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Show COMMENTS ON ATTACK MADE BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Senator Per-kins Per-kins of California commented tonight upon the uttacka made upon him In a. telegram said to have been sent by Prcs-ident Prcs-ident Roosevelt lo Governor Gillctt of California. Senator Perkins denied that he wns an enemy seeking to thwart the progress of the nnvy, and declared that ho would rely upon his record In the senate in sup-port sup-port of tills contention. He intimated that the only basis for the president's H criticism of his action, and what 'ho termed the only exception in his record in support of the navy and Us noerts. was Ills vote against the four battleships pro-gramme pro-gramme urged by the president. Relative to the position he has taken on the Janeuesc finest Ion. Senator Per-kins Per-kins said that. In the faco of nny treaty with a foreign power. In his opinion, tho right of a slate to have its own policing power was beyond question. Senator Perkins staled his position In the matters referred to by the president in his telegram was well understood, par-tlcularly par-tlcularly in his own stale. |