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Show li WITH TELLOW . RACE, MBI HRII i j Alnliama Congressman thirds j Conflict in Ihc Near VhUivq i ' as Inovifahlo. URGES OCR NATION TO j INCREASE NAVAL STRENGTH i - Pre.sidcnCs Treatment of Admiral Ad-miral Hrownson Further J Denounced. : j WASHINGTON, April 11. Debate ! on tho naval appropriation bill in the ' Houso of Representatives today ro- ! solved itself in the main into a discussion dis-cussion of the possibilities of a war be- ' twocn tho United States and Japan. Jn line with his well-known views j on the subject, .Mr. ITobson. of Ala ! bama, pleaded for four battleships in l sload of two for the next fiscal yenr i nnd pointed out that from now on j the United States should have a fixed ' policy with rctrard to nnvnl .neirm. ! tion. A war between tho j-ollow and the -white races ho regarded as iuovit -nble. nnd ho asserted lhat Japan's present, pres-ent, military activity was with a view to the supremacy of tho Pacific, and. as a natural result, there would bo a clash at arms with the United States. Expouonts of Peace. 1 vthc ,i.b,!r ,,uiul- 'Messrs. .Burton (Ohio) and W. W. Kifchin (N. C.), disputed dis-puted that contention, each of them avowing that a clash not only would not come, but that tho United States should remain in Ihe forefront of-modern civilization ns I ho exponent of pence. Others who spoke were Messrs. Lib ley (Conn.), who criticised tlu naw department de-partment for maintaining several' use- I less navy yards: Gill of .Maryland, who denounced the President fur his treatment treat-ment of Rear Admiral Krownson: Dawson Daw-son (Iowa), who advoded tho consolidation consoli-dation of tho several bureaus of the navy department: Loud (.Mich.), who tnvorcd a naval programme of two bat- thjships a year for ten years; Smith (Texas), who made a general assault on the Republican pnrtv; O'Donnell (Mass.), who declared himself in favor I of four bnttleships. and Ferris (Oklo.), 1 who condemned tho dealing in futures I in tho bucket-shops and elsewhere in farm products. J At il o'clock tho House recessed tin-, til II :;'0 n. in. Mondav. I |