The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-05
MCPHERSON H0NORED
Chosen to Inform President
) Cleveland That Con-
gress Had Or
ganized.
THE NEW JERSEY DELEGATION.
Congressman Fielder Very Popu-
lar at the Capitol-Other
Matters OF Interest.
THE NEW JERSEY DELEGATION.
Special 10 The jersey Ctr News.

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New Jersey Senators and members wsre
in their Sc ,ts when at moan yesterday the
gavels fell on thu desks Of the Iresldlag
officers In both houses Of Congress. la
the Senate Mr.. McPnsrson wAs selects d
by the Vice President, In connection
with Senator Sherman. for tins duty of
waiting upon the President aua inform
lug him that Congress was ready TO re :
ceived the Executive message. In the
House Representative Gardner OF the
Trenton district. entered quietly and oc-
cupied his incoaxpicuous seat In this rear
row en- the Republican side Messrs.
Cadmus and Cornish made q circuit OF
the House together, receiving y warm
welcome from their scores or friends.
Fielder. who is also very popular. hald
quite u levse at his desk. DR.. English
was also accorded q reception by che
members, who hold him in high esteem.
Some of MIR. Corntsh's sd nirIug ON.
stitutents semi him au enornous basket
of American beauty roses. aRd for . while
the odor OF perfume rested upon his
desk. Il. seon became evident, he viewer,
that the handsome tribare would bscsme
despoiled. and 30 Mr.. Cornish hired a boy
and q wagon. and the roses were taken 70
the Coagressmau's room.
THE TRENTON PosTMAsTERsHIP
MIR. James LAnRIng WAS In w sSnin zton
yesterday. He was still plrsuIag she
Trenton postmastership. but does not
sec N, to have made any progress. In
canversation with friends he saYs shat he
ia led at one momen to believe that he
has some chance of getting the place.
while In the next hour the information
which reaches him ID exactly of the op-
pesite tenor. Mr.. Lanning saw Mr.
Mcpherson during the DAY, but returned
home last night. He did not seam to
THINK that he had acco nplishe& much by
his visit here.
A NEW JERSEY DELEGATION.
Messrs. w. II. Thatcher of Paterson
and F. E. Kipp of Mt Claire. were here
In conference with Representative Cad
mus relative 10 the silk schedules OF the
new tariff bill. Under the MeKialsy
law, raw or spun silk 10 taxed IS per
cen duty. while tbs tariff On ths maui
featured ailk goods, silk plushas, etc.,
the duty on raw silk 10 80 per cent, and
on manufactured Rsods As per csat. In
the Wilson bill tbs duty on raw silk Is 80
per cent. The New Jersey Mraufac5er-
ers ciatm that the margin the
raw article and the manufactured goods
is too slight, and they want the duty on
the alter raised to at least 90 psr csns.
b. NEW y hHSE1 nc 1lM n 1 Ed.
The estimates OF appropriations fer she
nexI ascal year., submitted TO Congress
by the Secretary of the Treasury. yester-
day, contained the following paragraphs
of interest to New Jersey:
For establishing q light and fog signal
at or near Big Oyster Beds Shoal, Mau'
rice river. Delaware BAY, $25. 600.
ESTABLISHING a light alta toa at or near
the mouth OF Salem cresk, $500.
Building aud repairing roads and walks
and for general repairs to shops. stores
houses aud quarters at the proving
grounds, Sandy Hook, N. j., $500.
Current expenses, maintenance, ETC., oil
proving grounds. $4,000.
Necessary expenses or officers en-
ployed at proving grounds. 80. 600.
Additional machine tools required at
proving grounds, ETC.. $1,000.
THE DOVER POWDER DEPOT.
Under he head OF the powder depot at
| Dover, $3.50 10 asked for two spring
wagons and a pair Of heavy draft horses
for hauling powder. 1t Is stated that at
present the powder Is hauled in spring.
less wagons, making an explosion liable
at any time.
For cleaning and draining land, max
ing roads. building bridges and fsnces.
| etc, SIC. 600 il asked. The land that
was cleared some Years ago." says an OK
| ~planatory note, has now a largo under
growth upon it, and much more land
remains to be cleared to exempt che
| magazines from danger from forest fres.
| New roads are needed In svery direc slon
| on the post. particularly to and around
| the magazines. some of whicn have not
| sven common drlveways TO them. Theirs
is no road TO the upper part OF the reser
walton at all except by going around aHd
, outside 1t. The swampy and on eitaer
| bank OF the stream should be drained. q
! fe 1.aa hal fhA mn0aVInAn aud tfs
moist exhalatiens ara detrimental TO
powder aud Injurious TO the healsh anc
| comfort OF he post. There 10 no exterior
| and very little useful fence TO the post
The old wooden bridges now in place
over the crack sneuld be replaced BY par
manent structures.
liver AND HARBoR IMPROVEMENTS.
In view of the statement Of Chairman
Savers of she Appropriations Co@mlttse
| that she sundry civil bill would provide
for every eeut that the Chief of Engineer
can be probably expended during tn
next fiscal year. the amounss set forth II
the are Of more than usua
interest, The Chief Of Engineers say.
that he can probably expend In New
Jersey the folio wing amour U.s.
Improving Alloway Creek, completing
improvement ....... $500
Improving Elizabeth River, completing
improvement ....... ............... 6,16
4LuPTOFluk 0ObACA SieGA N9LAplGbluk
Improvement. ....... ....s...,.....ss SsUU
provsmsnt.. 5000
Improvement. ....................... 1926
Improvement. .................... 1900
improvement ...-s.... 10000
| Improving Salem River. completing inn
provement.. ITO
Improving Shoal Harbor aud Compton
Creek. Continuing improvement. !. 5000
Improving Shrewsbury River, compler-
ing improvement. Qo,oo
Improving South River, continuing inn
proveutent. 30,OO
Improving Delawar River, continuing
Improvement from Trenton TO its
moutn 60O,0
lotai ....t.',..s
Congressman Csdmus Will this wesl
recommend a postmaster for Rutnsr-
ford.
Ex-Congressmau Pidcock was here to-