The age-herald., 1902-05-14
BHI Passed AppropTiating S5OO,- 900 to Suffering People,
AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT
Sharp crossfire Between TilIman and Stewart During Philippine De- bate-Senator Hoar Scores
 Point on MT. CulIom.

Washington, May 13.-An additional appropriation of $30o00O was made by the Senate today for the stricken people Of the French West Indies, in accordance with the recommendation of the Presi- dent that s5O0.O GOO be appropriated The agricultural appropriation bill was passed and MT. Stewart of Nevada, in supporting the Philippine bill warned the minority that no political gain would ac- crue to them from the attack on the | army.
 While discussing the proposed coinage l of the silver dollar for the Philippines, MT Stewart declared that the silver question in this country was dead, at least for the present, on account of the large output of gold.
 Mir. Tillman inquired of MT. Stewart why 1t was intended to give the Philip pines the silver dollar proposed in the | bill to be coined?
 Mir. Stewart said that from time i'm memorial the Mexican dollar had been used as a standard In the Philippines. The pending bill simply provided the Fill ipinos with stable currency of a kind they have been accustomed to.
 MT. Tillman twitted MT. Stewart with a change of his views on the silver ques- tion.
 Denied the lmputation.
 The Nevada Senator warmly denied the imputation, jntimating that MT. Tillman could not understand the argument he had made. His views, he said. had not changed, For the present, at least, the silver question was dead, because the enormous output of gold had made good times If the Philippines were a great manufacturing country, he said, he should hesitate to give them the coin age provision inserted in the pending bill but in the circumstances it was the proper thing to do.
 MT. Lodge explained that the Philip pine committee in inserting the free coinage provision in the bill had made no change in the monetary standard of the islands.
 | MT. Cullom presented the conference re- port of the Cuban diplomatic and consul 1 bill. He explained that the House con- ference had agreed to the amendment making the salary of the minister to the republic of Cuba $12,O0O, but that they would not agree to the amendment pro- viding 5000 for the minister's house or for that making provision for an addi- tional consul. The Senate conference, therefore, had yielded to those two amendments. The report was agreed to.
 MT. Hoar of Massachusetts inquired what title was given to the Cuban gov- ernment in the bill
 he nF Ts,,ha Cullom.
 And is the American flag to be taken down from the island2" inquired Mr. Hoar.
 T suppose so-of course" responded MT. Cullom.
 T thought we had been told" facetious- | ly remarked the Massachusetts Senator that when the American flag once had been raised over the territory 1t would | always stay put
 The Senate at o'clock adjourned. U. s. NAVY SHOULD
 BE MADE LARGER. Washington, May 13.-The naval appro- priation bill, which provides for two new battleships, two armored cruisers and two gunboats and carries total of ST. 65O,000, was taken up in the House today. Representative Foss of Illinois, chairman of the naval committee in opening the debate sounded a note of warning against the oyer-confident belief that our navy is | invincible. He declared that our victories at Manila and Santiago were due to the fact that we were contending with an effete and decaying nation, and that our strength far outmatched Spain In those contests.
 MT Foss said that while we have 13S ships built and building yet comparative ly few of them have any real fighting value. Most of these now building are what are termed peace boats.'
 Continuing MT. Foss said:
 T know that there are some who think that just because we whipped Spain in a fight of an hundred days ant lost only a single man, that we could whip out the fleets of the navies of the world. There is one impression that the American navy Is powerful and strong-yes 1t Is so far as 1t goes. believe we have better officers better men and that our ships, ship for ship. are better than those of any navy in the world. But do not let us delude ourselves with the thought that because we whipped a little nation which had only a little navy that there fore we can whip anything that comes along It would have been our everlast- ing shame if our two fleets at Manila and Santiago had not sunk both of the Spanish fleets. Why? Because they were superior; they had a greater tonnage, each one of them.
 The Lesson Learned. of there is any lesson to be learned | from the Spanish-American war it is | that superior men, superior ships: both | in tonnage, in arm ament and of armor superior gunnery, superior marksmanship l will win in the future as they have won in the past" (Applause)
 MT. Rixy. Virginia, strongly supported the plan of government contraction of l warships
 The Senate bill making additional ap- propriation for the Martinique sufferers was referred to the appropriation com nittee.
 The conference report of the omnibus claims bill was rejected on the ground