New-York tribune., 1894-06-17
IN AND OUT OF CONGRESS-.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE GREAT AR
MOR-PLATE TEST.
TO SECURE SALVAGE FROM THE KEARsARGE

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BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE
Washington. June l6.-The official report Of the
trial OF the greatest plate which has ever stood
| the bastic specifications Of the Naval Ordnance
| Department made to-day. and promptly
| approved by the authorities Six hundred tons OF
| armor accepted under this trial The report is
| as follows:
| Massachusetts, seventeen-inch barbette curved
Harveyized nickel steel plate, made by Bethlehem
Iron Company. Plate backed as usual. with thirty
one-quarter-inch armor bolts Distance from plate
| 10 gun. 1856 feet Line of fire, normal TO centre or
! plate. Gun used. twelve-nch breech loadng rifle
No s.. on Puritans hydraulic gun mount No :.
Round l-Charge Z3 pounds powder; striking yeloc-
tons or or SIS @ foot oct tons % per ton of plate Projecte
| twelve-nch Carpenter shell. weighing $50 pounds;
| dimensions. Struck plate sixty inches from left
edge inches from bottom Ito , and one neaT GG
gree. Shell broke up. most Of the ogival remain
from fro " face Of plat plate o" T portion % Of this shell
shaken out by second impact when the penetra-
Diameter of splash on plate; twenty inches A
slight bulge was raised on the plate With SL, few
twenty-sx pounds Round 2Charge S.s 1856 dnd pounds
striking energy, 2o3s7 foot tons. or s7s tons per
ton Of pse ncncs 4o as in e es
edge. forty-one inches from former impact; line o,
| fire nearly normal Projecte broke up ogival and
part of body welding into plate, bottom OF core OF
shell inches inside face Of plate. giving an esti-
| on plate from eighteen twenty inches diameter.
metal chipping off somewh hat about edges. Slight
4 through crack about one sixteenth inch wide
opened out from this impact running iis'i M dO%n
Just below impact was Clipped OF. One armor bolt
TO the ''i rear Plate and backing went back two
inches and returned one inch and was set over
recovered was base and part OF body weighing 1872
pounds. As this plate has come up TO the require
ments OF the specifications basucally. we have
10 recommend the acceptance OF group l6 which
this plate represents
The next great plate to be tried at Indian Head
will be the Carnegie seventeen-inch. similar In all
respects that made by the Bethlehem Company.
reported above.
Secretary Carlisle has instructed the Collector OF
Customs at Boston TO remove the brokers from the
Custom House. Some changes recommended by the
Hanlon Committee which investigated the Boston
Custom House have been approved by the Secre-
tary and forwarded TO Collector Warren to carry
into effect.
The San Francisco. being relieved at Blue
fields on Monday by the Marblehead. Is under
orders TO take on board the United States Consul
at Kingston. Jamaica, and proceed TO Cayman
Brac the island TO which most OF the salvage from
the wreck of the Kearsarge on Roncador Reef has
been taken. Captain Watson Will endeavor to Sc Sc
cure everything useful which belonged to the ~
f5sd ship nd s se SAN S R fGs viii
home. leaving the Consul at kingston. IL Is eh
pected that the New-York VIII leave hInSston lOr
New-York tomorrow.
In the Senate to-day House bill 10 dlsapprove
the treaty made with the Southern Cte Indians IN
1888 was explained by Mr.. Teller Rep.. Coll. After
some discussion the bill went over without action
tn Monday. These measures were passed senate
bill provide American register Tor tne steamer
s. Oteri owned In New-Orleans: Senate bill releas-
ing and dischar rgns the suretes Of Osias Morgan:
Land Once Receiver in Tallahassee, Fla. from 1895
10 1870 Senate bill fixing at 81 @ per acre the price
OF land entered under the Desert Land laws.
whether without within railroad grants. and Tor
the refunding OF sums heretofore paid beyond that
rate: House Joint resolution granting fun permission
10 the State Of Maryland and to the several state
courts within the city of Baltimore TO occupy the
old limited Courthouse for five years