Show SENATORIAL PLUNDER While our congress is Increasing ap appropriations for big ships under a war alarm with Japan that country is reducing Its naval appropriations Tho rho amount this year rear appropriated for forthe tho the navy is greater than tho the e ponso of the tho entire government two genera genora generations generations ago but the worst feature of ot the increase is that not more than half of o tho the appropriation is used for forthe forthe forthe the improvement of or tho the navy naT a n largo large proportion of it goes to useless and inaccessible navy yards because they the were established for wooden vessels and tho the large arse war vessels now building buldin can cannot cannot cannot not reach each them and their are quite too small or too shallow for forthe the of r modern Dread The same may be ho said with refer reference reference ence enco to tho the navy yard ard at S C which Senator Tillman of or that state virtually acknowledged was a asteal asteal steal only on the ground that while other states were stealing his state was entitled to something Tho The navy nay yard at New Orleans Orl ns Is quite useless or worse than useless but Senator of or that state was also al o supposed to be entitled to a r I r This yard can C only bo be reached by vessels of comparatively light draft after sailing one hundred miles up tho rapid current of oC tho the Mississippi river Iho ilic 1 ho Moro More Island navy na yard at San Francisco Is IB another sinkhole of use tise useless useless less expenditure This Is nn an ot of Senator Perkins of California Call There are only two navy naY yards of oC the Atlantic const coast that are arC really use useful useful useful ful or necessary namely al nl Now York and Norfolk On tho the others nt It least fifty million dollars have ben been wasted In the last ten years There ThorO should bo be another navy nM yard ard one ono at nt Guantanamo Cuba which was reserved r as United States territory at tho close Joae ot of the ta Spanish war |