Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-02-20
PENSION FOR
ENGINEERS.
Senator Dryden Has introduced
a Bill Relating to Civil War
Engine Drivers.
tFrom the NEWS Correspondent

/ cuNOCdlGu DN REPRESENTATIVE w iltN
of East Orange. The senator has in
troduccd a bill which provides that
the locomotive engineers of the civil
war, who served for six months, and
: who are now unable to earn a sup
port shall be placed on the pension
list at thirty dollars a month. Provi-
sion is also made for the payments of
pensions to widows at the rate of
twenty-four dollars a month. Fur
Their recognition is made in behalf of
the locomotive engineers in a bill
which provides that the secretary OF
war shall enter upon the records of
the war department the anne of
these men, taken from the records of
the Quartermaster General of the Ar
my. This is tardy recognition, perhaps,
for brave men, yet it is better late
than never.
The war department approves the
bill making provision for the build
ing of a new bridge spanning the
Delaware river below Trenton. Mr..
Piles, of the senate committee on
commerce, has made a report on the
bill which was introduced by Senator
Penrose. Accompanying the report,
which recommends its passage, is a
letter from B~rigadier General A. Mac
kenzie, chief of engineers, stating
that the matter has had the attention
Of Major j. C. Sanford, of the corps
of engineers, and he approves the
+ bill. Major Sanford says in part:
The location is in a straight reach
of the river where a draw-bridge of
proper construction should neither
occasion formation of ice gorges or
$ seriously interfere with navigation.
The question of ice gorges is here
considered as decidedly affecting the
+, maintenance of the channel in the Vi
y entity. though, in addition to the in
T jury to the channel, an ice gorge at
this location would do immense in
: jury to property ut Trenton. In view
Of the above 1 see no objection to the
bill. | would add, however, that the
, locality is such as to require the cor
struction of a rather expensive type
of bridge in view of the peculiar con-
ditions at the site"
General Mackenzie expresses his
, approval of the conclusions reached
by Major Sanford, and in all probable
ity the bill will be enacted.
1t was Jersey day at the White
House yesterday. Representative
Wiley presented Alfred B. Cosey, of
Newark. the well known lawyer, who
is a colored man. Mr.. Cosey was
much gratiied at the cordial recep-
tion he had at the hands of the presi-
dent, and expressed his approval of
? the views Of Mr.. Roosevelt on the
race question. Then MI. Browning,
the chief clerk of the house. introduce
ed his cousin, Cooper Browning. and
the latter reminded the president hat
; he had sent him a barrel of good Jer-
sey potatoes. Mr.. Browning told MIR.
Roosevelt that his grandfather had
had eighteen children, and the pres
ident remarked; Good, good
Senator Dryden has received a pc
tition from East Orange and Newark.
signed by a number of individuals.
advocating separate statehood for In
dian territory. Senators Kean and
Dryden have received % petition from
Division %. brotherhood of Locomo-
, tive Engineers. of Camden. favoring
/, the Penrose employees liability bill:
a petition from the Somerset county
Medical Society. signed by John p,
Hecht. w. H. Long and w. H. Mer-
rell, as a committee. in favor of the
Hepburn pure food bill.
REPRESENTATIVE Wood has introduc-
ed a bill to increase the pension of
Jesse S. Cammack. OF Hightstown.
formerly of Go. C. G7th New York
Volunteers, to S2l a month. He has
, received a petition from Diamond
Council, Jr. O. T.. A. NJ. of Swedes-
boro, favoring the restriction of i'm
t migration, and another petition of
this sort from Paterson.
F. p. Sargent. the commissioner
general of Immigration. appeared be-
fore the house committee on immi-
grafton and naturalization this after