Show WILL BUILD TWO battleships BIG senate Is fully expected to sanction the naval program PARTY LINES MAY BE SPLIT plan to put te employees on civil service basis means a great change persistent rumors about about roosevelt and 1912 washington when aben tho the house of did abi expected thin thing and sanctioned the appropriation to build two big battleships during the next fiscal year it put itself on rec ord as baang be ing in favor of maintaining the present position of the united states as a naval power and on record in ilk a measure RS as believing that this ibis country should surpass certain other countries to in naval strength it Is fully expected that the senate will sanction the two proposition withstand not notwithstanding ling that senator hale one of the most influential mem bers of the tha upper house probably will appese the increase senator lisle no ino longer la Is chairman of the senate committee cittee on naval affairs for recently he be was promoted to the chairmanship of the committee on appropriations the change changa did not deprive him of a seat in the naval affairs committee but it gave the chairmanship to senator perkins of california who because of certain troubles which at one time were threatening in the tar far east has baa undergone a change of heart and now Is one of the strongest advocates ol 01 building up lug a navy which at one time he be thought needed little additional strength when the battleship building pars para graph in the naval bill passed the house the party lines were split man many y voting for the appropriation and sonie come republicans voting against it it Is probable that the same thing will happen in the senate and that several of the seacoast sed coast state democrats damoc aab will W III vote for the taft becom men emendation mend atlon dation for two ships chips and the interior state democrats will vote against it comparison not liked in the lower house one of the menn mem bers in speaking of the proposed bat increase made a comparison between the strength of the united states navy and that of japan ft sort kort of comparison which some of the members deprecated because recently recen fly there has been a revival of the talk that this country might possibly be come embroiled with japan i representative padgett democrat of tennessee had bad this to say about japan and the united states in the matter of naval strength I 1 want to call attention to another fact speaking of big guns the united states has baa of these big guns ot of the caliber of 12 and 13 inches japan has big guns of 11 and 12 inches binche 0 now as aa to the tonnage of the vessels I 1 want to call your attention to the tonnage of the fighting ships that is of the battleships and armored cruls era and I 1 shall first call your atten tion to the ships that are completed and afterward to the ships which are completed and provided for of the number of battleships and armored cruisers that Is the fighting implements of the navy the united states has 44 such vessels with a ton nage of 01 japan has 25 such vessels with a tonnage of taking the completed and provided for vessels the united states has 48 such curb vessels with an aggregate ton nage of japan has ID 30 such bessels with fth an aggregate tonnage of tons sees advantage over apan so S 0 that in every phase of the ques tion that looks to the fighting ency in the guns and in the size of 0 the ships because we have two tao of 26 tons land and the largest that japan Is building la Is 21 tons so that in any aspect of the case in which you may consider it you can divide the american fleet by two and either half of it Js larger and more efficient in fighting capacity that the japanese navy the opp opponents orients of mr air Fad padgett getts s views say that the united states must have a much larger navy than japan if it intends adequately to protect the philippines and tho the philippines it Is said by the advocates of two ships lie near the doorway of japan and it if we e should put a fleet of sufficient strength to meet japan in the far eastern easter n waters we e would of necessity IF ibave aye our own coast lines the atlantic and pacific practically unguarded ond and if we got into trouble 0 with japan there is no telling what might happen for japan has some home ru fu alliances which might give this country cause for concern in case hos boa tl lilles break out in the east the ad ministration is bringing its influence to bear to receive the sanction of the senate for the two additional dread naught civil service in Post offices icee it has become known that president taft and postmaster general hitch cock have in view a change in post office department procedure which will be of the utmost interest to post masters and in fact to all Post postoffice office employees emp loees all oer the united states it Is believed that before president tafts term ends all 11 postmasters post mastera ol of the second and class will be put ampo na cv qunce of nn order or rather BB ati fir ir similar to ahr made lade with reference to fourth bourth class when theodore roosevelt well va pr president e al dent it Is known definitely that the postmaster general is in in faor of a chanso change and elso also that it meets with tale llie approval of the president there are reasons any the cannot bo be put into effect chist list at the pre time for the change means much and require ulrea i a good deal ot of thought thouR ht but it Is a cert certain alti that one day the post masters of all classes below the first class will hold their offices under tinder what will practically amount to the cfall sei beicke ale rule moreover flip postmaster has in mind a plan by which ultimate ly perhaps not during this adminis but later when aben political ion has haa educated to the lono inno to ninke make it within the power of 0 any subordinate official in the tha branches of the past office depart department all p bior tile he country to profit by civil service rules rulea to tile the extent that by attention to busin business fes and a showing of ability they may advance in the dlf dit ferent grades until finally they can become postmasters by promotion rather then than by as Is the case now direct appointment may welcome change it if the second and third class post office are put under tinder the civil service rule it may be that tile the members of congress will at first resent the change but it Is 19 certain that it will relieve them of a good deal of trouble in the case of post icea offices president roosebelt Roos Roo eielt and some of hla his predecessors in office also said eald that postmasters who ho were acceptable accept ablo to the people whom they were serving and who were making good records from the department point of view ought to be continued tn in office this rule was put into effect as far as it could be and there were a good many representatives in congress who objected to its application strongly because first class flees are good i places and they are fine rewards for the political faithful it if the second and third class post offices are put on a civil service baste along with the fourth class offices it means that men now in the service and who do their work to the satis antis faction of the department atilt and people can keep their places until death ro re moves them or old age unfits them for or their work the civil service aavo 1 cates for or many years have urged that fol of this kind be done and I 1 see aas probable that during the pres prea ent it way be done and it la Is sold said hat mr hir taft does not fear ear that there wl wi I 1 be much objection either dom or republican members of congress more back from elba Elbau mor ahe meeting of 0 theodore Roat revelt and gifford pinchot and the report seemingly authentic but which later met with a partly conclusive denial to the effect that ur mr roosevelt had broken hla his with mr taft have started stories again to the effect that there la Is to be a real back prom from elba ending to mr roosevelt Roosevel ts B four years of retirement from public office this la is a matter which best can be treated plainly from the standpoint of many of the washington friends frienda of the former president who think that they know inow his bis views on a I 1 second elective term for himself or fora third term as most people generally speak of it there are many close friends arlenda of the former V president ident who would like to see him in office ce again but those friends sa eay y that they do not believe he be would i consent to run although it may be that if the bartys demand was tas in ous he might be induced to become once again the candidate of his party for the presidency thera ther are men in washington who aho ta talked aked with ur mr roosevelt about the seco second ad elective term proposition PH or to the time that mr taft was fin an avowed candidate for the nomination it will be remembered that mr air roosevelt issued two statements saying epe ape citi critically cally that he would not be a bandl date for the nomination in 1808 1908 tie ile did not say in these statements that he never would be a candidate again and it should be said that us UK far as can be learned lie he never told any of his friends directly that he would not consent to run abtin for the prebi dency at some soine future time but he be did say some things that made them bo be lieve it was not his intention ever eer again to become a candidate for the presidency mr Roosevel ts position those who ho talked with mr roosevelt about the possibility of his again seeking the presidency say bay explicitly that he gave no positive expression of personal feeling on the subject of the propriety of a third term or a second elective term if you will for any man but that he did say any certain things which led them thein to believe that he thought that the american people would not like the idea of putting any man in the white house for the third timp from what can be gathered from those who talked to mr roose elt about this matter it seems be felt that the people at heart were opposed to third terms democrats see victory it ii sf seems ems to be the settled bellof belief in certain political circles in the capital that unless the present congress congre sR puts into effect most of the legislation which mr taft has recommended the republicans Republic atis in the middle west and the far west becoming tired of delay will start an actual movement for the nomination of theodore roosevelt in 1912 the democrats say that they would like nothing better than to have this done for they seen to lo feel that a third term prejudice although as they express it attempts might be made to weaken tt it v with ith second elec tive terra excuses will arvall with the people and t th vy 01 taa popular as thy id AO 0 o down to bassoi Iti ma VII t 1 A jiwat |