Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-21
PeSSimiStic One Predicts That
Japan viii One Day Seize
GoodIy Portion Of United
States Territory,
PANAMA CANAL NO USE
IN WAR SAYS CAPTAIN
viii Either Be Incomplete When
Sad Day Comes or Other
Nation viii Beat Your Uncle
Samuel to It,

Washington, Feb 2e-The naval
appropriation bill was considered In
the house during an afternoon and
night session today and practically all
the provisions were agreed TO with
the exception OF the new building
program which will come up tomor-
row and Is expected to precipltate
fight.
The bill provides for two battle
ships OF the super -Dreadnought type
carrying twelve l4-inch guns: two
fleet GOLFERS; eight torpedo boat de-
stroyers and four submarines, An at
tempt will be made both TO decrease
and increase this program. but the
committee believes 1t has enough
votes TO carry 1t 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
Saying Japan is now hard up he
cause that government already has
financed her next war Representative
Hobson drew gloomy view OF the
unpreparedness of the United states
| for war.
Mr.. Hobson predicted that the
Panama canal would never be used
by this government IN war time be-
cause II would either not be COM
pleted or adequate means would hs
| found to prevent its use instantly
upon declaration OF war. He pie
] tured Japanese occupancy Of the
| Philippines Hawaii. Guam. Samoa.
| Aeutlan islands. Alaska, Puget Sound
and other parts or the United States
land It's possessions.
One OF the most interesting pairs
recorded In the house of representa-
| tives for many years was arranged TO
cover the absence from tonight's ses-
| sion of the house of Speaker Cannon
and Champ Clark. the speaker TO be.
They signed an agreement to Off
set one another on roll call on any
question that might come up,
In the general debate on the naval
appropriation bill Representative
Morris Sheppard Of Texas, made an
old time democratic speech and he
held the house in uproar.
| Mr.. SHEPPARD said the republican
party was never so arrogant, SO In
solent, as az the close of the cum
paign Of 1908. To-day" he continued
20 little more than two years later.
the republican party Is mass Of in
competent wreckage. IL has divided
into two warning groups, insurgents
and stad patters. ITO an insurgent
a stand patter Is vertiable prince or
darkness. votary of oppression, 0
typnnt with heart Of flint, with hand
of iron and lip Of brass; while the
most complimentary thing a stand
patter can say of an isurgent Is that
he should be shot as Il traitor burn
ed at the stake, boiled In oil--all
three at once.
"The only conclusion that the
American people may deduce from
the whole imbroglio is that long ac-
quaintance and intimate association
qualify each element of the republi-
can party to describe the other with
entire accuracy and authority
"Eeven Roosevelt the human seid-
liiz powder. VINO fer several years
held his party In an undivided ana
reslstless mass. who while president
evaded the revision Of the tariff with
a skill that made him the noblest
stand patter of them all, ceased to
hunt wild beasts in Africa to hunt
stand patters in the United States"