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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1911
Page
5
The second division battleships under Rear Admiral Badger tested a new night innovation after dawn airship gunnery near Provincetown. Kites were launched from the New Hampshire and served as targets at 300 to 500 yards, swaying as they hung at the end of cords while sailors fired from cover.
A second unique experiment in naval gunnery featured anchored ship crews firing at illuminated moving targets at night. The South Carolina conducted sub calibre trials with towed raft targets under searchlights at 600 to 800 yards while New Hampshire crews performed line shots. Admiral Badger’s division plans further bay exercises as fleet ships coal and prepare turret tops for next week’s target practice.
Destroyers Perkins and Trippe completed a series of runs over the government mile course off Wood End with Perkins reaching 31 knots. The ships returned from behind the hills at 4 PM as crowds and cargo craft swarmed the harbor. Admiral Osterhaus visited his flagship Connecticut, while efforts to free a stranded Ohio steam launch were successful with tug help. The fleet plans an attack on Admiral Badger’s second division before daybreak, led by the Castine with possible support from destroyers.
Information reached the United States Treasury that Boston will be the port through which a large quantity of foreign dress goods may be smuggled as tourists return home. Assistant Secretary James F. Curtis arrived in Boston and, after a lengthy consultation with Deputy Collector Munroe at the Custom House, is believed to have instructed local officials on the plan.
July 27 in the Senate a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans overturned the regular Republican bloc to pass a compromise woolen tariff revision by 48 to 32. The insurgents, seeking broad tariff reductions, threaten to push through the House farmers free list bill next Tuesday and also a cotton bill. They also want sugar and steel schedules added to the program.
Democrats demand deeper tariff cuts while Republicans boast executive disapproval. Taft’s veto looms over a Senate House conference stalemate as LaFollette insurgents head a coalition. Debate centers on wool rates 20 35 40 percent and potential cotton implications for industry.
Tonight the measure in modified form seemed assured. The House may place various measures on the free list as amendments or treat the schedules as independent bills. Progressive Republicans favor the separate bill system while Democratic Senators split on continued revision, awaiting the President's stance and possible early adjournment if the wool bill is vetoed. A recess after conference action on the wool, cotton and free list bills may be proposed to let the Ways and Means committee continue its work.
Mr Underwood stated the House is willing to meet the Senate for a compromise on a wool bill and expects agreement between the houses before sending a bill to the President for signature. He believed adjournment timing would not be pushed beyond the August 7 statehood vote.
The 53 foot yacht Hesperia owned by C A Congdon anchored in Duluth harbor after a 25 day voyage from Bath Maine. Despite stopping at several ports the exact travel time is unclear due to long legs and rough Great Lakes squalls and winds.
Harold Hitchcock, appointed master to hear the evidence in the Lynn suit by J. L. Walker & Co. against United Shoe Workers, reports the strike was a bona fide effort to obtain higher wages and not for a closed shop, sympathy, or illegal conduct.
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