| Show LILLIE CREATES SOME COMMOTION His Resolution Calling for fOI Investigation gaLlon gation Stirs Washington Officialdom SPENT MONEY LAVISHLY Ko So Say SU Spooking of or lobb l feed liy by h tho titu tituS S lt Hont Washington fob l 21 I of lIt Connecticut whoso who reecho resolution lion tion calling fur for an Investigation of ot methods salil fill to lowe have been employed by 11 tine tho t float Boat company comp II III In endeavoring oring to have Its submarine submarIno boats chic on In by hy the house housa st l on naval affairs cHuse c r a nt s Is Ie to be bo called before the tho committee o on rules to which the tho resolution was waR referred Speaker Cannon Is chairman or of that n committee It u ha unofficially understood It If Ulley LilIcy can show the tho th on rOles r that thiet there re Is la sub stantini for tor his bitt charges his resolution nf of Investigation will bo be fey favorably reported to 10 the Iho house hOl Chairman Kofi loIi to of or the committee on ott hl ni unwIlling today t IIII to tomake make n IL 1 formal tOIl lRI nt rill fut publication PUblication tion with Il o Ul ler re and the charges back backof backor or of It Mr h Jo attitude was II that ho preferred tt not to 10 take omal notice ot of the tho affair because It was tree now In tint hands of ot tho the committee on 00 rules atries Hut But personally ho ha h thought that a II roll full In ought to b 11 be aundo provided Mr Mi 1 11 coUld o l show sho that ho he h ho hM tire the hard ground of facts under his IrIs feet OPPOSES SU rI Mr str I loss Koss hilS been on record 10 01 for tor years cars a as nn rut uncompromising opponent Of t tho the submarine torpedo boat ns liS a II lighting craft An 11 of o thu thit charge that a conspiracy eon certain mem mont members herB bers of ot the naval baval to turn turndown 1 down President naval Ilaya con colt construction shows that a n ma majority of or the committee expressed lcd them at ul the tho meeting on leb 10 lO as ns strongly In favor of authorizing tho the four battleships asked for tor by the tho president i but that they tire adopted the view vIlli of ot I Chairman Fuss Foss that to 10 report such much a in I Ii i recommendation 1 would immediately i cause the tho to be reversed on oct the th door of t the tho house and they there toro ford Voted ot 1 to t recommend two battle battlo battleships battleshIps ships the tho limit of ot authorization that would bo be supported by the tho house In inthe tho the opinion ot of tho the chairman who had 1 hou houe 9 t On Only v mo IWO I members of or the tho committee or ot tf Connecticut Thomas of Ohio of ot Talbot of or Maryland ManIA ull and Hobson of ot Alabama In favor 1101 of or four tour MAINTAIN C l nw Tire Tho vote ote to io eight times instead of ot tour four naked a for by Uio Wo nn 1111 I th tilt tIre president lre Wils 10 w tO tOI 7 I i the tho eyes ayes ay being 1 I tr or of NC floW littler Butler of ot of ur ot Of al of ot Pennsylvania Thomas lit It Ohio Daw son of tnt 1 wat HIllS of or Oregon O lon of lit Textile Texas and of ot Tho That Mudd of ot of illinois noes wen Voss of or Connecticut 1 llott ot of Nets No York of It Ton nos see riCe of ott It Missouri and tind 00 on ot of r Alabama Tho The today de do declined dined to Rive gIve the onlIne name of ot t tIre tho 10 member cm on mOtion tho the fl WItS was doubled Mr tr r author of tho the com corn amendment It torn ton on ott the thu department to pur eight submarines of ot tho till Octopus Pl typo type a n superior submarine should shoud be obtained by Oct 1 I 1908 1508 refused to discuss discus the tho LIlley resolution or to 0 re rc reply reply ply ph publicly to Mr 1111 Wileys chaw charge that this irIs was wa as In effect a delivery of at tho Olin prospective pro contract Into the tho hands of or the Electric moat Boat company Mr 11 Intimated that at t tho tire time he would be bo prepared to refute the tho charges of or favoritism BO so far tar as M his action In committee was con eon concerned corned LAVISH LuWISH J ENTERTAINERS nS Tho The resolution ot of Investigation was today as yesterday a it 1 chief topic i of or discussion In III the lobby and cloak rooms nI outer other taS of f the C None Noll of o tire tho t th ll wIts Willi willing trilling to t talk hellO tOT for publication but many of ot them speculated privately on ott the th likelihood of at an tutu investigation lacing being ordered and on It iOns results That rep of ot the tho Io float l l l corn coot puny pony been lavish In appeared J to bo be common hut but no otto ono wont went so set far tur na nato nato to butte to them tho the Improper motives charged by Ite r Lilla |
