Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-05

MONUMENT
Congress Passes Bill ApprOpria-
ting $4,000 for Erection of
Mark on Historic Battlefield.
From the NEWS Corrospomdent.)

tFTOH tHt I'VE WG COfTCSDOUdeufO
WASHINGTON, d. c., June s.
Representative Wood has finally ac-
complished what several other OF. his
predecessors have tried to do and
failed in bringing to pass, and made
the erection of the long desired
Princeton battlefield monument a +
tainty. In congress after congress
the bill providing for its erection,
partly by the. Princeton Battlefield
Memorial Association and partly by
the general government, has passed
one house or the other, but never be-
fore in both house.
MIR. Wood Tries Again.
Mr.. Wood came here with the idea
that he could at least try once again,
and he believed he would succeed.
Accordingly he introduced early in
the present session a bill looking to
the desired end, and in order to has
ten along the passage of the bill, re-
quested Senator Kean to introduce a
similar bill in the senate. With Sen
ator Dryden on the committee on Ii
brary, to which the bill was referred,
the bill received a quick and favora-
BILE report and vas called up by Sen
ator Kean and passed through the
senate long before Mr.. Wood could
get the speakers consent to bring it
up in the house, although Mr.. Wood
had secured a favorable report there
on from the house library committee.
The Opportunity Came.
Mr.. Woods opportunity came yes
terday, however, and under a suspen-
sion of the rules the library chairman
called the bill up, in company with
several others on the same general
subject, and it was promptly passed.
Having both Mr.. Woods bill and that
of Senator Kean, which had already
passed one house, in its possession,
the house took up and passed the SEN
ate bill, because that was further adj
vanced than the other, and because
that is the usual custom. The house
committee had amended the senate
bill, and in the amended form it was
passed by the house.
The Provisions.
The bill provides that the general
government shall appropriate $780,
600, to be added to a similar amount
that has been raised by the Prince
ton Battlefield Monument Associa-
ton, with which a monument is to be
erected on the Princeton battlefield,
in commemoration of the great bat
tie there fought. The house amend
-ment simply provided that the re-
sponsibility for the care and keeping
of the said monument and grounds
shall be and remain with the Associ-
alton named, it being especially un-
derstood that the United States shall
have no responsibility therefor.
T~elegraphs Congratulations.
Mr.. Wood promptly sent kilograms
of congratulations to the association,
and to ex-President Cleveland, at his
Princeton home, for his assistance in
creating sentiment for the passage of
the bill among those senator's and
representatives with whom he is on
close terms of intimacy.
Mr.. Wood is being congratulated
on all sides for his success in push
ing the bill to a successful issue, for
the bill is already as good as a law,
because the house amendment Is
nothing to which the senate can pos
sibly take any exceptions, and it will
very soon go to the president for his
approval, which it is sure to receive.
Late on Saturday evening Mr..
Wood took occasion to make a ring
ing ten minute speech in favor of his
bill, which he then knew would be
up for consideration on Monday. The
was largely historical.
G. S. A.