Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-20
NEWsY GOSSIP FROM NATIONAL CAPITOL


Mrs Roosevelt, and partly, too. to the
German emperOr's growing regard for
American and Americans.
Other American women who mar
ried German diplomatic officers are
the Baroness Won Ketter and the
Countess Won Gortzen, both of whom,
like the Baroness Won Stenburg are
widows. Baron. Won Ketter, whose
wife was Miss Ledyard, of Detroit,
Michigan, was killed In front of the
German legation at Peking during the
!. Boxer outbreak in June. 1900. Count
lvonGortzen was attached to the Ger
nan embassy here when he was mar
lried to Mrs. Lay Of Washington. ID.
&c.
Although the United States still
holds third place among the naval
lpowers of the world, she is closely
pressed by France for that honor. aud
soon may fall to fourth place. A
chart just issued by the NaG Depart.
ment names the naval powers of the
world in the following order, the
position Of each being based upon
tonnage of warships built and build.
ing.
Great Britain, Germany. United Sta.
ties, France, Japan, Russia, Italy, aud
Austria.
While the United States has now
five battleships of the Dreadnought
type building or authorized, France
has seven. These figures are signi.
ficant as showing, or rather indicating
the proposal to develop the strength
lof the French navy, as at present the
French republic has not one Dead
nought.
The sea strength of this country,
including both vessels built and au.
thorized, consists of Is deadnoughts,
% ~battleships, II arnored cruisers,
56 d%estroyers, 20 torpedo boats, AZ
submarines. and 4 coast defense yes.
sells, while that OF France is Z dead
thoughts, 20 b%attleships, q armored
cruisers, 10 cruisers, "a destroyers 1877
torpedo boats SO submarines, and 2
coast defense vessels. I ......
In the relative order of warship ton
mage. of vessels building and comolet-
ed, the United States has S9S,345, as
against SOC, 729 for France. Great
Britain, which leads the world, has
~2,47S,152, while Germany, which comes
second, has 1,124,257. The warship
tonnage of the other world powres in
relative order is Japan, 613,724;
Russia 459,2O7;, Italy, 41G,31O; Austria
260,751. ra.lm. aT HI j. .a... s.
Diplomats and others in official life
in Washington are discussing with
animation the remarkably enth'
usiastic ovation received by Senior
Federico Alfonso Pezet, the Peruvian
Minister when he ADDRESSED the
several Thousand delegates at the
ninth annual Rivers's and Harbors
Congress yesterday Immediately after
Taft's speech OF welcome. Among
other interesting things sail by Min
lister Pezet were.
"Of your ability as a. nation to
undertake and carry out the work
which you have before you, you have
given the world absolute proof. Apart
from the Panama Canal, your engin'
GERS, both military and civil, have
, completed at home works which dc
you honor as a nation. ~
you in the north, most certainly
have a %wonderfu vi photography, but
still it does not come up to ours,
!, Where in all this northern part OF
our hemisphere have you anything to
compare with the iKng of Waters the
mighty Amazon? Can you realize that
t by executing feasible engineering
works the Orinoco, the Amazon, and
the La Plata could be made to join
through their a%ffluents, and thus from
one continuous water system, embrac'
. ing tens of thousands of miles of la
igable streams? '''"t''
do you know that ocean steamers
drawing more than thirty feet of wa
: ter can steam up the Amazon and
} some of its tributaries for distances
greater than that from st. Louis to
) the mouth of the Mississippi, and that
ocean liners drawing more than
twenty feet of water do steam III
$ ~lQuitos, in Peru, a distance as great
, as from New Orleans to Lake Wiini'
peg?
"Buenos Aires, which, in tonnage
: is the twelfth port of the world, is
: fast becoming one Of the greatest
: ports in the whole world. T%hirty-fve
million dollars have been spent there
in harbor improvements, and before
t these impro, -ments were made the
\ tonnage only amounted to $50, 900
whereas now it is more than $4,000,
1000.
Just now we are very much alive
!, to the opening Of your Panama Canal
! A vast and comprehensive programme
/. is on foot in South America, and as
J Mature has been very good to both
t the northern and southern hemisphere
!. of the American Continent, 1t is W
. to us to make the most Of such
} bounty.
. II, therefore, wish to emphasize the
fact that whilst this organization is
3 today national in scope, it should ex
tend beyond your own borders and
reach, out to the other sections Of
| America, and become international III
scope"
In all probability the wise sugges
! ition Of Minister Pezet will be taken
y.up at an early date by Senator Rams
Y dell, the President Of the national
body, and discussed with President
t Taft and Directors General Barrett
with the likelihood Of its being given