The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-27
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TAKE THE BIG END FIRST.
preparation of Present Congress for
cast Defenses should Be Liberal.

fOstcl bGattlsteS I1DSTtA.
New York sun.
:. Squire has introduced into the SEN
bill 10 appropriate S.. 900. 90 for for
ing 4 score or more OF ports which IL
les. His estimate IS founded upon the
res OF Secretary Lamont. who has re-
.ly informed congress that the eighteen
important ports VIII require s.. eo0. 900
/ completing their defenses, and that
work can be done In ten years. The
lt0r from Washington adds Sa.eeao0
MS estimate and lengthens somewhat
Lamonts list OF ports TO be provided
u Mr.. Squlre's plan seems open 20 one
! elton. He proposes. If the summary
n OF ii is correct, TO make S.50o 900
liable on July 1. 1896. and s5,S0o,0oo on
l. 1897. with sS.a00 900 each year dur
ten years thereafter. This would in
make up the proposed sum Of ISL
Q. but Ii would begin by giving less
q the first fiscal year. for which
congress is now responsible, than the
ar share Of that year, provided the
work is to be finished IN ten years,
& r. Lamont proposes, or in eleven, as
squire suggests.
Pacific coast senator properly saws
IN these days, with Cuban, Venez-
and other questions pressing, which
bring US into conflict with some great
pean power. the defenselessness OF
n reaboard is or great concern. But all
more the remedy should be prompt;
4 plan is defective which puts an un-
hare OF the burden upon future years
sppropriates less than is needed now.
OF the telling points in MIR La
= recent report on the subject was
ference to the plan devised by the En-
board In 1856, his comment being
by an immediate appropriation at
time OF SCI, 50o, 90 and an annual ap-
fation OF 81, 600, coo thereafter, as then
amended. the system OF land defenses
have been completed by 1893 That
. aat would have come or taking the
nd first: for. with an outright appro-
on Of So. 90. go the first year, the Sc
Of $1,000 GO a year for subsequent
HI llments might have been easy. BUT
half OF il has since been hard.
rotary Iamont's estimate for the ord
part OF the work during the year
begins July I next. comprising guns,
ars, and carriages, is A.475,l55. dis
ate for the engineering part, COM
& emplacements, the purchase OF
and submarine mines, is s2,iS5,0o0,
ng a total OF ss.Gl0,i55 for fortified
r engineering item that sit Will evil
require an annual expenditure Of
300 for ten years 10 complete the ma
and earthworks OF our approved
ID cts" This added 10 the ordnance es-
:. would give S, 675, lbs as the proper
+ priation for the year beginning July
: Or, taking his estimate OF sS2,0co,-
the needs OF ten years, the proper
T. 20 fall upon the year for which con-
IS providing is s., 200, 600.
ems 20 us that the best way for each
n In this matter is 10 take the fun
that belongs TO II without attempt
least unless a system of contracts
es Il. 20 saddle other burdens upon
sessions and congresses. There is
: a repugnancs, in any congress. 10
/; charged up against its own ac-
enormous expenditures OF which
parts properly belong 20 four or FIVE
ssses yet 10 come. And next, IL Is
all things better to accept a fun an
lstallment rather than 10 provide for
an a proper share, trying 70 commit
sessions 10 more than their proper
ton.
true that in several cases battle
have been ordered. without provid
" money for them: but that Is not
a parallel instance. Much time
before the ships can be planned.
ds for their construction invited and
ted, and also before enough can he
on them 10 require payment. Be
delays I'm construction have some
as last winter. thrown upon one ses-
instaIlments OF payments properly
. previous ones But for the coast
ses Mr.. Lamont is estimating only on
q already approved and on plans
II up. Again, the whole work is in
-. through the invariabie cutting
OF the estimates 70 a small fraction
ir amounts during the last ten years.
some future session to bear more
q share.
now time 70 reverse this policy,
finds us. after ten years. with the
little more than begun, II congress
20 see the seacoast ana the lakes
iy defended by the year 1893 let IL
2 It's full one tenth OF the burden at
session. and more than that share
than less