| Show BATTLESHIPS EM IN IN BILL Over the Appropriation For Forthe the Navy L CRITICISM OF ROOSEVELT PREDICTION MADE BY SENATOR HALE HAL E Washington Feb the zen sen tUe ble resumed legislative session today Mr Proctor present d the tho conference on the army bi bill billand Ind and It was agreed to without debate bi bill carried the provision to to the pay of af aC the pay ot of Generl General Miles which has heretofore beEn been a subject or of con overs The naval appropriation bi bill vas waz then before the senate Mr Morg MOrgan discussing the proposed of the appropriation for tor the corps declared fere could be JI excuse for tor sUch an increase In the Interests of peace Answering Mr Hales lisles remark remarks made un on Ur Mi Gorman sid said this ad was going beyond the established by England more thin a century ago ugo and that nt at this time such expenditures were extra and unnecessary He referred to tn the history or of the English navy when i it was used t to collect dutes duties from the colonies and compared it ith Hh the position of this countI country in santo anto Domingo toda today I suppose if this thiR is ii to continue he sid said that we weil il ill ston on have our marines In al all ot of the H v ker L South American republics No Money For Improvements The adoption of this policy he said Was no doubt responsible for the In rease In the bi bill and that public Im have been paralyzed by big appropriations for the army and navy Public buildings and river habor harbor Improvements had been ut b He gave the total ap for the nav navy during the four years ers or of the civi civil wr at BO and the appropriations for the Zavy In inclusive at 13 The time is close at hand hp h said the people wi will not tolerate these conditions at the cost ot of trade interest interests of the tho countr country Soon Be Obsolete Mr rr Gorman predicted that the big battleships in ten years would b as obsolete JS as the Texa Texas Refer Referring ring Ing to the request for al ai increase to complete Ute the proposed s ut ships In order to male make them as fast as those of tiny government in the world Mr lr Gor man said that Uthe the secretary of the JY nivy who may know more about run rn a than lie he a does a navy 1 Is applied corret correct business principles flu hp ships would have been of no use to o him It If he had not come to congress for this increase The amendment providing that the uit of cost exclusive of armor and of each of the colliers and andt t out cruisers shall shaH be was to Carmacks Amendment Mr tr Carmack submitted an amend to reduce the number of battle batte whips to be provided b by the bi bill from t two 0 to one and Mr Blackburn sup portEd ported the amendment He s said ld this is S th the first time he had ever eer opposed t hf most Increase of the navy ut i It th the ships provided for in the bi bill f nr bunt built It would be necessary to In inC C case Jase the na navy to men inca in order t man te the vessels Mr r Blackburn said ld th hips ghUng qualities not been es Japanese apan se d destruction ton or of the Russian na navy had bad not been J hed wih with battleships Japan had lut Ut four Russia had fourteen and hire are they now fr Every time we build a new batte battle we haw have a new p sm ot of terror eve every time we 0 hae we luid the new shIp Sid said Mr r Car Wk in beginning a speech In depre c C Uon of a too great increase or of the Strenuous President We have just elected to te the b chief executive he Bald saId the most and strenuous genteman gentleman who Ir planted his arm or heel upon our He has inculcated the love of ar for tor is Its own sake he teaches the that pee Is destructive of nl nU virtues he is infected wih with an In inC C propensity to Interfere wih with hp affairs of other nations especially lh ith those ot of the republics to the or of us uslie Hf lie asserted from th these se circum other nations have a right to that we are arming for ag rather than for defense Inee ie e went on the president nt t the arbitration treaties into the fir be because ause the senate would not sur surI I is its trea treaty t prerogatives we Lave a right t to conclude that he Is In Int I t ht on Increasing his own power powers ather than maintaining the peace of world Mr r Carmack moe moved to strike out ot of the battleships and Mr r Ha Hale that the two ships was waA f a II increase and less than the demands of the general board Hales Prediction Mr Ir lisle Hale repeated a prediction made ty y himself last year that I If the naval hoa were vere to be followed the ex cx on n ac of the navy uld be not 1 than he sid said the people would not Mr r Hale said r I a strong ravy aY for one simple because I it Is the guarantee of pece pence In Inthis Inthis I this age you ou cannot defend the coun country country try wih with bluster blust r you go on oa th the theor theory that no one wil will attack us Lause aus we are rich and stong strong he saId that the rips or of Europe did not like us that the they vere pre al all land hungry ad and would not re retrain re train f from om lading landing troops In South but or the near fieFS pes or of Amere American Heet fleets I Lodge For the Defense Mr lr Lodge said he WIS was not so 80 coa I abut about the as about cR the peace or of our own country and re relying lying to Mr Carmack sid said he was he did not differ from the pros I Ident or of the que question ton and he I 1 am certain I cerain dont differ a breadth from him on the que ques ton lion or of maintaining pae peace In the United He al also enlarge enlarged on the ques ques queston ton or of extending our Oriental trade and preventing the partition or of China Turning bi his attention to one of Mr IL tales Hales utteranCeS he said I I Something has been said about the thee use us e of th the nay navy to o b bully l smal small I If a a smal small power does wrong because i it Is smal small i it Is no more to be excused tha th an a a big cOuntr country bich do does wrong be It Is cause big Mr Lodge defended th the policy or of the U States In Santo anto The at of the united nied states tates in Santo DU Domingo D was due to the fact that the U States wa was Invited to do what it ha haSa d done there and nd to the f tt that Santo Sa Sado nto Domingo oming ad and Hait Haiti wee were at our doors do ors We Te have he sid said condemned the th e Island to the condition It Is now in b by byas shutting other nations must assume as sume the responsibility Mr Ir Lodge sad sa id emphatically that he dId not desire desIrey an y more annexations to the south southard w yard ard r Perkins defended the battleship as the uni unit of power in te the navy ad and urged ur ged congress to follow the advice ot of the th e naval experts In dealing with h the na vy Mr Teler Teller said if the Unie United States was w as to become a a collector we would need ne ed a navy twice s large as that we wew now no w have Mr Carmacks moton motion to cut out one of the proposed battleships was voted down do wn 22 to 38 |
