Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-01
IN CONGRESS TODAY
Senator Hale Severely ArraignS the
Government of Great Britain.
LIVELY DEBATE over ARMOR PLATE
Messrs. Hanna and TIlman Are
Participants.
HOUSE DISCUSSES TRUSTS

At the opening of the session of the Sem
ate today Ar Perkins CCalD presented a
petition from organizations and individuals
OF his state skiing Congress to make an
appropriation fur the relief of the famish-
ing people of India, and he t,sked that it be
referred to the committee appropria-
tiCns.
He was not. 1e said, in possession of suf-
fcient information to enable him to pre-
pare a proper resolution dealing with the
question. In 1891 he had asked for and pro-
cured ship to carry to India provisions
donated by the people of California, Ore
gon. Washington IN. Nebraska, Kansas and
Iowa. The provisions aggregated 1000 tons.
No official acknowledgment ever had been
received of that donation so far as he was
aware. He hesitated now. therefore. to
press a resolution looking to the relief of
the people of India lest the government of
Great Britain might not look with favor
upon the action of Congress in sending to
India unsolicited aims. it might not look
with favor upon friendly intervention by
this government in the South African war.
MIR. Hale Arraigns Great Britain.
THE world has been observation-disclosures
stupeiied. interjected Mr.. Hale (Me)
speaking with deliberate emphasis, "at the
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the chiei Oh Ehslahd coiories. Inc
pestilence and famine are appalling to the
Imagination. Whole families are being
wiped out of existence. the babe lies dead
beside its mother.
THE situation is awful. Now. the senator
comes here with proposition that We
should appropriate money for the relief of
these people. l should like to ask the SEN
ator what England has done for the people
of India She has spent tens and hundreds
crushing repubicanism 1t is the most
brutal manifestation of strength against
liberty and weakness that the world has
ever seen; and am moved, therefore, to
done to relieve the s,,ffarine- of her irdinn
subjects? What has he in the way of infor-
NATION upon TINS point! What information
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Aidrlch tR ID remarked caustically: 1T
does seem strange that we cannot have a
petition presented here without having two
three political speeches made upon it"
What do you mean by political
speeches. inquired Mr.. Hale.
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Of a retitinn shnI,ld ali ont pro- Roer or
other speeches / do not believe the Sem
ate or the country desires enlightenment
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Deadlock Over Naval Bill.
Far the conferees on the naval appronri-
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greement upon the subjects OF armor plate,
ocean surveys and course of study at the
Naval Academv He said there was an
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the two houses, ana ne expressed a desire
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the benefit Of their opinions and sugges-
tons
Mr.. Hanna's Charges.
Mr.. Tfllman IS. c.. one of the conferees
declared he would rather the bill should
fail than that the Senate should yield to
the House proposition.
Mr.. Hanna (Ohio) said that since his adj
vent into the Senate he had devoted consid-
cradle time to a study of the armor plate
question He was familiar with manufac
turing and had some knowledge of the
arnOr matter from personal investigation.
He was In favor of the construction of a
formida BILE navy as rapidly as possible, and
was satisfied that the delay in the navy's
building now was due to a great extent to
the oppositjon of the senators from South
Carolina (Iillman) and New Hampshire
0,handlerl to the payment of a reasonable
nr;ce for armor The responsibility for
delay" said he rests upon those two SEN
ators for placing the price of armor at a
,,rice belox that which II could be manu-
featured for by any concern in the country
and rhe senator from South Carolina has
given YOU the animus of his opposition
when he said that he would rather see the
bill fan than to see any concessions made
TO the armor plate companies"
ON his responsibility as a senator he was
satisfied TO say that Si45 per ton was not
only a reasonable. but low price Tor
arfnor-
The Illinois steel Compnny's Oner.
did not the Illinois Steel Company" in
quired Mr.. Wellington (MdD. offer to make
the government arInor for $3.50 per ton?'
Yes. 1t did" replied Mr. Hanna. 81
know sornething about that transact 1t
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