The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-01-22
Railroad Asks Congress to
Permit the Erection Of An
other Over the Delaware
TO SHORTEN ITS ROUTE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL
CHURCH FAvoRs A MoDIFICA7
+. TIoN OF THE CHINESE EXcLU-
SION LAWS PETITIONS
AGAINST SNooT


introduced bill which authorizes the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the
Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad
Company to construct, maintain and op
crate bridge spanning the Delaware
River, within one mile of the southern
boundary of Trenton.
This bridge will probably be built for
the new freight line, which will extend to
Waverly, and which will be planned to
relieve the congestion of the main line of
the railroad The bill provides that as
many tracks as may be deemed neces-
sary shall be built, and the bridges will
be built after plans to be approved by
the Secretary of War AS is customary
with bridges of this sort, it is provided
that it shall be known as a post road,
and the United States shall have the
right of way over the structure for pos
tal-telegraph purposes. The bin was re-
ferred to the Committee on Commerce.
If the bill providing for an increase in
the appropriation for agricultural exper-
iment stations becomes a law the sta
tion at New Brunswick, in connection
with Rutgers College, will have more
money to be expended. Ne. Adams, of
Wisconsin, has made a report which rec
ommends the passage of the bill. At
present the stations receive $4,000 an
nually. 1t is provided by the bill that
$4,000 additional shall be paid to each
station for the first year, and $1,000 adj
ditional for each year for period of FIVE
years until the total incSease shall
amount to $4,000 annually to each stax
ton.
It is stated in the report that remark
able work has been done through the sta
tions in developing the agricultural inter
ests of the country. No other single
agency has contributed so much to the
agricultural education of this country or
has eliminated more errors from farm
practices. In 1865 there were 731 600
names upon the mailing lists of the agri-
cultural experiment stations, an increase
of more than 100000 addresses in two
years. These mailing lists are made up
from requests of men who want the lit
erature of the stations, and indicate the
estimation in which their work is held by
the farmers of the country. Mention is
also made of the appropriation of 49,,
Geo in New Jersey for the work of inves-
tigation in connection with the efforts to
exterminate the mosquito.
The New Jersey Representatives have
received from Captain c. B. Parsons, of
Red Bank, Monmouth County, President
of the Maritime Association of New
York, copies of resolutions adopted in be-
half of the improvement of the Coney
Island channel in New York Halbor.
The Congressman are asked to aid in OBJ
tanning the necessary appropriation, as
the improvement is greatly needed.
Representative Howell has received a
communication from the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church favoring the modi-
feation of the Chinese exclusion laws so
as to permit certain classes of Cinnamon
to come into this country, such as stu
dents and professional men,.
It has been decided by the House Com
mittee on Judiciary to favorably report
Mr.. Parker's rebate BILL This measure
provides that shippers deriving benefit or
advantage from carriers in the way of
unlawful rebates shall be liable to the
United States in the amount of the bene-
fit The bill empowers the government
to recover at law the amount of the re-
bate and court expenses. If the shipper
accepts the rebate knowingly the United
States may recover twice the amount.
Informants in. successful cases are to re-
Iceiye one-tenthg of the amount recovered.
Senator Dryden is being importuned TO
have. the bravery of Lieutenant A. S. APP
pleget, of Prospect Plains, who served in
the Second New Jersey Cavalry. recog-
nized by Congress. He was enlisted as
lieutenant of Company G. At the battle
of Guntown, Miss, he was in command
as major, and subsequently,. His
friends fell that he should at least have
the brevet of a major. The Senator will
look over the papers carefully, and it is
probSble he win introduce bill for the
relief Of Mr.. Appleget.
The Senator's have been advised that