The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-04-26


on some who opposed him for one rea-
son or other did not continue re-
latiOnS of this sort The governor, on
his part, like all hard fighters, prob
ably begun to class in his mind those
who were for his measures and those
who were against him. Some say the
governor was too strenuous as to the
form the primary election bill should
pass; that the executive department.
was trying to crowd the legislature, and
others say that opposition members
were aiming at their old antagonist
over the head of the primary election
bill. However that may be, we now
have the unusual condition Of an adj
ADMINISTRATION some of whose lawmakers
go their way and the executive goes
his, and the evolution of stalwart
haf-breed factions.
But the condition may not be long
enduring. Apart from the advantage
which will come to the governor when
the legislature goes hOme-(he is then
in the saddle with a chance to make
some friends and please the people by
some individual strokes)-a growing
terror is growing up in the minds of
Republican leaders as to whittier
their party is drifting. The efforts to
reOrganize the Democracy are worry
ing them and for the first time the
StalWartS are reaching decision that
it will be a serious party matter to go
into the future with nothing done as
to primary elections. They are less
afraid of the governor than of the DeO-
pie. The loss of party domination is
something that they naturally shrink
from.
Adjournment About May IL.
There is some talk of adjourning
May II. There is precedent enough
for an extra session on appOrtiOnment
matters. 1t is all guesswork, however
All but fifteen states limit the period
Of legislative sessions to certain
number of days. | do not see that the
evil of long sessions is sufficiently
marked in Wisconsin to necessitate
any such restriction. 1t was step
forward when biennial succeeded an
nual sessions. The chief item of leg
islative cost is the salaries of law
makers and it is the same whether
the session be long or short. More
over, by shutting off business prema-
turely encouragement would be given
to extra sessions.
Cannon That Carries Ten Miles.
Tonight the assembly chamber is
given over to a lecture by S. d. Car
penter. who was a Madison journal
list from 1850 to 1877. He is now S3
years old. He has been an inventor
all his life. The scheme that most
engrOssed him, however is his gun,
forty feet long, nine-inch bore, to car
~ a ball ten miles. He notes that the
Beers have repeatedly repulsed the
British with a gun Krupp built for
them. The German inventor with his
love for the Dutch, refused to build
one for the English. The long tom"
can carry four or five miles with the
result that before the British could
get near enough to hit the "embat-
tied farmers (say two or three miles,
they were beaten by the long TOM
Carpenter showed me some paste
board that he secured from his
friend, the printer, Cantwell. and
which he had taken up to the univer-
sity to have the experts with their
machines test it's tensile strength. 1t
required an 1,S00-pound pull to separ-
ate it.
now" said Carpenter, give me this
material under tremendous pressure
as cardboard is made. only made of
manila grass. | will build cannon
tube twenty feet long made of alter
nate layers of steel and this prepara-
ton, the six cOncentric tubes fitted
on to each other most tightly, rivited
and capped at the ends. The outer cas-
ing should be of steel. The manila
grass compressed casing being elactic,
the heaviest charge will not shatter
the tube, and most important, it will
be light. Even heavier metal guns
can be built than those now in use,
but they are too heavy to move on
the field Of battle. My gun will be so
light that fifty men can lift it up to
n height with ease"
An additional feature of this gun