The San Francisco call., 1904-03-06


told.
GORMAN OPPOSES BILL.
German congratulated Hale on his
conduct of naval legislation in the Sen
ate. He reviewed the growth of the
navy, saying that when Mr.. Whitney
took charge of the Navy Department
it was in very bad condition; but not
withstanding the Republicans were in
the majority in the Senate it had not
been necessary to make a second ap-
peal either to Hale or Allison. Up to
the present time there had been no
division on party lines. AS for him
self, he always had expressed his
sentiments freely without regard to
party lines. He criticized Moody as
imprudent in charging the Democratic
party with partisanship because of
his (Gorman's) attitude. He had
spoken for himself in saying the ad-
ministration was advancing too rap
idly and had gone too far in the in
crease Of the navy
Executive officers" said German
slowly and with deliberate emphasis.
would serve their country better if
they attended to the details of their
ctlces and abstained from criticisms
OF Senators and members of Con-
gress."
German then gave his attention to
the statement of Lodge that a large
navy was a conservator of peace, say
ing that this declaration was con-
trary TO the conviction of the fathers.
he differed from Lodge in considering
this an aggressive nation. He hoped
the time would soon come when the
people would return to the Demo-
cratlc-Republican doctrine that our
power was not measured by the num-
per OF guns afloat nor by the number
OF uniforms we had. He would not
have Republican or a Democratic
navy, but an American navy, and he
would nave the credit given to the
men who fight the battles, as was
done in the case of Perry, and not
nave them sent to the rear and hu-
inflated for their very achievements
III we were at war" said German.
II our commerce were threatened bv
war we would give the Secretary of
the Navy all that he could spend. But
all the country knows that these mill
lions, these billions. have done more
to demoralize than otherwise"
Extravaganza had been the newt
able result and a brief war with Spain
nad cost the country billion dollars.
he had no sympathy with any
movement against China No matter
what nation might secure Supremacy
IN that country the United States
would secure it's share of it's COM
merce. He said that every American
had gloried in the part the United
States had taken in checking the
Boxer uprising and that if that ex-
ample were to be followed it would
DO more than any number of ships to
Improve our commerce.
DEPEW'S CHANGE OF VIEW.
Carmack referred to Depew's de-
fense of the retention of the Philip
pines and quoted previous utterance
by that Senator, taking an opposite
position. Depew arose, saying:
That Chauncey Depew is dead. I
was not then a Senator, but simply a
New Yorker, making speeches almost
every night, and giving very little
thought to them
After studying the question he had
changed his views. He originally had
been Democrat and his first impress
slons were generally Democratic.
The difference between the Sena-
tors position then and now" replied
Carmack, lis that, not being a Sena-
tor, he was considering the case as a
patriot and had not taken the case as
a criminal lawyer to defend the Re-
publican party"
Carmack agreed with Hale that if
China should fall under the dominion
of Japan it would be very doubtful
whether the United States would de-
rive any advantages from it,
Carmack read an extract from a
newspaper, saying s435,OO had been
expended for the purpose of keeping
the two pleasure yachts, the May
flower and the Sylph, in condition for
the Presidents use. This. he con-
tended, was a misrepresentation.
NELSON ANSWERS HALE.
Nelson took the floor to reply to
Hale, who, he said, had taken him to
task for violating the principles of
neutrality because he had said that
our commercial interests were COM
mon to those of Japan.
And" he went on, Sin the same
breath in which he criticized me, he
commerce was in from ambitious
Japan / submit that if there was
any violation of the principles of neu-
trality on my part, there was an equal
ly marked violation by him.
Nelson said that he had not intend
ed to imply that the United States
should take any other than a neutral
position in the Oriental war, for he
held no such position. He did con-
tend, however, that we should take
all proper steps to protect our COM
merce in the Orient and he thought
the navy should be adequate to that
service.
The amendment proposed by
Quarles to the committee amendment
for a naval station on the Great