Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-17
FOR MONUMENT
AT ELIZABETH H.
Senator Kean Takes Action in
Connection With Its Erection
New Jersey at Washington.
(From the NEWS correspondemt.)

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17:-Sena-
tor Kean has introduced a resolution
authorizing the Secretary of War to
donate $4,000 pounds of condemned
bronze cannon for an equestrian stat
ue in honor of the late General Win
field Scott to be erected in Scott Park,
Elizabeth. The cannon, in the event
Of the passage of the resolution, will
be turned over to the General Win
field Scott Association.
Senator Kean has introduced a
boil to increase the pension of Sarah
e. Stockton to $12. The bill is
similar to one introduced by Mr..
Loudenslager in the House of Rep
r~esentatives.
Moro Pensions.
Representative Gardner has intro
dueed a bill to grant a pension of
$40 a month to Mary Hunt Smith
Bishop, widow of Edwin Bishop, for
merly of Company H, Second New
Jersey Volunteers; and a bill to in
the pension of Edmund John
son, formerly of Company E, 31st
New York Volunteers, at $72 a
month.
Mr.. Gardner has been advised that
a pension has been granted to Jo-
seph Hand, of Cape May, at SO q
month from Dec. 10, 1906; to Will
lam X. Morris, of Jacobstown, at
$40 a month from Dec. l, 1906; and
to Benejah Helms, of Bridgeton, at
$12 a month from Nov. 81, 1906.
Senator Dryden has received a COM
munication from Charles C.Jountry,
of Comden, advocating a pension
for ex-prisoners of war, and a letter
from Nathan Barnert, of Paterson,
opposing the restriction of immigra-
ton.
Representative Loudenslager has
filed petitions from the State Fede-
ration of Women's Clubs in favor of
child labor; from Wenonah in favor
of the McCumber bill; from a Cam
den paper in favor of the removal of
the duty on linotype parts, and from
the Monday Afternoon Club of Pas
sale in favor of forest reserves.
Does Not Want Free Seed
Representative Howell has receiv-
ed a letter from G. c. Hulsart, of
Matawan, opposing the free seed dis
tribution. He writes: GAS a farmer
| want to say none of us values those
seeds highly enough to plant them be-
cause there is not one in ten that ]
will grow and when n does grow
it is too common to receive any at
tention."
Mr.. Howell has been advised that
a pension has been granted to Mat
thias F. Vickery, of New Brunswick,
at $40 a month from Sept. IA, 1906.
Caroline E. Condit has been APP
pointed postmaster at Milburn, and
Marcus Mitchell postmaster at East
Orange.
Representative Wiley has been adj
vised that a pension has been grant
ed to James F. Lloyd, of East Or.
ange, at So a month.
Representative Allen has received
a petition from the ellington Lum-
Der Company, of Paterson, favoring
the improvement of the Passaic. riv-
err.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Reynolds,
of Camden, are in this city. Mr.. Rey-
nolds is attending the sessions of the
National Board of Trade. They call
ed on Mr.. Browning yesterday.
Mr.. Browning has called up the
pension claim of Abel s. Miller, of
Camden.
Lieut-Commander A. H. Davis, U.
NJ, has been ordered to the plant
of the New York Shipbuilding Com
pany at Camden.
G. b. circuit, of Elizabeth, is at
the Releigh; Mr.. and Mrs. G. H.
Moore, of Elizabeth; William Bur-
CESS, of Trenton; and H. P. Mulnli,
of Jersey City, are at the Ebbitt.
G. S. A.