Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-05-24
TWO GIGANTIC
BATTLESH|PS
PROVIDED
SENATE PASSES NAVAL
APPROPRIATION BILL
Measure Carries Total Of Hun
dred and Thirly-four Millions
of Dollars; Golfers and Sub
marines Included,

by Morning Journal special I.esecd wirsI
Washington, MAY 2S,-Votiug down.
"a 70 80, AN amendment offered ~
Mr. Burton to authorize onla one new
hattleship instead Of two. the senate
to-day passed the naval appropriation
hill Tho bnl calries an approptia-
tion of almost sl3i,000.o0o 1t WAS
before the senate Tor two days. the
debate neng confined almost exclu-
slvth to the battlcship question.
TWO important amendments were
auopted today. one OF them, offered
by senator Johnson. appropriates
Si9o.ooo Tor the purchase Of torpedo
boats Whose Nitals are below the nor
mai load line the other bv senator
Jones eliminates railroad county ana
municipal bonds Ir0m securities that
maA be deposited 10y contractors
THE naval increase Tor the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1911. provided
by the hlll Is as follows
Two first class battleships to cost
NOT exceeding 10000, ,000 each and
when equipped with armament, about
$l2,600,00o each
TNu fleet collicrs to cost not cN-
ceedine SlO00,000 each
Five submarine torpedo boats not
Six torpedo boat destioNeIs 10 cost
not exceeding STs0. 900 each.
The house Lin provided fer only
tour submarines ANA no torpedo boat
destroyers
The senate ALSO adopted D resolu-
ton that nut more than one OF The
hattleships should he built by the
same company
The provision inserted ia the house
ts.s4. ..ts4tl.t a. "a .t.. Ft
hrrs should he built under the eight
hour law WAS retained by the SEN
ate
The closing hour Of the debate
served % elicit Two important hiHtor-
icai revelations BY senator Deprw
which WAS given from his own store
Of Information one ct them bore on
the war with spain
The statement Regarding the span
ish war WIS elected by an assertion
Inv senator Hepburn that the people
themselves did moi want war, but
generallv were compelled by their
rulers 70 submit 70 their desires.
Taking issue with the idaho sen
ator, Mr. DcpeW said that popular
demand had forced the war with
spain on the country aud that Presi-
dent Mckinley had been opposed to
T. He said also that terms as favor
able could have been obtained from
spain without "a conflict as With war.
Does not the senator believe that
but for the pressure of that time the
president would have negotiated
spain off the American continent p"
.slSed Mr Hale.
! DO, responded The New YORK
senator "l know 81 my own knowl-
adBe that Spain WIS prepared to
tbanGOn cuba ana Porto Rico to pre-
ient humiliation II she could be as
'ured In advance OF the acceptance
IF the proposition
He said President Mckinley had
rot been % strong enough personality
o resist the popular viii
AR DepeW also related some his.
ory concerning the Venezuelan epi-
ode ol the second cleveland admin
stration
An intimate Iriend OF mine who
lao was AN intimate friend OF Lord
alisbury, then the British prime
Minister" he said told me when the
residents message was promulgated.
ord salisbury said to him, 4 believe
hat ON account OF The raneor coming
own from the revolutionary war and
rceutuated by certain occurrences IN
lie civil war. America means to have
war with Great Britain at some
nae nnd { believe now Is the best
me when America has no~ navy
'"Thc view OF the prime minister
'as oVerruled bl Queen Victoria, but
Lord salisbury had had the power
osscssed by some OF the English
rimc ministers the issue certainly
-uuld have been tried out.
Mr Hepburn expressed the opinion
iat there should he a continued In
'ease of the navy until the compile
on ul the Panama canal