Show J I IHAn OTHER BOATS TO TOT T HAVE HAn A CHANCE Proviso in Naval Bill Favoring Holland nd People Finally Fin ny Eliminated I LONG DISCUSSION ENDED S ONLY ON L Y A FEW VOTES CAST AST AGAINST THE MEASURE Washington April 16 The long existing controversy as to whether w ether the United I States navy should nave submarine submarino tor torpedo torpedo I as rec ree recommended recommended boats of or the Holland type by the committee on naval affairs was settled in the house bouse of o 0 rep representatives representatives representatives today when after a lengthy and lively debate the proviso limiting the secretary of or the navy to purchase only i boats of the Holland type was stricken out The effect of this action was to give the secretary a free hand In tho the selection of ot 1 submarine boats The members haggled d over almost every line of the three pages of the bill remain remaining ing tog to be disposed of when the house met fi 1 but the principal L L action was that with re reL garu aru 10 LU u me un A humorous speech by Mr Ir Williams III lams In which he ho had several friendly clashes with Mr lr Hobson over warships and balloons commanded the attention of the house for forI I some time Quorum Finally Secured Before consideration of or the naval appropriation bill could be resumed in the house it was necessary to ro obtain a quorum and this proceeding occasioned consid considerable considErable considerable erable delay When hen the bill was finally gotten otten under way wa Mr Ir Madden Ill made madea a point of order against the provision re relating hating lating Ittin to the tle method of contracting for forthe forthe forthe the ten torpedo boat destroyers The j i hair chair sustained the point A proposed amendment by Mr Hughes k l X N J J making the law applicable cable to laborers or mechanics doing any an part ait att of the work of oC new construction au authorized by b the bill except In cases of oC na national national emergency was wa lost on a point of order by Mr Ir Ross Mr Ir Williams appealed from the decision but the chair was sus sustained sustained tamed to 92 Submarines Knocked Out When the section relating to the eight submarine torpedo boats was reached Mr Ir Jim Hill Conn made a 11 point of ot order against the proviso restricting the secre secretary secretary secretary tary of the navy nav to the selection of ot all such boats heretofore determined to be superior as the result of competitive tests Mr dr lr Hill Hili vehemently vt declared that the proviso was a Il change of existing law If he could have his way he said he would strike out the whole section but Inasmuch as he ha was unable to do that lie he would seek partly to strike it out His Hiss s contention was vigorously opposed by b Mr Ur Roberts Mass J The chair ruled against Mr Hill Thu main maintaining maintaining taming in as much as these boats were appropriated for it was legitimate to describe the boats Mr Hill there thereupon thereupon thereUpon upon made a point of or order against the I entire nUre paragraph A V A long wrangle ensued over the point raised by but the chair ruled in his favor and aM the authorization for sub submarines submarines marines went out of o the bill bUl billMore bUlMore billMore More Amendments 1 The fhe paragraph having gone out several amendments were offered among these being one by br Mr Ir Olcott of or New York slightly changing the phraseology of oC the submarine proposition and another by Bonynge Colo Cob authorizing the secretary to contract for or purchase the eight submarines and providing that before do doIng doIn doing Ing In so he shall determine the comparative efficiency of the different tyes tes of or boat Despite vigorous objection b by Mr Hill Hili the chair overruled a point of oC order made by him and the amendment was discussed at length Mr Ir Roberts bitterly opposed the Bonynge e amendment declaring that th the limitation on the secretary of the navy nay in the original submarine amendment was wa practically Identical with the battleship provisions requesting him to build those two ships along the tho lines of the Dela Delaware Delaware Delaware ware Lake Company Favored The only people said Mr Roberts w who ho have got any encouragement oit of this matter of favoritism is the Lake Lale company whose boat boat boet was discredited in tn inthe inthe the trial last spring The Lake boat he declared was found to be radically de defective feetie and yet et he said notwithstanding notwithstanding standing that fact that company came up and got a 11 contract for for one of these discredited boats and in that contract the secretary of the navy en encourages that company to the extent of ot being for interest on the money mone they are to put into it Mr Ir Bonynge inquired if the naval com corn committee committee had examined Into jute the Denver boat but Mr Ir Roberts declared he did not know what that had to do with the whining of the Lake people He asserted that Ui th language of the Bonynge was in the language of Simon Lake but Mr Ir td Bonynge sharply retorted that the words i tre re from the acts of or 1003 Mr Ir Underwood Ala presented an striking out the proviso of oC the original provision leaving heaving it discretionary Mth ith the secretary of the navy as to the thet t re he ho shall select still further amendment was offered l 1 h Mr Humphrey Humphre Washington provid providing ing for the construction of some m of the submarines o on the Pacific coast Restored to the Bill Billi I The i lie Olcott and Underwood amendments n it adopted lOS to the tho Humphrey Humphre arm was lost on a point of order ordera aa as a l also aio was waR the Bonynge amendment As finally amended the bill authorizes the eight submarines but strips the secretary secreta f for of or the navy nav of or the limitation to contract I only for boats b at of ot the Holland type On a point of or order by b Mr lr Stafford I Wisconsin C there was stricken from the bill the provision authorizing a subsurface subsurface face destroyer torpedo boat 1 There was s a brief discussion over the theold th theold old of or armor plate and its cost r Mr 11 Hit Nebraska contended that there thero really rea II was no competition and he offered an au amendment fixing Ing the price at 75 7 a ton t of 2210 ID pounds Mr Tawney In Insisted Insisted Insisted that thit there was competition and said that as a result the government had saved St UI on the battleships Deleware and North Dakota alone t After Atter 4 long consideration of the ques pies question question tion lion of a 1 point of order against the amend amendment amendment r ment mont raised r by Mr Ir Foss the chair sus sustained sustained tamed that fiat motion and asid the was lost Knowland Attacks Lilley In a II brief speech Mr lr Knowland Cal blamed Mr Ir Lilley Conn for making false and misleading statements t m itt MR speech of oC last week regarding 1 worthless navy yards ards in which he stated that the Mare Marc island navy nav yard was one of them Mr Knowland said When Whon like Don Quixote Mr Ir I Lilly buckles on his armor dons his helmet and in III place of oC the lance substitutes the pen and starting out strikes out right and anO left ft oven venturing Into submarine depths I can but wish him God speed for forI 1 I know that hIs enjoyment is keen koen and that the country is amused if not en enlightened enlightened enlightened lightened Mr Ur Lilley he said had grossly gr misrepresented misrepresented misrepresented resented the facts regarding the Mare Iare Island Inland I land dry tIr dock in the matter of work done and money noney paid out and he quoted official figures to substantiate his denial He then hurled a bomb at Mr Ir Lilley and charged that that had hall at New London Conn In his own district a less navy navo yard upon which considerable sums are being uselessly expended Replying briefly Mr Lilley declared that th t his figures were obtained from the navy deportment and that he would just justas as soon abandon the New ew London yard as a aan any an other one should It be he shown to be useless Big Money for Repairs Mr 11 Tawney vehemently opposed adoption ad adoption p tion without careful investigation of an by b Mr tr Ir Padgett Tenn ap appropriating appropriating U for repairs to elgh eighteen I teen toen vessels among which are the follow following ing lug San Francisco Alabama Illinois Iowa Kear IZear Kearsarge Kearsarge sarge OO Kentucky Benning Bennington ton oO The money mone is to be paid out of or the appropriation of for con construction construction and repair of vessels The amendment was adopted without division Bill Passed Consideration of or the bill was concluded and It was passed under suspension of the rules the idea l ea being to forestall the Dem Democrats Democrats Democrats in the matter mutter of ot unnecessary roll calls The vote resulted Yeas nays na 12 I Ithe ithe the latter being Byrd Miss lIss Garner Tex Gregg Tex May Va Helm Ivy KY K Jones Va Lamar Mo Clo MoLee MoLee Lee Ga Russell Tex Sherwood 0 O Slayden and Stephens Tex |