Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
ORANGE D. A. R
ASK SEN BRIGGS
TO SAVE BUREAU
Jersey Pythians Also Demand
Legislation Forbidding Use
of U. S. Army Uniform.
Especial to the Newark star.

WASHINGTON, March 12.-Senator
Briggs today received a petition from
the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics of Orange asking for the
suppression of the white slave traffic.
This petition is late, since the House
and Senate have passed the bill to re-
strict this infamous traffic, and it Is
now in the hands OF the conferees.
: Orange Mountain Chapter Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
of Orange, ask for the retention of the
bureau of information in the immi-
grafton service, and Harmony Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, and Volunteer
Lodge, same order, of Elizabeth, re-
monstrate against legislation permit
ting the wearing of the United States
uniform by unauthorized persons.
Senator Briggs has also received a
memorial from the New Jersey Edi-
storial Association opposing the print
ing of the return notice or stamped
envelopes by the government, which
has already been forbidden by act of
Congress. He also presented petitions
from councils of the American Fedora
ton of Labor at Paterson. Plainfield,
,Glassboro and Passaic in favor of the
"eight-hour' bill.
United States Senator Kean has in
trodueed an amendment to the river
and iharbor bill providing for the
widening of the channel of the Raritan
river from the Mill, or Martins dock
creek, to Martins dock, on the north
side. 1t is near a dock operated by
a large clay industry, in which Charles
A. Bloomfield, of M~etuchen, is in
terested. There is a bar in the river
between the dock and the channel
proper and the engineers require the
authorization of Congress before dredg-
ing the bar, since it is not in the chan
mel. Representative Howell took up the
matter with Senator Kean, and as soon
as the need for the work was ex-
planned to him the senator introduced
the amendment to the river and harbor
bill. He will make an effort to have
the amendment placed in the bill at
its passage by the Senate, in common
with several other amendments which
he has introduced in behalf of projects
in New Jersey.
Joseph Stricken, a lawyer of Perth
Amboy, has been in this city several
days with a delegation of Slavs. Mr..
Stricken went before the director of the
census yesterday in connection with
the. work of enumerating the Slavs in
& this country.
Senator Kean has introduced a bill
to correct the military record of Ed
ward Johnston. and a bill to correct the
military record of Jonas Beech. Both
bills. with accompanying papers were
referred to the committee on. military
affairs.
Representative Howell has filed an
afidavit of James Kelsey, of Keyport,
who claims that the oysters that were
destroyed in 1888 to 1890 were valued
at 10,D05. Mr.. Howell has a bill before
the committee on claims to appoint a
to determine the amount Of
the damages.
General j. Madison Drake and
Thomas A. Pierson, of Elizabeth, and
Major Benjamin King, of Railway, who
have been spending several days in this
city, have returned home. Mr.. Pierson
was here some years g as one of the
employees of the capitol, and he took
General Drake and Major King all
through the building, showing them
many things which the average visitor
mover secs.