Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-29
CAUCUS
TO FILL ESSEyS
QUOTA OF OFFICES
A~ssembIynen Will Meet and
Consider Filling Nine Leg
isIatiye Berths.
MANY CANDIDATES
FOR FEW POSITIONS
General Caucus Plans to Make
Next Session a Record
Breaker.

Essex county's eleven assemblymen-
elect will meet next Wednesday night
for the purpose of selecting candidates
for the nine legislative positions h A
were allotted to the county at the gen
eral caucus of the members of The
Democratic majority of the next House
of Assembly. The distribution OF the
patronage to the various counties has
met with general satisfaction through
out the State.
There are several candidates for the
few positions, but no decisive steps
will be taken till next Wednesdays
Essex caucus This county will name
the clerk of the House. first and sec
ond assistant clerks, supervisor of
bills, st~enographer, W doorkeepers
n two pages.
The general caucus determined = to
make the one hundred and thirty-fifth
session a record-breaker for "neatness
and dispatch" The legislative reforms
that the Democratic party has pledged
to the people will be introduced during
the early weeks of the session, which
opens on January 10. G-overnor-elect
Wilson will be inaugurated on January
II. and on January "a, the joint bal
loting for a United States senator to
succeed John Kean will take place.
Cut Down on Patronage.
Following the selection of Assembly
men Kenny and Matthews for speaker
and majority leader, respe stively, as
told in yesterdays Evening STAR, the
patronage was distributed to the vari-
Gus counties. The patronage was
liTnifnd RI what thu loW ho raln all auyu
a strictly new departure. Thers were
nineteen doorkeepers in the last House,
while at the incoming session there
receive $3.50 each. The number of
mum requirement, ten.
The caucus put itself on record as
favoring the adoption of the fifteen
rule" This means that on the applioa-
ton of fifteen members a committee
must release any bill under considera-
ton within twenty-four hours. 1t will
therefore be impossible to kill any bill
by smothering 1t in committee. The
fifteen rule was in force three years
ago, but the Republican majority made
the signatures of twenty members nec-
essary to get q bill out of committee
two years ago and last year, despite the
protests of the Democratic minority,
abolished altogether the law under
which bills might be pried out Of COM
mittee, Some Of the members of the
caucus wanted to make 1t a twenty
rule for the coming session, as there
are eighteen Republican members of
the House and the fear was expressed
that business might be delayed by hli-
clustering, but the advocates Of the "df-
teen rule" prevailed Overwhelmingly.
Where PIums Fall.
The patronage was allotted as fol-
lows:
Bergen-Bill clerk and page.
Essex-Clerk of the house, first and
second assistant clerks, supervisor of
bills, stenographer. two doorkeepers,
two pages.
Gloucester-One doorkeeper.
Hudson-Assistant supervisor of bnls,
journal clerk, stenographer, speakers
secretary and assistant, three door
keepers.
Hunterdon-Assistant bill clerk.
observation-disclosures and page.
Ocean-Doorkeeper and page.
Middlesex - Assistant sergeant-at-
arms, two pages, one doorkeeper.,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Morris-Assistant Journal clerk and
doorkeeper.
CONGRATULATIONS and page.
Sussex-Assistant supervisor Of bills.
Union - Assistant sergeant-at-arms.
page.
Observation-Disclosures and page.
Cole, of Warren, and Geran, of Mon
mouth, objected to the meagre plums
they received, but the report was
adopted.
To give the committee that will have
charge Of the Governor-elect's inaug-
uration and the rules committee OF tho
next House a chance TO get to work
Mr. Kenny announced that his selec-
lions would be as follows:
Inaugural COMMITTEEMAN. OF Mer-
Ger; Matthews, of Hunterdon; McCran,
OF Passaic; Macksey, of Essex. and
Christie, of hudson.
Rules Committee-Matthews, Boett-
mel, OF Essex; Egan, of Hudson.
The caucus adjourned to meet at the