The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-22

was offered to the estimates OF the
department which recommended an
appropriation of over $4,000. 900,
which, it was stated, could not have
been expended within ten years. The
Democrats at one time procured the
adoption of an amendment permitting
the secretary of war to purchase
Republican leaders soon rallied their
members and then reversed that ac-
ton. leaving in the bill a restriction
to limited quantities"
Warning of Deficiency.
Discussing the expenditures made
for military and naval establishments
of the government, Mr.. Tawney Min
nesota). chairman of the committee on
appropriations, repeated his warning
of a deficiency made earlier in the
session. He declared that if eXpend-
itures for these purposes increased in
the next two or three years as they
had in the last two or three years, and
the revenues continued to decrease, lit
will not be two years hardly before we
will be spending 20 per cent cent of
our aggregate revenue on account of
wars we have had or wars we are
afraid at" At present, he said the rate
was 60 per cent.
Mr. Shirley (Kentucky) offered an
amendment removing the restriction
on the secretary of war to buy abroad
war materials in Limited quantities.
The amendment was lost-53 to 81.
An amendment by Mr.. DeArmond
(MissourD, to give tire secretary of
war temporary" authority to pur-
chase war supplies also was lost.
Republicans Defeated.
A further amendment by Mr.. De-
Almond to allow the secretary of war
to buy abroad war materials lin
any" quantity was adopted, despite
the efforts of Republican floor leaders
to marshal sufficient votes to defeat
it. A division showed 70 yeas to 20
nays. Tellers were demanded by Mr.
Smith Uowa), and under the recount
supporters of the amendment ran their
tally up to IS. and applauded them
selves roundly.
AS soon as the Republicans began to
pass between the tellers the other side
discovered them in what they
charged to be a bit of strategy-lag-
ging in the file march, and, as one eX-
pressed it, playing the game of AL
phonse and CASTOR to kill time and
permit the arrival on the floor of alb
sentees, for whom hurried calls had
The situation provoked a deal of
good-natured badinage from the Dem
ocrats, and general laughter. which
was Joined in by the galleries. The ar
tifice. failed, and when the chair an
nounced the adoption of the amend
ment by a vote of IS to 80, the Demo-
cratic side turned itself loose in hand
clapping and cheers.
Mr.. Hitchcock (Nebraska) offered an
amendment providing that no money
appropriated in the bill should be ex-
pended for American-made goods
when it should be established to the
satisfaction of the secretary of war
that those goods were purchasabie at
lower prices abroad, but it was lost
los to Y.
Mr.. Smith Qowa) promptly took ad-
vantage of the displayed Republican
majority, moving a substitute para
graph restoring to its original form
the provision regarding war supplies
which was amended.
Mr.. Smiths amendment was adopted
by viva voce vote, and the minority
called for a division, which resulted
Yeas, ia; nays, 81.
Mr.. SherIey demanded telIers, by
whose count the amendment was re-
affirmed-108 to SO. The bill was then
passed, unchanged by amendment