Other important appointments will be
of the successor OF Judge George X.
Cray to the Court of Errors and Ap-
/. peals, and OF Judge Malcolm MacLear.
of the District Court. who is finishing
the term from which Assistant Prose-
cutor Thomas L. Raymond resigned.
Among the other places now held by
Essex men the Governor will have the
naming of riparian commissioner to
succeed Michael F. Mclaughlin, and a
state prison inspector to succeed James
II. Davenport, both Newark men. Their
successors will be Democrats.
4 successor\to John c. Eisele, of this
city, as member of the board of man
ayers of the Morris Plains Asylum of
Simeon II. Robinson. of West Orange
on the Fish and Game Commission; of
Joseph l.. Mum. on the State geological
survey; of Railroad Commissioner Bor-
den D. Whiting, on the Railroad Com
mission, and of Laurence r. Fell, on
the County Tax Equalization Board,
will also be made.
Interest Centres on Baird.
In the State generally, probably the
greatest interest is being taken In the
question whether State Assessor David
Baird will be reappointed. 1t was re-
ported in Trenton that Mr.. Baird told
the Governor last spring, during the
bitter fights over the selection of dele
gates to the national Republican con-
vention, that he didn't give a -
whether you reappoint me or not"
whether this is absolutely so only the
Governor and Mr.. Baird can tell 1t
is believed, however, by most people,
that Mr. Baird would be greatly pleased
: to get back, and it is believed by
many that he will. The term is four
years. and the salary $4,000.
Another appointment of great I'M
portance is of a successor TO David o.
Watkins as commissioner of banking
and insurance 1t is really one of the
r most important places III the State
government, probably more so than any
other, because of its control over saw
Ings banks, trust companies, building
and loan associations and insurance
companies of all kinds. The appointee
viii be Republican and will probably
be Mr.. Watkins for another term. The
present term will expire on April 2
next. He was appointed first by Gov
ernor Murphy and again by Governor
Stokes. The term is three years and
the salary $1,000 year.
In the State Board of Tax Equiliza
fion, E. Amber Armstrong; successor
will be chosen by the Governor. There
is a bitter fight on over the job, and in
the struggle the Camden county shriev-
atty outbreak against David Baird, as
boss of Camden county. cuts a figure.
Armstrong Is a brother in-Iaw of for
mer State Comptroller j. Willard Nor
gan.
Places to be filed, the present terms
of which expire in 1909, and the incum-
bents, are as follows;
Court Of Errors and Appeals Three
lay judges, to succeed George r. Gray,
Elmer e. Greene and John w. Bogert.
Supreme Court--Charles G. Garrison.
Prosecutors-In Essex. Middlesex,
Monmouth and Cumberland counties.
County Judge-In Cumberland, to
succeed r. F. Tuller.
District court Judges in Newark and
Jersey City to succeed Malcolm Mac
Lear and Charles L. Carrick respec-
lively.
state Board of Assessors-Dayid
Baird.
Commissioner Of Banking and Insur-
apce-DavId o. watkins.
Commissioner of Charities and Cor
rections--Rev DR. George B. Wight
state Railroad Comnnission--Borden
. whiting and successor to Edmund
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