The morning call., 1891-05-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Naval Ordnance Works at Washington in
providing guns for the new navy has a pretty big
task before n. There are forty-three vessels in
The list prepared by tile Bureau OF Ordnance.
The three battle-ships head IL with the most
powerful ornaments, eech main battery consist
ing Of four 13-inch. eight 8.inch and four 6-lnch
guns. Then there are seyenty-fye 4-ineh guns,
some OF which VIII be placed on the gunboats
being constructed at Bath, the monitors, the
cruiser New York and the commerce deStrOyers.
There are hlty-four 5-inch guns, principally in
tended for tie uncomlleted cruisers. or 6-ineh
guns there viii be more than of any other
ealiber. the number being 128. There are fifty
S-inch guns aud twenty-five 10-lnch on the list.
OF the eight 12-nch guns four VIII be placed on
the Puritan and TWO each on the Texas and
Monterey Tie secondary batteries of these yes
sells VIII require OBS 6-pounders At 3 peRssdd sfs,
80 1-ponBders, IL 4z-cdII6ers49 S7-caiber guns
aud 81 40-ealliS5r machine guns. There viii be
according 10 present calculations 142 torpedo
tubes attached 10 twenty-seyeu vessels, and 100
automobile tOTpedoes attached TO twenty-five
vessels.
or the cOerciye legislation now under consid-
Grafton by the lawmakers OF Great BrItain the
Newfoundland Legislature IN its recent remon-
STRANGE declared that the bill TO re-enact the act
of George " for The better conduct OF treaties
between Great Britain ana France respecting
the Newfoundland fisheries, which act expired
in 1884, embodied provisions of an arbitrary
and oppressive character wholly repuguant 10
those principles OF liberty and justice which are
held 10 be The basis OF modern British legislation.
They conferred upon the officers of her Majestys
ships engaged IN the fisheries protection service,
who were iniruSied with the settlement Of treaty
disputes powers OF summary adjudication indie
pendent Of all restrictions and safeguards which
British law has devised for the defeuse OF the In
herent right OF British subjects. These powers
extended TO most severe penal infiCu0ns and
were beyond all appeal"
The Washington dispatch declaring it is re-
garded as about settled that Mr.. Justice Bradley
Will retire, as bis health VIII not justify active
service any longer, is accompanied by an inllma-
ton that some of his fellow Senators believe Dir.
Edmunds VIII be given next winter his fourth
opportunity to accept or decline a place on tue
Supreme bench Mr.. Justice Bradley is the old
est member of the Supreme Court. having been
born In 1913. He received his appointment In
1870. just seven years after Mr.. Justice Field Sc
cured his
The approaching maneuyers 1.-THE French Army
on the German frontier will be on such a scale
as few wears ago would have induced Bismarck
to demand explanations One dispatch Declares:
France has now so far completed her military
preparations that she is not too particular about
pleasing Germany 1t looks this time as II the
maneuyers were arranged for the special pur-
pose OF provoking demand for explanations"
The troops viii occupy all the vital positions
which they would have 10 hold In an effort 10 re.
pulse supposed Invasion.
Forty thousand girls are now studying in the
colleges OF the country. What remarkable re-
suits have been attained In a quarter OF cen
tary. TWAS only twenty five years ago that the
first colleges were opened to women.