Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-12
new JERSEYAT
WASHINGTON.
Many Pensions Pass For Jersey
men---Other News of Interest
at National Capital.
GErom the NEWS Correspondent. }

(From the NEWS correspondcnt.)
WASHINGTON, May 12.-Senator
Dryden will have as his guests to
make the trip from this city to Wash
ington Park on SaturdaySnext to at
tend the ,planked shad dinner which
Colonel Anthony r. Kuser will give,
the members; of the congressional del
egation, correspondents of New York,
Philadelphia and New Jersey papers,
and members of the Gridiron club.
In all it is expected about eighty per-
sons will go from here as guests of
Senator Dryden. The party will leave
here at nine o'clock or the Baltimore
and Ohio, and returning leave Phila-
delphia at 6:18 pm, arriving at $40
pm.
Representative L~oudenslager has
been advised that pensions have been
granted to Edwin G. Hess, of Cam
den, at Sc a month, from Feb. 20,
1906; to James Marine, Of Swedes-
boro, at SO a month from March IL,
1906; to William H. Swope, of Arch
street, Camden, at So a month from
Dec. 13, 1905; and to John Farrell, of
Spruce street, Camden, at $12 a
month from Jan. 10, 1905.
Representative Gardner has been
advised that pensions have been
granted to Isaac d. Mayhem, of Vine
land, at $I2 a month from April A,
1906; and to Elizabeth Vanneman,
of Millville, the accrused pension of
her husband, w. A. Vanneman. He
has a petition from Statehem, Cor
sair & Co., of Newport, relating to a
section of the pure food bill.
Representing the legislature of
New Jersey, a joint committee, con-
sisting of Senators James F. Minturn,
of Hudson; l.. M. Crosse, of Cape
Maryland Assemblymen H. d. Thomp-
son., of Mercer; Thomas G. Elvin, of
Atlantic, and George G. Warren, of
Ocean, came here last night to confer
with Senator Dryden relative to the
resolution covering the improvement
of the inlets along the Atlantic coast
under the supervision of the state or
of municipalities or individuals. The
committee had a conference with
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mittee on rivers and harbors, and 1t
is expected the matter will have fur
Their consideration by that commit
tee.
Senator Dryden is interested in the
case of Solomon Woolworth of New
ark, a veteran of the civil war, who is
SIS years of age. He is drawing a
pension which was granted August g.,
1908. He would like to get the back
pay from the act of June, 1890, and
Senator Dryden will see what can be
done in his behalf. The old man lost
his discharge from the army in 1866.
1t was stolen from him, he claims.
Senators Dryden and Kean have
some petitions from Montclair, in IA
vor of the children's labor bureau;
from Plainfield in favor of the bill to
restrict immigration; from the Mon
roe Avenue Episcopal church, OF
Plainfield, in favor of the Alaskan
schools; from Westfield in favor of
THE senate immigration bill, with
amendments; and from e. r. john
stone, superintendent of the New Jer-
sey School for feeble minded persons,
in favor of the restriction of immi-
grafton.
Representative Gardner has intro
duced a bill for the creation of a
child labor bureau, with a chief, an
assistant chief and other officers, the
chief to receive a salary of $4,000.
Representative Howell has been
advised that a pension of SO a
month has been granted to George H..
Lambert, of New Brunswick, from
Jan. a, 1906; to Rebecca A. Reeves,
of Barnegat, at So a month from
Dec. %, 1905; to Silas c. Todd, Boon
ton, at $12 a month from Dec. 6,
1905; and to Elizabeth Zimmerman,
of North Long Branch, at SIS a month
from July 81, 1905.
Mr.. Howell has been advised that
the claim of Mrs. Mary Blakey for an
allowance of $568.3S for postage
stamps stolen from the postofice at
Sea Girt, Monmouth county, last No
vember, will not be allowed. The
stamps were stolen by burglars and
no trace of them was had. C. S. A.
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