Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-04-16

had his ability to manage armies and
make speeches. If it had been neces-
sary, Gen. Grant could have written
poetry or painted fine pictures. At
all events, what he professed to do |
he really did. He fortunately left |
on record his protest against the |
sham of which he is now basely &C
cused.
In the words of the minority of |
the ways and means committee re-
ferring to the conduct of the major
itv of that committee when consld-
ering the tariff bill. ''The indus
tries of the country, located IN every
section of the union, touching prac-
tically every home and tireside IN
the land, were denied hearing. The
| farmers. whose investments and
product were to be disastrously
dealt with, were denied an oppor-
tunitv to address the committee.
The workingmen of the country,
whose wages were at stake, were de-
MED audience. The representatives
on the floor of the House were not
permitted to voice the wants Of their
constituents" This persistent re-
fusal to hear views Of any individual
or class inspired feeling of distrust
and opposition to this famous "dark
lantern" committee before they made
a report of their labors, and the ag-
gregation of blunders and absurdl-
ties reported by them fully justifies
the feeling created by their secret
methods. Opposition to the bill in
troduced increases every day in spite
of the pressure brought to bear by
the administration to force it's pas
sage through the House, and it is
safe to say that when this measure
intended to protect industries in Dem
ocratic stronghold reaches vote it
will be very effectually crushed.
The latest British ironclad, the
Nile, just launched at Pembroke
= dockyard, is the most powerful shlE
Of war ever constructed in England
if not in all the world. The onl!
others comparable with it are thu
British ship Trafalgar, built from
| I
nearly the same plans, and the Ital
% ian Doria, LAURA and Morosini. ant
. these are not superior to it, unles
possibly in speed, point yet to b
determined. The Nile may be brlefl
described as a twin-screW steamer
! 345 feet long and IS broad and @
- p 1-2 feet draught. Her displace
- ment is 1910 tons and her indics
. ted horsepower $4,000. 1t is e1
ie pected that she will steam ninetee
&c miles an hour, and her 900 tons {
coal will take her 5000 miles ;
be more than half speed. Her extern
IL steel armor is from fourteen to tWel
e. ty inches in thickness. Her otfel
d. sive weapons comprise four slxt
ms seven-ton guns in turrets, eight nv
lot inch in the box battery, and
10 thirty-six- FOUNDER and eight 81
,or FOUNDER and quick-iring guns. The
is will also be eight torpedo tubes, 1
ely each of which three Whitehead te
ct, pedoes will be carried. She is
ave vided into l2O water-tight compa
ace ments, and her pumps have caps
em ity of 5000 tons an hour. She C
mt, discharge simultaneously 5,649 II
pad of shot, including four missiles
ers. 1880 pounds each. Finally, her
God tai cost will be about So 900, 0OC
cost the most expensive ship ever bu
sist 1t is an interesting circumstance t
sion the launching of this huge fight
of machine has left not another W
), to ship on the ways in any British va
cred a state OF affairs not seen before
this generation,