The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17

 OF AUTHORITY Louisiana Senator Scores Navy Department. SOUTH IS TREATED UEJUsTLY Naval Appropriation BiIl Causes Caustic Debate in Senate. Senator rillm.. Tnunts Senator Dizea of sIo.t.ns with Tryiss ts
 Ten consress Hsw to ceH-
 struet . Navy.
SOUTH Is TREATED UEJUsTLY

washington, Fe6. 1s--when the Sen ate today took up the naval appro- priation bill Senator Dixen. of Mon tana. continued his strictures against the plan. of having many yards along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts instead of three or four great naval bases. He declared that millions of dollars were annually wasted by the scatter | ing of the work through many navy yards. He particularly demanded in- formation as to the necessity for | foundry costing s250.000 for the Ports mouth yard, which precipitated> long discussion on the relative merits of the several yards for repair work. 1 Senator Tillman taunted the Senator l from Montana with being "Senator from the Rocky Mountains who has come here to tell us how to construct navy.
 Tt is," he continued, easier to sit on g mountain peak out in Montana and read magazine criticisms or the navy than to run the navy" He declared that a magazine article from which MT. Dixon read was "fun of lies"
 whether or not its full of lies.r re- piled MT. Dixon, @is just what am enJeavorlng to find out"
 MT. Dixon Satisfied. He referred to a statement in the magazine to the effect that the im- provements at the Charleston, s. C.. yard were advised against by the ex- perts but when Mr. Tfiiman said this was not the case, he expressed him self as satisfied.
 Mir. Dixon insisted that the naval committee of the Senate was composed almost entirely of Senators who have navy yards in their states. He wanted to know what would be thought of having the committee on relation of arid lands composed of Senators from the states in which lands are located. ( Mr. Hale replied that such was the case and Mr. Tillman added that a similar condition exists in the Indian and the Public Lands Committee. l. MT. DixoH was again reading from the magazine from which he had quoted when Senator Tiilman inter rupted to say that if he was going to bring undertaking into the Senate" :" the bill would be there 8 long time.
 "If this Is the only muck -raking brought into the Senate. 1t would interfere very little with the dispatch of work" retorted Mir. Dixon. Mir. Tillmani returned to the subject Of Charleston navy yard. on whose advantages he elaborated. you" he declared, pointing his fin- ger at Mir. Dixon, simply are preju- diced against the Southern yards and you want to get that out of your head"
 Mr. Dixon replied that he was a l Southern man and had no such preju dices; so far as he knew. Charleston might be tho best place for a great naval station.
 aTe I am mistaken" RSr TIliman re- piled. then beg the Senator's par, 1 don. But there are some people who think nothing Is good if 1t Is in the South. The President himself realizes this condition, and has, in his speeches appealed for different treatment of that section"
 MT. Tiiiman declared that there was ] a "clIque in the navy department. who wanted to break up the. Charleston Navy Yard"
 T am not speaking in the interest of any navy, yard" said Mir. Dixon. T am only speaking in favor of consoli- datlon.
 "If [ stood indicted in this article" :" said Senator Dixon. referring to the magazine criticism, T would answer it. 1 think it is a matter of seif-respect that the Senate. Congress. and the administration should answer these charges. which are made openly. The people of the country believe these articles, whether we do or not" | Senator McEnery. of Louisiana. de- clared that hostility in the navy de- l partment against the navy yard of Louisiana prevented any ship being sent there for repairs. They absolutely refuse" he said, ''to make improvements and repairs in that yard. and yet they send small boats from the South Atlantic coast to ! northern yards for repairs" Usurpataam of Authority. There was, he said. an usurpation
 of authority in the navy department. so that even when congress makes ap- propriations for certain yards, the de- | partment withholds the money and de- 1 clines to make estimates for future ap- lpropriatlons for them. 1 Mfr. Dixon declared. in reply to state merits made by other senators, that he ' was not filibustering against the naval bill.
 What is the fillibustering against? ?'' asked Mir. Flint. in an undertone.
 ''The Senator from Montana is not filibustering at all" replied Mir Dixon for himself. Here Is a bill carrying $13s, 900. 900 and we have had one day
 to consider it". said Mr. Dixon. Has
 1t reached such point in this Senate that a Senator has not & right to aslx
 questions about bili carrying so much money?"
 Mir. Dixon declared that Eve do not know where we are drifting" in mak-
 ing these appropriations.
 God knows he said, there ought
 to be some plan some where. to put a
 check on this geometric appropriations
 especially when we are confronted by
 a deficit of $15o. 0Oo. 900.
 Mfr. Dixon yielded the floor. and the
 consideration of the bilI was proceeded with.
 An amendment. directing a report on
 the availability of the land of the
 Jamestown Exposition Company. near
 Norfolk. Va, for a naval training sta
 tion. was stricken from the bin on a point of order.
 LOST SPRING RYE
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