Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-07
THIS is HOW 1T Is DONE
your words.

Hurrah for economy Hurrah for a reduction of taxes! Let
everybody cheer, especially the members of the legislature who are
supposed to show the way to accomplish TINS mucn-to-oe-uesrea
achievement.
This is the way to do it: Middlesex, third assistant super
visor of bills, 5000; two pages, 5000 each. Hurrah for the third
assistant sup .rvisor of bills! Who in Middlesex is to be the favored
one to receive this $500 graft out of the state treasury? Who are
the two good little boys whose papas have been sufficiently gen.
erous to the G. o. P. to warrant having their sons receive the honor
Of running errands about the state house during the coming legls-
lative session and, incidentally, receive a present of 5000 eachf
Middlesex's share Of the pap to be handed out by the coming
legislature amounts to $1,000 of the taxpayers money. This is
pretty good considering that Middlesex failed to send an entire
Republican delegation to the legislature this fall
But why a third assistant supervisor Of bllsF Doubtless there
would be a fifth assistant If there were not JOBS enough 10 take
care of all the faithful
Essex county gets the lions share of the patronage" This is
because there are more than twice as many Republican members OF
the House from Essex than from any other county. The reward
for being good like that brings to the Essex tal'hWl d VoVdl ol
$1,000. It runs like this:
journal clerk, 1000; supervisor OF bills, $l,30O; assistant OF
supervisor Of bills. 5000: sergeant at arms, 800; second assistant
sergeant at arms (sc) $500; bill clerk, $500; two door keepers
fHurrah for the door keepersD $3.50 each; file clerk $500; two
napes (playmates for the two from Middlesex) 5000 each.
And SO it goes in starting off the economy, tax-reduclng pro-
sram of the state so strongly advocated by the state Republican
chairman, E. G. Stokes. More door keepers, more assistant ser
geant at arms, more assistant supervisors, more assistant journal
clerks and even a calendar clerk at $500-Union county gets that
plum. His duty probably consists of tearing off the date on the
calendar each day.
Taking it all in all, it requires one journal clerk and two as
sistants. a supervisor of bills and three assistants, one sergeant at
Narms and two assistants, one bill clerk and one assistant, twelve
door keepers twelve, get IT'D, fifteen file clerks, ten pages, one
calendar clerk and three stenographers to see the New Jersey legis-
lature safely through its session. And the legislature meets only
or two nights a week for about three months. One can readily
imagine those twelve door keepers fighting among themselves as
to who will guard the doors each night; and then those fifteen file
clerks together with all the assistant journal clerks and assistant
supervisors of bills, must have an awful time keeping out of each
others way. But then they ought to do something to earn their
money and If they succeed in doing nothing else but to keep out of
the way so that the real workers can accomplish something, they
have made a success of their occupation. For, after all, the job is
simply a reward for work already done during the campaign.
Yes, the legislature starts off well toward saving the taxpay
ers money. Hurrah for economyl