Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-11-15
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Secretary Long has made public the
recommendations of the naval board of
construction for increasing the navy.
There nave been several speculative
statements published as to what the
board would report, and the announce
ment made by Secretary Long the other
day shows those statements to have been
incorrect. The recommendations are as
follows: ''Three ea-going battleships of
10000 tons each. to be heavily armed
and armored; two heavily armed and ar
morcd cruisers of 14.5OO tons each; SIN
gunboats of 1900 tons each; six gun
boats of GOO tons each; six gunboats of
800 tons each; two golfers of 5000 tons
zach; one repair ship Of $500 tons; six
training vessels of 1000 tons each: four
picket boats of $50 tons each, and four
tugs" Just how closely Secretary Long
will follow this report in framing his
recommendations to Congress is not yet
determined. He probably will recon-
mend the construction of three great and
powerful battleships, and also will urge
the construction of about twelve gun
boats.
The big things in store for the navy
have no better Illustration thar the fact
that it is proposed to spend S3O,OOO,O00
Mt the naval station Olongapo; in the
Philippine Islands. Olongapo will be the
base in the East. BY this great station
as a power not only for immovable de.
fnncn lint will ,n1,~ - 1,~.. ~ ,t&nnl. -,
the event of a war. The estimates fur
nished by the board having charge of that
station include two dry docks, a native
village for workmen of the regular force
an of the e%ncampment for the emergency
force and neighboring works of defense.
1t is proposed to have four forts COM
handing the approaches by water and de-
lenses which will guard the mountain
passes. 1t will be necessary to make the
survey as a preliminary step to the con
struction of the plant in order to cstab-
fish boundary lines, sites for water
works. etc. 1t will cost about $7,O0O,O0O
to build the shops required to begin the
work OF repairing vessels of war. Quar-
tiers for the officers and marines will also
be among the first construction of the sta
ton. Port Olongapo is to the eastward
of Port Subig, on Subig Bay, which is on
the west coast of Luzon. 1t has a good
harbor.
American manufacturers are evidently
quite as busy in 1901 as they were in
1900. The total imports of manufacture
ers' materials, in the nine months ending
with September, 1901, We're greater in
value than those of the corresponding
months of last year, although an analysis
of the imports, article by article, shows
that in many cases the prices per unit OF
quantity have decreased. Taking the
grand total of value of imports of raw
materials for use in manufacturing, the
imports in the nine months of 1901, com
pared with those of 1900, We're: For 1901,
S2221 ,4G9,9S4; for 1900. $217. G19,372;
while in the month of September alone
the figures of the month in 1901 are
So, I225,3325, against $1S,505. $50 in Sep
TENDER, 1900, a marked increase. They
formed in September, 1901, 81 per cent
of the total imports, against 81 per cent
of the total imports in September, 1900.
Brig. Gen. Fred G. Ainsworth, chief
of the record and pension Office, in his
annual report to the Secretary of War,
shows that 1S1, 9S2 cases were received
and disposed of during the fiscal year.
His office relates mainly to records of off
GERS and soldiers kept for the army and
the pension office. 1t also deals with
medals of honor, as the record of soldiers
receiving medals are furnished the proper
officers through Gen. Ainsworth's bureau.
He reviews at some length the subject Of
medals of honor and the laws under
which they are granted. Gen. Ainsworth
says the fiscal year has witnessed the
practical completion of the work, so many
years i'll progress, of the publication Of
the official records of the Union and Con-
federate armies during the Civil War.
They make Il total of 125, $50 pages Of
text.
One hundred and one natives of the
Philippines We're hanged after conviction
of murder during the year ended June SO,
1901. Military commissions imposed
death sentences in 242 cases, but of these
III were committed to varying terms of
Imprisonment. Altogether there We're $50
persons tried by commissions for various
~offcnses, of which 729 were convicted,
Sentences in 40 eases were disapproved.
These figures appear in the annual report
Of Judge Advocate General Davis, made
public by the Wan Department. With
regard to courts martial in the army, the
report says that during the year there
were 6,O65.
National bank circulation has Increased
during the last year $2S.21S,270, having
reached at the close of business Oct. 81
$3.50, 11,6S3. The circulation based on
bonds mounts to $$33oS. 19S,614, the re-
mainder being secured by the deposit of
lawful money. There are in the keeping
of the department to secure circulation
bonds to the amount of $500. 1888. $50. and
to secure government deposits bonds to
the amount of $110.256. $50.
The estimates for the entire postal ser
vice for the fiscal year ending June 80,
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