The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-08
IyGMENTIG TIE ARTILLERY.
aousE PAssE(TF BILL FOR TWO
ADDITIoGAJREGIMEN

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u.asure Put ThiuEh Almost Unani-
mousIy Unde4 Suspension of the
uuIes-Mr. Baey DispIeased with
che Limitatid Put ON the Debate
and Inauglates FiIibuster
.oainst Distet of Columbia Leg
station in BtaIiation.
Washington, Mich 1.-THE spirit of pa
..i,tism was ranant in the House to-day,
and bv an alnst unanimous vote the
Hawley bill, pridlng for two additional
,.qments of aIlery, was passed under
ascension of thrules. No effort was made
n obstruct actin, but Mr.. Bailey, the
nsnoeratic lear, pleaded for more time
Than the forty iinutes allowed under the
niles and bedase it was refused, after
t5s bill had bel passed, he inaugurated
e,buster again District Of Columbia leg
station that c4tinued all day.
Mr. Bailey esired 10 speak in favor of
he bill, but Suld not get time. During
The day he hR several sharp tits with
soeaker Read
Most of the me in favor of the bill was
consumed in ne-minute speeches. Mr..
Hull and two republicans refrained from
,sferring to TIL bill as an emergency bill,
az some of theDemocrats who spoke did,
and Mr.. WiIliaas of Massachusetts refer
,,d directly toprobable war with Spain.
Every expressin construed into a refer
t5ce to the support of the government in
possible crisis was received with APP
pause.
Mr.. Hull, in opening the debate, eX
named briefly the necessity for these men
IA man the coast 6fenses of the country.
BY July l, he SAID IA big guns and 232
rortars would be mounted, 476 in all.
These guns requied eighteen men each
10 handle them, aid in a time of war,
sxty. There were but 4,O25 artillerymen
all told in the servpe. The guns emplaced
My would require 1000 regardless of
sDv exigency thatImight arise. Even if
10 exigency arose these men, he insisted,
7Ould be necessity TO care for the
brtifcations and guns, upon which
We were expendilg millions of dollars.
The charge that this bill was an attempt
10 Increase the sUnding army to be used
possibly TO overaVe the cities, he said, he
considered too frivolous to. discuss.
Mr.. Cox in opposing the bill, said he
would vote as cleerfully as any man in
The House for this bill, if 1t were needed
for the national defenes as a war measure,
but he argued that the President, as COM
nander-in-chief Of the army, had author
iy to detail men from the other branches
Of the service, the cavalry and infantry,
and that such details could man and care
iQr the coast defenses without increasing
PERMANENTLY the standing army
Mr.. Belknap, Rep, of Illinois, a son OF
G-Secretary of War, Belknap, and Mr..
Mcclellan, Dem, of New York, a son OF
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, both warmly
advocated the passage of the bin in brief
Speeches, and Mr., Haye, DEM, of Vir-
gnia, created the first open enthusiasm
by declaring himself in favor of taking
every step necessary now to prepare for
the emergency which confronted the
country.
Mr. Jones' Dem, of Virginia, the other
Democrat who opposed the bill, insisted
that the bill was not a war measure, as
1t had been recommended for several
years. He claimed that it made a radical
Change in the line of promotion He
thought if an emergency existed the pres
ent artillery regiments should be recruited
Up TO their full strength. Four thousand
men could thus be added to that branch of
The service without creating two additional
rg!ments
Mr.. Shafroth of Colorado caused a round
o. applause when he expressed his re-
gret that a single voice should be raised
against such a bill at such a time. There
was no denying the fact that our foreign
relations with Spain were on the eve of
a rupture. War ought to be averted if
possible, but we ought to prepare at once,
De said, for every emergency.
MI. Williams, Dem, of Mississippi, said
mat while his view was now, as ever
lor peace, it seemed absolutely certain
spain was forcing us into war in order to
&lricate the relgning family from the
desperate straits into which Spain was
placed by her futile attempts to subju-
gate Cuba.
Mr. Lewis, Dem, of Washington, at
tempted to offer an amendment prohibiting
tae use of these two regiments to suppress
strikes.
ioa
Inc great chorus of ayes was offset by
lnIee voices on the minority side, Messrs.
Cox Dem, of Tennessee, Jones, Dem, of
virginia and Todd, Fusionist, of Mich
NJ $40 o'clock the House adjourned.