The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-21
Bidding for Northern and
Western Negro Vote.
AND TENDER TO TEDDY
Bill of Interest to North Carolina as
Mineral Producing State. Five
Car Loads of Government
Exhibits 90 to St. Louis
this Week.
Especial Correspondence


Washington, D. c., Feb. 2O-The
change OF front of some of the Republican
Senators on the Crum case is taken as
an indication that word has been sent
down from the White House that now is
the time for all Republicans to stand to-
gether in behalf of the colored collector
at Charleston to the end that the party
may have the support of the negro vote
in the Western and Northern States in
the next election.
I'm fact" remarked Senator Clay, of
Georgia, soon after he came out of the
committee room, where he had voted
against the nomination, more than one
Republican member of the committee
told me he would be compelled to go
agains. me this time because he didn't
want to offend the President"
THAT is just the trouble remarked
Senator Simmons, that's what they tell
me in regard to post office appoint
ment (AlbrghD in my State. Don't want
to offend the President, by voting against
one of his appointees."
A bill that is of interest to North Caro-
lima as mineral producing and mining
State. is now pending in the Senate with
a favorable report from the Committee
on Mines and Mining. 1t provides for
the establishment of mining experiment
stations in such States and Territories as,
in the judgment of the Secretary of the
Treasury, have sufficient mineral re-
sources to justify it. These stations are
to have an expert geologist at a salary
OF 5000 year, chemist at $4,000, and
are to be equipped at cost of not ex-
ceeding 5000. The duty of this geologist
and chemist is to receive all minerals de-
posted with them by citizens of the
United States and make proper CLASH
fcation or assay of each sample. The
cost of such assay or analysis to the de-
postor is to be fixed by the Secretary of
the Treasury. It is further provided, as
a protection against fraud that the per-
son depositing uch sample shall be re-
quireG to make oath as to the place from
which the sample was obtained and by
who mtaken. Also it is provided that
the result of the assay or analysis shall
be kept secret for fifteen days, after
which time it shall be posted on bulle-
tin board at the office and at the end
of each calendar month full report shall
be sent to the Treasury Department for
the duty of the geologist to personally ex
plore and carefully examine the min
eral regions within his jurisdiction and
report thereon to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The object of this bill is to prevent
mining frauds which have been so fire.
quent in some part of the country and
which have certainly, in years past, been
The curse of that industry in North Caro-
lima.
The House Committee on Claims has
reported favorably bill to reimburse the
Bank OF North Wilkesboro for $50 sent in
registered letter to the Treasurer of the
United States for redemption, but burned
in railroad wreck near Charlottesville,
Va. about March %, 1902.
1t will be learned with pleasure by the
people of North Carolina that a joint
resolution is now pending in the Senate,
with favorable committee report for an
appropriation to erect a monument to the
memory of Dorthea Lynde Dix. Already
her birthplace at Hampden. Maine, has
been acquired by the National Dorothea
Dix Memorial Association, and now it
asks, and the Society of the Army of
the Potomac joins in the request, that
Congress aid in perpetuating her memory
by erecting a suitable memorial thereon.
Dorothea Dix stands in history as most
eminent philanthropist, having revolu-
tioniZed the methods for the treatment
of the insane; having been instrumental
in building more than a score OF his
pitfalls and establishing other phllanthroplc
institutions. Among these Is the Hos
pital for the Insane at Raleigh. Also as
chief of the women nurses she gave her
services fully to her country during and
after the Civil War.
1t often happens that Senators and Rep.
resentatives have difficulty, from one
cause or another, in deciding between
several applicants for appointment as
cadet to the Naval Academy To obviate
this difficulty is the purpose of an
amendment to the Naval Approprition
Bill introduced by Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts. The bill provides that
''nhenever any Senator or Representa-
tive entitled to designate a cadet for the
Naval Academy shall desire to have
competitive examination to aid him in
such selection he may. make known his
desire to have such an examination to the
Secretary of the, Navy, who shall if he
find it practicable. thereupon be authoriz-
ed in his discretion, to designate a per-
son or persons to hold such examination
at such time and place as he may see fit;
and in such case there need be no further
examination as to the mental qualities
and attainments of candidates so found
competent to ented the Naval Academy if
in other respects they be entitled and
lawfully designated.
Five carloads of government exhibits
for the ST. Louis Exposition will be
shipped from this city next week by the
Treasury Department and five more car
loads of the same exhibit will be shipped
from Philadelphia. The most valuable
rarts of the mint exhibit will go by cx-
press.
Rapid progress is being made in com
plotting the preparations for the Life Saw