The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-13
NO ARMOR FACTORY
SCHEME DEFEATED IN THE SENATE
BY A VOTE OF "a TO %.
Sensational Speech by Mr.. Chandler
During the Debate on the Naval
Appropriation Dill.
FRAUD BOLDLY CHARGED
THE HARvEYIZED ARMOR PATENT
ALLEGED To BE A CHEAT.
Lodges War Talk OF Friday Decried
by Messrs. spooner and Hale
Protest from the Latter.
THE HARvEYIZED ARMOR PATENT
ALLEGED TO BE A CHEAT.


the Senate to-day rejected the proposition
to erect without reference to the price
at which the government could secure
armor plate for its warships. armor
plate factory. The vote on the direct
proposition was p to "a. and subsidiary
amendments were rejected by about the
same vote When the committees PROPOSE
ton was about to be voted upon filibuster
was organized, the quorum of the Senate
was broken and the question is still in the
air. During the debate to-day Mr.. Chand-
Ter delivered a sensational speech, in which
he charged that the government had been
defrauded in the adoption Of the Harvey
lied armor. He declared a similar fraud
was proposed in the attempt to force the
government to adopt the Krupp armor.
Mr.. Spooner and Mr.. Hale made notable
speeches, deprecating the war talk yes
terday by Mr.. Lodge Neither the senator
from Wisconsin nor the Senator from
Maine was fearful that we might become
involved in difficulty with Germany on ac-
count Of the Monroe doctrine. Mr.. Hoar
protested against the ''wretched imperial
istic business and the talk that this Ma
ton had only recently become world
power" asserting that it had been world
power since the war of 1872
When the Senate convened Mr.. Davis re-
ported from the committee on foreign re-
lations a joint resolution respecting the
unwilling of the statue of Lafayette at
Paris, July 4, 1900. The preamble recited
that the school children of the United
| e-A
and that the government of the United
States had added $4,000 for the pedestal
of the statue. The resolution follows:
THAT the people of the United States
anticipate and appreciate this ceremony
with feelings of the greatest satisfaction
and that they regard the statue as ex-
pressing the honor and gratitude with
which they cherish the memory of Lafay-
cite and those of his countrymen who, by
their arms and counsel, assisted in secur-
ing the independence Of the United States.
That the President of the United States is
hereby requested to transmit copy of
these resolutions to the government of
France"
The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Cockrell, of Missouri gave notice
that on Saturday the 18th inst. he would
ask Congress to receive formally the
statues of Benton and Blair as Missouri's
contribution to Statuary Hall Of the Cap
itol.
CHANDELIERS SPEECH.
Consideration was then resumed OF the
armor- plate section of the naval appropria-
ton bill. Mr.. Chandler took sharp issue
with the statement made by Mr.. Allison
hot a. he
fore the government could get a plate of
armor from its own factory, IL II built one.
Speaking of the Navy Departments advo-
cacy of contracting with armor-plate man.
ufacturers he said that Commander Folger.
after the adoption of the Harveyized armor
by this government resigned and Joined
the Harvey Company at a salary of 5000,
with an addition of $4,000 of stock in the
company. He then went to Europe in the
interest of the company. At the conclusion
of Secretary Tracy's term he became i'm
mediately counsel for the Harvey Com
pany, in defense of the Harvey patents.
Continuing, Mr.. Chandler declared:
"I believe, and I am prepared to show,
that the Harvey patent was a fraud and
that 1t was imposed upon the Patent Of
fuge, If not by dishonesty. When the gov
eminent refused to pay more than $500 a
ton for Harvey armor the combined armor
manufacturers of the world endeavored to
obtain by subterfuge or by Injustice an
other armor. I do not believe that the
Krupp armor which they offered us has any
merit whatever, except that it is hardened
deeper than the Harveyized armor bv the
well-known means of hardening steel by
carbonization. There is no patent about IL
and there is no secret about IL that is
worth a dollar in any court"
Mr. Chandler concluded with the state
ment that the proposed government armor
steel plant alongside it for half = million anu
dollars. and he believed the plants ought
to be constructed He thought that Admiral
O'Neil, chief OF the Bureau OF Ordnance
| could build such plants and build them
| well.
| Mr.. Stewart urged the construction of a
| government armor plant, not only to pre-
vent the armor manufacturers from milk
| ing the government, but to enable us to do
| our own work II Il should become neces-
| sary in taking and maintaining our place
as world power.
HOAR SICK OF IMPERIALISM.
| Mr.. Hoar made a sharp reply to a state
ment by Mr.. Stewart II wish" said he.
ito enter my protest as emphatically as I
| can that the United States has got TO be a
| first-class power, world power am
sick of hearing senator's say that. since
| this wretched imperialistic business. we
have become a first-class power The
| United States came out of the war of 1872
a first-class power and she has been a first
class power ever Slnce-a power that has
| kept off the whole of Europe from North
America and the West India islands ex-
| cept as 1t was there before. The United
| States is not as strong as il was a year
ago. because IL has bound itself over since
| that time to keep the peace in distant pos
| sessions. The little country that did that
! thing (the remarkable achievements of the
| war of 1912 came out of the war first
| class power. There has not been a country
| since that time-great or small-that has
ventured to tackle US, and there is not
country earth. great or small that
would not have got out OF any trouble with
| US by diplomacy rather than by war"
Mr. Rawlins. speaking In support cs a
| government armor factory, made an attack
| upon the administrations foreign policy
He spoke of the United States as irving TO
| play the bully of the Dardanelles, thus
bidding defiance TO the rest of mankind
Mr.. Spooner did not approve OF limiting
the price of armor to $500 per ton and said
he regarded il as very humiIiating to the
United States that our ships should stand
| in the stocks awaiting their armor. He
wanted our ships to be completed and was
willing to vote for the committees propo-
sition to pay As5 per ton or even s545 per
ton for the armor now necessary "I am
in favor said he. "of an increase in our
navy I have No desire To vfvoI