The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-02-21
Cannon and
CLARK PAIR
MOST REMARKABLE "PAIR" EVER
RECORDED IN HOUSE OF REP
RESENTATIvES.
Leaders Absent and Sign Agreement
on All ouestions-Naval Appro
priation Bill is Considered
at Length.

Washington, Feb. 20.-The naval
appropriation bill was considered at
great length in the house during an
afternoon and night session today, and
practically all of tae provisions of the
measure were agreed to with the ex-
ception of the new building program
which will come up tomorrow and
which is expected to precipitate a
lively fight.
The bill provides for two battle
ships of the super r-dreadnaught type,
carrying twelve fourteenth inch guns;
two fleet colliers; eight torpedo boat
destroyers and four submarines. An
attempt will be made both to decrease
and increase tlis program, but the
committee believes it has enough to
votes to carry it through. A proposed
repeal of the clause in last years bill
that all ships let out by contract
should be under the eight hour labor
law, will be fought from both sides
of the chamber. There will also be a
figat to have one or the new ships
constructed at a government navy
yard. Chairman Foss, of the naval
committee, stated today that of two
sister ships now under construction,
the one at the New York navy yard
lis costing $G40O,00O and the one by
private contract $3,yV0 900 Represen-
tative Fitzgerald, of New York, as
serted that this was due largely to
the practice of changing overhead"
costs at navy yards to the ship under
construction and he succeeded in
striking from the bill on point of or
der, the provision that both direct and
indirect charges should be included
in the cost of ship.
The house adopted an amendment
offered by Representative Hobson, OF
Alabama, requiring the navy depart
ment to continue experiments with the
high explosives recently used against
the monitor Puritan and the ram
Katahdin.
One of the most interesting pairs"
recorded in the house OF representa-
tives for a great many years was ar
ranged to cover the absence from to-
nights session of the house of Speak
er Cannon and Champ Clark, the
speaker to be.
They signed an agreement to Offset
each other on any rollcall on any
question that might come up.
In the general debate on the naval
appropriation bill in the house of rep
resentative Morros Shepard. of Texas
made an oldtim democratic speech.
HE described his remorks as a con-
graduation to the triumphant democ-
racy and as message of coincidence
to the republicans. He had the house
in an uproar when describing the
'standpatters" and insurgents" and
there were renewed shouts of laughter
when he referred to Colonel Roose-
welt as a human Seidlitz powder"
Mr.. Shepard declared the republic
an party was never so arrogant, so in
solent as at the close of the cam
paign of 1908.
Today" he continued, "a little
more than two years later, the repub-
lican party is mass of ineoherent
wreckage Unitey of action and har-
mcny of belief have been supplanted
| by uproar and dssension. 1t has di-
vided into two warning groups, insur-
gents and standpatters, marked by a
mutual hatred that battles measure
ment.
ITO an insurgent a standpatter is a
veritable Prince of Darkness, a votary
of oppression, tyrant with heart of
flint, with hand of iron and lip of
brass, while the most complimentary
thing a standpatter can say of an in
surgent is that he should be shot as a
traitor. burned at the stake, burned in
oil-all three at once.
"The only conclusion that the Amer
lean people may deduce from the whole
limbroglio is that long acquaintance
and intimate association qualify leach
element of the republican party to de-
scribe tie other with entire accuracy
land authority.
Even Roosevelt, the human Seidiltz
powder, who for seven years held his
party In an undivided and resistless
mass. who while president eyaded the
lrevision Of the tariff with skill rna'
made him the noblest standpatter oi
them all, ceased to hunt wild beasts in