Show 0 HALE EXPLAINS THE NAVAL BILL BILLI r I Maine Senator Unsparing in His Criticism PHILIPPINES A DRAWBACK t SOME TALK OP OF THE THEOR OR GON Marth a h Th to today etH day iet Ht a aSIde Ute the special order for Cor the day the raU of oC Ala Alaan n leg lega a In hi order to Permit the oo sid o ot the naval appropriation bill The reading or of the committee amend to the dill was begun but rore It had prote ee very far fr Mr orman for a in ex e or of the train Mr Hille In charge of the me ure Mr Ir Hale exPlained the bill He Great France Frazee see sec secund und and the United States third In naval strength saying the popular Im lon t Germany this wu W fallacious Mr Ir Hale ac d to a by Mr 11 Perkins that in n of appliances the State Ste mood next to Great air Thill Wag due to the fact that we had hac been able to take advantage of the them m of European po powers ers Advantage Mr Ir Hale said aId that waa as the ot of the naval powers with the exception of Austria but had bad an act ed Vantage antage In b being only a few hundred miles of the tart est naval operations in which she might become 4 In our nav navy SKid said Mr Ir Hale there b talk of puttIng ma of our HU h u as the Olegon Indiana ana others ot of the tle same me cIa clae on the retired lIst lIstI I hope they Wont retire the Ore Oreon son on Mr St Stewart wart Vell they ought not too to said Mr Ir Hlll but sue has hs nut the state room facilities that meet th frine fancy of naval She has ha the same asme number ot of guns and the same fighting ca cs Nothing suits mt navy ox ex Ii f pt the larget battleships lie He expressed the opinion that the war 1 In the Orient would that other are more valuable I than large but admitted that no could be I J 1 drawn rawn until the smoke lifted I r F His Horizon Limited Mr 1 lisle Hale said Id he had no censure for forth th of the American navy nut hut the naval officer is the naval oil fr pure and and the American navy bounds hl his complete horizon To bim the na navy Is 18 right and the naval board hu has run too much In the direction tion of enormous ships The naval board contemplated fort forty eight Ight and ar armored mored cruisers and when that stage was reached an appropriation of a year ear would be necessary for fOI forthe the navy He thought it probable that the appropriatIon required next year would be If however ever the be kept down to the pros pres nl rate of oC increase the appropriation would be increased ed edIr Mr Ir Perkins Perkin defended the of the naY navy saying they were entItled to great Mr lisle Hale that the American was wall a man of merit but con had its It should gross I know knot where the mone money was going I 1 Hm he said not to be deterred by or of want of oC patriotism I I Want a powerful navy It is nt necessary r ron on acc accOunt f the Ye We have haye gut ut sven n g good O In the Philip I for tor In It i Is different from what It Is with Japan who will do her bel fighting at home In ca case or of war ar we hould have to spend hundreds of nih lions In the Philippines but there Is danger or of going further than t i r ry Philippines a Drawback Mr lr Hale admitted that the last ex exI tf I n ive additions to the navy had been necessary by the of thc and said that he for 1 would like to get rid of those i Still so long as we have those e protect theta them Like wh If ho bf said Id It now bOV w uld he be nece t sarI al to a JUlY navy to the Panama canal Mr lr Lodge spoke at some BOme length on th n flOOd or of a good nay navy to protect our ourt t ode and uphold the Monroe doctrine 1 J Hr If did not believe beneve the torpe Q beat would Ute the hip und and said that In our war with n the thet t vessel eMel had been a complete failure i Mr Ir Ion Money saki that If We were to i l In our pone policy of subjugation we tied necessary rya greater grealer n navy than the people were ere willing to suP support port Mr Money Ione spoke poke of the prowess f the Jap and quoted II a high su au I as predicting that In a few Ute the Russian wOUld be I 4 reome Then would soon the on land They would secure tea rea and probably a rt of rio ria Next the they would go to the Philip n At the u Uon or of Mr 11 HaZe Hale an ap of 1 for the re to or of the frigate Constitution l The Th te at O pm p in went il tu session Ion ln and at ill 1 p pin in adjourned |