Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-11

a daily consumption of S9,016-;
scant eight days supply. One of oul
industries using more than 2,oo'
tons daily is in dire straits becaus'
the southern shippers with whom l
has contracts reports the railroad!
arc furnishing them with only carr
sufficient for railroad fuel purposes
Read /. C. c. order % as amended
August 4, and you might be able tt
realize the preference arranged +oi
the Northwest over New Jersey in
dustries.
"As governor, 1 officially notified
! Secretary Hoover within one hour
after receipt of his telegram of July
&c sent by objection of President
Harding, of our earnest co-opera-
ton, and we were in communlca-
ton with the fuel distributors Office
in Washington before We asked your
cooperation to avert the discrimina-
| tior. against New Jersey industries,
| which you do not seem to realize
exists.
edward i. EDWARDS,
Governor of New Jersey"
The governors first telegram was
in the nature of a confidential COM
r~nunication, including a reference to
correspondence he had had-snd
treated in the same spirit-with
Governor Miller of New York. SEN
ator Edge and the New Jersey con-
gressmen had no difficulty in view
ing the communication in that light,
and acted accordingly when pledg-
ing their hearty suppfrt in every
effort tina was being made to see
that New Jersey industries did not
suffer by any discrimination in favor
OF other sections. Senator Freling-
huysen took a different view, and
gave the press in Washington a copy
OF the governors telegram, as well
as his own reply, which reads as
follows:
washington, d. G. Aug. s. 1922.
Hon. Edward /. Edwards,
Trenton. n. J.
"Your telegram received. / have
referred your message to Federal
Fuel Distributor, who advises that
fuel for household purposes has
been classed in priority number two,
consequently lake shipments under
l.. C. c.. order will not be prior to
domestic reeds. Coal now moving
through the lakes is confined to the
uses in class two consequently IN
dustries in Northwest will not have
preferential treatment as compared
with those in other sections of the
country. Fuel Distributor advises
that New Jersey has not indicated
officially that they have set up the
organization and machinery to CO.
operate with the plan outlined by
the Presidents Fuel Distribution
Committee. To protect New Jersey
institutions important that you COM
ply with request, which other states
generally are doing. Will be glad to
cooperate with other representa-
tives of the state to see that no in
Justice is done to New Jersey.
~. S. FRELINGHUYsEN."
Senator FrelinghuyseE's appar-
lack of understanding OF the real
situation was SO clear, as shown in
his telegram, that the governor
deemed it wise to send the second
telegram although it may have no
beneficial effect than the
first. Had Senator Frelinghuysen
done as he is now advised to DO
read the Interstate Commerce Com
order-he would have found
the governor had stated in MS
first telegram, that the priority given
lake shipments is in class three-a
by itself, and s~uperseding the
general priority given to essential
industries, such as canners n
others of that kind, who are pro-
vided for in class four Gas will be
observed following the lake pri-
ority), which provides a priority for
coal for the production and manu-
facture of foodstuffs and medicines
and for the the manufacture of con-
tainers there for daily use. u not
for storage, exchange or sale. o1
the other industries included are
iron. steel, textile, lumber, glass, ce-
ment; all of which Senator Ere
may assume do not re-
auire any priority or n equal 1oot
ing with lake shipments, and winch
are put into class five.