Show WILLIAMS HAD HIS SAY SAYI I Democratic Leader Beat Out an Ob Objection Objection ObjectiOn by Mr Payne Washington May 3 sAt At the beginning of the session s sion of ot the house today Mr LittIe ld df Of Maine presented a reso resolution resolution lution authorizing the committee on ex expenditures expenditures expenditures of the agricultural depart department ment to send for persons and P papers in the proposed investigation of that department Mr lr Williams of Mississippi Mississippi sippi sip pi reserved the right to object said while this investigation was exceed important it was not half so providing schools for the important as children n of the Indian Territory con contemplated contemplated contemplated in the statehood bill to ob object b Mr lr Payne of New Ne York rose Jert jt hut but Mr lr Williams had his say sa the Republican floor leader could rot est estI I 1 do o not care rare about the objecting I want to kno know for reasons ons Whether rEa objects said Mr Little Littlefield hether he field Williams Did Not Care does not care cuie f And the gentleman the gentleman cares or not I object said M Mr Williams and the resolution I went over Mr r of Illinois then moved that house resolve into the corn com of the whole for the naval appropriation bUt 1111 bUtt L ii of the called for a division and Williams t l tien ral raIsed ed the point of no quorum The doors were ordered closed and thE was wits ordered to bring in in the absentees consumed before Almost an hour was reported the final vote was i a ning quorum Into tato the committee of the whole hole b ing ayes noes 0 o Naval Bill Explained of the ther Mi Mr lr Foss of Illinois chairman r naval committee said in explaining SS provi provisions ios of the bill that it carried less luss l ss than asked for by oy the nayl department dep and was very consid considerably considerably last than appropriated in less years pars NIl bIll VM The Th navy nav department asked for additional men but the committee af after after after ter exhaustive hearings decided to pro ide for the present quota of the times making it men mE n prosperous difficult to enlist men in the navy nay as the th rewards for labor are much great greatt t r in civil life Speaking of the personnel of the navy he said suid In January last las the num nurn numE Of the 41 her bei E r in the navy was lo 00 O men seeking enlistment last year men were rejected Making Navy American He said that the department was put tig forth every effort to increase the efficiency E ncy of the navy and American Americanize ize it etting rid of the foreign ele as he called it was the particular lar aim of the department As a result of f this effort 95 35 per cent of the petty officers are now citizens of o the United States and 90 per cent of the enlisted JI men mE n are naturalized citizens Never has the navy been in so splendid splendid did a condition as now said Mr Foss Fossand Fossand Fossand and its esprit has never been P equaled Mr 11 Foss said that the highest naval pinion opinion of the world growing out of the th recent naval conflict between Japan ini n Russia was that the battleship v cas is as th real fighting ship The chair held a point of no quo ri m made by Mr Williams in order and there was a scurrying of pages to committee ommittee rooms and lunch rooms to bring in the absentees Within a few f w minutes a quorum was waa 4 counted by the chair Mr Crumpacker of Indiana Tariff Injected Debate on the naval bill had pro ceded listlessly for seval hours when an exceedingly interesting occurred during the address of ofIr Mr fl Ir Bates of Pennsylvania He had b en cn talking about the dumping pro proCESS CESS which the Democrats were jn in g as an of what the tariff d 1 rs js for the foreign market as against the home market He gave as a rea rea SoT Hon for selling steel rails in Canada and Mexico heaper cheaper than in the United States tates thoV th y were sold under the sharp t competition li I Mr Ir r Williams of Mississippi asked for thi authority that the English sell sel thread r ad cheaper than at home homer 11 r Bates replied that information v 1 r te lC e from Mr Gary of the United States Steel corporation corp An Interested witness replied Mr cs illiams I 1 challenge the gentleman t give me another witness What Tom Toni Johnson Said Then the name of Tom Johnson of Ohio was injected into the debate Mr lr eark ark asKed it he second largest man manufacturer of steel stOel st el rails in this country when sitting on the floor of the house houseas as a member had not said that with the th tariff off steel rails made at 12 a ton and sold at 16 Mr Bates said he thought that was one of the ex cx statements the gentleman from Ohio loved to indulge in Mr Air Payne of New York Fork said Mr Johnson voted for the Wilson tariff bill despite a large protective duty on rails at that time Mr Clark replied that Mr Johnson voted against the Wilson Tilson bill and begged me on the floor of this house to vote against it and I wish to heaven I had Laughter and applause on the he Republican side Mr lr Knowland of California ad addressed addressed addressed dressed the house in behalf of a large navy The naval appropriation bill was then laid aside and at the house ad adjourned until tomorrow |