Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-26
REPRESENTATIVE GOOD INTRO
DUCES MEASURE FOLLOWING
DEFEAT OF APPROPRIATION
ITEM IN HOUSE BILL.
NAVAL BILL CARRIES
A BIG EXPENDITURE
TWO BATTLESHIPS AND OTHER
ITEMS IN MEASURE WILL COST
$1a4,ooo,ooo; DEPEW REFERS TO
PAST HISTORY.

Washington, D. c., May 24.-(Spec,
ial. )-Representative Good of Iowa
today introduced bill calling for the
appointment of tariff commission.
The bill is designed to overcome the
obstacles which have confronted Pres.
ident Taft in his endeavor to make
the present tariff board an effective
working organization. Mr.. Goods bill
provides that the commission shall
consist Of five members to be paid
$500 year, appointed by the presl-
dent, with the consent Of the senate.
1t provides that no member of the
commission shall be interested direct
ly or indirectly in the manufacture or
sale of any articles hit by the tariff.
Appropriation is Downed.
After an extended debate, the pro-
posed $25O,000 appropriation to defray
the expenses of the tariff board, which
was recommended by the president,
was stricken from the sundry civil
appropriation bill in the house late
yesterday afternoon Mann of Illinois,
who was in the chair, sustained the
point Of order made by Fitzgerald of
New York who contended that there
is no law authorizing such appropria-
lions.
Tawney then proposed an amend.
ment appropriating $25O,000 for prac-
tically the same purpose, providing a
fund so that the president could give
congress certain information' and by
leaving out the reference to the tar
if board he hoped that the amendment
would come within the house rules.
Fitzgerald promptly made a point Of
order against it.
In the house today the proposition
to appropriate $25O,O0O to permit the
president to obtain information bear
ing on the tariff was ruled out of or
der by Representative Mann of ILL
nois, who was in the chair
The naval appropriation bill, passed
yesterday afternoon, carries an appro-
priation Of $134,000,0O0.
One of them. offered by Senator
Johnston, appropriates $450.0O0 for the
purchase of torpedo boats. whose Wit
ais are below the normal load line"
the other by Senator Jones, eliminates
railroad, country and municipal bonds
from the securities which may be de-
posted by contractors. The naval in
crease for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1911, provided by the bill, is as fol-
lows:
Two first class battleships to cost
not exceeding $6.0O0,00O each, and
when equipped with armor and arma-
ment about S12.500,O00 each.
Two fleet, Golfers to cost not ex-
ceeding S1,000,00O each.
Five submarine torpedo boats not
exceeding total cost of s2,500.000.
Six torpedo boat destroyers to cost
not exceeding s75O,000 each.
Depew Gives Historic Secrets.
The closing hour of the debate
served to elicit two important histor-
ical revelations by Senator Depew,
which were given from his own store
of information. One of them bore on
the war with Spain and the other on
the Venezuelan embroglio with Great
Britain during the second administra-
ton of Cleveland.
The statement regarding the Span
ish war was ELECTED by an assertion
by Senator Hepburn that the people
themselves did not want wars, but
were compelled by their rulers to sub
nit to them. ,...
Mr.. Depew said popular demand had
forced the war with Spain and that
President Mckinley had been opposed
to it, He said as favorable terms
could have been obtained from Spain
without as were obtained with war.
Does rot the senator believe that
except for the pressure of that time.
the president would have negotiated
Spain off the American continent?
asked Mr.. Hale. .. s.,
"I do" responded the New York
senator 81 know Spain was prepar'
ed to abandon Cuba and Porto Rico
to prevent humiliation if it could be
assured by the acceptance of the pro-
position
He said President Mckinley had not
been strong enough personally to re-
sist the popular will.
Says Salisbury Sought War.
Mr.. Depew also related some history
concerning the Venezuelan episode OF
the second Cleveland administration
AN intimate friend Of mine who al.
so was an intimate friend of Lord
salisbury, then the British prime min
ister,' he said, told me that when the
presidents message was promulgated
Lord Salisbury said to him, I believe
that on account of the rancor coming
down from the revolution and accen.
tuated by certain occurrences in me
civil war, America means to have a
war with Great Britain at some time
and believe now is the best time, when
America has no navy The view Of
the prime minister was overruled by
Queen Victoria, but if Lord Salisbury
had had tho nnWarS nnSSaSSPd by