Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-03
NEW MEASURE
ON POLLUTION
introduced by Bacharach as
Congress 0pens-Edge to
Have Like Bill
BY GEORGE H. MANNING

SWashington Correspondent of the
Perth Amboy Evening News.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-No time
Is to be lost at this session of con-
gress In securing the passage of a
bill that will put a prompt stop to
the pollution of the navigable waters
OF the country through the dumping
of waste oil from oil-carrying and
oil-burning ships and other objec-
tionable refuse into the waters.
Representative Isaac Bacharach
of Atlantic City introduced a bill
in the House as soon as Congress
met today making it unlawful to
throw, deposit or discharge from any
vessel. wharf, manufacturing plant
or bill, oil in any form or other
refuse other than sewage into the
~navigable waters Of the United
States.
Senator Walter E. Edge is x
pected to introduce a duplicate of
the Bacharach bill in the senate in
a day or two.
A measure having the same pur-
pose as the Bacharach bill, but diff
fering from it in some details, was
introduced in the senate at the last
session by Senator Frelinghuysen and
in the House by former Congressman
Il. Frank Appleby of Asbury Park.
1t was passed by the senate, and
while a favorable report was obtain
ed from the House rivers and har-
bors committee it failed of consid-
Grafton in the jam of legislation in
the last two or three days of the
session.
The Bacharach bill is a duplicate
OF the measure reported out by the
rivers and harbors committee last
session and apparently meets all the
requirements for the purpose it
seeks to accomplish and avoids the
points in the old Frelinghuysen-Ap-
pleby bill to which opposition was
directed by influential interests.
Mr.. Bacharach will Iress the
rivers and harbors committee for
prompt consideration of his pollu-
ton bill and urge that the delay
hat hearings on 1t will entail be
avoided on the ground that full con-
sideration has already been given 1t
in a previous congress-.
Prompt passage of the bill is anx-
iously desired by all the seaboard
states and every effort will be made
to have 1t enacted into law before
the coming summer, as one of the
most serious effects of dumping of
waste oils is the injury to the bath
ing beaches, making bathing at times
almost impossible.
It is also claimed by authorities
on the subject that dumping of this
oil Stud has caused serious injury
to fish, crabs, oysters and birds
along the coast, and has made the
wharves, piers and docks subject to
heavy risk from fire.
The movement for prevention of
the pollution of the waters gained
considerable force from the confer
ence of the National Coast Anti
Pollution League of America hold at
Atlantic City on October list, which
strongly endorsed passage of the
Frelinghuysen-Appleby bill or a sim
liar measure. officials of the Stand
ard Oil Company attended that con-
ference and declared their wish to
cooperate to bring an n to the
oil dumping practice.
The a~nti-pollution bill was OPP
posed with some force in the last
session by %tannery, dye plant, smelt-
ing and other manufacturing inter
ests which feared it would put a stop
to their present practice of dump
ing refuse into streams on which
their plants are located. 1t appear
ed towards the end OF the last ON
gress session, however, that these
interests had withdrawn their OBJ
jections.
There is a strong sentiment among
the members of the senate and
House in favor of putting a stop to
the pollution nuisance and it is be-
lieved the Bacharach bill will pass
early in this session.