Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-17
FOR
CONGRESSMAN
Trenton People Preparing TO En-
terrain Representative of
His Services.
tFrom the NEWS Correspondent.)

q bNt CIV W.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Mar. IT,
In token of their appreciation OF his
services in having the post office at
Trenton classified in the first class for
delivery the letter carriers of Tren-
ton will give a banquet in honor of
Renresentative Wood Monday night,
Apri1 10. Mr.. Wood is much graft
fed over this recognition of his eff
forts in behalf of the carriers of Tren-
ton.
Mr.. Wood has recommended the
appointment of James ID. Mackay as
postmaster at Lambertville, to sue
coed Charles A. Skillman. Mr.. Wood
would have been glad to recommend
Skillman for reappointment, but w
ing TO the department refusing to
sanction the appointment on account
of Mr.. Skillman's poor health, Mr..
Wood was obliged to recommend
some one else.
Mr.. Wood has received a petition
from the Sanitary Pressers of Tren-
ton opposing the Chinese immigra-
ton.
boundary dispute
The bill to ratify the action of New
Jersey and Delaware with reference
to the boundary dispute, which pass
ed the senate, is held up" in the
committee on judiciary, pending a
conference of the Delaware congress-
men. Ii seems strange that there
should be any objection to the bill at
this late day, inasmuch as Delaware
took the initiative in the boundary
settlement.
Senators Kean and Dryden have re-
ceived petitions from several organi-
cations of the State Federation of
| Women's Clubs, advocating IN appro-
priation for an investigation into the
industrial conditions of women of the
United States. 1t is stated in tho
printed petitions that there are 81
600, 900 women engaged in gainful
employment and that 5000 600 are
working in manufacturing establish
.ments; that it is affecting the wage
rates; that marriage is decreasing, di-
Yorce increasing and the birth rate
scarcely exceeds the death rate.
To Study Criminals.
William j. Chandler, of South Or
ange, secretary of the Medical Society
of New Jersey, writes to the effect
that the establishment of a laboratory
for the study of the criminal, pauper
and defective classes is approved by
the society.
Senator Dryden is chairman of a
subcommittee to select a site for a
new building for the department OF
justice. Senators Wetmore and Clay
were named to act with him.
Senator Kean has had the bill TO
increase the pension of Lydia A.
Jones, widow of John p. Jones, to $40
a month passed by the senate. The
amount was reduced from $25 to $40.
On a letter head inscribed Rev.
John II. Pratt, minister First COngre-
g~ational Church, Verona the writer
asks for the passage of the taX-free
alcohol bill" and declares scores of
manufacturing industries are now
fighting for this economic REFORM
indicating that he is interested in
something else besides theology.
The secretary of the treasury has
recommended the appropriation OF
$25, 900 for construction of automatic
and recording scales at the ports of
entry.
William J. Browning, chief clerk
of tn ehouse, has some handsome
souvenirs of brass made from the bat
tleship Maine fixtures. He has re-
Gently had two breakfast plates used
at the White House in the time of
Lincoln and Grant presented to him.
w. Slofe, of Jersey City, is 1t the
Raleigh. c. ). A.