The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-24
# NAVAL BILL
Masses SENATE
Ill. Oue Hundred Thirty-four
,viIlions to Be Spent on
I Armament.
A NEW BATTLESHIPS
THE PROGRAMME NOW
|u,rine, Torpedo Boats and
|,srpedo Boat Destroyers
Provided for.

nsHINGT0N, May 2o--Votine
4 a 10 80, an amendment offered
Burton to authorize only one
,,ttl,ship instead of two, the sen
.S.y passed the naval appropria,
NM The bill carries an appro
4, Of almost S134,0oo,000. II
,.,Srs the senate for two days
1.hte being confined almost ex'
-,ls ID the battleship question.
important amendments were
i today. One of them, offered
s,ator Johnston, appropriates
.aO for the purchase of torpedo
ovbere vilals are below the nor
.aa liue;" the other by Senator
Eliminates railroad, county and
nal bonds from securities that
= deposited by contractors.
aayal increase for the fiscal year
June 30, 1911, provided by the
As follows:
4 arst.class battlesbips TO cost
.I,7eding s6.000,000 each and when
u with armor and armament
sl2,5O0,000 each.
feet collers to cost not exceed,
100000 each.
,ubmarine torpedo boats not ex
4 total of $2,500,000.
tupcdo-boat destroyers TO cost
needing s750,000.
house bill provided only four
|trnes and no torpcdo-boat de
q
10 Divide Up the Work.
enatc also adopted resolution
! Dt more than one Of the battle
:ssuld be built by the same com.
provision inserted in the house
|ing that the battleshIp and fleet
I j should be built under the eight,
Inv, was retained by the senate,
closing hour of the debate served
~ Two important historical reve'
81 BY Senator Dcpew which were
from his own store of informa-
0ue Of them bore on the wal
|S,aib.
estemcnt regarding the Spanish
sn elected by an assertion by
2 Heyburn that the people them
dld not want war but generally
compelled by their rulers to sub.
heir will.
ne issue with the Idaho sen
M Dcpew said that popular de
ad forced the war with Spain
country and that President Me
had been opposed to ii, He
20 that terms as favorable could
pen obtained from Spain with
hntIct as with war.
= not the senator believe that
The pressure OF that time the
al would have negotiated Spain
American contincnt?'i asked
he.
D." responded the New York
"A ! know of my own knowl
~ Spain WAS prepared to aban
~ ana Porto Rico to prevent
a'Ion if she could be assured il
9f the acceptance of the prop
Il Mckinley Not Strong.
nd President Mckinley had mol
strong enough personality tc
Rs popular will.
Npew also related some history
nhg the Venezuelan episode OF
"eand second administration.
intimate friends of mine who
. an Intimate friend of Lore
E9, tben the British prime min
ae said, "toId me when tho
TN, message was promulgated
nsoury said to him, 81 believ,
VI the rancor coming dowr
X Evolutionary war and accen
" certain occurrences in The
means TO have a war witt
ontain at some time and | be
Is The best time, when Amer
no navy
new of the prime minister wa,
py Queen Victoria, but il
Jb'sonry had had the power pos
some Of the English prime
a the issue certainly woulc
sn tried out. "
rspew used the last incident
an argument in favor of {
s,eIy sy and the authorization oil
'"'eships Of tho Dreadnough
luyouru expressed the opinion
should be continued in
iqe nnVy until the compile
hSr fanama canal.
D,mocrats voting for two bat
were Clark of Arkansa:
ol Louisiana and TayIor, Tn,
SSss,ss voting for one battleshi,
. s'GS, ", Burton. Clapp, Crawford
,,S gSiI9n, Dollivcr, Hale, l.;
s1HTS NOT vur