The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-10-25
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondencs.)

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/ the navy department 10 consider
whether It would not be well TO deslg-
nate one or two naval engineer Off
GERS 10 make a round trip across the
Atlantic on that vessel in the near
future 20 gather information relative
! 10 the working of the turbine machin-
/ cry that cannot be obtained in official
! reports. The navy is already install
/ ing turbine engines in some OF the
scout ships. and has contracted 10
! have them placed in two of the new
! torpedo boat destroyers about 10 be
! constructed.
Stamp Vending Machines-F. S. Nc
/ trict OF postal inspections. has just be-
| gun work testing stamp-yending ma
! chimes as head OF a special commit
! tee appointed by the postmaster-gen-
! eral for that purpose. The object OF
| the tests is TO ascertain what kind
! If any stamp-vending machine is suit
! able for adoption by the postofice de-
partment. About 20 inventors have
siPnifed their intention 10 have ma
! chimes made by them tested. These
include machines used in the British
and German postal service. Some of
/ the machines are very ingenious. It
is claimed By their inventors that IL
a coin is dropped into some of the
machines any Kind of stamp desired
will be furnished and the proper
change will be returned TO the pur-
chaser. I'm fact, according TO Mr..
| Mcmillan, some of the machines will
wet stamps and do almost everything
that a person would want TO have
done. The trouble will be TO prevent
the substitution of metal discs or
something else for money.
Evans as Good as Ever-"Ill COM
mand the feet on its trip to the Pa
cifc if | am on my pins" said Rear
Admiral Evans the other day. You
see, | am on them now and very
steady, | can assure you, and really
| never felt better in my life. | re-
tire next August. of course, but the
fleet may be back by that time. If
not, I will Of course be subject to the
wishes of the department and the
rules of the service" Rear Admiral
Evans arrived in Washington and
went TO the navy department, where
he discussed the plans for the move
ment OF the Atlantic fleet TO the Pa
cific in December There has been
lot of talk recently about the probabil-
ity that Rear Admiral Evans might
not after all take the fleet to the Pa
cfic on account of i'll health.
Complexion of House Committees
Congress will meet in less than two
months, and considerable speculation
is already INDUCED in as to the prob
able makeup OF the house committees
Ii is accepted as settled that Senator
Frye will continue to be president pro
tempore of the senate. that Mr..
Cannon will be speaker of the house
and Mr. Williams will be the minority
leader i'm that body, but il happens
that there will be an unusual number
OF changes in important committees.
This, too, without any significant
change in the political complexion of
the house. Some members of leading
committees retired voluntarily from
congressional service and others
were defeated. ether in convention
or at the polls. If Speaker Cannon
chose to do so. he could materially
modify legislation through changes i'm
these committees without breaking
the custom of retaining old members
on the same committees year after
year.
Southern Revenue Ostricts-Capt.
John G. Capers, the commissioner of
internal revenue, has returned to this
city from an inspection tour of the
internal revenue districts OF the
South disposed to recommend the
abolition of several revenue districts
where prohibition has been imposed
He will suggest the consolidation OF
other districts. Inasmuch as not only
the sale but the manufacture of dis
titled and malt liquors have been for
hidden in Georgia after January
next that state and South Carolina
will probably be consolidated into one
internal revenue district. The Office
at Atlanta will be abolished and the
Office for the entire new district will
be at Columbia. s. c. In the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1906. the collec.
tions of internal revenue I'm Georgia
were 1896. 900. of which $4,000 came
from distilled liquors and $lS4,OO0
from malt liquors. a total OF s556,00O,
leaving less than $4,000 OF internal
revenue from tobacco and other sourc-
es.
House Of Representatives Desks
Some years ago the late Thomas b.
Reed of jovial and arbitrary memory,
advocated the idea OF taking out the
desks in the house OF representatives
over which he presided and seating
the members on benches He had the
idea that this would expedite business
BY confining the attention of members
to business instead of dissipating IL