Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-23
PRESIDENT GETS
WARSHIPS FUND
R0OSEVELTS THREAT BRINGS
CONGRESS TO TERMS
READY TO VETO BILL UNLESS
MONEY WAS PROVIDED
Announcement from White House is
Followed by Hae's Statement
of Proposed Amend
ment
1onntinned from rage one)

Continued from rage one)
men and all others may possess their
souls in peace
Answering an inquiry by Mr.. Clay'
Senator Hale said it was necessary to
begin TO repair the vessels almost as
soon as they are set afloat. When re-
pairs reach the original cost. he added,
'it is discovered a vessel Is Obsolete
Quotes Expert
Mr. Hale said he had recently talked
with Sir William White. formerly head
of the British admiralty, who has stat
ed that the United States has the nm
est fleet in the world, and that the eX-
celfency of our navy is due to the
fact that we waited TO build sh1ps,
while Great Britain spent hundreds OF
millions of dollars upon ships tnat
have become obsolete.
1.-The ships you haye are the best or
their kind. he told me-" said Mr.. Hale,
"but you viii find, just as we have
found, the expense of great navy
only begins when you have built the
ships
MIR. Warren criticised the naval bill
so far as 1t provides for an increase IN
the navy and the marine corps. saying
that when the increase for the army
was proposed it was placed in sep
arate bill and brought into the senate
early in the session, so that full dis
cussion on it could be had. He re-
ferred to the recent remarks of Sem
ator Hale in the senate in which the
senator from Maine commented on a
newspaper article stating that the pol
icy of the secretary OF war has been
to increase the regular army to 125. 900
men.
Mr.. Warren said there seemed to be
a feeling of resentment toward every
proposal to increase the army, and
since the speech of the senator from
Maine there had been widespread COM
ment on the extravaganza of appro-
priations for that branch of the serv-
ice Now, he said, the navy bill was
before the senate with provisions for
an increase in the enlisted force which
it was proposed to pass in minute
THAT is because we keep adding
ships" suggested Mr.. Hale.
But the army is enlarged because
we keep adding countries" retorted
Mr.. Warren.
we have not added any lately,
thank Cod" replied the senator from
Maine.
Opposes 6attleships
Mr.. Hale added that he did not have
the army so much i'm mind as he had
the navy when he spoke against an
increased military establishment. He
said he was then preparing to oppose
four new battleships, 'and, so far as
that goes, 1 accomplished my object,
! he added.
Mr.. Warren had read at the desk a
statement by Secretary Taft disclaim
| ing that he was authority for the
| newspaper statement that he had
| plan for a standing army of $4,000,
and letter from General Bell, chief of
staff. declaring he never heard OF
such thing and never thought of
! doubling the army
Mr.. Foraker interposed to have the
speech of Secretary Taft delivered at
| Columbus, Ohio. April 8, 1908, concern
ing enlargement of the army, printed
in the record and a part of 1t read
from the vice presidents desk.
Senator Warren, with some feeling
said it looked to him that in order to
get four, eight or ten battleships for
the navy the water must be black
ened around the army and public at
tention turned from it," He said when
another bill is brought in it should be
"one we know something about" He
did not think the naval appropriation
bill was the proper place in which TO
provide for a regiment of men. So
far as he was concerned. he wanted to
have an addition to the signal corps of
inc dilllSB do llidl was SltdIly iittbNht
but that would be comparatively a
small matter.
Mr.. Foraker, commenting on the Co
lumbus speech of Secretary Taft, said
that speech indicated that the idea of
the secretary was to have legislation
to enable the country in the next ten
years, through the reserve forces. as
we'll as the regular army, to have 250, =
600 men under arms.
Before taking up the sections relat-
ing to battleships the bill was laid
aside until tomorrow.
Bills Passed
BY the provisions of bill passed by
the house today the act of April 80
1906 regulating shipping between the
United States and the Philippine archi-
pelago is repealed. This action has
the effect of removing the inhibition
against foreign bottoms engaged il
trade between the Philippines and thC
United States.
by an overwhelming majority thy
house refused today to suspend the
rules and pass the bill removing the re-
StriCtiOns of the general immigration
act with respect to the Importation O1
foreign white labor into Hawaii.
A bill was passed by the house under
suspension of the rules today by which
the mining laws We're amended so a S tC
permit the entry of mineral lands as
oi. lands where it has been demon
strated that oil is present.
Three years are allowed in which tC
finance an undertaking and sink th5
first well.
The house today passed the bill pro
viding for the removal of restrictions
, from part of the land of allotters of the
five civilized tribes. The persous who
will be benefited by the legislation are
those having less than one half lndial
blood. also intcrmarried white person.
and freedmen who have by previous