Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-16
UNCLE SAM TO HAVE
BIG BATTLESHIP
Effort to Have One Of Dread
nouuht Class Stricken
Out, Fails.
ss6,ooo.ooo APPROPRIATED.
CrnmpackCr Believes the Philippines
Are sword of Damoclcs Hanging
Over Republic.

Washington, Feb. l6-rho house,
after highly interesting debate today.
passed the naval appropriation bill,
which carries. in round numbers, $780,
900. 600. MIR. Burton (ohio) made an UNI
successful effort to strike out the pros
vision for an additional battleship OF
the Dreadnought type. His amendment
was voted down-lli to 146. Speeches
on the amendment were made by Mr.
Burton ana Kitchin, North Carolina;
slayden. Texas: Crumpacker Indiana,
Hull. Iowa Sul2er, New York; Waldo,
New York: Weeks. Massachusetts;
l.ongworth, Ohio; Grosvenor, OHIO, and
Foss, Illinois
Speaking in support of his notion
Mr. Burton called attention to the m
evitable tendency of advancing ciNili-
zation toward peace. the untlring en-
deaVors of nations not involved IN con-
hict to prevent war between other
countries between which controversies
arise He spoke Of the growth OF arnl-
tration as n means OF settling disputes,
and the intolerabe burden OF main,
tanning armies and naVieS. He said
thut i'm the United States in recent
years the expenditure of the mihthry
and naval esta blishments had grown TO
be FIVE times as great AS in 1887. only
20 years ago.
Mr.. Burton deprecated the war talk
In regard to the Japanese. and con-
trasted the size of the two navies of the
two countries, showing that with ships
now under construction the United
Staes navy would he nearly two thirds
larger than that of the Japanese, ana
at present u half larger. The United
States, of all the nations of the world,
he said, should take the lead III the
move for a limitation of ornaments.
mo nation on the globe is threaten,
ing us. No nation on the globe VIII
think lightly of engaging IN war win
us" said Mr.. Burton. In England To-
day. King, prime minister, parliament
and the great majority OF the people
are ready and anxious TO STAND WIN
us in a movement for the limitation OF
armament. Greatness does not con-
slst In the strength of the government,
but in the happiness and the opportuh-
ty of each individual citizen, u thihg
lar preferable, far more to be desired,
than the tiiumphs of war or the empty
glorics of imperial dominion.
Mr. Crumpacker Qndianal favored
the big ships for the protection OF the
philinnines. II believe" he said, the
phIlipnines are the sword of Damocles
hanging over the head of this republic,
and he commended that they impose a re-
sponsIbility which we should be pre-
pared to-ineet in the right way.
Considerable interest was aroused by
Mr.. Longworth (Ohio), who said that
while very generally he relied on the
good Judgment of his colleague INF.
Binton). In this particular case ne was
Obliged to disagree with him, ana
yield to the opinion of higher au-
thority especially
He proceeded as though the opinion
of that higher authority agreed with
his own.
Mr. Sulzer supported the recommen-
dalton for two battleships, offering an
amendment that one be built at the
New York navy yard.
The chairman of the appropriations
committee, MIR. rawuey of Minnesota.
supported the Burton amendment on
the ground OF economy. He did not
share MIR, Burtou's dream of world
peace by international arbitration, but
he thought the United States was al
ready expanding a sufficient sum ON ac-
count of past wars, and on viva Voce
vote the Burton amendment was de-
feated-ayes. 1866 nays. t22. on a vote
by tellers the opposition increased its
majority and the vote stood-ayes, IA;
nays, LAG.
The Suzer amendment, defining the
size and type of the battleshp and
stipulating that It should be built in a
government yard at New York, was
defeated.
An amendment by Mr.. Foss was