Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-04
SCULLY STIRRED
/ BY CUTTING OUT
/. OF R|VERBUDGE
Wonders What MARITIME and
Hughes Will Do to Restore
Shrewsbury Appropriation.
IFrom a stan Correspondent

1trOm stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 4.-Repre-
sentative Scully is exceedingly warm
today and his heat is not altogether
due to the weather. His Temporal
mental warmth registers about SO
degrees in the shade of his collar,
and 1t is all due to the cutting down
and pulling out of the rivers ana
narbors appropriations the trifiinl
sum of 100000 that he had inserted
there for the benefit of his constitu-
ents and the Shrewsbury river. Rep
resentative Scully represents the dis
trict through which the winding
shrewsbury flows, and he knows full
we'll what 1t means to him and his
constituents to have that money for
river improvements.
He had worked hard and long with
his committee, the rivers and ilar-
bors committee of the House, TO have
them see the necessity of appropriat-
ing some money for the river which
made the Shrewsbury oyster famous
1t was no easy matter to convince
that committee that the river flow
ing by the banks of the Navesink
Highlands needed any Improvement.
Mr.. Scully had experts appear before
the committee to tell what was this
matter with the Shrewsbury. He had
people from that district come to
Washington and tell how the coun-
try from Red Bank to the sea would
be benefited by having the river
dredged, a few bars removed here
and there, and generally frisked up
Tor the betterment of navigation. =.
Have Nailed Appropriation.
He spent days and days arguing
with the economic members of the
committee, who were inclined to the
thought that the Shrewsbury could
wait another year or two before her
wants were attended to. But Rep
resentative, Scully said: NAY, not
so,' or words to that effect. THE
work must be done at once, if not
sooner" I'm this wise he prevailed
upon the committee, and induced it
to appropriate the trifiling sum OF
100000. The glad news spread along
and glad We're the hearts of naviga-
tors and others. Gladdest of all was
the heart of Representative ,Scully
for he knew he had an invincible
argument for renomination and re-
election in the coming fall. Is it
3nyswonde: now that he is ali "het'
fdp,' as they say here sometimes?
What Representative Scully says
Is: Somebody in the Senate was
asleep at the switch when they all
lowed that 500, 900 appropriation to
be eliminated from the BILL" Of
course, the Representative does not
mention the names of, either Senator
MARITIME or, Senator Hughes. He Is
100 good q parliamentarian to indulge
in personalities But he has made j.
clear to those two Senators that he
expects them to remedy the wrong
and right the ill-effects of their slum-
Der at the Senatorial switch.
Playing of Politics Hinted.
There are those who hold another
view to the elimination of the 100000
from the pork barrel of the Repre-
sentative of Middlesex, Monmouth
and Ocean counties. The hint is
thrown out that it is no logger a
secret that Representa- tive Scully
would like to be United States Sena-
tor Scully, and while this ambition
may be commendable, it is not to- be
encouraged by the gentlemen from
New Jersey at present wearing sena-
torlal togas. II is bruited that they
were not really slumbering at the
switch, but the admission is made
that they might have been playing
'possum. Now they are in the posi-
ton of gentlemen who have to be
"seen" before there will be any ac-
ton for the restoration of the 100000
to its place among the rivers and har
bors appropriations.
Representative Scully has seen his
colleagues in the Senate. What he
said to them and what they said to
him are among the things not cata
logued among the photograph rec
ords. Both Senators announce that
they will do their utmost to have the
item restored to the bill. Meantime
kilograms from indignant citizens
along the Shrewsbury are being re-
layed from the House to Red Bank
and back TO the Senate. Representa-.
tive Scully, meantime, has to be con-
tent with the assurance that the Sen
ators will do their utmost. What is
bothering him and adding to his heat
is what their utmost" will be.