The National tribune., 1907-11-28

of the people in the United States were
never so rich as they are to-day, and
at the s.,.l.s time says that he will stand
with President Roosevelt for any cur
rency legislation which may be needed
for the adjustment of business condi-
tions.
The cotton. the corn, the wheat and
the meat produced this year and now
waiting to be marketed said the
Speaker. ARE of the value of at least
ten billion dollars. and the people who
produced them are substantially out of
debt These products cannot start to
market because of the currency fam
inc. They will begin to go to market
the minute the banks resume payment
of their obligations
Questioned as to the currency legisla-
ton the Speaker said:
Il am in favor of enactng as quickly
as possible all the legislation the coun-
try needs. But there are a great many
measures proposed for the treatment OF
the currency. We shall have to hear
what is suggested by the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury. Then
much will depend upon what may be
suggested by the Committee on Bank
ing and Currency. when it is formed"
William r. Wheeler, of California. a
member of the immigration Commits
sion, with Senator Dillingham;. of Ver
mont, and Prof. jerks. of Cornell also
members of the Commission. called up
on the President last week. Mr.. Wheel
er said that another year would prob
ably pass before the report of the Com
mission would be made to Congress,
and that he and his fellow members
would take up the subject of Oriental
immigration, with the possibility of sew
eral members going to Japan and China
during the next month or two.
10 h., tI,.; ,;,rr..,
in Europe" said Mr.. Wheeler, "and we
know why he leaves his home for
America. We know who he is and all
about him. But this is the beginning
and not the end of the immigration
problem. We must know him as an
immigrant. We want to know the i'm
migration question as it exists inside
this country. Can we assimiiate the
immigration as fast as it is pouring in :?
Can we devise some method of scatter
ing immigrants, instead of permitting
them to concentrate in large cities? In
Hungary when | was forced to employ
an Interpreter to talk with a returned
immigrant who had lived in Pittsburg
eight years, / began to wonder whether
we We're properly assimilating our i'm
migration. The immigration problem
grows bigger as it is studied. The Com
mission will meet soon after Congress
convenes, and then prepare its plans
for further Investigations. 1 think it
will then take up the problem of Orien- =
| tai immigration
Estimates of appropriations aggre-
eating $2S,461,911 are made by Gen.
Alexander Mackenzie, Chief of Engi-
neers Of the Army, for fortification work
during the fiscal year 1909. This con-
templates work in the United States
proper. Cuba, Honolulu. Porto Rico and
the Philippines.
1t includes gun and mortar batteries,
s4,4S9, 900; electrical installations at
seacoast fortiflcations, S1,000,000; sites
for fortifications and seacoast defenseS,
STATS, 500 searchlights for harbor de-
fenses, s1,000,000: preservation and re-
pair of fortiiications. $500, 600; sea wall,
Fort Moultrie, S. G., S125,000; repair
and protection of Pensacola tFla.) de-
lenses, S566,f55; repair and protection
of Mobile (AIa.) defenses. $5S9.500: de-
fenses of Galveston, Tex. s1,275, 900;
casemates and galleries for submarine
mines, $464,964; experimental automo-
bile torpedoes, $4,000 seacoast bat
teries at Guantanamo, S1.020,000:
Honolulu and Pearl Harbor S1,110. 900:
Manila. s6.4S8,00 installation of elec-
trio plants at these places and at Subig
Bay, $500, ,992; for searehlights at San
Juan, Porto Rico, Guantanamo, Pearl
Harbor, Honolulu Guam and in the
Philippines. 100000, and torpedo
structures at defenses of Honolulu and
Pearl Habor, Hawaii, s129,0O0.
The modern works of defense now
constructed represent an expenditure
of approximately s2S,000,000 for engi-
neering work alone. For the engineer
work involved in the completion of the
defenses recommended by the Taft
Board the estimate is made that &c.
052.413 will be required.
War is becoming more and more a
game of chess, struggle of one mind
against another, rather than a physical
fight in which brute force wins" said
Isaac Rice, n submarine boat builder, al
the Shoreham. 1.-The Introduction of the
submarine, the war balloon, which will
eventually develop into a fying-ma-
chine, the searchlight with all their
powers of disclosing the movements of
the enemy, and the telephone into mod
ern warfare makes the struggle between
opposing forces as open as the moves
on chess board. The element of sur
prise which has entered into former
wars, to a large extent, is gradually be-
ing eliminated. Each commander will
know the position of the forces of the
enemy. and the victory will go to the
man who best lays his plans to check
mate the other.
'At present there is no defense
against a submarine nor any offense
One submarine could not attack another
when both are submerged. In the first
place, the men on one of the subma-
rine boats could not see the other boat;
they could only see what is going on
above the surface of the water
This reduction of warfare more and
more to an exact science and the use
of submarine and airships will un-
doubtedly make the forces employed
against each other smaller Huge
armies are hard to handle and to pro-
vision. Undoubtedly, too, the sacrifice
of life will be less. Battles are fought
and won at the Army manuvers as now
conducted without the firing of a shot
Judges decide that one force has placed
itself in a position to annihilate the
other. Generals in actual warfare will
recognize this fact, too"
Robert Bacon, of New York. Assist
ant Secretary of State, was rendered
The German Enthusiastically and has
declined it.
Mr. Bacon declined the offer on the
ground, it is understood, that he pre-
ferred personally to remain in the State
Department. Whether any other man
has been offered the Embassadorship
has not been disclosed.
Here's a story they say" the Presi-
the Louisiana canebrakeS:
They We're resting around the Presi-
dents campfire in the Louisiana cane
brake. The dogs were asleep with the
fatigue of the chase, the guides were
tvjDp around octipg tbair aya, rncp