Show 18 FOR MORE WARSHIPS Presidents Proposition Finds Support S pp rt Amon Among Minority Members of House H use I Washington W Feb 6 Though the house committee on naval affairs has taken no vote on the subject there is 19 excellent authority for predicting that it will recommend the appropriation of I moneys for tor the building of or two instead of ot the four battleships urged by Prest President President dent Roosevelt Secretary Metcalf The certainty of a heavy hea deficit and nd the prospect of ot decreased revenues during the tho next fiscal year ear have been een I held up as a warning by Chairman Tawney of or the appropriations commit committee tee and a general tendency op the part of the Republicans in the house to hold down expenses is evident The naval committee feels that It is wiser to trim and prune in the committee than to tu recommend measures of ot expenditure which probably would be voted down down on the floor Provision for More Mort Men It is likely however that the com committee committee committee will recommend an appropriation tion to cover the reception into the navy of or at least of the additional men asked for or by the tarY of the navy to man the new battle battleships battleships battleships ships New Hampshire Idaho and Mis Mississippi Mississippi and the now new armored cruisers North Carolina and Montana soon to togo togo togo go into commission The navy is now GOO men short of its quota N NIt It seems assured however that the th Impending proposal to cut down the battleship appropriation from rain four to toI two will be bo met by firm resistance on I the part of oC the Democratic Demo members rs Among those are arc Representatives Tal Talbot Talbot Talbot bot of Maryland who launched the big navy policy In the congress and Hobson of Alabama who was elected to this his first seat Beat in congress chiefly on a larger navy plat platform platform form White House Conference So earnest Is the presidents desire that four battleships be provided at this session that today he sent for Representatives Talbott and Hobson Padgett of ot Tennessee and Lamar of FlOrida all members of the naval com committee committee committee They went to the White House and were closeted with the president for some time discussing the situation as it obtains In the committee and may shape itself in the house There was w s sno no difference of opinion as to the need of oC a larger navy but the best means of meeting the prospective opposition to toa toa toa a appropriation at this ses session session session sion were canvassed |