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Show I; 1 ' STRONG APPEALS FOR 1 if FOUR BATTLESHIPS tjf'3 Arguments in Favor of Presi- 1"'V dent's Programme Occupy j . Most of Senate Session, fl'y ' WASIIIXCTOX. April 2-1. Argu- l :Mu" merits iu favor of thu I'rosick-ni. s pro- J JufJf ,'nnnmc for lour batllc.liips consumed J ; most of l.ho session of tho Senate lo- I .;! (lav. Senator Piles of Washington I f, opened the debate, dcclariujr that the I 'jj't Asiatic situation afToctin the Pacific I R j - coast was a menace to that section, as r' i )i ivar elonds miirlit ipiiclcly rise there over ' f i sonic clash between Americans and tho i i fli Japanese. lie wanted a licet kept in h if the Pacific. L W J Mr. ' Hale laid before tho Senate a ' tf. " statement of battleships and other fea- j -.iff turns of tho American naval pro- f I gramme, which ho said showed that as .; ' M large a licet a? is now in tho Pacific can f :l bo kept there and at tho same time It . there would bo shins for a still larger I i( ' licet for the Atlantic. -l Bevcridgo Has Clashes. f ' Senator Bevcridgo concluded the de- 'jfl, J bate for the dav with a strong appeal I to the Senators to vote for four battle- X p ehips. He was constantly encaged in fiUt I exchanges of words with other Senators, gtv i Ho insisted that peace and not war ?',( would be promoted by building up the ', navy, jjl 1 During tho hitler part cf tho session t'j 1 ! iclcgrams were dolivcred to all the Sen- 4 ators from a magazine appealing to J them for four battleships. '$ "U the four-battleship appropriation M j'J be not granted," the tolcgram stated, i 1 1 "wo shall urge tho President to veto 1'A" tho naval bill' .1 Haxlv in the day Senator Cankhend i of Alabama spoke 'in favor of national appropriations for good roads. , Hf 'J The Senate passed a bill nnnrnprinl- J' i- j I ing $100,000 for tho survey of an in- J ' 1 ; land watorwav from Uoston to Wilming- 1 ton Ji 1, At 1 5.55 tho Senate adjourned. |