The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-22
ESTIMATES MADE
FOR THE NAVY.
Reported That Congress Will be Asked.
to Appropriate More Than
$lOo,0oo,ooo FOR DEPARTMENT.
Representative Dayton Believes GERMANY
is Looking to South America for Els.
Enlistment of Colonies DESPITE The
Monroe Doctrine.

OF the navy for the next fiscal year as
prepared by the chiefs of the various
bureaus and departments have been
reviewed by the secretary of the navy
and the report is now in the hands of
the public printer. It is reported.
though the report cannot be confirm
ed, that congress will be asked to an
prcpriate more than 500, O0O,O 900 for
me department., as against $79,OOO,-
~, which was called for in last years
estimates. Representative Dayton Of
west Virginia, the second member Of
the house committee on naval affairs.
who has just returned from an extend
ed tour of Europe, where he investi-
gated the British. French and German
navies, is outspoken in his belief that
the new battleships should be Of six
teen Thousand tons tonnage, after the
type OF the Louisiana and Connecticut.
and that it is worse than folly to con-
struct vessels Of less capacity. The
Germans, who are steadily forging
ahead as naval power, agree that the
type OF war vessels of the American
navy as will be represented by the
Louisiana are the acme of fighting ship
construction. Their ordnance, equip
ment. general arrangement, range of
action, are admitted by the English
especially, as we'll as by the French to
be unsurpassed. Representative Day
ton says that he learned while abroad
that the present naval programme of
construction of the Germans will give
them by 1910 thirty eight modern bat
tleships. ''The word has gone forth in
Germany" said Mr.. Dayton, shat the
Fatherland must have navy as strong
as any other power, and that colonies
must be found to drain off the surplus
without Decentralization.
My impression is that Germany is look
ing to South America for the estab-
lishment of these colonies and will not
permit the Monroe doctrine to stand in
the way if it comes to test"
The PROSECUTING work which was
carried on all last spring and summer
in advocacy of the passage of the
Cuban reciprocity resolution by Pres
ident Roosevelt is believed by the
friends of the administration to have
been effective, and it is now predicted
that the measure will not encounter
much serious antagonism in the house.
With the exception of Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, who is stick
Ter more for an adherence to legisla-
tive procedure than he is an avowed
opponent to reciprocity itself, the
Western members who were hostile to
the treaty at the last session are SEEM
ingly one by one falling into line.
Representative Jones of Washington,
who took conspicuous part among
those aligned against the treaty at the
last session, has told the president
that, although still opposed to the
measure personally, he would vote for
it when it came up for consideration
in the house at the extra session.
Representative Payne, chairman of
the ways and means committee, and
Representative Dalzell, its ranking
have assured the president,
with whom they discussed the extra
session, that the Cuban reciprocity
resolution would be adopted by the
House without serious opposition.
The Bureau of Yards and Docks has
issued specifications inviting bids for
The construction of building No. II of
the Algiers Navy-yard. The specifi-
cations cover some seventeen pages of
printing. and every detail of the con-
is infinitely described. The
building will be a substantial struc-
ture of brick and steel, about 2O1 feet
10 IL inches long by 66 feet 8 IL
inches wide, and two stories 1igh. It
is provided that work is to be COM
menced on the structure Immediately
upon the awarding of the contract and
be completed within a year.
The bodies of eighty-three American
soldiers who died in tho Philippines
were inferred at Arlington National
Cemetery. The remains were accom-
panied to the grave by platoon of
soldiers and there were appropriate
RELIGIOUS services.