The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-03-12
.ENGI AAO'S NAVY GROWING
Expenditures for This Year
$IIo.ooo,ooo.
G0sehen Explains! Hts Needs-Many
Vessels OF the Rest Pattern 60 be
Added 10 the Navy nj Onee-Enx-
lands Navy ssust be Compared with
the Armies of other Countries as
Basis or Defense.

London, March MIR. Goshen, first
lord Of the admiralty, presented the ma
val program in the House of Commons
today He said the estimates of the ad.
mirality were not proposed with any
feeling of alarm, although he hoped he
might be relieved from the necessity of
dwelling upon the critical nature of the
times. In any case the first lord of the
admiralty hoped the estimates proposed
would be accepted by The country as ad
equate for the occasion. The increase
in the number of ships must necessarily
be followed by expenditures in various
directions. 1t meant more ornaments,
officers, seamen, marines, engineers and
ratings of every kind, entailing more
centers for training, hospitals and bar
racks.
Continuing, Mr.. Goschen said it was
not necessary to look far ahead nova
days, as ships could be built as rapidly as
guns, officers and men could be pre-
pared to handle them.
Mr. Goschen then said that the admi-
rally proposed to increase the navy by
1900 seamen, and by 500 extra mariner
For guns and ammunition the admiralty
proposed supplementary estimate of
f2oo,oco for the prerent year, and for
the ensuing fiscal year the admiralty
proposed an increase of eSso,ooo. The
admiralty also proposed an increase of
e2,25o, 900 for docks, and explained that
the proposed dock work would increase
the amount eS,9oo,ooo, provided by the
last estimates, to eI4ooooooo, and the
chancellor of the exchequer had placed
the surplus, after satisfactory supple.
mentary estimates had been applied to
these works
Mr. Gosched then said that between
SO and go, Ios ships and o. torpeeo de-
Stroyers had been built or were building,
He admitted this was a formidable list;
but the Admiralty proposed to spend an
ooo:previous proposed as a supplement
tary estimate for guns and ammunition
during the present year. The Admiral
ty had iudg II advisable to undertake
the construction of five additional
battleships, four first class cruisers.
three second clsss cruisers and twenty
eight torpedo destroyers, in addition to
minor expenses, such as anchoring a
training ship at Queeestown and replac-
ing the cadet ship "Brittannia" by a
college for naval cadets
The increase for the coming year
would be; For men, 100000; ship
building, $LS6o,ooo: ordinance, $780,.
600; new works, 10000; other works
e42 ,oooi a totsl of e3I22,ooo.
The total estimates for this year
would be e2I,S22, 900 of which sum for
new construction there was 1885, 900
The present estimates of the cost Of
the naval defense act was $2I 600, ooo
while the Spencer programme was
e29,oGo,ooo. From 1880 to 1896 the eN
penditure for new construction ant
armament totaled up f55,ooo,ooo The
Government proposed that the estimate,
this year should amount to f22,ooo,ooo
Mr. Goschen submitted the estimates
he said, not in spirit of boastiul exag
| ,yar.
the estimates of self-defense, based upoi
the special conditions of the country
which did not apply to any other coun
try. They applied to the defense 0
Great Britain's scattered possessions 1
the food supply Of the British colonie,
security Of the shores q
Great Britain.
Foreign countries, he asserted, mustnC
compare them with the amounts sper
upon their navies, but with the amount
they spent npon their armies, as tn
British navy represented the frontier
and the large increase in the strength {
the British navy need not excite tn
jealousy of any other country.
In conclusion Mr.. Goschen sale
"Whether Great Britain is isolated {
not, whether in any tremendous strai
she should bear the whole burden alor
or in general disturbances should tai
= her place side by side with the Power
the British people with their fleet shot
: represent seltteliance