The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-14
ARM0R
Plate WilIlNOt Be Manufac ed
By the Government

WASHINGTON, MA Y12.-By a close
vote the senate today rejected the propo-
-sition to erect, without reference to the
price at which the government could Sc
cure armor plate for it's warships, an
armor plate factory. The vote upon the
direct proposition was % to "a an subsid-
iary amendments were rejected by about
the same vote When the committees s
proposition was about to be voted upon
a filibuster was organized the quorum
of the senate was broken and the ques-
tion is still in the air.
Mr.. Chandler declared a similar fraud
was proposed in the attempt to force
the government to adopt the Krupp ar
NOR. Mr.. Spooner and Mr.. Hale made
notable speeches deprecating the war
talk yesterday by Mr.. Lodge. Mr.. Hoar
protested against the "wretched imperial
istic business" and the talk that this ma
tion had only recently become ''world
power" asserting that it had been a
world power since the war Of lS1A
Consideration was then resumed of the
armor plate section of the naval appro-
priation bill.
Mr.. Chandler, speaking of navy depart
ment advocacy of contracting with ar
NOR plate manufacturers, said that Com
mander Folger, after the adoption of the
Harveyized armor by this government,
resigned and Joined the Harvey Company
at a salary of S, 900, with an addition of
10000 of stock in the compny. He then
went to Europe in the interests of the
company. At the conclusion of Secretary
Traceys term he became counsel for the
Harvey Company in defense of the Har-
vey. patents.
Continuing, Mr.. Chandler declared: II
believe l am prepared TO show that the
Harvey patent was a fraud and that 1t
was imposed upon the patent office and
upon the government by subterfuge if
not by dishonesty. When the government
refused to pay more than $500 ton for
Harvey armor the combined armor man
ufacturers of the world endeavored to
obtain by subterfuge or by injustice an
other armor. 1 so not believe that the
Krupp armor which they offer us has any
merit whatever, except that 1t is hard
ened deeper than the Harveyized armor
by the well known means of hardening
steel by means Of carbonization. There
is no patent about it and there is no Sc
any court"
Mr.. Chandler concluded with the state
ment that the proposed government ar
NOR plant could be erected for 1880, 900
and a steel plant alongside it for half a
million dollars and he believed the plants
ought to be constructed. He though that
Admiral O'GIeil, chief of the bureau OF
ordnance, could build such plants and
build them well.
Mr.. Stewart, New, urged the construc-
tion of a government armor plant, not
only to prevent the armor manufactur-
ers from milking the government, but
to enable us to do our own work If II
should become necessary in taking and
maintaining our place as a world power
Mr.. Hoar made sharp reply to g
statement by Mr.. Stewart.
"I wish" said he, "to enter my pro.
test as emphatically as 1 can that the
United States has got to be a first class
world power-a world power'-I am sicl
of hearing senators say that, since thi:
wretched imperial business, we have be
come a first class power. The United
States came out Of the war of 1872 firs
class power, and she mas been a frs
class power ever since-a power that hai
kept off the whole of Europe from Nortl
America and the Wset Indian Islands ex
cept as 1t was there before. The United
states ds not as strong as it was yea
ago, because 1t has bound itself owe
since that time to keep the peace In dis
tant possessions. The little country tina
did that thing (the remarkable achieve
ments of the war of 1922 came out of tn,
war first class power. There has no
been a country since that time-grea
or small-that has ventured to tackle us
and there is not country on earth, tha
would not have gotten out OF any trou