Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-18
HALE TALKS HIS BILL
seRalo' Rgseats Criticisms Of Some
If The Alleged Experts.
NE BELIEVES IT FILLS THE Bill
Expresses the Opinion That If the
Bill is Enacted Into Law 1T viii
Prevent Further "MeddIins"-New
Retiring Schedule.

WASHINGTON ID. c.. Jan lift
anybody believes that any bill can be
passed that will effect more for tue.
navy, let such Il bill be produced
DO not take much stock in newspaper
reports, but it is said many of the
higher officers of the navy with the
general board ana It's attaches, incluu.
ing the officers who are more than
suspected OF having furnished the
misinformation for the magazine crit
icisms of the bureaus. are engaged i'm
n crusade the object of which is 10
dcicat the llil. | should hope that
this Will not succeed. but If the bill
does not speak for itself can add
nothing further showing its desira.
billy as 4 measure of reform for ;he
navy"
Senator Hale. chairman OF the Sen.
ate naval committee. made the
statement today in explaining the pur-
pose of the bill he mas introduced
changing conditions in the navy de.
partment and increasing the nay of
officers and men.
1t was made by the Senate's voter.
an naval expert in answer to inquiries
as to what his bill did and what had
been done about IL ut the meeting OF
| the naval committee of the Senate
on Tuesday
To Put End to "MeddIina."
THE BILL said Senator Hale. IRE.
stores the bureaus to their old posi.
! ton in tran:acting the business of the
department. These bureaus have been
nn1ustly and unreasonable assailed.
anu there has been :; deliberate pur.
| pose on the part of certain influences
to undermine them IN public conf.
dence. and in effect TO freak them
down. The bill introduced by me re.
stores them 10 their old place. ami
incidentally abolishes the system Of
interference with the government anl
management by permanent boards
which have had no existence till will.
in the last few years.
The bill does not interfere with "
boards that are created by statute ana
which have a reasonable range of
work in the business of the depart
ment, but it puts an end to meidlins
hereafter with the legitimate work of
the bureaus of the navy.
1T gives to the line what it practi.
cally always has had. and ought to
have, command In every vessel of ;he
navy department This was the con
tention of Rear Admiral Brownson,
and | believe he was clearly righ, m
THAT contention.
1T endows the stan corps of he
navy with actual and :itular ami re.
coenized rank in the same manner
which Is now granted and conceded in
the army. This is what the stan have
siriven for for many years, and tho
adoption of the provisions of the bill
VIII put at rest further controversy.
New Retirement Schedule.
1T gives to officers desiring to re.
tire from the active list and makes
way for others the conditional oppor.
tnnity after thirty years of service
and inc absolute privilege after forty
years OF service
The bin selects ssven.y-five OF tn
graduates each year and admits them
TO the lower grade Of the navy. This
OF Itself adds in every four years three
hundred officers TO the navy. do no.
Ike the feature of educating mon nj
the public expense and turning Them
over afterward to civilian life. lat that
is better than an over crowded. densa
and at most immovabie mass of Y Jung