Show 1 HALE PROPOSES TO INVESTIGATE NAVY S Senator Advocates Thorough Examination and Full Report SILENCING ALL CRITICS I Satisfied That American Equipment Equipment Equip Equip- ment Equals Any in Existence Washington Feb 19 Senat Senator r Halo Hale chairman of or the senate committee on or n naval affairs announced to today that thai his committee would tale take up tho the Inquiry In In- into the general conditions 01 of 01 r the navy where the secretary of the tilt t navy and the President dropped It In l I order older to establish for all time an and l I beyond all question of doubt wheLk whether er or or not tile the American navy Is Js the tilt I equal ship for ship with the navy of ol any auy other nation we have simply acquired a n lot of oC useless chips at enormous cost cost Incidentally Senator Hale submitted I copies of ot the reports of Hear Admirals h Capps 6 and antI Converse Converso to the secretary of or tho the na navy naIn In reply to the article to the 6 senate nato and asked that thc they may be bo printed for general lation He is Intends to conduct an cn Investigation tion entirely In Independent of ot Inquiries made either cither by Admiral Converse Converso or or Admiral Capps Caphis In order to discredit tho tIm magazine criticisms of or the tho nav navy It will be recalled ho said that when I Introduced this bill Senator asked whether or not the committee committee com com- would shut off oft all opportunity fo for a n. full and complete Inquiry of ot all at I Ithe tho the questions which were agitating the navy vy at the time Ho He referred to tc the ami nl th i differences with til the Pi President W nt h which I p led to Admiral Drown Brownson's retirement I promised then that It was tho the In Intention Intention In In- of or the committee to go Into all official questions and settle If It possible tho tile controversies which I If allowed to togo togo go on might seriously Impair tho the or organization oro or- or o of ot tho the personnel of ot the time nav navy Committee Ii I. I. I d. The Tho committee Senator Halo continued con I Is now prepared to take up these questions to ascertain whether t this title government has spent i hun hundreds re s of at millions of ot dollars for ship which arc are of ot no value We e have ha delayed this Inquiry Inquiry In Inquiry In- In simply because wo we learned learnt that the nav navy department was making an investigation at the request of ot the time President President- This work has been done Ilone by jy one of ot the most competent antI and careful careful care- care ful ul men In the time na navy an officer who has filled every position of ot Importance at sea or ashore After reviewing the time report Senator Tale Hale declared that h ho he was satisfied that flint the American navy was Inferior to none nune In tho the world wend ship tor ship and believed that tho the officers In charge harge of or ortho tho the construction of ships were ben bonding every y effort to ti get tho Limo very cry best bOt re results re- re suits obtainable I f Taking up tho I rl criticisms tn in n del detail U he e Sala ht It was apPl appoint nl to o everyone t that at these criticisms contained con con- con altogether too much knowledge of naval nl construction an and naval work to o have been prepared by a 3 man who nothing of II al construction lIe He intimated that officers In the navy who were actuated by Jealousy or by honest convictions of or the correctness cor of or their positions positions' hail had Inspired a large part of ot the article and declared It to be behe bethe time the he dut duty of ot the committee to find these men and examine them to ascertain whether thc they were correct or were mistaken I |