Arizona republican., 1911-02-21
FIGHT TODAY . ON NAVAL BILL Building Program Point of
 Division THE COMMITTEE CONFIDENT Apparently Enough Votes to Prevent Curtailment in the House. Texas Repre- sentative Has Something to Say.
THE COMMITTEE CONFIDENT

washington, ID. C., Feb. 2O.-Tbe naval appropriation bin was consid- cred m the house at both tte q star- noon and night sessions today and practically all of the provisions were agreed to with the exception Inf inc new building program which will come up tomorrow and is expected 10 pre- cipitate a fight
 me bill provides for two battleships oi the super-Dreadnaught type. car rying twelve l2-inch guns; two fleet eoiiiers; eight torpedo boat destrovcrs and four submarines An attempt will be made to decrease this program but the committee believes it has enough votes tO carry il through.
 proposed repeal of the clause in last years bill that all ships let uut by contract should be un Ter the eight hour labor law. will be tough. from both s'd,s of the chamber. There also sill he a fight to have one 1f .he new ships constructed at a navy yard
 ChaIrilan FOss. of tho naval r.,in-
 nittee s@iC that of the ty, .sstar ships now under construction the one i' the Nv York navy val ls costing $6.400,O00. and the one bv private con tract s39O0,O00 Representative Fftz- gerald of New York. assertci that his vas due largely to the practice If charging overhead" costs al navy yards tO the ship under construction and he succe -c n striking from the h.ll n % point C.. order th., provision t'A' 1:h di --rr i.d indirect charges snc,'ld be irc':id, in th- c1sI af a skip
 The house adopted an amendment offered by Representative Hohson. of Al,l ema. reqS,: ihG the nq. dSpaIt- ment 10 contilC5 expert nents with tnr high eyIinsive rece rtis used agaiast the mu.3I,r Puritar and the ram Katahdin.
 1rC of the most interesting pairs" recorded in tl.. house for many years vas arranged ... cover the absence from tonights session of ths house of ., ,-es,ller Canh ,l and Champ Clark. the 2: eaker In ie. They signc.l an as.,tment to C,.set each other on any roll call on any question That :;,igl come uD.
 Tn Ire general debate of the naval appropriation ':I. ih the hy':sr. Repre- scnta;ive Morris Shepard of Texas. n.ads an ol llt:ma democrs'ic speech a;,d cid the .: '4' in al uprcar.
 MT. Shepard said the republican party was nerrr so arrogant. so in solent as at Ili" close O: the cam oai=n of 1908.
 TO, ay," he .1ri i.nued. "i little more ;.an two yers liter. the republican party is a mass of incoccrent wreck age. IL is di fI..G into t'vn warning groups. insurs. .l.s and sGan1-patters
 'To an insurgcn; a stand-patter IS a vr, table pr "A cf darkness. ty- ..nt with healt of i'm. win hand af iron :nd lip ot brass: while r!,,. m, st complimentary thing s.dnd- |. ,tfer can sav ": an insurge'it is that r.. $, 1uld be ;si..' 2s q tr,'tpc. burned a. tne stake bnd boiled in Ci., all three at once.
 @T.e only conciusion thaL the Amer ican people Irsv deduce from the whole imbroglio is that long acquain- tance and inti'. ute association quail fy sach element of the republican, nar.v to descri,e the other with en- ire sssuracy ar'. authority
 .sE;ver Roose te.;, the human s'id- lItz powder. who ior seven years hei' | his party in an undivided and resist l.s. irass, and Who. while president, | avaded the re qlor of th" ta"'f: witt | ! skii that rE se him the nobieSt stand batter of them al ceased ;o hnnt wild beas : in Afri n io hunt .tand- d-latters l.. ,he United States