Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — CHARGES BIG FRAUDS. [ARTICLE]

CHARGES BIG FRAUDS.

Chandler Bays the Nation la the Vic* tian of Armor Plate Men. By a close vote the United States Senate Saturday rejected the proposition to erect, widiout reference to the price at which the Government cou'.d secure armor plate for its warship*, an armor plate factory. The vote upon the direct proposition was 22 to 2-4 and subsidiary amendments were rejected by about the same vote. During the debate Mr. Chandler delivered a speech, in which he charged that the Government had been defrauded in the adoption of the Harveyixed armor. He declared a similar fraud was proposed in the attempt to force the Government to adopt the Krupp armor. Mr. Spooner and Mr. Hale made notable speeches, deprecating the war talk by Mr. Lodge. Neither the Senator from Wisconsin nor the Senator from Maine was fearful that we might becoma involved in difficulty with Germany on account of the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Hoar protested aga'nst the talk that this nation had only recently become a “world power,’’ asserting that it had been a world power siuoe the war of 1812.

Mr. Chandler took sharp issue with the statement made by Mr. Allison that it would be four years before this Government cowld get a plate of armor from its own factory if It built one. Mr. Chandler concluded with the statement that the proposed Government armor plant could be erected for >1,500,000 and a steel plant alongside it for >500,000, and he believed the plants ought to be constructed. Mr. Stewart urged the construction of a Government armor plant not only to prevent the armor manufacturers from “milking" the Government, but to enable us to do our own work if it should become necessary In taking and maintaining our place as a world power. Frank Purnell of Beebe Run, N. J., had a fight with two black snakes, which came near getting the better of him. He saw them basking in the sun, and thought he would kill them. He claims etch would measure five feet, and while tackling one the other rushed at him. In his fight he was well nigh exhausted, when the reptiles gave up and took to the woods. This year thousands of Immigrants have taken up publie land or purchased Improved land in the Northwest.