The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
WHAT CONGRESS rs DOING.

New Bern, N. c., and another author
ling the establishment on the coast
of this State of a STATEN to investigate
problems connected with the marine
fishery interests of the middle and
south Atlantic States cost not to
exceed $12, 500.
The dairy interests won a signal
victory in the House Tuesday. The
Tawney Oleomargarine resolution of
inquiry came up for consideration.
This is, resolution calling upon the
Secretary of the Treasury to furnish
information concerning the kind
and amounts of ingredients used by
manufacturers of OleOmargerine.
The resolution was adversely re-
ported by the Ways and Means Com
mittee, to whomi it was referred some
weeks apo, and the debate on the
the subject was quite spirited. After
considerable discussion the House, by
a vote of 80 yeas to 1876 noes, refused
to lay the resolution on the table.
The resolution was then adopted.
''Thls, "gspress dispatches say, els the
first signal victory for dairy and
pure food legislation. 1t is consid-
cred a test of strength and the ad-
vOcates of remedial pure food legis-
lation will now move on the Com
mittee of Agriculture in an endeavOr
to secure a report on the CIRCUIT bill"
OF the North Carolina delegation,
the following members voted to table
the Tawney resolution: Atwater,
Linney, Small, Thomas, White !;
against tabling, Bellamy, Crawford,
Kluttz; not voting, Kitchin.
But the sensation of last week re
Iates to an entirely different matter.
1t came up in the consideration of
the Naval appropriation bill. A
prominent officer of the United
States Navy, it appears, has invented
an armOr-piercing shell, superior in
every essential quality to any now
in use either by this or any other
government. The quality of pene-
tratiOn possessed by the shell is said
to be so great that no armOr now
manufactured by the United States
or abroad has sufficient resistance to
withstand it. The facts which were
in possession of anly a few Senators
were deemed so important that the
Senate decided to consider them in
secret. But most of the important
facts seem to have leaked out. Press
dispatches say "a prominent Off
cial of the Navy Department said,
it is understood, that the tests of all
sorts of armor, including the Krupp
armOr, had been made with d view of
ascertaining their effectiveness
against a new shell that has been in
vented by an offer of the navy. No
piece of armOr submitted to the test,
it is understood, was able to with
stand the test. The shell fired from
high power guns penetrated the ar
NOR almost as bullets fired from a
Krag-JOrgensen rifle would pene-
trate green wood, the difference be-
ing that the armOr plates split from
the point of impact. It is said that
this was true of the Krupp armor,
as well as the other armor tested"
The House on Wednesday began
the consideration of the Pearson
Crawford contest from this State.
1t was not expected that it would be
considered so soon. A majority of
the Committee on Contested Elec-
tons reported against Crawford on
the general ground that Mr.. Pear
sons election ''was prevented by
fraud, intimidation, bribery and
blOodshed." On Thursday the vote
was taken, Crawford Ousted and
Pearson seated by a vote of 129 to
1877. jerks, of Pennsylvania, was
the only Republican who voted for
Crawford.
OF the Beilamy-Dockery contest
the Washington Post says that the
sentiment in the committee is ia
vOrable to allowing Mr.. Bellamy, the
Democrat, to retain his seat. and,
if the case is ever reported, that will
probably be the verdict of the COM
mittee."
The Circuit bill is in the hands of
it's enemies. 1t seems to US "a rather
anomalous condition of affairs that
in the making up of committees by
the representatives of the dominant
party in Congress men opposed to the
welfare Of any large interests should