The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-05
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

mittees of both Houses of Congress
at the coming session will consider
legislation looking to the establish
ment of a permanent census bureau.
This action has been agitated for
several years and the movements
will be renewed this session.
A convention, mostly of manufac-
turers, will meet in this city, begin
ming November IS, TO discuss the
principle of reciprocity and pass
Judgment on the pending treaties.
Only delegates of trade and CONNER
ciaI organization will be admitted as
delegates lawyers, agents, ETC., will
not be received.
Among other publications barred
from the second class mail rates by
the new order of the Department.
are all ''almanacs" issued by daily
papers or other publications. Post
master General Smith has therefore
just been under the necessity of is
suing an order excluding that pub
l1shed by his own paper, the Phila-
delphia Press.
Great interest is being taken in
the coming Sugar Congress in Brus-
sels which will consider the question
of repeating all bounties on beet
sugar. In the past, this question
has been of interest, chiefly to Aus
~tralia, Germany and France, but of
late the area of beet production
has so widened that pretty nearly
all the world is concerned in it.
Representative Dayton, of West
Virginia, second on the House Naval
Affairs Committee, advocates con-
fining our efforts almost entirely TO
~battleships. He says: "The Span
ish war taught us that we could buy
any number of gunboats, and that
we could convert any number of
yachts into dispatch boats but we
could not buy a battleship any
where"
It is stated that President Jeffer-
son entertained at dinner at the
White House a certain noted negro
astronomer, now almost forgotten,
named Banneker, who was the son
of a white woman who had attemp-
ted to check the slave trade by buy
ing a cargo of negroes and setting
them free. To prove her earnestness
in the matter, she married of
them.
The Isthmian Canal as reoommen-
ded by the Commission will cost an
estimated 5000, OOV, 900. It will be
thirty-fve feet deer and $50 feet
wide at the bottom, faring outFard
as it rises. This is a heavy advance
in cost even over recent estimates,
but is due principally to an increase
of five feet in depth, so that the
canal will be capable of aecommo-
dating the largest ships afoat.
General Miles, who, as is generally
known, was the originator of the
army canteen, has changed his atti-
tude in regard to that institution
and now opposes it's restoration.
He thinks that the condition of the
army since the canteen law was Q
pealed by Congress, justifes the &C
ton of that body. Neither Secre-
tary Root nor Adjutant-G General
Corbin agrees with him.
Some misconception has arisen as
to the intentions of the War Depart
ment in regard to troops in the Phil
ippines. There is no idea of increas-
ing the number now there, though
there is also none of reducing it.
More men will be sent, but they only
take the places of those whose terms
have expired, who will be brought
back to the United States on the
same transports. At least 80, 600
men will have to be kept there for
five years.
As a matter of course, the umo
that President Roosevelt was nego-
tiating with European nations in re-
gard to interfering in South Africa
on behalf of the Beers, has been de-
MED. Even so strenuous a man as
Roosevelt would not be- likely to
quarrel with Great Britain about
other peoples business. This is not
to say, however, that he will not
support a different meaning on the
purchase of wal supplies by the
British in this country.
William Dnd1u Enn1hn Of Indiana