Show fI ft 1 f iff oS GI JC I t 1 t C It 1 t i Rim t R M S St 1 c rf sM r t f lt n E f iader r Convulses ses 4 rl ti Jh ij in Debate on f t tf t Ja ai Bill wu i tO tOr i r O M ES S T TO 0 AIRSHIPS AI PS PSt t I I ir f ts rs f I OL cY J rA fl S Of b SARCASM if Jf I 2 o April Just before l fore the thelie I v lie io natal 1 appropriation today toda todal l tv John Sharp Williams got m r Tiia 44 delivered one 1 of ot the wit 1 1 pes over heard h ard In that cham 1 IlK K himself elt of Ut the twenty mm I t 1 for discussing a point of oC or orF I F said RaIl It was wn never out i t t I lacE tread read read lessons ons upon civic right t B tv h J the tine Republican party He lIe 1 11 proceeded amid general laughter to toj j that hat wood pulp and alit print paper r W fc to the bill 1111 because It was I t Ith th th necessity to the d ce pC the navy to spread Intelligence I 14 S nil the people peO le so 59 that they the might know t jw much or of a 4 navy nay Is la necessary for na nn naI J defense I i iSI SI I V Back to Canoe DaysS Days 1 S 5 e traced tr ced the history of naval construe lit to Ii of the world beginning with bat bati i fin In canoes and anti declared that from that thatto thatto V to to this the genius of oC mankind in war iet In itt the management of ot ships has hascen hasTU een TU directed to getting away from one ona when they were fleeing or catch catchIng lug Ing one another when they the were desirous 7 of o fighting lighting He lie convulsed the house when I 3 18 e said question was whether an American navy na In the present day can get tay from an enemy enem as rapidly as one 5 In the distant day to which he had won efu referring or whether the American i avy uy Sy today could get at an enemy as ef jR 0 nicely as In those thoe remote periods for forI I he said amid shouts of or laugh laughr V 1 r 1 I 1 see by the expression of the coun truno of or the gentleman from New York Ur lr Jr Payne he Ill has the utmost con He lie spoke of o ships being at one time milt of Iron and said it would havo have been foolish to have built too much of o a navy nav i plated platE with railroad for fear an improvement might make the ships obo obsolete lete Jele Therefore he said our wise ances ance ancestors I tots tors ors built only a few of them about S two at a time so they the could keep up with new types as new types arose rose f At this point Mr Ir Hobson interrupted Mt It Williams with the inquiry whether I Iti Ili It tull consideration of all the he history of or architecture the gentleman from finally finds himself on the sade of the or the Monitor 1 Case of the Monitor Replying Mr lr Williams said sald sa amid ami amidI I I that a little hItte cheese box upon a raft referring to the Monitor had won a great grent battle and that one once more the lesson was taught of or not making an appropriation for tor too many battleships at atthe atthe the th same time He lie was he said sold amid S more laughter solemnly declaring upon IKS bs Ji s legislative responsibility my Idea of what is good hood for Cor tho the American avy 1 When hen Mr Williams touched upon air airships airships airships ships pandemonium reigned When ships begin to sail sall through the Ule air he said it will not ot be long before we are equipping equip equipping ping perhaps armoring and officering I and manning dirigible balloons for the of or destroying destro not to destroy destro any anything anything anything thing nor for war at all allbut but 1 for the he purpose of preparing for f the minds of the world with the theda tda da that it Is the urgent desire of ot the people to go armed in order ordeT that they thy ma have no occasion or op opportunity O to ta attack an anybody bod |