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Show Abolish Navy Ysrds. The president calls attention to certain cer-tain reforms urged by the secretary of the navy which he recommends for adoption, and continues: jThe estimates of the navy department depart-ment are $5,000,000 less than the ap prprlatlons for the same purpose last yar, and Included In this Is the build Inl program of tho same amount as thi submitted for yotir consideration lst year. It Is merely carrying out the plan of building two battleships a yd'ar, with a few needed auxiliary vessels. ves-sels. I earnestly hope that this program pro-gram will be adopted. "The secretary of the navy haa given personal examination to every nay yard, and has studied the uses of the navy yards with reference to , the necessities of our fleet. With a flept considerably less than half the ( slio of that of the British navy, we have shipyards more than double the ! nuaiher, and there are several of these : shipyards expensively equipped with modern machinery, which, after inves-i inves-i ligation the aecretary of the navy be-t be-t Ueves to be entirely Jiselesa for naval , jturposes. He asks aV.tbortty to aban certain of them and to move their Echlnery to other places, where tl y be made of use." Vhe complete siiccsjjjggl'f frur eoun-f eoun-f expToratloo should not re yrbin otlced. Te unparalleled ' achievement of Peary In reaching the north pole, April 6, 1(09, approved by ' critical examination of the most expert ex-pert scientists, haa added to the distinction dis-tinction of our navy, to which he belongs, be-longs, and reflects credit upon his country. I recommend fitting recognition recogni-tion by con grees of the great achievement achieve-ment of Kobert Edwin Peary." |