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Show DIES SCORES SENATOR IE IN it mm Secretary Objects to Chairman Telling Him How to Answer Questions. WASHINGTON, May 24. Cross-examination of Secretary Daniels before the senate naval Investigating committee commit-tee today wound about from verbal wrangle to debate and back to clashes between the secretary and Chairman Hale, Tho latter requested Mr. Daniels Dan-iels to answer "Yes" or "No" and the secretary challenged the right of the chairman to tell him how to reply. 'I am secretary of the navy and I shall answer you !n accordance with tho duties of my office," tho secretary retorted. "You have no more right to toll me how to answer a question than I have to tell you how to ask it." ilr. Daneils' testimony today dealt largely with the navy department's war plans in April, 1917. He furnished a list of war plans, to refute, he said, Rear Admiral Sims' charge that the department had no dual plans. During one interchange, the chairman chair-man accused Mr. Daniels of delaying the hdarlng by introducing "Irrelevant "Irrelev-ant matter" and by giving evasive answers. an-swers. ' "At the present rate it looks like this committee will be hero all summer," sum-mer," the chairman added. "AH right," replied Mr. Daniels, "that suits me." "I can't understand why you are in troducing so much irrelevant matter," continued Senator Hale. "These hearings hear-ings are being conducted at great expense ex-pense and I would think you would be as anxious as any of us to expedite them." O "I am not introducing irrelevant matter and I do wish to expedite tho hearings," replied Mr. Daniels. "But I intend to give full answers to questions ques-tions if it takes all summer." Mr. Daniels said the navy department depart-ment had plans "as adequate as any in the history of any navy in tho world" for war "against any possible enemy.' They included, he said, general plans for war against Germany and antisubmarine anti-submarine campaign, mobilization, operating, op-erating, command, strategy and logistics logis-tics plans. Asked If he was a "naval expert" when he became secretary. Mr. Dablels replied that he was not but that he had been studying naval organization and administration seven years. oo |