The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-27
OUR CONGRESSMAN.
Many Measures Left Over
From Last Session for
Them to Press.
SENATOR M'PHERSoN'S LIST
Bills for the Relief Of Jersey
men and Jersey In
stitutions.
SENATOR M'PHERSON'S LIS

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. q, 1884
| The third and final session of the Fifty
| third Congress convenes a week from
| Monday next, December 3, and ends by
the constitutional limitation of Congress
on March 8, 1895. During these pr1e1
three months Congress has not only to
provide for the monetary needs OF the
Government for the fiscal year 1S95-1S96,
but it will nave to grapple with many
grave financial questions and important
national matters, SO that but little time
will remain for the consideration OF what
is known as private legislation, and IN
cludes claims against the Government
bills to remove charges of desertion, res
toration to rank and pension bills Tor
individuals whose cases can not be reach-
ed by general laws. Notwithstanding
the long sessions of the present Congress-
but few reports have been made from
the Committee on Claims, the
on Military Affairs and the ommitte
on Invalid Pensions. The
on Public Buildings nave
the erection of a large number OF pub
lie buildings and to increase the eX-
penditure for some in course OF erec-
ton, but it seems to be the settled pol
icy of this Congress not to pass any OF
these measures except the utmost neces-
sity is shown, and even then the Con-
gresham interested must be an exceed
ingly popular man in order to be heard.
Still in the hull of the heated debates
and in the limited time devoted to the
consideration of private business, it may
be possible that some of the bills in
which the New Jersey Congressman are
interested may slip through.
DR.. Thomas Dunn English of the New
ark district is interested most OF all IN
the bill to purchase additional ground
for the Newark Post Office as a protec-
ton against fire, and it will not be his
fault if the bill does not go through the
House before the holiday recess. Had
it not been for Mr.. Sayers of Texas,
who initiates the great objector Holman,
the bill would now be a law DR.. Eng
fish is also interested in some financial
measures that may yet come to the SURF
ace, as a general o~verhauling OF our
financial system is talked about. This
is especially the case with the doctors
bill, No. $3.50, for a rebate of the tax on
notes of State banks, as this measure is
likely to be alluded to in the Presidents
message in some form or other. rms
bill gives to the Comptroller of the Cur
rency some control over state banks
and permits them to deposit State, coun-
ty or municipal bonds as security Tor
the notes issued, and taxes them 1a per
cent. as is the case with the circulation
of National banks.
DIR, ENGLISH'S SILVER BILL.
DR.. English's other financial bill pro-
vides for the coinage of silver half dol
lars, but it does not go far enough 70
please the ~out-and-out silver men of
the party. OF DR.. English's private
bills the following await action, most OF
them not having been even reported by
1902, to correct the military record of
Major John eonar of Newark, in mus
tering him as Captain of the seventy
second New York from date OF April Is,
1861, The monetary value of this Dill TO
the Major is very small. No. 5,349, grant
ing a pension to Ella Hatfield, Invalid
daughte of the late Major David Hat
field, First New Jersey Voiunteers; NC,
G. Rose so as to show that he served
from February 10, 1865, to January ao'
1868, as an acting masters mate ana CIV
ing him the pay thereof.
This is a very just measure, and has
been before several Congresses, but the
Committee on Naval Affairs has not YET
reported thereon again. NO. 4iSao, PlaG7
United States Infantry, upon the re
tired list of the army as Captain. WIS
hart is known through his connectlon
with the Sunday movement and anu
saloon agitation. His bill, even II passed,
would never become a law, as the Presl-
dent is opposed to all measures of this
SENATOR SMITHS BILLS.
Senator James Smith, Jr., has no
private bills of any kind, but some pup
lie ones pending, the o.
which is Senate No. LIS, to amend the
Interstate Commerce act. 1t adds to sec
ton 10 of the original act a clause that
where the common carrier is a corpora,
lion. such corporation maybe prosecuted
for misdemeanor, and upon conviction
be fined not exceeding $4,000; also pro-
viding that the service of any writ under
an Indictment of a corporation upon any
officer thereof residing within the limits
Of the judicial district where the indict-I
ment is found, shall be sufficient.
IT is but natural that Senator McPher-
son being the senior of the New Jersey
delegation. should have the largest num-
Der of bills pending, and he is very, apt
to get some of them enacted into laws
before he leaves Congress forever. His
public bills relate nearly all to naval
affairs, and many of his private bills
are identical with like measures intro
est to Newarkers is the bill authorizing
the President to place Colonel Thomas
P. O'Reilly, of Newark. on the retired
prived Of his military standing by I'M
just and irregular practices at the IN,
Stance of a superior officer who dishked
him..
doubted and the matter has been sew
eral times favorably reported upon by
committees, / am constrained TO say
that there is no hope for Colonel O'Reilly
in this Congress-.
OF Senator McPherson's other bills the
following deserve m~ention:-No; 10Y, aP-
propriating $3.50, 900 for a public build
ing at Paterson, Nj. a similar bill in
the House, by Mr.. Cadmus, is on the
House calendar. No. 1904, suspend1ng
the operation of the limit of age for the
appointment of assistant paymasters in
the navy. for the benefit of such gradu-
ates of the Naval Academy as We're
al sea at the time of the passage of the
act. No. T,651, appointing a Commissions
err to acquire the right to place and estab-
fish land marks and permanent memor-
ials to aid in preserving the memories
and the knowledge of the localities OF
the patriotic struggles of the american
forces in the Revolutionary War. No.
10y. confirming jurisdiction of the Court
Of Claims in the case of George M.
Clamp. of New Jersey, against the United
States steamship Lenapree and directing
judgement in favor of the said Clapp not
u exceed the amount fixed by a naval
board in 1865.
No. sos. referring to the Court of
Claims the claim of the Erie Railroad
Company for carrying the mails from
january /. 1874, to June so, 1877. No. 1900,
nroviding for the erection of a statue to
cost $4,000 to the memory of the his
toriau. George Bancroft, founder of the
Tinted States Naval Academy at An
n~anolis. No. 504, to remove the bar of
the statute of limitation in the case Of
the United States for the use OF GER