Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR. /
WASHINGTON, NoU. j

| ESPECIAL coRREsPONDENcE OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, Noe. 3.
Secretary Tracy is as anxious a:
as anybody could possibly be that The
United States should have the best
armored vessels afoat, but being
careful, pains-taking official he has
not lost his head on account of the
recent tests of armor made at Annap.
oils, as some other people seem tC
to have done, therefore he proposes
moving slowly and cautiously about
spending the special appropriation OF
one million of dollars made by con.
gress for the purchase of nickel. The
only specimen of armor that stood
the test was the nickel steel, made by
firm in France, and the secretary
has no idea of making this govern
ment dependent upon that firm foI
his supply of armor plate, so he has
decided to have the only two firms in
this country that have the plant nec-
essary to undertake the work-the
Bethlehem Iron Works Company of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Car
negie, Phipps & Co., of Pittsburgh
make several plates similar TO those
made by the French firm. These
plates when completed are TO be sub
jected to the severest tests, and should
they prove as good as the French
plates the Secretary will at once en-
ter into a contract for the manufac-
turing of sufficient quantity of them
to armor all of the vessels now being
built for the navy.
Secretary Noble has received an
other letter from Mayor Grant, also
one from Governor Hill asking that
the population of New York city be
recounted. He has not answered
either of them, but it is quite certain
that the original decision Of the CEN
sus bureau will not be changed. There
has no good reason been given for
giving Tammany Hall an additional
member of the House in the Fifty
third congress and the state of New
York an additional vote in the cleo
toral college that will elect the next
president and vice president, and
what is more, none can be given.
The census was taken in New York
City, in June just as it was every
where else and it was just as free of
errors as it would be if taken in No
vember of December.
Mr.. Tracy has no fear of any cor
ner in the nickel market, as he has
received offers enough of nickel ore
from various sections of this country
to make it certain that the owners of
the Canadian nickel mines cannot
dictate the price which the govern
ment shall pay for this metal, and he
thinks that the increased demand for
nickel in this country and abroad will
result in building up a new and great
American industry.
Everybody is talking about the Of
fetal bulletin issued by the census
bureau giving the population of the
United States as shown by the recent
census. The total number, exclusive
of white persons in Indian Territory
and Indians on reservations and in
Alaska,is 90, ,4SO, $40 and the increase
over the census of 1880 is II, ,324,7 ,757.
The percentage of increase for the
last ten years was 24.57 against
percentage of 3O.08 for the ten years
between 1870 and 1880. The census
bureaus bulletin in explanation of
the apparent smaller percentage of
increase for the last than for the pre-
ceding ten years says: "It is well
known, the fact having been demon
strated by extensive and thorough in
vestigation, that the census of 1870
was grossly deficient in the southern
states, so much so as not only to give
an aggregated rate of increase of the
population between 1870 and 1880 in
these states, but to affect very mate
rally the rate of increase in the coun-
try at large. These omissions were
not the fault, nor were they within
the control of the census office"
AS in the last census, New York
is the most populous state and Penn
syIvania the next. Ohio and Illinois
have changed places. Texas jumps
from IL to z, while Kentucky goes
down from to IL. Minnesota goes
from twenty-eight to twenty; Ne
braska from 80 to twenty-six Mary
land drops from % to 27 Colorado
goes up from % to 81; Vermont
drops from 80 to So; the new state
of Washington strides forward from
AZ to "a; Delaware steps backward |
from SO to 42; Nevada from 43 to
40 and Arizona from "A to as. The |
figures as a total are somewhat dis |
because the most of us
had been figuring on a population of
60, 100000, but still we are one Of |
the big nations Of the world.
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