The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-16
HOUSE TURNS
 DOWN ROBSON And Incidentally the
 President. REJECTS FOUR EMPHASIZES Longworth Comes to Aid of His
 Father-in- law. Chairman Tawney of Finapce oommit- tee Warns Against Extrsvasance. Threat of Roosevelt Is Re-
 peated on the Floor.
 

today decided against the Presidents program for four battleships, and ad- Committee on Naval Affairs for two vessels of that type.
 This result was reached after a de- bate which lasted for four hours and was received with applause,
 The entire session was devoted to consideration of the navy increase pro- vision of the naval appropriation bill. last section of the bill, the. measure was practically concluded with the disposition of the provision. The committee of the whole con- cluded It's work and will report it to the House tomorrow for a final vote on its passage.
 The provision for battleships was the chief subject of interest. the commit tees recommendation for two ships of that type prevailing by decisive vote after a hard-fought effort to increase the number to four.
 An amendment by MT. Tawney to reduce the number of new battlesh ips decided majority than was MT. Hob- sons proposition for an increase to four.
 Provision for Golfers. A provision for two fleet colliers of sixteen knots and of 12.500 tons ca pacity. costing s1.s0o.oo0 each, was adopted.
 Amendments were adopted that one of the battIeships and one of the coi- Hers shall be built in a navy yard. The bill as 1t stands. authorizes ex- penditures of $l07 873,000. The House, at 5:03 p. m, took re- cess until i1:30 o'clock tomorrow. 4 | After devoting half an hour to dila- tory tactics. the Houae today resumed consideration of the naval appropria- tion bill. and very soon reached the provision for the increase of the navy, around which much interest clusters. Mir. Burton of Ohio was prompt to take the floor in opposition to the bat | ttfesiiip provision. He declared thAt the Monroe doctrine was not maintained by the military armament, | Mir. Hobson of Alabama interrupted to ask what. in the absence of power to arbitrate. would protect the coun- ] try.
 ''our prestige and the strength of the nation who protect us.'' replied MT. | Burton, amid a storm of applause.
 "Our strength" he continued. mot only the strength of the navy and army. but our strength as people will pro- tect us."
 No nation. he said. wished to quar- rel with us He cited the instance of friction in maintaining the Monroe I doctrine III NchtDuGAd Go6Ahc1 1NAO pretensions of Great Britain, when this country had but three battleships. and | Great Britain thirty, with the senti- naent of Europe on the side of Great Britain. That. he declared, was an | illustration of the influence of the na- tion resulting from its inherent strength :,
 we cannot be compared with China" " he said, evidently referring to the Presidents message of yesterday, amid renewed applause; i've are not In the same class"
 pronounced to be wholly illegal.
 t"At this time," he proceeded, "let us | continue our traditional policy not of | lnon-resistance. but of confidence in our | strength as nation, our military | strength. our material strength. but most of all, in the great moral and | politicaI aid as that has made ou. country great, our idea of justice ana 1 the equality of man. fhose gIeat Along this line lies our destiny and our glory"
 Cochran Aids HObson.
 MT. Cochran of New York then made | q strikInx speech in favor of the build ing of four new ships. Beginning by dAcla ring that he agreed with the sentt- ments expressed by MT. Burton, MT. Cochran added that while the House was to use its own judgment concern Eng it's actions, yet the President. being | cononoa nder-in- chief of the military forces. great deference was due to his He rerretted that the nation had | undertaken the construction or nsht- ing force and had abandoned the pol lev through which we won conse. | omence in this world without parallel: | .sr,,t I discern" said MT. Cochran, eIoud upon the horizon that may | darken the skies over our heads | He referred to the racial questions | arising from the school troubles in San Francisco and said that when the ques- ton of race. superiority develops II bodes danger. ,,
 "rhis country" he said, Ifs the El Dorado of the Japanese and the people of the Pacific will not allow them to lodge there because they assert equali- " This is the situation" he added | "tbat iustifies me in yielding my Judg
 ment to that of the President of the limited States. He could conceive diff faculties that would produce clasf between the Japanese and this coun- try"
 MT. Rainey of Illinois caused a great deal of merriment by reading from q | speech delivered by MT. Cochran. May IS. 1906. against military expansion tc | which the New York representative re- piled by inquiring whether the Sar francisco school troubles had ariser | then.
 we have had the race question evel since the Chinaman first landed here and taught the Americans how to play poker" retorted MT. Rainey.
 Williams Arouses Applause.
 Mir. Williams of Mississippi. caused an outburst of applause by his op position to military expansion. He re-
 ferred to Mir. Hobson as young enthusiast. an expert on naval affairs whose mind Is entirely absorbed along those lines"
 He is like an eye specialist" h' satd. "An eye specialist never found perfect eye. This young specialist vii
 never find a perfect navy"
 Referring to Mir. Cockran's remarks MT. Williams said amid a storm of ap
 plause and laughter that the "Presi
 dent Is Commsnder-in-Chief of tn
 Army and Navy of the United state