The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18
SENATE RR5UKE FOR RoQfEvELT Restores Marines to
 Battleships. cUMMINS KEEN TO DEFEND Iowa Man Has a Tit With
 Tillman. Naval BfI is Passed After Import ant A.ssaanents gre Put I.--
 Large Type of Vessels
 Favored.

W 81ttsG 9 tStAt 9Sgs Ass-&SAsS1ees"8 the action of the Senate in restoring the marine corps to the battieships in connection with the naval appropria- tio2 biiI Senator Cummins of Iowa to- day. in a vigorous defense of Presi- dent Roosevelt. declared that the pro- vision would bs accepted as q rebuke to the President.
 This statement Senator Hale resent cd, and in doing so declared that Con. gress was acting within It's well-estab- iished authority.
 Mir. Curnmins declared the action of the Senate in restoring the marine corps to the battieships would be re- garded by the people at large as an attempt to correct . mistake of the pressdsnf.
 T recognize it. and the country win recognize 1t as another assault upon Theodore Rooseveit,' declared Mir. cummins My senae of justice will not permit me to Allow this matter to pass wfthout expressing the predic. ton that the mistakes of Theodore Roosevelt win pass away from the memory Of men. I suppose he has
 
 he Is far from a it associate with the men of his tisne.'
 MT. Hale said:
 Tt has como to very hard pass. if, in It's discretion over the manage n1ent of the large concerns Of the Navy Department. department for which Congress apprnpriates one hundred and thirty odd millions, Congress cannot restore Q condition that existed for 100 years: if 1t cannot pass measure that is against an order of the President, without the action being considered as an assault upon him. T deny here. in terms. and I hope deny for the Senate. the right of any senatog to take such ground as to ar. rafgn SConarcas and to declare thMt lt | is iutended. ana shAt tt. is xise purposa the Chief ExBclktives IL ts simply the sseeushs nk ch1esasss ef sks nsttakal c6nffois which certainty it SqhAa to the control Of the President over the Navy Department With this disclaimer. l leave the Eenator.'' Senator TiIlrnan sustained MT. Hale's attitude, and in the course of his re- marks, said: Nis-s
 'PThis thing was fought out two hundred years ago. and Charles lost his head for contending for just what the Senator from Towa contends for" CammAins to TTa1man.
 "In view of the advancing years of the Senator from South Carolina" replied Mir. Cummihs, T think the President of the United States is safe, and do not fear for my own head" Senator Borah next took the floor. In opposition to the marine corps pro- vision.
 Then roll call was taken on the amendment replacing the marine corps on board vessels of the navy. The amendment was adopted by a vote of S1 to l2.
 The battleship provision was taken up and Senator Lodge made an im- passioned appeal to the Senate to re- verse its action, in reducing the size of the two battleships from the type costing ee,000.000 each to two of the type of the Utah and Florida. costing s4.6O0,000. He declared that 1t would be necessary in the future to keep powerful fleet in the Pacific.
 Senator Perkins, commenting on the bill, referred to the Presidents recent statement concerning his attitude to- ward the navy. and said he did not believe the President had wiifully vio- lated the ninth commandment of the Decalogue.
 Questions by Mir. Tillman caused Mir. Perkins to remark that he thought there was no danger of war with Japan. He insisted that that nation had no basis upon which to stand as against the United States.
 He said he believed in living up to the treaty with Japan, under which the States retain all police powers.
 An aye and nay vote on the amend ment favoring the smaller type of battIeship over the 26.000 ton vessels resulted in It's defeat by vote of 30 to 4S,
 Against the South.
 Mir. La Toilette charged there had been political distribution of the work of the navy. He thought there had been discrimination against the South. He also charged the management of the navy yards with "criminal waste and extravagance."
 Taunting Mir. TilIman with having said in speaking of naval appropria- tions If you want to have any stealing want my share" the Senator from Wisconsin declared that that was an evidence of human nature that 1t was not desirable to encourage.
 Mir. La Toilette said that no Senator who had 6 navy yard in his State should be made 6 meynber of the com mittee an navl affairs but they should be given full hearings by other Sem ators who should be on that com mittee.
 The La Toilette amendment went out on a point of order by Mir. Tillman. The Senate then passed the bill.