The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
SPEAK FOR PEACE
CoNGREssMEN URGE REDUCTION
 or ARMAMENT.
General Debate on the Naval Appro- priatien Hill Ends, and One Paragrsph of the Measure
 fs Read.

 
 Washington, May 5.--Generaf debate
 on the Naval Appropriation bill ter.
 minated with the close of today's ses- sion of the House one paragraph of the bill being read in order to make 1t the continuing order before the HousS. International arbitration, the reduc- tion of our armament. carefully pre- pared address on the achievements f the navy, and a defense of the naval program for 1907, together with 8 speech in favor of a monument an Kings Mountain battlefield. were the ! features of this legislative day. Those who addressed the House formally were
 Mir. Bartholdt lMo.). Mir. Johnson. S !, CD, Mir. Webb (No. C.). Mir. Terrell and
 MT. Weeks (Mass).
 MT. Foss (Ill) in charge of the bill. I stated that the navel budget probably
 would be completed after a two days debate under the five minute rule. Mr.
 Payne, the floor leader. tn ought it would take a day longer.
 MT. Bartholdt argued in favor of ! reduction of the navy instead of its increase He said the question at issue was not a military one, but an economic one. It should De settled by states men and not by the military. He said that the peace policy now uppermost in the world contemplated two de-
 mands. arbitration treaties between all the nations and an international Con :. gress to say what is International law. | MT. Bartholdt then passed to a dis cussion of tho International Parlia- | mentary Union. of which he is Presi- | dent of the American group. He said that the high position taken for inter- national peace at the meeting at Chris
 tiana, Norway. resulted largely in the
 convening of the first Hague Confer ence.
 Champ Clark asked how it could be assumed that the peace propaganda | was growing when the leading nations of the world were adding to their forces both on sea and land. Mir. Bartholdt replied that while 1t was true that armaments were being a larger arbitration sentiment than ever before.
 | MT. Bartholdt outlined to a somewhat larger extent than he did at the re- cent meetings of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union held
 in this city, the result of the confer ence held in Paris lately by the com
 mittee having charge formulating a program of representation for an in- ternational peace congress. | He said that the idea adopted was | the American idea, in itself of the
 utmost significance and he had larger
 hopes than ever for an international agreement between the nations. | An appropriation of $30,0o0 for the
 building of a monuU ept at Kings
 Mountain battlefield was the subject
 of a speech delivered by MT. Webb T raise the point of no quorum" :" again said Mir. Clark (Mo.), but the
 chair "in his minds eye" counted a quorum.
 Mir. Terrell (Miss.), was recognized
 to expain some of the reasons why
 there are so many assertions from the | navy which he attributed to the en- listments of boys under eighteen years of age.
 Mir. Terrell said that there was not | postoffice along the Massachusetts coast that did not contain a flaming postor with magnificent battleships in
 the distance and natty petty officer
 in the foreground inviting the young
 men of the land ro join the navy and telling of the benefits to be derived therein.
 "A fraud order ought to be issued against that" said MT. Mann CIIl. ], | tsententiously.
 Mir. Clark (Mo.> said it was a great
 mistake to put the stigma of deser-
 ton on boy who had out of pure 1 patriotism enlisted in the navy and who later found he was not suited to l Its requirements.
 "A boy under eighteen years of age IS sttH a boy. and should be treated
 as such." remarked Mir. Clark. Mfr Loud said that he had gotten a boy out of the navy on similar lines.
 end that he had no stigma attaching to his discharge.
 Then the navy has one rule for you, (pointing to the Republican side,) and one rule for us, Ondica ting the Demo erats.p said Mir. Clark. (Mo.l MT. Weeks, (Mass,), a graduate from the naval academy, replied to the ad- dress of MT. Burton, (Ohio,) made yes- terday. who insisted that for interna- tional peace the naval program as pre- sented In the bill should be eurtailed MT. Weeks contended that the bill was fair one and in the very nature of | things should be passed. He insisted that a large navy today was not for | the purpose of menacing a neighbor. but for the purpose of protecting our l growing commerce.
 Mir. Hepburn, Iowa,) in a speech 1 sometime ago when the hazing bill was | before the House. made the statement I that twenty-slx ships had been lost In | twenty-five years and he deducted from
 this that the personnel must be not | Of the highest. To this statement, Mr l Weeks argued at great length. review | ing the loss of every ship since the | civil war. either by accident, typhoon. l sunken rock or whatever the cause, and gave the officer in command. result Of | injury. and court martial. if such thera was.
 With the conclusion of Mir. weeks's | speech, general dehate ceased, and the | first paragraph of the bill was read. | The committee then rose and a. 4:1o | the House adjourned until Monday at