The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-28
Tbdf OF Gbe Capital City.
~ Effort Elect Senators By Popular Vote.
Bryan Is Said to Favor Belmont
Effort to Elect Senators By Popular Vote

| The same bill has also been introduced
In the senate by both Senator Hans
| brough and Senator Allen. 1t is believ-
| ed that. with a united effort all along
/ the line, the bill can be passed and d
| national pure food law be enacted dur
| ing the present session of congress: 1t
| Is. therefore. greatly to be desired that
any interest entitled to representation in
| the congress should be represented at the
| third annual session.
| The state department is in receipt of
| important information from Sidney Il.
Everett. the United States consul at
! Batavia, in reference to the packing Of
sugar in Java. The United States con-
| sui says:
! L wish to call attention to the fact
that new problem. and SO far an I'M
| solved one. Is appearing In connection
| with the sugar trade of this colony. 1t
is Of special interest to Americans, as in
! the last two years at least seven-tenths
/ of the sugar crop of Java went to the
United States. 1t is the question Of
! packing sugar
i At present sugar is packed In cases
| made of matted bamboo straw. and it
has been found to be the ideal packing,
far superior to the grass mats used for
| Philippine sugar. Unfortunately, owing
| to fmprovident methods and neglect of
government supervision the bamboo is
negtnt signs tb Of giving out and experts
! when 1t will be so scarce as to become
| too expensive to use In packing sugar.
| IN view or the present small margin In
| the profits of sugar planting.
| In some districts there have been gov
ernment officials who had foresight
enough to compel the natives to plant
| cut down; but, unfortunately. such cases
were few and far between. with the re-
suit that many districts of Java are now
almost entirely denuded of bamboo. Com
| sequently the planters are casting round
| for material to take the place of bam-
boo mating. So far nothing has been
| found that will answer Jute is insult
| able.
A gentleman here who Is largely inter-
| ested IN sugar plantations, with whom I
was taking the other day, told me that
! anyone Who could invent something sat-
isfactory would make a fortune In Java
alone, as his method would be at once
s gsea by sx every planter Inasmuch as the
| metric tons. it can readily be seen that
II may be worth some ones while to try.
.n 1et -. an inventor acquainted with sugar
| ana us properties set his brain TO work
| 70 see II ne can not evolve something
that VIII meet the situation 7 have de
fbs pee ID, LET MIN, however bear in mind
Inat What might be suitable packing for
| Cupan sugar would not necessarily do
LOT Java, as this sugar has much long
er sea voyage to undergo, and must be
'i'''" more carefully protected.
| Under recent date John p Bray. our
| consul general at Melbourne. Australia
transmits information regarding wool
~ a 0eeioL-S OF interest to wool grow
| ers IN this country. Mr. BRAY was for
resident OF North Dakota a
sheep-raising state. The state depart
| ment says of Bray's report that:
many American buyers were renre-
scented at the Geelong sale and purchased
| largely Up to the date of the con-
SUI writing 1926 bales had been shipped
20 the United States and it was antici-
| pated that the total shipments for tbA
season would aggregate 10000 bales. or
more than double those Of last sea-
son."
information has been received here
lnat Great Britain is preparing to place
| at It's big naval station in the Bermudas
one or the largest floating dry docks yet
constructed and far greater in CAPACITY
! IMAM t1at which is now at that point
| ara said to be the longest yet built.
| Inc present DOCK constructed in 1869
was toWed across the Atlantic to Ire
| land island, where the British DOCK
yard is located, in four pieces and there
| set together behind an enormous break
water, which protects the entrance from
the heavy swells of the ocean. while.
! the present dock was found large enough
] 10 accommodate the various classes of
! vessels usually assigned to the North
American and West Indies station 1t was
! lacking In capacity for battleships and
armoured cruisers of the Powerful type.
The Importance of having dock ar
i bermuda In which any class and type
! OF British warship can be taken has
recently been recognized by the naval
| authorities and a contract was recently
! let for constructing the new dock which
should be ready for operation in about
| TWO years. There are few docks in the
] world Ike that now at Bermuda, and
! though thirty years old 1t Is vet in a
! line state of "A
Oily serve useful purposes for years The
Spanish dock at Havana that this gov.
! eminent Did on last autumn Is of the
same general type. but far smaller.
There is now building at Baltimore a
steel noatlng dock. which the navy Is to
place at Algiers. La. the dimensions of
which will equal those of the new dock
now under construction abroad for Ber-
muda, and which reports show will he
ready for use in one year.
10 find room for its big new basin at
bermuda an immense dredge has been
sent out, and Is now at work digging a
channel at a point near the present naval
station and farther inland, so that ships
drawing thirty feet or more can readily
reach 1t. With the addition of this new
dock Bermuda will become a far more
important outlying naval station of Great
Britain than any other she holds. per-
haps with the exception of Malta. There
are now Immense shops at Bermuda for
executing all kinds of naval work, and
with drydock capable of taking in the
largest war vessel the station will ex-
ceed Halifax In point of naval rank
Rear Admiral Hichborn, who seems IN
/ have arrayed against him every member
of the naval expert board at present
will soon declare himself as opposed to
the proposed coaling station system of
the Wall
adjustment of stations at Narragansett
bay and at some point on the Maine
coast. as recommended by Admiral Brad
ford and special boards which have lately
been considering the question
TWO reports are now before the navy
department in which sites are recommend
ed to be selected at these two localities
for new coaltng stations Admiral HIGH
born Will give expression to his opinions
on the subject before the house naval
committee, where he Is expected to ap-
pear soon by special request.
1t Is his belief that specially designed
Golfers should be built, with a view of
coaling at sea. and he points to the sue
cess which has attended the recent ex-
perimentS between the Massachusetts,
New York and collier rugged with a
new coaling apparatus by which. while
canning ahead bunkers can be filled at
rate of about forty tons an hour Adj
miral Hichborn's theory Is that better re-
suits, however, can be obtained by the
collier towing the warship than in being
towed, as was the case in recent tests
He holds that the coallng station idea Is
sufficiently meritorious in times of peace,
but in time of war it furnishes, he thinks,
az additional point of attack by an enemy
against whom remote stations must be
guarded.
The matter of transporting fuel to these