Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-06-23
Amendment to Measure Calling
for Survey Of Channel is
Passed by Committee on
Commerce; Now In the Bill.
PORK BARREL" is EXPOSED"

Appropriations LOT New Jersey
waterway projects, as contained in
the rivers and harbors bill, will be
the subject of debate this week on
the floor of the senate. The amend
ment to the rivers and harbors bill
calling for a new survey of the
= IN annef-which was introduced in
the senate by Senator MARITIME, has
been passed by the committee on
commerce and Is now part of the
bill which was reported June 1S.
Another section of the bill provides
for the second half million dollar
appropriation for continuing the
present dredging.
expose of Pork Barrel
Representative James A. Frear, of
Wisconsin, is devoting his attention
to what he terms an expose Of
pork barrel methods surrounding
the loose system of granting the an
nual rivers and harbors appropria-
tions. Frear appears to be especial
ly antagonistic to the New Jersey
items mentioned in the bill direct
ing his attention principally to the
ship canal scheme, charging that 1t is
real estate exploitation and that
special interests had a hand in franz
ing the appropriation and that spe-
ctal interests had hand in framing
the appropriations for obscure wa
terways in New Jersey. He also OPP
poses the granting of another ap-
preparation to benefit Several fac
tories along Matawan creek" as he
terms It,
The congressman from Wisconsin,
In making his charges, said: New
Jersey has several luscious slices Of
pork in the 1914 barrel and is also
government for a canal from it's mos
quito district to the stream once
crossed in rowboat by the Father
of Our Country"
Prospects Bright.
In spite of the fumings of the
western representative the bill is
submitted to the Senate and will be
debated on this week with excellent
prospects for the granting Of the
majority of appropriations Mayor
Ferd. Garretson has received the fol-
lowing letter from James N. Stout,
secretary Of the Staten Island Deep
er Waterways Association which has
been endeavoring to secure new
ss'niffsey of the channel and the second
half million dollar appropriations:
1.-THE amendment to the rivers and
harbors bill, calling for a new sur
vey Of our channel, which Senator
MARITIME introduced in the senate at
our request, has been passed by the
committee on commerce and Is now
a part Of the bill as reported by the
committee on commerce in the SEN
ate June 49,
"Our second half million dollar
appropriation for continuing the
dredging has also received favorable
consideration by the said committee.
''It is expected that the bill will
be taken up for consideration in
the next day or two"
New Jersey Projects.
Among many other items the bill
contains the following appropria-
tions for New Jersey projects:
Improving Staten Island Sound,
New York and New Jersey, continu-
ing improvement, 100000.
Newark Bay, for maintenance,
$4,000.
Newark Bay and Passaic River,
continuing improvement, $150,000.
Woodbridge Creek, for mainte-
nance, $4,000.
Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek,
R{tff1i..an, South and Elizabeth rivers,
shoal Harbor and Compton Greek
and Cheesequake Creek, for main
tenance, $4,000.
Raritan River, in accordance with
the report submitted in House doc
ument 1341, Sixty-third Congress,
third session. $3.50. 1000.
Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek,
completing improvement In accord
arce with report submitted In House
document 40, Sixth-third Congress,
first session, $56,800.
Shrewsbury River, for mainte-
nance, $4,000; Cooper River, for
maintenance, $4,000; Raccoon
Creek, for maintenance, $4,000; sa-
lem River, maintenance, $4,000;
Alloway Creek, maintenance, $3,-
600; Maurice River, continuing i'm
provement project and for mainte-
nance, $4,000; Toms River, main
tenance. $1,000.
In addition to the foregoing au-
thorizations for expenditures, there
are authorizations for investigation
and surveys by the army engineers
OF improvements that have been pc
tit1oned for. These include the
following relating to New Jersey:
Newark Bay and Passaic River,
with view to connecting the main
channel with the Newark Board of
Works ship canal.
Continued on page A.
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