The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-28
JERSEY IN WASHINGTON.
State Interests at the Capitol
Perth Amboy's Oil Exports
Those Powder Boats.
Special to the JERSEY City Nsvs.

WASHINGTON. june Eot 1909. -AtColHoJ
General Miller has asked Congress to
maxi the following appropriations to
cover deficiencies in the salaries of the
bailiffs in the United States Court in New
Jersey: George D. Bower. SIS; John Dea-
con, SIS; john Buckman, s78.
Representative Fowler, Chairman OF
the Committee on Merchant Marine, has
prepared a report urging The passage or
the bill granting an American re gister TO
the EuguSh-buiIG steamship China, ownel
by the Pacific Mail Company. Mr.. Fowler
says: 'TDe credit i due to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Compa?y of having done
more to keep the American flag ahoat IN
foreign waters than have all otner
companies combii.ed. The passage
of this bill can not injure a single
industry III the United States. On
the contrary, it will give immediate EN-
pioyment to Il large number OF men IN
our shipyards, and the cummittee feel
assured thai his act will stimuIate not
only foreign m under the Ameri-
can flag, but shipbuiluiug by American
snipyards, beside; furnishing a magnth-
cent cruiser ready at an lnstlnts not1;e
for naval use In case OF war or other
emergency. II this bill be passed the
company willsnot only build u vessel rs
required by the bill IN an American ship
yard of equal tonnage. but your commit
tee iseassured by the comDany's repre-
sentative that 1t will build two vessels of
at least 5000 tons eich."
Sen TOR McPheIso has asked the Com
mittee on Pensions to report a bill G amt
ing a pension of $S o month to Joun G.
Rowland, who served Ia the Florida In
dian war of 1886.
PERTH AMBoY's OIL TRADE.
In the export oil trade Perth Amboy
takes + nix as third arioug our potts, b.
to-. ovaan,Iad INV Navr Va, L or6 D,i1o-
delphia, and standing ahead of baltimore
and Boston. The Bureau OF Statistics
has recently is usd the following Stats
tics Of the exports of mineral oils from
Perth Amboy:-ESp,rts of crude mineral
oil for the eleven months ending May 81,
tnas, anne period. $50, 144 gail ms; value.
81. 76S; same period ending May 81, 1891,
%, AIS gallons; value. S2,4l4. illuminate
ing oil. month Of May. 1892. Ill.,
6S4 gallons; value, ST.. 700; month
Of My I'd 1891; l.e7s,a 4s gall, MS:
May 81, 1889, 023; value, 1914. 061; same
period. 1891. l4.360, 1l2 gallons; value,
81, O62, 626. Totals, month Of May, 1892.
/, 1l9. 6S4 gallons; vaiue, S72. 100; May. 1891.
1,672, 34S gallons; value, $1l9,502. Eleven
months ending May 81. 1872. 16,l41.o57
gallons; value, $685., DOL; same period. 1891,
II. 1888, $50 gallons; value. 81. O65, IT'S.
ORE SAILOR MEN NEEDED
AS we get mora ships we must have
more men for the uavy. so says Secretary
Tracy. In,a letter to Senator McPher-
son the Secretary thus explains The situa-
ton aud the future necessities OF the SER
vice.
'rhe demands made upon the naval
force of the United States have greatly
increased in recent years. Among the
ships which will be ready during the next
year may be mentioned the New York,
Detroit, Montgomery, Marblehead, gun
boats 8 and &. Raleigh. Monterey, the prac-
ttce cruiser and the ram. The compls ment
of these ships amounts to 1900 men.
AT the present. tine the force OF enlisted
men Is within s.xty-two Of the limit fixed
by law. Ii is desir' d 10 increase the force
of naval apprentices. composed wholly of
young men of American nationality, and
the additions thus made will strengthen
the bast element of which the enlist ID
force can pe composed, and promote in Il
high degree the efficiency of the naval es-
tablishment.
THOSE POWDER BOATS.
The Senate Committee gu Commerce
has taken no action as yet on the NJ
ial of the Boari of Trade of Jersey City,
in regard Un the a%nchoring of powder
boats III New York harbor; but Chairman
Frye says IT, matter will be thoroughly
investigated. Ii a real menace to life
and property exists, he says. it will he
remedied.