Show tax BOATS in rn the bill for astren tho nary y Y ree recently eat introduced by the home use TI 1 l committee one clause reads u follow four torie dj boata boats coi col bif in in the aggregate not riot more than lO OOOO for which pur par P poe ol 01 00 or ono to much thereof ri aa may my be ner emry is hereby appropriated lie b ja as 11 a whole cotteral con teral late wy very law large something like birteen fil leea million we believe como or of its provisions will not pw pus uncial longed for example exi ori mple vaple tb one which to complete the doable turret mon itoi s at i a lost af pf 3 WO OW but without now going into the merits 0 of 11 the measure its i a who e the provision of it just quoted will faire the country at a total cost of for fint first clan elps torpedo boats of ireat great aux auxiliary illAry value in the defense of four great bar oae one blow from lach inch a craft might teci wind to the bottom an lion clad obit bt had five million doll arst bear admiral vre Fre ni in ft a re to cent summary of the number of tor tot 10 baut and buildt dg 01 up to bewall lilt aa I 1 a it had 1 JO france prince 17 germany 7 kaffir russia 1 italy 70 turkey 6 an ant tria anaba i lo 10 these wa may way add add hoi hot IIA a 20 the 20 of greece and the 10 of Dona laak it is true that some of theme cleft lira small but bugl ind ba has fiance 57 ger many 59 italy af adans awans 30 corn pare abis record with that of our own country 1 ben lies in the report will with which ibe hoodie naval commilee ac re iti its hill it mega that the tile companies united uni ed stat government bai hu not tiow tow a single boat and not own one automobile auto mobile torpedo at this lime time france it construe tiliA n fewer bin thin thirteen thir teea torpedo but ij is building buil diDt three liras lar ones and te ides the torpedo boats proper wo we might consider the clas 8 ot of torpedo cruiser cruisers t costion two wu or three times as mud much 0 ot the construction of acs is provid 41 1 lur yr in the house bill hut but the torpedo cruiser co biser be authorized or not should begin the building or of torpedo boats boat it is to maguill their po si bili ties or to e grate the part wa they bey cm play in harbir dot tot tike take tha the place f a acm ol 01 forts and of fixed defense I 1 bey hey have only go 60 au auxiliary tillary work to perform lilt II 11 11 ina k however ther can do aej in one great se commendation in their favor I 1 ii i the rap city wi b which they can be constructed probably all fat of tam of this clisi now vow under aigid could bit completed if required in mix or eight mouths irom from the sign idiot tha the contracts |