The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-21
TO IMPROVE The PASSA|c
Delegations From New
Jersey Before the House
--Rivers and Harbors
Committee.
PROMISES OF CONSIDERATION GIVEN
Deeper Channels Needed for
Newark and Bayonne's
Growing Commerce.
PROMISES OF CONSIDERATION GIVEN

ton from New Jersey was Jouay pe4cre
the House Committee on Rivers and Har-
bors, which has granted them a hearing
relative to certain improvements, very
much needed for the benefit OF commerce.
The delegation was composed Of melnber
Of the Joint Water Ways Committee as
follows:-
Former Senator Dc. Chase, Chairman
of the South Ambey Board of Trade;
George B. Swain and George w. Tosnkins,
of the Newark Board of Trade; Peter
Bennett. Of the Elizabeth Board of
Trade; DIR. s. A. Robinson. of the Staten
Island Chamber of Commerce; Colonel
Charles W. Fuller, Of the Bayonne Board
Of Trade, and Adrian Lyon, Of the Perth
Amboy Board OF Trade.
The delegation was met at the Capitol
by congressman Parker, L~oudensIager,
Gardner, Howell, Stewart, Fowler. Nc
Evan and Pftney. and escorted by them
to the committee rooms.
Congressman Parker and E. w. Tom
kins informed the committee OF the neees-
sity for the continuation of the improve
ments Of the Passafc River. insisting that
the channel of the river should be deepen
ed TO ten feet from the Centre street
bridge to the Greenwood Lake Railroad
bridge, to eight feet from that bridge
to Passaic City.
Among other arguments used by the
delegation to favorably influence the COM
mittee were statistics showing that The
population of Newark and its uburp is
certainly rapidly growing, that Newark Is
now the sixteenth in the list of cities of
the country and from tenth to twelfth in
the list Of manufacturing cities. That 1t
has over $500 manufacturing plants, Of
which the thread mills alone employ
many thousand people. The Illingworth
Company, which is now supplying large
quantities Of ordnance stores, was mem
toned as one of the industries which re-
CURED deep water facilities to success
fully operate its plant.
It was also stated that the Government
receipts from the Postoffice and Internal
Revenue district increased yearly.
Ii was claimed by Congressman Parker.
Mr.. T~ompkins. ex-senator Chase, Colonel
Fuller, Congressman Fowler and others,
that the improvements to the channel be-
tween New Jersey and Staten Island, al
ready begun, should be completed, in or
der tina the great amount Of
which passes through the channel might
do SO at all times without danger, and
that the size of the vessels might be IN
creased.
TIL committee was also asked to recon-
mend an appropriation to continue the
improvements to Raritan Bay and a num-
Der of small rivers.
Congressman ~Loudenslager urged the
necessity for the completing of the inn
provements of the Delaware River. be-
tween New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The
committee listered attentively to the
arguments that the delegation and Con-
gressmen advanced, and Congressman
Henry A. Cooper. chairman Of the com
mfttee. said that every possible ~considera-
ton would be given to them.
Congressman Howell, of New Jersey,
has introduced in the House a joint reso-
luton, which reads as follows
THAT the Secretary of War be, and he
hereby is, authorized and directed to
cause a preliminary survey to be made
of the Woodbridge Creek, in the State
of New Jersey. from its mouth to Sala-
mander Dock, with a view of deepening
the channe and removing shoals therein,
and that the estimated cost of same be
reported"
Congressman Parker has made a report
for the Judiciary Committee or the House.
on bill No. I,17s. to amend section s41 CT
the revised statutes, which permits the
bonding of vessels.
This bill allows bonds to be given in adj
vance of suit brought. The report con-
as follows
The object of this bill is to prevent the
Matchmaking Of vessels by seizing them
just as they are leaving port or on their
way, 1t some lonely place, or unusual
time, sometimes on a Saturday afternoon
or evening, In order to force the payment
of unjust claims. In such cases it is often
to bond the vessel because of
the time, or the distance of the judge,
and the claim has 10 be paid, no matter
how unjust it be. The bill Is supported
the National Board of Steam Naviga-
which has a membership on the at
lantic coast and through the Gulf and
Mississippi Valley
Representative L~oudenslager yesterday
to the House a petition from
the Salem, N j., quarterly meeting of
Men and Women Friends, protesting
Of the United States over the Philippine
or other foreign territory ac-
quired by conquest.
committee of the Newark Board of
Trade. consisting of DIR. Stockton and Si-
las C. Ha1sey, who visited this city Tor the
purpose, has secured the consent of Sefa-
tor Daniel Of Virginia, to be present at a
banquet in Newark in February and de-
liver a speech.