The Jersey City news., 1892-03-16
WASHINGTON DOINGS.
Measures Which Affect
This State and Doings
of Our Repre-
SentatiVeS.
THE PORT OF NEWARK.
Public Building Claims-Agricul-
ture and Manufactures
Corporations.
THE PORT OF NEWARK.
Special to the Jersey ctr Ms,rs.


the navy.
AS the feeling is pretty general that the
present House will oppose large appropri-
ations for public buildings. many of the
members are disposed to favor general
measure whereby modest structures can
be provided for the smaller cities, and at
the same time not prove too much Of
drain on the depleted treasury. With this
view the Committee on Public Buildings
have under consideration proposition to
authorize the erection of public buildings
at an expense of not exceeding $4,000 in
any one instance in such places as return
an annual postal revenue in excess of
$1,000. This, it is claimed. will BIZ doing
the greatest good to the greatest number
at a comparatively light expenditure OF
. money. Under this plan quite a number
OF cities in New Jersey would come in for
ID building for public purposes within the
mex year or Two as follows:-
Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Bayonne.
Bloomfield. Bordentown, Bridgeton, Bur,
lington. Cape May. Dover, East Orange.
Elizabeth. Englewood, Freehold, Hacken-
sack, Lakewood, Lambertville. Long
Morristown, Mount Holly. New Bruins
wick, Newton. Ocean Grove, Orange,
Passac Perth Amboy, Phillipsburg,
Plaintield, Princston, Railway, Red
Bank. Rutherford, Salem. Somerville,
Summit. Vineland, Washington. Vice.
hawken, Westfield, West Hoboken and
Woodbury..
He1e are forty-three places W itch, under
the plan in question, would be furnished
public buiiding at a total expense OF
$430. 000 or not very much more than Con-
gress has frequently allowed to a single
city of no greater commercial prerensions
than many of those mentioned. The
mem bers from the country districts are
particularly well disposed towards this
solution of the public building question.
OUR MARITIME INTERESTS
The Commissioner of Navigation of the
Treasury Department., has sent to Con-
gress some interesting statistics relating
TO the merchant tonnage of the country,
from which your correspondent has pre-
pared the following Of local Importance
to New Jersey. the information, OF course,
being for custom distrlcts:-
Newark-Vessel registered /, tonnage, 661;
vessels permanently enrolled &c, tons s. 1895; tenn
porariy enrolled s, tons l. l0E licensed, under
7,421.
Perth Amboy Temporarily registered 3 tons
2,9Oa; permanently enrolled 2,3 tons A, 100; tenn
porarily enrolled 5. tons LOGS; licensed, under 10
tons 175 tons 1.Sl3; tocal 4O6, tons 40, 494.
Little Egg Harbor-Permanently enrolled Is,
tons 1912; temporarily enrolled !, tons 22;
licensed, under 20 tons 22, tons 256; total 3S,
tons :, 40.
Great Egg Harbor--P Permanently enrolled SO.
tons 1S,7S.; licensed. under 20 tons IS, tons 756;
Bridgeton - Permanently enrolled l7S tons
1868; licensed. under 20 tons 23T, tons 3,154;
total 435, tons 1873.
Burlington = Permanently enrolled 25 tons
S,5S; licensed under 90 tons 49, tons $50; total 49,
tons 3, 400.
Total for New ersey--Permanently regis
tered /, tons SOL; temporarily registered 8, tons
2,202; permanently enrolled $40, 81, 241;
temporarily enrolled l2, tons 2, 1875; licensed,
under 70 tons 561, tons 6,562; total l, ,14', tons
97,S6S
Newark has 81 sailing vessels, tons g.
474, and 38 steam vessels, tons 1914:
Perth Amboy. 289 sailing vessels, Al steam
vessels, canal boat and SO barges; Little
Egg Harbor, 81 sailing vessels and 81 cam
vessel; Great Egg Harbor, 1853 sailing ves-
sells ard steam vessels; Bridgeton. 429
sailing vessels and steam vessels. and
Burlington, 23 sailing vessels and 10 steam
vessels.
During the last year there were built
at Newark steam vessels; Perth Am
boy sailing vessels and steam vessels;
Little Egg Harbor, sailing vessel; Great
Egg Harbor, sailing vessels; Bridgeton,
7sailing vessels. anu Burlington, steam
vessels.
Total built in New Jersey:-Sailing
vessels. 81; steam vessels. 13; barges, 2;
aggregate, SO vessels Of 8, 124 tons.
OUR AGRICULTURE.
According to report submitted to the
Committee on Ways and Means by the
102,077 sheep in New Jersey, having
value Of $413.922. Bearing on this same
wool problem, for that is the object of
getting at the number and value of sheep
IN the country. the committee got pre-
lminaIy statement from the Census
Bureau of W oollen industries for the year
1890. The data for New Jersey is as fol-
lows:-Number of establishments. 50;
capital Invested. $S. 723 922; miscellaneous
expenses, S673, 367; cost of materials used,
s., $50, Dol; value OF product, sl0374, $50.
For the purpose of comparison, the fol-
lowing statement for 1880 was also fur
pished:-Number of establishments. 4S;
capital invested, So, 3,795. .695; cost of
materials, $41l7,035; value OF product,
$6.829074.
The statistics of shoddy manufacture
for 1890 have not yet been published. but,
as above, The census officials furnished
the following advance statement for
New jersey:-Num Der OF establishments,
4; sets of cards, 10; value of product,
$3.50, ,709 In 1889 there WAS one establish
ment in the State, whose product was
valued at $137, 400.
TO PROTECT CORPORATIONS.
Representative Buchanan, In the inter
est OF New Jersey corporations. as well as
others, is actively opposing the bill sub
mitted by the Committe on the judiciary,
prohibiting suiCs i'll the Courts OF the
limited States Dy OF against corporations,
except in the courts OF the legal domicile
of the corporation in cases where juris-
diction. depends upon the citizenship OF
the parties. This measure has the sup
port of Southern and Western members,
who would have all litigation between
citizens and outside corporations carried
on in the State Courts. Judge Buchanan
saws the bill is a restri 1tion and not an
enlargement of the instrumentalities OF
justice.
QUEER OLD CLAIM.
The Senate Committee on Claims has
under consideration petition from New
ark parties that is Dased on u claim which
had its inception century ago. These
old claims are not strangers to Congress,
INIT IL is rare to fiud one that Is almost a
hundred years old, il the French spoila-
tion claims are excepted The one under
consideration, however, comes from citi-
zeus of New Jersey.
It directs the Secretary OF the Treasury
to nav to the legal representatives of Car
oline NJ. Richardson, deceased, late OF
Newark. the sum of $339.3 81, that being
the balance of principal found due to an
ancestor of Mr.. Richardson i'll IL 81. to-
gather with interest on said balance from
1924 to the present time; and the further
Enm of $14. 535 90 being the amount OF In
terest accrued on the principal DEBT OF
b6. .O56 "a from 1874 TO 1854.
AS the Government never pays interest
to indiyiduaIs on its debts, except those
snecifically contracted for il can be added
ShoG This ancient claim is liable TO spend
onother century gu the tiles of Congress.
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