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'C|V|C RIGHTEOUSNESS
0F REPUBLICAN, PARTY
John Sharp W|I|Isms Delivers witty
Speechs on Subject IN House
Of Representatives.
GETTING AWAY POWERS Of NAVY
Said to Have convuIsed House in His
Reference to the Different Kinds OF
Heroes There Are in the Army and
Navy = Rescnts slur on His Abin,y
AS story Teller.
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WASHINGTON. d. g.. April III -
Just before the passage in the iiouac
today OF the naval appropriation bill.
Representative John Sharp Williams
cot the floor and delivered one of the
wittiest speeches ever heard III that
chamber. He socm,d a, his best ana
Awaiting himself OF the 20 minutes
allowed for discussing point OF Or
der, Mi Williams said II WAS never
out of place To read lessons upon civic
righteousness To the Republican PARTY.
lie ihrn proceeded to declare that
wood pulp ana print paper were germ
anc TO the bill because 1t was of the
very highest necessity TO the main
,enanco OF the navy To spread incl
llsencc among The people so that tic,
might know how much OF n navy was
necessary for national defensc. sif.
Williams proceeded to discuss the
naval bill. He traced the history Of
naval construction of the world be-
ginning with battles In canoes. and
declared that from that day to this
the genius of mankind in warfare. IN
tho mannge ment Of ships, has been
directed 10 getting away from one
pnother when they were iieeing. or OF
catching one another when they were
DESTROYS OF nghting."
He convulscd the House when ,.c
said that tho question was whether
an American navy in the present day
can ret away from an enemy as r-Ii.
| idly as one could In the distant day
to which lie had been referring, "
whether the American navy today
could get at an enemy as effectively
as in those remote periods.
aiF. Williams depicted the hcroes
of war. and SAID that when human
science and progress had advance ii the
civilization of the world and then had
degraded II by teaching il more ci.
fcctiyc ways of killing one another
cannon loaded with vile saltpeter anJ
with bullets were put upon The deck,
of the ships and fired broadcast nj
one another, regardless OF women 10
he made widows and children TO be
made orphans. while man. dressed In
a little brief authority. most ignorant
OF what lie was proud, was seeking
the haublc reputation in the cannon'S
mouth"
Wakes Sarcastic.
He spoke of ships being at one time
built OF iron aud said It would have
been foolish to have built TOO much OF
n navy plated with railroad iron for
fear an Improvement might soon
make the ships obsolete. Therefore,
Our wise ancestors built only n few
of them, about two at time. so they
could keep up with new types as neg
types arose.
Mr.. Hobson interrupted with The
inquiry whether in fill consideration
OF all the history of naval architecture.
the gentleman from Mississippi I'm
ally finds himself ON the side OF the
Merrimac or the Monitor"
Mr.. Williams replied rat i tilt,
cheese box OF raft had won 4 g.cat
battle and thai &c more the lesson
was taught of not making oppropria
ton for too many hatticships at the
same time"
He was. he said, soloMn!y detiarin.;
nl'n his constitutional possibility,
his idea OF what was good for The Am
erican navy.
Mr.. Williams declared that if III
berus should hear that America had
constructed some OF those 10000 tots
ships "Tiberius would construct some
of $4,000 tons and then the United
States would have to construct some
of the same kind. War lords must
keep the ground of equality with one
another.
when Ships begin to sail through
the air it will not be long before VIC
are equipping, perhaps armoring and
offering and manning, dirigible bal
looms for the purpose of destroying -
no not to destroy anything nor for
making wer ut ali-.but for the people
prefering peace, filling the mindss
OF the world with the idea thar il is
the ardent desire of the American
people TO so armed in order that theg