The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-07
" DEATH ON BATTLESHIPS.'
THREE WooLLY WESTERN CONGRESS-
MEN INSPECT THE HOLLAND.


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They Gene from Utah. Vyyourise. and wash
inEton, ana They Arc Going 90 Vote hEainst
Any More neutrality-suspicious. GoinG TO
Talk, Aiso, and Thst's why They visited
the Holiand-Facts Are what They want.
ELIZABETH, N. j., July 6.-Three silver Con.
eressmen, each representing a large State all by
himself, same hero to-day In an interval Of tho
sessions OF the House Of Representatives to OK
anime the Holland submarine boat. They were
the kind Of Congressman whose knowledge Of
maritime affairs is popularity supposed to con-
sist Of an acquaintance with prairie schooners.
They wore neither long boards nor old.fash-
Toned clothes. They were dressed like Wall
street brokers'. They were good-looking Mr..
King of Utah, plain out-and-out Bryan Demo-
crat; good-looking Mr.. Osborne of Wyoming,
former Governor of his State, also an out-and-
out Bryan shouter; and Mnn-of. the People Mr..
Jones Of Washington. former Republican aud
secoder from the party with Senator Teller at
the st. Louis Convention. They were all young,
MIR. King being only 80 and the others only
about 10 years old. There was no haysced on
them, and not a dog In Elizabothport barkod at
them us they walked from tho street cars to
Nixon's shipyard.
Thesc congressman came to see the Holland
boat for several ie.sons. With true Western
resolution they are opposed to any moro three,
four, or Ave million dollar battlesbips. They
don't believe In spending Government money
In such largo chunks ON anything. Besides,
some OF Congressman Joncs's constituents have
n small shipyard In his OWL district, at Seattle,
whore tho Government Is building one torpedo
boat. Congressman Jones thinks 1t would boa
fine thing II we had more torpedo boats, and II
they could BIO built In Seattle. He draws the
line on building battleships, however, there or
anywhere else. Another of these Congressman
recently had u hot argumen with q naval off,
Ger Of high rank over the merits Of the Holland
boat This naval officer said the Holland boat
was mo good" and never would DO any good,
and when every ono Of his statements was met
by convincing rgument he fell back on tho as
s%ertion that 1t would always be impossible to
that the Congressman, who asked yesterday
that names 10 suppressed. bluntly, told tho
not insults on American patriotism, completely
unmindiul Of the Housatonic affair In the civil
war. The Congressman also said he was going
to look at the Holland boat himself and sce
about it..
The other one of tho Congressman has beer
secretly hoping, that in. good time and at his
Nay% Computes, nat Is: 4 Tom Reed. @s:
have a Naval Committee. But the chief reason
for the, visit OF tho congressman was to get
we talk abon. anything and at all times, but
yo T, see We az 90 make make some on PFepa saIhsa h.,t,s.
ships, ne, matter ( the future baIEieshlps are to
hen b nsm ed, Utrh; Wyoming and WashinstoG A
wouldn't swerve them from their plain duty.
They want the Holland to "revolpti9nize war;
over In accordance with Western ideas. How
sSs, n thsy , sn.S t nos , we're shsD S,ll ,a e., to o %sit v fer
vessels which they admitted would be abseo,,
The three congressman walked down to the
pior where the Holland is tied and took a long
lSey Ct nfs; dIh sSSoa %st' they RS 'p ss q on Then 9se
superstructure. Finally they divcsted them
selves of coats and waistcoats-t they wore waist.
Mr.. Holland and Capt. Solely, superintendent
Of sie tho t"r4 salP inso fhe eh Boat aF0R FSsy s sniG aath tine l "s
they Disappeared. Then for al hour nothing
was seen OF them. There was a sound Of
boat during, the time they. were down there,
but those who were with them said i, wasn't
ask intelligent questions and examine into the
various details Of the crafts mechanism. Once
a shs s, Mei'c Of rt Sss 0 SiSrstion to That w i.se eau iS.9
by the desire Of the Congressman to see the
wheels Of the boat go round. II they brought
wheels Of their own with them, they gave no
After an hours stay in an atmosphere heated
utdrIy u NV III SDuBTcssuitnC dihe Out- lucy
were dripping with perspiration. and one Of
them said Il beat working, in a bayfield, all hol-
low. He said, however, that he knew very lit
tie about h%ayficlds. having left the Supreme
Court bench OF his State to 20 TO Congress. The
others, too. he thought, knew about as much
about hayfelds as he did.
A Sun reporter asked them to talk about their
explorations. One of them waved him away and
said:
Talk You want us to talk No. sir. We're
hired 70 talk IN Congress and II Tom leodl let
US, we'll talk there. You must excuse us"
Then one OF them leaned over and whispered:
You see. we spent last night voice louder
here) in Coney Island, and by jinks voice nor
mall, talk about your wiGe-open towns lvoice
loud and vibrantN In the West, they're not In 1t
with Coney Island" Voice at campaign oratory
Pitch.
Then will you speak in Congress against bat
tloships3" ventured the reporter.
'Nou bet we will, whether this thing of Hol-
lands goes or not" was the reply.
Two Of the three congressman hope to be
United States Senators some day. The third has
nothing TO say on that subject, but he admitted
that no was death on battleships.