The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-18

States decided against the complain
ants the case of the $4,000 Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indians who asked
for redress for being excluded from
the citizenship rolls of those nations
when they were prepared by Secre-
tary Hitchcock, of the Interior De-
partment, on March 1, 1907.
Since the German naval strength
in the last year has jumped over that
of, France in tonnage ahoat and over
the United States in tonnage afloat
and under construction the question
as TO whether the United States
should increase her building program
will be taken under considera. ion at
once by the General Board, with
Captain Andrews, naval adviser to
the Secretary of the Navy, partici-
pating.
Capt. William A. Marshall, who
has commanded the armored cruiser
North Carolina since that vessel was
placed in commission two years ago.
has been selected by Rear-Admiral
W. p. Potter, Chief of Navigation,
as commandant OF the Norfolk Navy
Yard. 1t is expected that the selec-
tion will be approved by Secretary
Meyer and orders issued this week.
The production of 1SS per cent of
full crop of peanuts for 1909 is
estimated by the Department of Ag-
riculture Ill a crop report issued
Monday. This is decrease of A.
per cent. from last years crop.
Among the first questions which
will be presented for the consideTa-
tiou OF Congress when it convenes
Will be the change of the date of in
auguration Day. Commissioner
Henry B. F. MacFarland, chairman
of the national committee. announced.
Backed up by the Governors of 46
States, by strong popular support
Of the movement and batch of
photographs which would give any
Senator past the are of 40. q pull
monary shiver. Mr. Macfarland will
begin the assault with heavy ammu-
milton. The committee will also pre-
sent statistics showin" the death tol!
from pneumonia contracted by Wis
itors and the soldicry last inaugural
tlon. The local members feel that
their efforts will meet with success.
The recommendations of the Joint
army and navy board that Pearl
Harbor. in the Hawaiian islands, he
made the great naval station in the
Pacific was approved Thursday by
President Taft. In doing this it
was decided that a temporary naval
station only would be constructed at
Olongapo and that the proposed i'm
provement of Manila harbor be aban-
doned. This will leave the protec-
tion of the Philippine islands to the
army.
British capital practically has cap
tured the South American commercial
field and American business men will
have To exert the most strenuous c.
forts to overcome the lead the Eng.
hshmen have acquired in that section
of the world. This is the warning
issued by Alfred A. Winslow, United
States Consul at Valparaiso, Chile.
lie reports to the Department of
Commerce and Labor that the amount
Of money invested by Britons in
South American industries has reach
ed the enormous sum of $3,29O.O23,-
300. which is divided among invest
ments in Government and municipal
bonds, railroads. commercial interests
and banks. The prospects for busi-
ness there are unlimited. but Ameri-
can manufacturers and business men
must seek it earnestly and furnish
better goods than their European
competitors to capture 1t.
Engineering problems as present.
ed Ill the construction. of the Union
Station and the Connecticut avenue
bridge here were studied Saturday
by the members Cf the Appalachian
Engineering Association in a day of
sightseeing about the city, spent in
examining engineering works and dis
cussing topics Of interest with men,.
bers of the Forestry Bureau, Geo
logical Survey and other Government
establishments.
Leading officers Of the naval militia
of various States discussed at a con.
ference here Saturday a plan of cam
paign to induce Congress to extend
to the naval militia of the country
the provisions of the Dick National