Smyrna times., 1906-05-30

Many of them spend their time reading |
papers, dawdling, gossiping and loaf
ing. The United States Patent Office |
is self sustaining income producing |
institution. The fees taken from ap- |
plicants for patents pay all the ex-
penses of the Office and have brought
revenue to the government that |
amounts to $4,000 900. 1t is an out
rage that inventors who have done and
are doing so much for this marvellous
era and country must wait so long for
their patents.
A battleship, to be the peer of any
fighting machine afoat, will probably
be authorized by Congress. After a
long debate and fierce opposition the
House finally voted to authorize the
construction of such a vessel, the cost
of which will be about ten million dol
lars. An important clause of the bill
passed by the House is one affording a
four per cent preferential in favor of
Pacific coast bidders in contracts for
the construction of the vessels pro-
vided for in the bill. There was, of
course an opposition to this provision
also, but the California delegation
aided by the Speaker of the House
made a fight and got the provision in.
Representative Tawney, who was OPP
posed to the appropriation for a great
ship to outclass the English battleship
Dreadnought, gave some interesting
| figures with regard to the Navy. He
asserted that though we speak of the
cost of the Panama Canal in a whisper
for fear that we may give the impress
sion to other countries that we are 60
ing to bankrupt ourselves in building
it, that the Fifty-seventh and Fifty
eighth Congresses appropriated more
than twice as much money for the
Navy as it would cost to build the Gu
nal according to the highest estimate
yet submitted. He spoke also, of our
appropriations in anticipation of wars
too, and estimated that we are spend
ing about $35G, 900, 900 this year as the
expenses of wars that have occurred
and will occur. In reaching this total
he included the appropriations for pen
sions, artificial limbs, soldiers homes,
back pay and bounty, national ceme-
teries and the interest on the National
debt
Washington has participated in the
warm spell of weather which has broken
all recordsfor May and Congress is get
ing first punishmentfor all Its procrasti-
nation in the public business. While
the weather remained cool the general
rumor was that Congress would not
adjourn before the fourth of July,
even though fences at home were in
sad need of looking after. With each
warm day though few days of the
session will see more of accomplish
ment than as many weeks at the be.
ginning of the session.
Mr.. Hearst says be expects to be
beaten for Governor of New York by
fraud. He evidently knows how elec-
tions are carried in New York.
Those who predicted that the rail
road rate bill would bring about a
reconciliation between Senator Till
man and the President, are obliged to
observe that there is still no affection
wasted.
Mrs. Eddy, the Mother of Christian
Science, contributed QUE thousand dol.
lars to the relief of San Francisco.
This is the kind of absent treatment
that is bound to be efficacious.
There was rumor current a shori
time ago that Speaker Cannon was
going to resign his job. It was found
on investigation that it started from
his remark that be was tired of listen
: ing to nonsense.
Prophet Dowie did not work a mir
acle when he got back to Zion. ans
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