The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-20
BOOM OF GUNS TO
ECHO At A, ( NJ,
Government to Give Them
for Artillery Practice
C ,PI. PHELPS WILL S AY
President Winston, Who Secures hese Con-
cessions for The Colhg e., iaks Ct
the Captains voIue 10 the
lnS'i'u'ion ttrre.
Especial to News and Observer)


Washington, D. c., Nov. 19.-While here
attending The met.ng of tn Association of
Agricultural Colleges, DR.. Geo. T. Winston
called at the War Department and secured
two concessions of Importance 70 the fu-
tlre of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Raleigh One is the promise
of two pieces of the most modern breech-
loading cannon for artillery practice, and
the other is the assurance that Capt.
Phelps, the present military instructor,
will again be detailed to duty at the col
lege
Capt. Phelps has ben with us four
years" said DR.. Winston, land he has been
of great value to the institution. He has
put it on an absolutely military basis, so
that in the government reports there Is no
institution that stands higher in this re-
spect, and the best part about it, is that
it has been done with the favor OF the stu
dents, even those who might be excused
from military duty, taking it,
Congressman Small left tonight for
North Carolina. He makes a speech to-
morrow in Perquimans county at meet
ing celebrating the completion OF Belviderc
Academy. This school was founded by the
Quakers seventy-five years ago, and hence
Mr.. Smalrs subject will be the influence
Of aait ouakers on the establishment Of ed
ucation in the Colony and State of North
Carolina He will not return till after
Thanksgiving.
Congressman Webb will also leave Sat.
urday for North Carolina to spend Thanks
giving with his family at Wake Forest.
1t is likely that some other of the North
Carolina delegation will spend few days
at home before the meeting of the regu-
lar session, as the House having passed
the Cuban bill. will tomorrow adjourn till
Tuesday, and if by that time the Senate
has not passed it another adjournment will
be taken.
During the coming session of Congress
strong effort will be made, and indlca-
tions ere that it will be successful. TO
have the salary OF rural delivery carriers
throughout the country increased.
Three bills to that effect lave already
been introduced--two in the Senate by
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, and .5cna
tor Quarles, of Wisconsin. and one in the
House by Representative Sibley. OF Penn
sylvania. That of Senator Quarles. in
troduced Monday, provides for the classi-
fcation Of carriers and fixes their com.
pensation
1t divides them into three classes, first.
second and third, according to the length
OF each route the number of families re-
siding thereon, the climatic conditions ard
the physical characteristics OF the coun-
try, and the state of the roads over which
such delivery route runs.
II fixes the compensation of carriers IN
the first class at six hundred dollars per
annum: that in the second class at seven
hundred dollars that in the third at nine
hundred dollars per aunum; the compen
sation to cover all expense incurred in
providing and maintaining necessary
equipment for the performance of such
service. The bill is to become operative
on and after July 1st, 1904.
Mr. Thomas. of North Carolina, has
introduced bill authorizing and direct
ing the Secretary ST the Treasury to
place clock with an illuminated dial on
the government bidding IN New Bern,
North Carolina .ppropriating ten thous-
and dollars. OF so much thereof as may
be necessary, for said purpose.
Senator Burton, of Kansas. chairman OF
the senate Committee on Forest Reserya-
tiou las introduced the following bill for
the purchase of national forest reserve
IN th, Southern Appalachian Mountains,
to be known as the National Appalachian
Fores. Reserve:
Thso the Secretary Of Agriculture Is
heroh authorized and empowered, IN his
DISCRETION. TO purchase land suited to the
purre3ea OF Il national forest reserve IN
tho Appalachian Mountains within the
SatA cf West Virginia. Virginia. North
caro,pa, south Carolina. Georgia. Ala.
ban,s Md Tennessee, in total extent not
to excAd four million acres. and to care
for. pr4ect. use. and make accessible the