The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-14

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/ General under Mr.. Cleveland's second ad.
mtristration, was nominated for Congress
and declined to run, although his election
was certain.
North Cardinals town had become
somewhat accustomed TO ITS citizens pre-
| feIring private TO public nte, but this did
not prevent much surprise throughout the
State and very numerous protests when
I Mr.. Kluttz announced that he would toe
the fourth and latest of Salisburys citi-
zens to decline Congressional hoTiors."
Senator Simmons yesterday introduced
some eighteen private pension and claims
bills, as follows: Claims for property
taken or used by United States troops dur
ing the civil war, H. w. Hargrove, Gran
vile county, $4360; William c. Lewis,
Carteret. $4,000; John /. Rowland, Beau
fort. $3,400; Homer w. Styron, Dare,
$4,000; John Wilson, BERTHE, $73,414;
heirs Samuel T. Carrow. Beaufort, 1886;
heirs Cicero NJ. Davis. Craven. $4,000;
heirs Rayford Brewington, Sampson,
$2,400; heirs c. H. Foy. $4,000; heirs
George r. Dupuy, $685. ,s27 James w.
Adams, $4,000; c. G. Perkins, Wayne
county. amount OF claim to be fixed by
Court of Claims: Seamen's Friend Society,
Wilmington, 81, 500; Diocese Eastern North
Carolina, $1,000. other bills-Granting Of
pension of Sl2 a month to William Finn,
Indian War veteran; honorable discharge
to Andrew II. Clemmons. Fifth Regiment
United States volunteers: refundlng to
Sarah r. Hay s3,4S6 tobacco tax illegally
collected; allowing John Burke Morriss,
of Raleigh. $4,000 for injury to his arm
by fall in Navy Yard at Brooklyn.
Representative Webb this week intro
duced a bill appropriatng 500, 900 for the
erection of a monument on Kings Noun.
tain battle-ground, to the memory Of Gen
erals william Campbell, Charles Mcdowell
and John Williams, and Colonels Renja-
min Cleveland, Isaac Shelby. John Severe
and Edward Lacey, and Major william
Gambler and the men who fell or par
ticipated in the battle of Kings Mountain.
fought on the seventh day of October
1880. The bill has in it these provisos:
provided, That the money appropriated
as aforesaid shall be expended under the
direction of the Secretary OF War, and the
plans, specifications and designs for such
monument and inclosure for the same
shall, before any money so appropriated
is expended. be first approved by the
Secretary of War:
"And provided further, That no part
of the sum hereby appropriated shall be
50 expended until the Kings Mountain
Battle Ground Association Of South Caro-
lima shall convey not more than fifty acres
Of said battle ground to the United States
upon which to erect said monument. and
which site for said monument shall be
procured without cost to :he United
States
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the House and will probably become a
law at this session, giving the director OF
the census, who is required by law to
take a census OF manufactures in 1905. to
cooperate in the collection OF such stats
tics with States that have requirements
for gathering just the information desired
by the general government 1t is believed
that such an arrangement will save nearly
one-half the expense OF collecting the
statistics, both to the Federal Government
and the State, and it will avoid the neces-
sity OF requiring manufacturers to make
out two sets OF schedules so close to-
gether. In addition to this. the statistics
will be uniform. 1t is of exceeding i'm
portance that census statistics taken by
the Federal and the State governments
be UNIFORM as far as it is possible for
them to be 50. The object of the bill Is
TO save money in collecting statistics OF
manufactures and to have uniform statis
tics, and to protect manufacturers against
repeated INQUIRIES for the same informa-
ton.
There is much talk here and elsewhere
as te the relative strength of the navies.
Fred B. Whitney, clerk to the House
Committee on Naval Affairs, has prepared
a statement showing the sea strength in
fighting ships and men and officers Of the
Russian and Japanese navies. Russia has
total tonnage of 416,1 1853 and 50, ,20S Off
GERS and men. Japan has a total tonnage
of 243,5S6 and 81, 697 officers and men.
Russia has built seventeen frst-class
0attleships, with a total tonnage OF
pol .129: twelve second class battleshps and
monitors, of tonnage $3.50; eight armor-
ed cruisers. of tonnage 71.261; six first
class protected cruisers, Of tonnage 10, ,450;
five second-class protected cruisers, of ton
mage 9450. and eleven other cruisers and
scouts OF over / 900 tons each, with a total
tonnage Of 1903, making a grand total
Of ships built o. ffty-nine and a tonnage OF
i16.158.
Russia is building eight first-class bat
.leships Of 112.S64 tons, three protected
cruisers. frst-class, OF 1896 tonnage;
three protected cruisers, second class, of
9,445 tonnage, making a total of fourteen
ships building with tonnage of 1924.
Russia's torpedo fleet consists of forty
nine destroyers, 165 torpedo boats, one
submarine, and she is building nine de-
stroyers and five torpedo boats
Japan has but six tirst-class battleships,
Of tonnage $4,000; three other battleships,
Of tonnage, total 1904; eight armored
cruisers, of tonnage 1850; ten protected
cruisers, OF tonnage Al, ,276; seventeen other
cruisers above 1000 tons each. with
total tonnage of 3l,506, making a total of
forty-four ships, with tonnage 243,5S
Japan is building three protected cruisers,
of tonnage 10,095. Her fighting navy,
built and building, is forty-seven ships,
with tonnage 253,6Sl. Japan has nine
teen torpedo boat destroyers. sixty-seven
torpedo boats. and is building eighteen
torpedo boats.
FRED L. MERRITT.
Once, on a dreary night, l sat alone in
dwelling made desolate by human love.
Gods winds were wailing through that
Nirht ( with fha vofcas of famnesfIIouS