Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-09
PUSHED
ON POLLUTION
State Dept. Will Soon be Pre-
pared to Have Coolidge
Call Conference
Bv GEORGE II. MANNING

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9-After six
months study and investigation OF
the pollution of the rivers and har-
! bors with oil refuse and of means to
prevent it the state department will
very shortly be prepared to have
President Coolidge call a conference
! Of representatives of the maritime
nations with a view to adoption of
effective means of putting a stop to
| the nuisance which is causing seri-
Gus injury at all points along the
New Jersey coast.
Secretary of State Hughes in a let
ter today to Congressman Isaac
Bacharach of Atlantic City, who is
deeply interested in the question.
stated that following the adoption
by congress of the Frelinghuysen
resolutions last July. the state de-
partment, at the request of President
Harding, took steps with a view to
investigating the situation which
exists, and in particular to determin-
ing whether 1t is possible to prepare
practicable proposals which might
be submitted for the consideration
of the international conference as
contemplated in the congressional
resolution. An inter-departmental
committee, of which experts OF sew
era1 of the executive departments
are members, was constituted, Secre-
tary Hughes states, and this commit
tee has been gathering information
and studying various aspects of the
Question. 1t is not feasible at pres
ent, in advance of the conclusion of
this study, Mr.. Hughes adds. TO take
the matter up with the foreign gov
ernments.
The Frelinghuysen resolution. put
through congress by former Senator
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen authorized
the president to call a conference or
the maritime nations TO discuss and
effect, if possible, a plan preventing
pollution of the coastal waters by
oil burning and oil carrying vessels.
Senator FrelinghuySen introduced
in the senate and Congressman
Frank Appleby of Ashury Park in
the House. a bill prohibiting the pot,
luton OF the waterways. With the
aid of Senator Edge and Congress-
man Baeharach of Atlantic City and
Radcliffe of Paterson they worked
for over a year to get the bill passed
and failed.
Congressman Bacharach who in
troduced a bill in the House at the
last session quite similar to the FIRE.
linghuysenxAppleby bill today stated
his purposAto introduce it again at
the session which next
month and use every possible effort
to get it through. Since such sup
port has been aroused for the anti
pollution legislation among the bust
ness interests of New Jersey, espec-
tally since the conference on the
subject was held recently at Atlantic
City, the entire New Jersey delega-
ton in congress can be depended
upon to support the legislation at
the coming session.
At the last session OF congress the
anti-pollution legislation was vigor-
ously opposed by a group of interests
having manufacturing plants, chiefly
dye works, %tanneries, pulp mills, ETC.,
on inland waterways who feared the
bill would put a stop to their presens
practice of ~discharging refuse from
their plants into the rivers. The
Frelinghuysen-Appleby bill was
amended to meet the opposition of
this group, however, and was finally
reported favorably from the House,
rivers and harbors committee, only
to fail of passage on the last day of
the session on account of lack of
time.
It's passage at the session of con-
gress which will convene on Deem
Der 3rd appears almost a certainty.