Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-05

20, so far as household purposes
were concerned. to read as follows:
"Bituminous or anthracite coal or
coke for household use and for the
heating of buildings"
The only other amendment made
to section two, which Senator Free
irghuysen thinks he had a hand in
amending, was to include there ali
coal for the Lake region and coal
for the manufacture of medicines
and containers therefor, that were
previously in class three and class
four. following household use.
IL will be seen, therefore, that the
lake regions and the manufacturers
of containers for medicine were the
only beneficiaries in the amendment
to priority class two, and not con-
sumers of household coal.
The commission has been in .osc
touch with mine operators and
wholesale dealers, and we have every
reason to assume that when the
shipping of anthracite coal begins
New Jersey will be as well taken
care of as any other state in the
Union.
Ir view of the fact that the order
of priority has been changed three
times within a month by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, | am
adding here the classification exact
ly as it stands today:
vesting of this authority should not
in any way be looked upon as a dan
gercus delegation of power.
Under the rules of the senate. II
is very difficult to accelerate action
on any measure, but unless the in
dustrial situation changes very soon
certainly my bill. or n carrying
out the same features, must be fav-
orally acted upon by Congress
VERY truly yours,
"WALTER E. EDGE"
Serator Frelinghuysen, without
promising cooperation at that time,
made public my telegram to him,
which was confidential in its charac-
ter because of my being obliged to
refer to Governor Miller's request.
and contented himself with aging
that there was no doubt then of New
jersey getting all the coal we want
ed, if we asked for it. AS a matter
of fact, our requests were in. The
chairman of our committee had
made frequent trips to Washington
anG elsewhere and had the satIslac-
ion of knowing that New Jersey was
irst in the field, SO far as actual OPP
GRAFTON was concerned.
With the end of the bituminous
strike the situation has been ma
terially relieved, so far as our pub
lie utilities and industries are con-
cerned, and the operators of blum
inous mines are arranging, where
possible, to supply hat quality of
coal in such form that it may be
available for many of our public in
situations, schools, churches and APP
artment houses. In the west and
northwest bituminous is used almost
wholly. even for household purposes
and it was and is still being shipped
particularly for the latter purpose,
owe the lakes, even before the strike
was settled. Anthracite coal was n Vt
handled in any manner by the fed
era fuel distributor. He did not.
at any time, have any rules prepared
for the distribution of anthracite,
and did not and would not receive
orders for anthracite coal. for the
very good reason that none of the
anthracite mines were operating.
Amendment No. 4 TO Service
Orde. Nc. %
eat a session OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission, division 5,
held at its office in washington, u.
c.. on tho Goth day OF August, A. D.,
1T IS ORDERED, That paragraph
numbered Z of said Service Order
No. % adopted July 25,1922, as sub
sequently amsnded, be, and it is
hereby, further amended and sup
plemented to read as follows, effec-
tive on and after August 30, 1922:
"7. That in the supply of cars
to mines upon the lines of any coal