Show MILLIONS MILLION IF 0 w T 1 I E I 1 NAVY I 1 disgusting spectacle as seen see i n 9 a by congressman ff ix TV tawney I 1 Q I 1 I 1 washington april 15 during tho the s considers con consideration sidera tion 0 of o the naval ap appropriation i bill in the house of Re represents presenta tives thes th es today chairman tawney odthe comin attee on appropriations again pointed out cut the danger in which the treasury Is being placed by the immense imi I 1 I 1 increases in appropriations authorized in the several supply meas 1 I 1 ures mr Taw remt remarks were made particularly applicable to the deman demand dufor for four battleships instead of two ile he compared the appropriations in various countries in preparation for war and on account of wars ward ands and said the startling fact was developed athla that i t we the united states was spending moro anoro than any other nation in tho the world we we aie this year he said expending more than england more than germany and aid more than france continuing j nar tawney gey declared further that on account of the preparation for war the united states with an army of men and daa a gayy of men is expending this ibis year only less thin than 1 england filth an army of men anda and a navy of men that the united states is expending for this purpose only less than germany with her army of and her navy of that the united states is expending for this purpose jn excess of the amount expended by france with her army of men and her mavy of men 1 maintaining that navies are built for national defense mr tawney said that they were not intended and could not joe justified upon n tho the ground that the they are ie necessary to satisfy a ah 1 n am either individual or ia national tignal to coin pete n tamo of peace peace as api toi size and inu rober pt of ight acht ing rna machines chihos ho he argued th that l W ii the united states i the prestige and er of the na nation tion aid dad not depend up upon the size of the army and navy there iff no policy of our government he said either enforce which the size of either Js is the first ov or only essential the Tho country he said has eighty millions of patriotic people and it Is in these eliat the strength of our nation exists ju our standing army or our permanent naval establishment continuing mr air tawney declared that the strength of our policies and the ability of our government toen force them will always be m measured ea I 1 by ourselves and by foreign na nations 1 I 3 not by the size of our army but by the N resources the patriotism and the loyal ty of the people who at all times ato aro known to be ready and willing to sacrifice their property and even their lives in the defense of their govern intent and its beneficent ansti tu tons the people therefore he argued should not bo be encouraged to surrender that self reliance that consciousness of superior individual strength as a nation by trying to teach theril them to rely upon a standing army and navy in time of peace large enough to be 4 capable to successfully compete with the armies and the ilahi navies of t the he world or any one of them in time alm of war orgy discussing sc the question of af wai war mr tawney sald said that if there wa was any aa arsea son to apprehend war with any fal foreign ediin power within the next decade the information upon which that sion was based had been carefully withheld for the legislative department of the government he asserted asseT tod that the geographic isolation of the united states was an asset far more valuable as a means of defenso defense than 11 all the navies we could build it if we did not possess this advantage I 1 mr tawney charged that the united I 1 states in the past had pur pursued sted a buns bung ling naval policy and ile he pointed out that the journey of the atlantie Nt lantie fleet to the pacific was waa made possible only through the aid of twenty eight vessels hying flying a foreign flag I 1 A more didgus disgusting ting spectacle was waa never witnessed he be said and ho he condemned the naval policy which had overlooked auxiliary vessels vessel to supply a fleet with the means es fennial to its existence it may bo be ho be said in conclusion that this mistake is due to the fact that a collier which is as CBS essential estial to the efficiency of the navy as 95 a battleship is not so attractive does not io in dolve the expenditure of so in much uch anca money and does not afford tho the opportunity u anity I 1 ifor for the same pyrotechnic display upon the ocean or at tho the sumner summer resorts reports I 1 along the coast and for that reason we have made the mastako aalst ako of building a navy that today in order to make ita IFS another other 1 1 voyage from one ocean to obliged to rely upon the ye vessels asels belonging Q to other oat nations ions |