Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-10

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tamnt IN that a telephone commune
cation outside of Trenton Is said tc
be involved in the matter. If the
offer of the attempted bride was maoe
over a telephone legal situation tnai
has never arisen in this state woulo
develop.
Several lawyers were of the opin-
ion that if the offer of bride was
made by a person telephoning from
this county to Trenton the person
telephoning from this county would
he subject to Indictment here even
if he attempted to bride a person
who. at the actual stime .of the COM
mission of the attempt, was In an
other county.
Assemblyman Simon T.. Fisch ad-
mitted today that man had called
at his office on Thursday afternoon
and made a proposition to him II he
would vote for the Egan chancellor
sheriff bill. Mr.. Fisch said that he
had been In New York city Thursday
and returned to his office about
O'Clock.
When he arrived at his Office he
found a man waiting for him. The
latter had been waiting half hour,
Mr.. Fiseh said he was informed, and
after introducing himself he told the
Essex assemblyman that he had bust
ness of a confidential nature to talk
over with him.
Several times during the discussion
Mr.. F'isch said his caller reminded
him that the business was of con-
fidential nature, and he then advanced
the proposition that if Mr. Fisch
would vote for the chancellor-s sheriff
bill he would be taken care of.
Mr.. Fisch declared that he then told
the man that there was little use OF
talking to him, as his mind was made
up on the question and that he in
tended to stick by his original vote on
the McDermott bill, with the referen-
dunn, in Difference to the desires of his
constituents.
When he made this statement his
caller smiled, Mr.. Fisch said. and SAID
that he, too, had been conscientious IN
politics when he was a young man,
but, that it did not pay. He then
called attention to several men That
had been turned down, Mr.. Fisch de-
clared. and incidentally cited the case
of his father, former Assessment
Commissioner Adolph Fisch, who was
not reappointed on that commission
this year.
Assemblyman Fisch thereupon told
him that this would not AFFECT MS
feeling on the jury bill in the slight
est, as his mind was fully made up
and could not, be changed. the Visl-
tor then told him that if his vote could
not consistently be changed 1T would
be to his advantage to absent himseir
from yesterdays session
said Good Die Young In Politics.
Mr. Fisch asserted that he then en-
tered into a lengthy argument with
his visitor on the merits of the vari-
Gus Jury bills and that the man ad-
mitted that he was right in his stand
but that he did not need to be too
conscientious, as "the good die young
in politics and sooner or later they
will get YOU"
In his talk his caller mentioned
Mayor H. Otto Wittpenn's guberna-
torial chances, and intimated that he
believed Wittpenn was the logical
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton. as Fielder had shown himself
weak. Mr.. Fisch said that he told
the man he could not agree with him
regarding Wittpenn and the interview
ended.
Assemblyman Louis Lewis admit
ted that he. too, had been approached
in his office Thursday afternoon by
man who he said answered the de-
scrition of the party that called on
his colleague The man made SUBJ
stantially the same proposition that
he made to Mr.. Fiseh, intimating that
Mayor Wittpenn was the man behind
the gun.
Mayor Wittpenn was in Newark on
Thursday and lunched with Assem-
blyman John A. Matthews, Of this
who is lined UP with the Witt
penn forces in the Assembly.
The man told him he could have any
Job he wanted, Mr.. Lewis declared, If
he would vote for the chancellor
sheriff bill, or If he would absent him
self from the Legislature.
Mr.. Lewis said that he replied that
his caller had stacked up against the
wrong man when he approached him
and that his record in politics was
too we'll known to even warrant such
a call. He told the man positively
that he would not for a minute enter
tain any proposition that he might
make and the man left.
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