The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-20
IL Provides for Four New IroncIads
and kore Men. and Approprintes
over s7O.OOO,000.
PLAN TO IRRIGATE ARIZONA
100000 To BE APPROPRIATED FOR
EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES.
Proceeding. of the House and Senate
britain Likely TO Amend the
uay-Pauncefote Treaty.

WARRINGTON. Jan. 19-The naval APP
preparation bill was reported to the House
Today with an elaborate statement Of its
provisions. by Chairman Foss. of the naval
committee The bill carries s77,Ol6.6S5, the
largest ever reported to the House from the
committee on naval affairs. This is s11,-
s65.71s above the bill of last year and $1O.-
20 ss5 below the estimates submitted by
the Navy Department
Concerning new ships for the navy. the
report says: For the purpose of further
increasing the naval establishment of the
United States, the committee recommends
that the. President be authorized to have
built by contract two unsheathed sea-going
battleships. carrying the heaviest armor
and the most powerful ordnance for vessels
OF their class. upon a trial displacement
OF about 1900 tons each. TO have the high
est practicable speed and to cost, exclusive
OF armor and armament, not exceeding
$4,000 each. and two unsheathed ar
mored cruisers, carrying the heaviest armor
and most powerful ordnance for vessels of
their class, upon a trial displacement of
about 1900 tons each, and to have the high
est practicable speed and the greatest rad
nor and armament. not exceeding 100000
each. Maximum cost OF the vessels herein
authorized. exclusive Of armor and arma-
ment VIII be 800 000.'
The bill provides that not more than one
battleship or armored cruiser shall be
built in one yard or by one party and the
usual provision is made that at least one
and not more than two of the battleships
and armored cruisers shall be built on the
Pacific coast.
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branches of the service. the principal item
is So, 4Oo,0 900 for the increase of the navy.
The pay OF the navy Is increased s., 4S9 3S7
over the appropriations for the same object
last year, and IL Is accounted for by the
authority granted TO the department TO en-
list 5000 additional seamen and fifty war
rant machinists to meet the necessity for
properly manning the new ships soon to
gency OF the lack Of officers for the new
ships, the bill provides that the new classes
now at sea, which have completed their
four years course at the Naval Academy,
shall be commissioned.
The following places receive appropria-
lions for naval work: Portsmouth, 1918, $50;
Boston. $526. 600; New York. 81, 0O9, 900; League
Island. se95 230 Washington, $31S 210; Nor
folk, $594.1O0; Key West. $4,000; Mare
Island, S3Sl, $50; Puget Sound. s273.00O: Dry
Tortugas. 100000; San Juan. $4,000: Pen
sacola, $1.500; Algiers. $25O000; Hawaii,
sle7.30 Tutuila, s225000 For the four new
Boston. League Island and Mare Island,
81 100000 Is provided. The committee rec
ommenC this year an appropriation of So =
100000 toward the rebuilding of the Naval
Academy. In the last years bill $3.50. 900
was appropriated: prior TO that time 8, 220, 900
making total appropriation of 81, 800. 600
prior to the present bill.
The report says in part. as to armor:
your committee also provided under the
increase OF the navy an appropriation of
100000 for armor and armament for ships
now under construction. 1t will be remem-
bered that Congress wisely solved the per-
picking question of providing armor plate
for our ships last year by the enactment
of provision giving the secretary Oh the
navy full power to buy armor at such price
as IN his judgment might seem reasonable
and just or build an armor plate factory,
toward which $4.000.000 was appropriated.
1t ought TO be matter OF general con-
graduation that the armor plate question
has been settled through the skill. firmness
and excellent Judgment of the secretary
the navy in carrying out the evident pur-
poses Of Congress-.