Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-10

vanced probably one cent q pound In the las
five months, and if the prices got too high
there would be other refneries started he
also knew of eighteen reineries which had
failed or gone out of business in the last hf.
teen or twenty years that the sugar business
had not been a paying one and he looked
upon the present trust as not unnatural.
James z. Nichols, of the firm of Austin,
Nichols Co. Wholesale grocers in New
York, said the difference between the trust
prices and those outside the trust were no,
Large enough to make it profitable to pur-
chase outside. Francis H. Leggett testified
that prices have advanced about 3-s cents
per pound but are now about one cent higher
than in September.
The bill makes the following appropria-
tons: A building for a gun factory II
Watervieit arsenal, West Troy, n Y, for
finishing and assembling heavy ordance,
$3.50, 600; for purchasing steel for high
power coast defense guns, 5000 600; for
the purchase of material for the mannfac-
ture of twelve inch breech loading riaed
mortars, $500, 600; for the manufacture of
smaller guns for field batteries, s225 600; for
the manufacture, test and purchase of guns
and carriages, and for projectiles. explosives
etc, $500, 600; for the purchase of submarine
tiiiutSt case mates. ctC.. IoI CUutiHQiuk toI-
pedo experiments, and for instructing troops
in the details of torpedo service. $500, 600.
The Senate committee on coast defences
practically agreed today to report favOrak{y
the bill introduced by Senator Dolph to pro-
vide for Notifications and sea coast defence,
with an amendment providing that the gun
factory to be established be located at the
Watervliet arsenal in New York, instead of
the Frankfort arsenal in Pennsylvania. The
bill provides that there shall be appropriated
1926, 800 for the purpose of providing
Notifications at the following ports: New
York, San Francisco, Boston, the lake ports,
Hampton Roads, New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Washington, Baltimore, Portland, Me,
Rhode Island ports in Narragansett bay,
Key West, Charleston, South Carolina, Mo-
bile, New London, Savannah, Galveston.
Portland, Ore, Pensacola, Fla, Whining
ton, N. c., San Diego, Cal, Portsmouth, n.
H., defences of Cumberland Sound at Fort
Clinch, defences for ports on the kennebec
river, at Fort POpham, New Bedford, Mass,
defences of ports on the Penobscot river,
Me-, at Fort Knox, and New Haven, CT. OF
the amount appropriated, S2l 800 900 are to
be expended during the fiscal year of 1889,
SO, ,000, 900 during each of the eleven fiscal
years thereafter, and S5,S77, 800 during the
fiscal year of 1901. The money
is to be expended according to
the recommendations of the Notifications
board, appointed under the act of March 3,
1885. Floating batteries and torpedo boats
are recommended by the board to be con-
structed by contract under the supervision
of the Secretary or the Navy. Guns for
their armament are to be fabricated at Wash
ington navy yard and the Secretary is in
structed to contract with responsible steel
to furnish rough bored and tenn
pered steel for heavy ordnance and finished
steel for armor not less than 10000 gross
tons for the construction of Notifications,
fabrication of guns for their armament, and
the construction of submarine mines to be
under the supervision or the Secretary of
War. The guns are to be manufactured At
any gun factory located at Watervliet arse
nal, N. Y, and $1,000, 600 is appropriated
for the establishment of this factory.