Arizona republican., 1913-12-07
Hensley Resolution Favor ing Plan of Churchill, the First Lord of British Ad- miralty, to Be Voted on Monday
BUILD NO WAR
 SHIPS FOR YEAR
Few Voices Raised Against Resolution in Favor of Peace and Less Arma- ments- Some Say Plan is Chimerical
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! WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-With only one or two voices raised against the
 Hensley naval holiday resolution, i which would authorize the president to accept the suggestion of Winston i Churchill for the abandonment of naval ] construction for one year, debate on the 1 resolution was brought to a close to- | day in the house The vote will be taken on Monday. Most of the speak CTS favored the adoption of the resolu- l ton because, 'warships belong to a past era"
 Resolutions do not bring peace" said Representative Rulings The peace societies will not stop war. Dis armament is a chimera that will only become real after peace is established. 1 The Hague tribunal has broken down 1 because it lacks power. We will have war until the day comes when inven- l tiOns make war impossible. Until that day arrives when the nations perceive that war no longer pays we should be ready in case of assault to curl up like a porcupine bristling at every point and impregnable to at tack"
 Representative Mann of Illinois in supporting the resolution declared it not to be the discredit of any in dividual to offer a proposition that spoke for peace nor to the discredit of any committee to propose such plans regardless of whether it should succeed or fail Representatives
 Heflin of Alabama and SIayden of Texas also endorsed it.
 Congress will shortly have an op-
 portunity to digest some suggestions
 made in accordance with it's command
 for d reduction of government eX-
 pense by adoption of standard sys-
 tenn for public buildings.
 The treasury officials have been at work for several months on pre- liminary report to the public com
 mittee authorized by congress and composed of the secretary of the
 treasury, the postmaster general, the attorney general and two members
 of the senate and house committees in charge of public buildings. The committee was created to work out and approve some system by which a standard could be formed for public buildings so that cities of a certain size should get prescribed size build ings. By it's adoption it is argued the necessity for drawing plans for every new building will be eliminated and the expense of upkeep of the su- pervising architects office will be l Iessened and the actual time con sumed between the authorization of d building and it's completion would be diminished greatly At present the supervising architects office is six years behind in it's work. This is due. 1t is claimed. largely to the fact that congress topped off about eighty positions in that office several years ago. This suggestion which ultimate Iy may be made to congress and which probably will meet with less favor than standardization, would put public buildings bills on somewhat the same plane as bills for improve ment of rivers and harborS. It would mean u at while congress would au-
 thOrize public building at certain places report on the amount that should be expended there would be forthcom- ing from public building commission. Congress is now appropriating be- tween twenty-five millions and forty
 millions each year for public build ! ings.