The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-30
WORK IN CONGRESS
Bills That New Jerseys
Representatives Left
Unpassed.
DUNN'S BRIDGE BILL HUNG UP
Opposition of Newark's Commercial
Interests Endangers Its
Passage.
DUNN'S BRIDGE BILL HUNG U

WASHINGTON. Nov. 80, 1S94.-The Con-
gressmen of New Jersey apparently did
not leave so much undone when the ses-
sion adjourned as the Senators did.
Mr.. Loudenslager of the First District,
in addition to some bills also introduced
in the Senate, has the following axes to
grind: No. 401, increasing the cost OF the
public building at Camden to $l5o,00o; No.
"A, SSS, directing that the name of Caroline,
| widow of Geo. Fox, late Company H.,
Twenty-fourth New Jersey Volunteers,
be replaced upon the pension rolls, not
w~ithstanding her marriage to one Lopez,
now dead. The object of this bill being
now attainable under a general law the
dill will be withdrawn. Congressman
Gardner has in charge No. 4,525, correct
ing the military record of Horace j.
Rowell, late of Company E, Forty-eight
New York Volunteers, by removing the
charge of desertion and No. 4,525, to ex-
tend a patent on bicycles granted to
William Smith, son of the late Hesekiah
Smith, of Smithsville, in Burlington
county. Congressman G-eissephainer has
in addition to some bills mentioned in
Senator McPherson's lists some public
bills pending.
NEW LIGHTHOUSE.
One, No. 1885,, provides for the erection
of a lighthouse at East Point, N. j.,
the project having the approve! OF the
Lighthouse Board, and No: 6,446, Identical
with Senate No. 1889, to incorporate the
American College of Musicians at Wash
ington. Among other things the faculty
Of this proposed school is to examine
military and naval bandmasters of the
country. Among the incorporates named
in the bill is Prof. Bowman of Newark,
the we'll known organist. Among Mr..
lowing:-To pension Kate Church, widow
of Joseph Church, late Company c, Thir-
tenth Massachusetts Volunteers; to pen
sion Mary MeChesneya widow of Thomas
NJ. McChesney. late Company n, Nir!th
New Jersey Volunteers. No. 4,466, in
creasing the pension of John stiflWell,
late Company D., Fourth Battery New
| Jersey Light Artillery.
Mr.. Cornish has but one private pen
sion bill TO look after, No. 600, increas-
i rssst to $40 Iat q p o} cd 5ne pspSi 3, T f raeGR
MIR. CADMUS' WORK.
Mr.. Cadmus, of the Fifth district
among which No. 1898, for the promotion
Of anatomical science n for the pre-
| vention of the Dissertation of graYes in
the District of Columbia. The bill per-
mits the delivery of the bodies of per
| sons having died in prisons, almshouses
| 3r hospitals to medical colleges after due
notice has been given to TIE nearest
Secretary of the Interior to issue to the
heirs of Philip Francis Renaut a patent
confirming and vesting in said heirs the
four several grants of land made by De
| Boisbriant and Des Ursius, June IA, 1928,
to said Philip Francis RenauIt, and par
ticularly described in Duff Green's edition
of American State Papers, volume 2,
page 163.
The Court of Private Lam Claims shall
determine the value of said lands if sold
| by the United States. In justice to Mr..
troduced this bill, which revives a very
ancient and questionable claim, by re
guest; No. 3,719, restoring Edward Nc
Donald Reynolds, of New Jersey, to the
Corps with the rank of colonel; No. $50,
| referring the claim of Stewart Taylor, of
New Jersey, administrator of the estate
Of the late David 3. Taylor, first ser
| g~ineers, United States Army, to the
Court of Claims, notwithstanding the
statute of limitations; a bill granting a
| daughter of Enoch Hoskin, deceased,
late a private in the Continental Army.
| War of the Revolution, h%onorably dis
creasing the pension of Mary E. Cham
berlain, of New Jersey, widow of Lowell
A. Chamberlain. late of Battery C., First
unite 6G stasss s SMILEY. SHOWING.
Congressman Fielder of the Seventh
district. will look after the following
bills:-No. 4,491, correcting the military
record of John O'Grady, now of New
Jersey, late of Company F, Seventy
second New York Volunteers, by remov-
ing the charge of desertion; No. 3,99S,
appropriating $40, 663. 81 to the administra-
tors Of William ~Boardman. deceased, for
work lone and supplies furnished in the
construction of the u. S. s. Chicopee and
Tallapoosa, at Jersey City, as per report
of Commodore Thomas O.. Selfridge, U.
S.. N. found in Ex-Doc. Is, first session
Thirty-ninth Congress. No. 3,257, to pay
to the executors of John c.. Thompson,
deceased, $4,000 for carrying the mail
town. Ind from January 1, 1861, to June
80, 1863. No. 3.252, increasing the pension
OF Carolina ". English, of New Jersey,
widow of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas G.
English, late Second United States In
fantry. No. 5,5S6, to correct the muster
Of Charles Borneman, of New Jersey,
late first lieutenant Forty-f1rst New York
Volunteers, SO as to give him the pay
of his rank from July !, 1863, to Novem-
Der 20, 1869; to pay to the widow of George
c.. Foulck, late a lieutenant Junior grade
United States Navy, $2,613.14.
Finally comes Congressman John T.
Dunn, of the Eighth district. He has lost
all interest in Congress, and it is doubt
full whether he will ever press his Bridge
bill SO much a~ntagonized by the Newark
vate bills are No. 4,74, for the relief
of the Samuel l.. Moore & Sons Company
renting the time penalties for building
the u. S. practice cruiser Bancroft, and
No. 1910, granting a pension to the widow
of r.. p. Barlow, late Company l, Twen-
ty-eighth New Jersey Volunteers.
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