Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-02-10
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..Why do they not put those plans
80 oneration?'' the speaker contin-
DTbey wln,' Mr.. Padgett said, as
Sam as they get authority provided in
This resolution
'D :. We shall die of old age before they
ore completed at this rate, the speak
Representative Padgett told the house
that three ships-the Oklahoma, Neva-
Ia and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS as the
threa hest in the world at the time
thew were laid down, would be complet-
Oh and put into commission during this
vear-two of them in the early sum
mer. one in the autumn.
eff any emergency should arise,
he added, "a very small resolution OF
congress carrying the necessary appro-
nriation could provide for extra ships.
Representative cannon OF ILLINOIS
created a stir by asking OF the talk of
nrenaredness was sham performance
for campaign purposes. Later he SAID
ha did not intend the remark as a
criticism of the president.
.lThe gentleman was trying to put
IN a nice way very nice criticism of
the president, but he did not get away
with IL, ioPiooShs'%NN'S -
New York said.
s.The president of the United States
ID nv president as well as your presi-
dent and II | can find out what is the
nroper thing to do, If it is necessary to
/ 40 ANYTHING, | stand ready to help him
do it.
eff we ever have another war, which
I do not believe we will, if we attend
70 our own BUSINESS Speaker Clark
said in advocating the naval academy
hill. awhat we will need more than
ANYTHING else WILDE officers. You can
oct all the volunteers you want in 30
days.
;1f the fact could be ascertained,
have not sort of doubt that at least
$4,000 men, the very flower of the
country, died the first year. of the civil
war. not by bullets but by disease,
which was absolutely unnecessary, be-
cause while the officers were good men
in a general way, they did not know
ANYTHING about sanitation or how to
take care of themselves or to show the
men how to take care of themselves.
"Even though we never have an
other war, the money spent on edu-
eating these cadets is not thrown away
Within limited curriculum they get
as fine an education as any set of men
nm the face Of the earth. In addition
TO doubling the number of these cadets,
if | had the ingenuity | would draft a
law to the effect that outside of cadets
appointed by the president, by the SEN
ators and the representatives, any boy
in the United States who had the quail
fications srould be permitted to go to
these institutions and get an education
at exact cost.
~ am in favor of making it obliga-
tory, not optional, with the secretary
of war and the secretary OF the navy.
if need be, to detail one of these Off
GERS if we have a surplus, to any school
college or university that will fur
nisb a minimum of 200 boys who will
volunteer to drill"
Representative Key Of Michigan and
REPRESENTATIVE Britten of Illinois, re-
publicans, criticised Secretary Daniels
administration of the navy. Mr.. Brit
ten declared that even while Presi
dent Wilson was seeking to arouse the
nation to the dangers surrounded 1T
the department had taken no steps to
ward speeding up construction of tht
6S naval vessels now under construc
ton. The five-year building program
urged, he said, would be a veal
program, in fact, unless such steps were
taken.
Representative Gritten, referring tt
radigram from Admiral Fletcher com
handing the Atlantic fleet, a copy OF
which he had produced :, the nava
committee earlier in the day declared
that the fleet was now short nearly l0ot
men of it's enlisted personnel. Rea1
Admiral Blue chief of the bureau OF
navigation, had told the committee thu
fleet had nearly 200 men above it's al
lowed complement in December whe1
the message was sent. The reported
shortages were in particular ratings
the admiral said. which could be file,
from lower grades im the fleet itself.