Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-14
MINOR REVENUE
POSITIONS FOR
NJ. ANNOUNCED
MARITIME and Hughes Reported
in Agreement-COllectorship
Remains in Doubt.
Especial to the Newark star. /

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA story
that circulated early through the New
Jersey colony here today to the effect
that United States Senators MARITIME
and Hughes had come together on the
question of the distribution of places
as income tax collectors, or deputies,
and that Essex county was not to
receive an appointment, seems to
have gained the strength of fact
from allotments announced. Essex
may. it was said, get a deputy clerk
ship, but that point is yet to be de-
terrnined.
Representative Scully and Tuttle
were with the senators when they
settled upon these names and recon-
mended their appointment to Internal
Revenue Commissioner Osborne:
State agent, a, II. Lindep,y JERSEY
City; field deputy. Timothy ].
Lyons. Paterson; office deputies, fifth
district, headquarters Newark. John
Zerega, Plainfleld Jeremiah White,
Morristown, and former Sheriff Will
lam j. Barker, Hackettstown; office
deputies, first district, at Camden,
Charles Stokes. of Beverly, and Will
lam H. Tietjen, of Collingswood-
Backed by Hughes.
Lindop had the support of the Hud-
son county organization, Lyon of Sem
ator Hughes, Zerega of Senator Mar
tine, White of Representative Tuttle,
and Barker of former Senator john
ston Cornish, of Warren county.
1t was agreed that if Paul Meyer,
a former Princeton student, who was
appointed as inspector without the
knowledge or consent of the Jersey
delegation. could be displaced, that an
Essex county man will get the JoD.
Senator MARITIME stated that he would
communicate with John L. Armitage,
of the Wilson League of Essex, and
ask for the Endorsement of a man
satisfactory to that organization.
Members of the delegation hold
nothing against Meyer personally,
but are sore because he gets a
post which ought to go to a bona fide
Jerseyman, which, they allege, Meyer
is not They don't hold that Meyer
should not be taken care of, but say
he should be charged up to the general
patronage account and not up to New
Jersey.
According TO reports the treasury
department was asked by the White
House to find a place for Meyer. The
internal revenue authorities gave him
a job in the income tax division in
Washington. Secretary McAdoo later
came along and said he didn't want
Meyer in that particular place,
Thereupon Commissioner Osborne as
signed him to the New Jersey berth.
None of the delegation was consult
ed and some of them, Senator Hughes
being one, knew nothing of the deal
until they read about it in the papers.
papers.
The most active aspirant for the
place of State agent was Harvey
Moynihan, of Bound Brook, who was
doomed by Representative Walsh and
State Commissioner of Banking and
Insurance La Monte.
Senator Hughes. however, was
against Moynihan because he had a
candidate.
'In the Air"
Senator MARITIME held a conference
with the President today. AT the
conclusion the senator admitted that
the New Jersey federal appointments
had been part of the discussion, but
nothing was officially decided.
1.-THE Newark collectorship is still in
the air." was Senator Marines state
ment. He said it was decided to give
a deputy internal revenue clerk to
Essex.
The President was given latest in
side information of the Trenton pro-
ceedings, and was said to be satisfied
with the outlook.
PATTERSON. Jan. 1.-THE only
Timothy j. Lyons known here is
manager of a typewriting agency on
Ward street His home is in New
ark.
The Newark directory gives one
person by the name of Timothy J.
Lyons. He lives at 72S Summer ave-
nue., and is a clerk.