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4 , SENATOR’S ARGUMENT FOR GOV- > r ERNMNT ARMOR PUNT BENIAMIN F. TILLMAN. 1 —n j i South Carolina Senator la Chair- man of Naval Affaira'Committoo. lars. on a vary a»»U aootmet. with act la to b« measurad by the dellbera- aeleefed by the (overttueat sad while] trail on, aa far aa the navy nothing more than a mere probability tion with which it la committed, the awaiting -ahlpment to Indian Head. | earned, by,.the govanuaent that aomething may afterwarda fol- nnignltnde of the evili likely to reault'Upon thia ballMlc teat a group of low, of courae'hf . la.likely to exact ^ffom 4te perpetration, and the want phatea confining 348 tone, valued at for that one f-, ENEWS OLD ABGUMENTS x. A More Complete Report of the Re- 'v ■ marks of the Senior Senator Made in the Senate Before Adjournment .. for the -Holidays—Twists Have Fleeced the Nation Out of Millions of Dollars. In his recent speech in the United States Senate Senator Tillman said: “The Construction of an armor plant built and Owned by the government Is the only protection against the robbery to which the government has been compelled to submit for 20 years. In order to refresh the minds of men as to how long this fight has been in progress, as well as to en lighten them as to my own humble efforts to protect the government ask permission to insert such . . my first speech .on armor plate In 1896, In this body, as I/deem proper.’’ The speech referrM to by ' Senator Tillman is In part,as follows Mr. President, as a member of the naval committee, I have followed the investigations by wMch we sought to arrive at the facts and the true In wardness of this armor and Its cost, and I have sortie very strong opinions about it. Perhaps J am so constitut ed that lean not have any other kind of oplpfons except positive ones. - It is doubtless a fact that I sometimes at erroneous conclusions, all of ilch I am willing to acknowledge. As I understand the situation, we i- v e a monopoly in the United States rested by the government, paid for Gy the government, and yet the mbn ’’who make this armor plate and who have the monopoly in the business v paid for by the government are rob bing the government to-day unmerci fully. — In the first- place, we have a Tax/ forbidding contrasts by the* see ret ary of the navy for any vessel which shall use armor not manufactured in' this country. I agree that that is patriotic and right and Juot. We ought to manufacture everything that we con sume in this country. I am protec tionist enough to go that far. It may astonish somebody to hear me say so. but I am honestly in favor of this country manufacturing everything that It consumes. But I do say that, this government ought not to be rbb- bed by those whom U protects, and that the benefits to be derived should not go alone to the capital invested, but to the labor as well; that when : they have had a reasonable protection and get & reasonable income on the capital and reasonable wages for the skilled labor that is far enough, and when we go further by our laws we just simply provide a means by which a certain class of men who are spe cial favorites of the government be come millionaires at the expense of the taxpayers. We afe face to face with' the fact that there are two armor manufac tories In the United States—Carnegie and B.ethlehem—and that you can not get any armor from any other factory than those two, either in the country or out of the country. The evidence is clear enough, and if any body disputes it I want somebody to dispute the proposition which I now lay down, and which the senator from New Jersey [Mr. Smith] just enun ciated. that the government in mak- - Ing the original contracts with those armor manufacturers paid Enough bonus over and above the reasonable price to pay for the factories. Does anybody dispute It? Mr.JIaJtley L-WfcAa-not know. .Mr. Tillman: You do not know? Well, I will let the former secretary of the navy, Mr. Tracy, have a word jo say on that point. I ask that the ^^^.'T.etary read the part marked in testimdhy given by him before committee. The secretary read as follows: “Senator Tillman: I was absent for a few minutes, having been called out of the room unavoidably, and you may have touched upon the point; but let v rije ask on what, in making your contracts with thq Carnegles, you based your action as to price? “Ex-Secrglary Tracy: You were out. Senator. I said when I came to negotiate with Mr. Carnegie the nego tiation began with Mr. Abbott, the manager of their works; and when Mr. Carnegie came into it later I started by insisting that they should reduce the price thpt was paid to Bethlehfem. I thought that was an excessive price, and I wanted them to reduce that price. "Senator Tillman: Did you men tion as a reason why they could not reduce the price that they would be at a great expense? . “Ex-Secretary Tracy: Of course. - • “Senatdr Tillman: Which would have to be considered in undertaking . the contract?^.,..,^ »- “Ex-Secretary Trafcy: Yes “Senator Tillman: > Did tl you any estimates? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: Oh, yes; ver bally. No estimates In detail. “Senator TiHman: Can ybu recall the amount roughly, generally? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: I think It was.more than 32,000,000 that they .would-have, tft exftfi&d. . .. — “Senator Tillman-That they would have to expend over and above their existing outlay? ■ “Ex-Secretary Tracy: Yes. I will not be positive about the precise fig ure. However, Jt was a very large sum. _ r ':. • ,1 “Senator Haler They had a large alant for other purposes? * ^ Ex-Secretary Tracy: They had a ^Bge plant. ^^“Senator Tillman: I knew they had a large plant. I am trying to g«t at what ought to be the present prict of armor after the government has * practically paid for these plknts In the original contracts. That Is the . point I want to strike. “Ex-Secretary Tracy: As I stated, Mr. Carnegie said flatly. T will make no sontract unleha I can have the same terms that are accorded to Photo by American Pre X- J Association. Did they give Bethlehem, at the same prices and substantially the same quantity of armor. If you will give me that, I will found the plant; if you do not, I will not.’ “Senator Tillman: Did your ex perts, those who reported to^ you in regard to the delay in furnishing the armor and complying-with the origi nal contract of the Bethlehem com pany, ever lead you to suppose that there was any Intentional procrasti nation? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: No; not will ful. “Senator Tillman: Was It neces sary? "Ex-Secretary Tracy: Necessary in one sense. In the foundling of that plant Bethlehem sought- very largely to make its own, tpola Instead of purchasing them. Then they had made great mlstakos with their ham mer. No; lam not willing to charge Bethlehem at all with any willful de lay., The delay was very great: but I think the Senator was out when stated that one of the controlling fac tors which leduuuuuullrrrluuuuuuu tors which led mo to thlnk.it desir- wblc to found a second plant was be cause the experience of the English armor makers is that in their largest establishments they turn oat only shout 300 tons a month each, and at 300 tons a month two establishments could msnufacture arnior for only about two battleships s year the size of the Indiana. “Senator Tillman:' This Is merely a question as to your opinion, but let me ask you whether from your inti mate knowledge of the matter you have any reason to believe that those two companies are in collusion or that they at that time had an under standing with each other? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: No; not at the time of making the contract, of course. I do not want to pass upon that question. 1 have no evidence suf ficient to justify me in saying that they were in collusion. Wo were re quired to advertise for the materials “Senator Tillman: Did any other steel makers make any propositions or come to you? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: There is no one else in tho country who has plant, and- so others could not com pete. “Senator Tillman: None ekeept Carnegie and the Bethlehem com pany. “Ex-Secretary Tracy: They are the only two plants In the country that cab compete- “Senator Tillman: Are we then to-day practically forced to buy from those two or none “Ex-Secretary Tracy: We are. “Senator Hale: Unless we build a plant of our own? “Senator Tillman: Or unless there are others who would go to the ex pense those firms have gone to? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: Yes, sir that is it, unless you found another plknt. '’Senator Tillman: I just want to get the Idea of a monopoly or of a combine between those companies brought out prominently In the in vestigation. “Senator Chandler: Without ref erence to a combine, it is admitted that those tw,o companies are the only, ones now that cAn cohipete? “Senator Tillman: I.am not speak ing of the present time. —' J ' “Ex-Secretary Tracy: You do not understand me as saying that there i.s any combine. “Senator Tillman: I am trying to bring out the facts that will prove that, however. “Senator Hale: At the time when under the circumstances you have stated, you made the arrangement ■which resulted in the establishment of the second plant; was there any thing that indicated any collusion or sympathy or correspondence between the Carnegles and the Bethlehem Co. oi’ do you believe now that there was anything of the kind? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: No; there was nothing at the time. “Senator Hale: On the other hand was it not considered by you that you gould create an additional and rival establishment to the Bethlehem Co.? “Ex-Secretary Tracy: Yes, sir. I have assumed that if this government Jiad followed the practice of England and appropriated 3100,000,000, or evelC 375,000,000, tpf a building scheme, to be expended po much per. year during a series of years, the cost of our ships in every respect could have been greatly reduced, because more people would have gone into the business of furnishing the frames of ships, the plates of ships, the deck more men would have gonejptq TEe projectile business; more armor men would hard gone Into the arnior business. We could really have got up an active competition under guaranty of constant and continuous employmant Tor a series of years. Bat where you ask a man to found an «x- penalve plant, costing millions of dol- * much higher prli tract. , “Senator Hale:" That tr “Ex-Secretary Tracy now that If the present congress should authorize the building of four more battleships in Addition toXhe two being buil&thrpresent secretary of the navy cotildliegottatb a contract for armor at considerably less than the present Jirices.'’ Mr. Tillman: From the.statement made hy the secretary of the navy It Is vepy clear that when he took upon himself the responsibility of founding attempting to found a new armor plant at Carnegie's, he hoped to get competition. We have seen that the competition Is not in existence; that these peotylg are together. We have seen that after the government has paid an enormous price for the first contracts, aggregating something like twelve -bf -fourteen million dollars, In which was Included the cost of the factory or the additloaal expenditure to which they were put in order to be able to create the armor and make It, they still hold up and say, "You must now pay us just what you origt n&lly paid us. We will not reduce It.” “Why?” “We have you by the throat. We have your congress by the throat. We have men in the Sen ate and in the House who will stand by us. We prbpose to steal from this country or to take it vl et armis, by votes.” * That Is what they say In plain English. “The resolution of investigation directs your committee to inquire into the condition and character of all armor plate, bolts, and other appur tenances delivered to the government by the Carnegie Steel company and to investigate and inquire as to what amount of inferior or damaged plate, bolts, and other appurtenances had been delivered to the government by said company, and the amount of compensation which should t>« paid to the government in settlement for such damaged or inferior armor plate, bolts, and appurtenances. The committee can.go no further into this investigation without .knowing the actual ballistic resistance of groups of plates passed by a test of plates that did not really represent these groups. The company had admitted AhU charge, government tw precluded from making these tests at their expense by the settlement made January 18, 1894 (see House Execu tive Document. Fifty-third Congre page 37 and 38), they must be made at the expense of the government. Be lieving that a test ol thege plates should be made, your committee have selected the plates which, In their opinion, ought to be tested. They recommend that the money necessary for such a test be taken from any moneys heretofore appropriated for the increase of the navy under the head of ‘Armor and armament.’ They therefore recommend the adoption of the accompanying joint resolution: “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America In Congress assem bled, That the secrdUry of the nary be, and he is hereby kuthorlzed and directed to remove from the ships hereinafter mentioned the armor plates hereinafter’ mentioned, and subject said armor plates to the same ballistic tests, in every respect, as were given to the plates upon the bal listic tests of which the respective groups of armor plate containing the hereinafter mentioned plates were ac cepted. The armor plates to be test ed. with the. ships from which they are tc be removed, are as follows, to WltL "From'tfie ship Monadnock, the 9- inch belt plate. No. 10, starboard, manufacturing number 448; “From the monitor Terror, the 7- inch belt plate, No. §, starboard, man ufacturing number 678; “From the ship Oregon, the 8-inch barbette plate. No. 587; “From the ship Indiana, the 4-lnch casemate diagonal plate. No. 14, port, manufacturing_numher 233;„ — “From the ship Massachusetts; the 4-tnch casemate door, No; 379*4- “Be it further resolved, That the secretary of the navy be, and he Is hereby, authorized and directed to re move the 13-Inch belt plate KL, star board, No. X8, from the ship Mon terey, and ascertain whether said T tion i - mfcgn: a/from of provocation with -which it is done, the frauds which-ryeuri gomthittbe uw, u/ntuv WOM auuvia* Its own armor plant.' That this biH aroposea f* do*nd d about 3180,0l j, were to be accepted I once. I P . or-rejected. In three qasee, at least,] The government-had to pay ont« have found are worthy to' be calW-d ‘the plates selected by the government I rageous prices for smnkel^ crimes. The servantk df the Carnegie inspectors were retreated in this mgn- ‘ Steel company (whether ,«tplth or balliatlc plates represented 779 tons plate contains a pipe hole 4 feet long; and if such pipe hole be found, the secretary of the navy is hereby fur ther authorized nnd directed to sub ject the said plate to a ballistic test identical In every particular with that which was given to the plate upon the test of which the group contain ing the said plate G8 was accepted, and that the first shot be placed In that part of |he plate containing the pipe hole. “The secretary of the navy is fur ther requested and directed to send to the- congress a full and detailed report of the hereinbefore-directed tests as soon as may be “The members of the committee on naval affairs of the House of Repre sentatives heretofore engaged in In vestigating the armor plate frauds are hereby directed to witness, as far as possible, each of the hereinbefore- mentioned tests; and said^psts are to be made at the Indiktf tlead proving ground. “The secretary of- the najry is authorized and directed to pay from any moneys heretofore appropriated for the increase of the navy,, under the head of armor and armament, such sums as may be necessary for the carrying out of the hereinbefore- directed tests, and for placing on the ships before mentioned other armor plates. In place of the plates removed .lot tfaa, puapaae- ef beiug fceeted, o»f hereinbefore directed. Senator Tillman: ’ I will simply read a brief extract from the sum ming up of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the. House of Representa tives as to one of the armor plate fac tories. Charges were made as to frauds In the mapufacture of armor: that they were putting up shoddy, so to speak, if you, can have shoddy steel; end the comipittee of the House formulated charges and sent for the experts .and the employees without knowledge of the codiMny), to Increase' their gains, dbllberately continued for many months to comm it acts whose natural and probable consequence would be the sacrifice of the lives of our seamen in time of war, and with them, perhaps, the direct interests of the nation.” Mr. President, I came Into the Sen ate in December,; 1895, and was as signed to the naval committee at my request, and I have served on it ever since. I speak advisedly when I say that all these years since I have been a member of that Committee the United States government has been robbed unmercifully by the armor makers. I am going to ask the sec retary to read fextracts from my speech delivered In this body March 1, 1897, as it’was a continuation of the fight I began in 1896 and related to the armor frauds. They are appli cable to the situation now existing. The secretary-read as follows:,.. ‘‘Mr. Tillman: If we go back and trace the history of this armor plate manufacture we find that during Mr. Cleveland’s first term, when Secretary Whitney began what is known as the construction of the hew navy, the manufacture of armor according to the most approved methods was an unknown thing in thia country, and that there was no plant capable of performing that work. The largest steel plant in the country' at that time, I believe, was at Bethlehem, and congress wisely, perhrps (I shall not pretend to say it was not wise), entered not into a contract, but it authorized the secretary of the navy to enter into a contract fwlth' the Bethlehem iron works by which they were to construct a sufficient addi tion to their already large steel whrks to make this armor. The price fixed was away up yonder, some 3600 or 3700 per ton, and it was generally understood in the debates and in the newspapers that the enormous price was given by reason of the fact that an enormous expenditure of three, four, or live million dollars was nec essary, and the government proposed bx tMs large-price to reimburse tna Bethlehem Manufacturing company In the contract which would then be let for tts outlay. The proof is over whelming in these reports, in the testimony taxen before the naval committee in the investigation lost winter, that the plant at Bethlehem, which was constructed In addition to What they already had. haa been paid for twice over by this goveihraient ab solutely, and that they have made a present of it to the Bethlehem com pany. “In a year or two after the con tract was entered Into at Bethlehem the new secretary of the navy, Mr Tracy, finding that the delivery of armor from Bethlehem did not keep pace with the needs of the navy, or for some other reason—that was the ostensible excuse—without anthority from Congress, entered into a cop tract of his own with the Carnegie works at Pittsburgh, by wbieh they were to recaive the same price for the armor that Bethlehem was receiving and he thereby hoped, as he explain ed, to bring about competition in the price of armor, and have two plants instead of one, and thereby enable the government to obtain all the armor It might want in the construe tion of the new navy at reduced prices after a while. “Senator Tillman: Now, gentle men, those of you who do not feel so thin-skinned, who know you are hon est, who feel that you are the agent only of the people of the state which you represent, please listen “The secretary read as follows from the Congressional Record of August 23. 1894: “First. The plates did not receive the uniform treatment required by the specifications of the contracts. In many cases tire treatment wks Irreg ular, and in other cases it was practl rally inefficient.' The specifications of the contract of February 28„ 1893 required that each plate should be annealed, • oil tempered, and again annealed, thg last process being an annealing one. “Second. False reports of the treatment of the plates were syste matlcally made by the government Inspectors. This was In violation of paragraph 95 of the circular concern ing armor plate appurtenances dated January 16, 1893, which was made a part of the contract. Para graph 95 says: “ ‘The contractor shall state for each article In writing the exact treat ment It has received.’ “The specifications of the contract of November 20, . 1894, paragraph 164, says:' “ ‘A written statement of work and contractor’s tests to be commenced and In progress each day must be furnished to the chief inspector.’ “Third. No bolts received the adouble treatment provided for in the specifications of dither contract. A report of a double treatment, how ever, was iqade to the government inspectors, l “Fourth. Specimens taken from the plates both before and after treatment to ascertain the tensile strength fit each plate were stretched without the knowledge of the govern ment inspectors, so as to increase their apparent tensile strength - wnen actually tested. » “Fifth. False specimens taken ■ from other plates were substituted for the specimens selected by the gov ernment inspectors. • ‘“Sixth. The Td*stTng“macBTne was repeatedly manipulated by order of the superintendent of the armor plate mill so as to increase the apparent tensile strength of the specimens. These specimens were juggled in measurement so as to increase their apparent ductility. . , - “Seventh. Various specimens se lected by the government inspectors were retreated withou£<tbelr knowl edge before they were submitted, to R«ft' - 'Eighth. Plates selected by the ner without-their knowledge. These I of armor, valued at over 1410,000.1 The groups represented by these | three plates hod all been submitted e^ere test than re- powder eost^imr pound and ire could or acceptance. s j find out what the best armor coats "Nlhth ln violation of the spec!- per ton In the same iray. The plea flcatlona of the contract, papes or | that sound public policy requires that shrinking cavities, erroneously called private parties shall supply the gov- blowholes, in the plates w«r» pfligged erniqeht alt its munitions of war la by the cOntfactors^and the defects not tenable at all, because there la no concealed from the government In-] more certain way to encourage antair spectors. These ^cavltlea, In some] dealing and Imposition than to be at cases, diminished the resistance and f the mercy of anybody. Men are too value of the plate. x ] selfish. "Tenth. The Inspector’s stamp tris j We Bin ,pi y can not utj0TA ^ |he either duplicated or stolen, and used present straitened circumstances of without the knowledge of the govern->the treasury to permit such staling ment Inspectors. “Eleventh. The government for a long while, until It erected Its own powder plant, and that plant la a protection against any isordinaUl profits to the powder trust supplying the government all It needa. It will be the same way about armor and premium of |30 per ton If they m o B | ttoBtt t qA w# now kllow sed a more seyero te8t than re- powder oostd^er Jto go on any longer. To show It is m-1 going on now, in addition tfa the Re- - I vr AAlfy spector In inspecting bolts were de- port No. 1620, to which ceived by means of false templets or ready referred, I quote gauges. | tences from the last re ‘‘Mr. Tillman: Mr. President, those were the charges, and the testimony Is there tci show that every word of them was admitted and confessed be fore a committee of the House of Representatives, and that House, without a division—because even the. „ . . , iv Republicans over there dared notJ an “ special attention to wh; 1620, to which I have al- some sen tences from the last report pt th# secretary of the navy,. Mr. Daniels showing what difficulties he has hod and what conclusions he has reached in regard to existing conditions In the matter of.armor. Mr. President, I wish to emphasize Tace their constituents for re-election and fight the investigation—passed a resolution to have certain plates taken off the vessels of the navy and have them put through the necessary test to show the frauds and prove at the secretary says about the amount that we could have saved all these years If any armor factory had been author ized long ago. . . So. Senators, there are no two Rides to this question, no room for them. Mr. Carnegie was fined by the discussion—nothing for debate to secretary of . the navy and, by some hang on* Nothing but brazen effron- hokus-pokus, this glorious president tery and unbridled greed, aided by a of ours, who, God be thanked, goes revival of corruption In Washington, put of power In two days from now, can delay the passage of this bill, and remitted that fine. The thieves were] caught; they confessed that they had robbed the government: the House of| Representatives sent to you a resolu- I hope, as I have said already, that It will become law inside of thirty days. t once saw an appropriation made tion to have certain plates tested {q poth houses of Congress at the upon your new navy to prove the 0 p«|,| nK 0 f |) ie war( frauds which had been practiced upon 0 f $50,000,000, and It was done In- t * 1 ^°. vernn ? en , t ’ . side of two honrs. Democrats and That resolution came over here and Republicans were tumbling over one went to sleep and died without action, another In a patriotic effort to give and Mr. Carnegie sports his steam President McKinley full power. Times yacht and floats back to Scotland to I B q W are no t Ilka they were thee, but 4«wr game piemrarand Wtite* gold-1 the danger It even greater. Will sen- bug litersture to tell the American *tors rise end do their duty, or will people how they ought to behave] they haggle and discuss add waste words? Time only esn tell. themselves.” Mr. Tillman: Mr. President, we hare an armor trust now just as we have had all .along, and It la doing business at the same old stands— Bethlehem, Carnegie, Midvale. The war in Europe and the enormoa* profits made In the manufacture of munitions of war hava brought about the absorption of the Midvale com K y by the Bethlehem company, I r; and Mr. Schwab, who was Car negie’s foreman when the first fraud was exposed-by-the House committee In 1894, Is now president of and largely owns the Bethlehem Stdel company- This Is all ancient history, Mr. President, and 1 am only bring ing it forward to point the moral of this argument that I am making for an armor plant right now. Mr. President, In this connection, I desire to say that to William E. Chandler, formerly a senator from New Hampshire, credit Is dua for of- The Presiding Officer: The bill will be referred tb the Committee on Naval Affairs. David F. Houstoo, Secretary of Agriculture, In bin annaal repast to congress Indicates a number of Im portant measures a ere—ary for the betterment of ogrtculture, both on the production and marketing old—; and for tho conservation of tho re sources of tho nation. Tho— meas ures await the consideration and ac tion of the congre— and Involve: 1. Legislation designed to promote the bettor handling and storage oi farm products and the trading on tho basis of fixed grad— and standards. Including n permissive warehouse act and provision for a market now* 8. Assistance to comm uni ti the national forests in rood building I and similar Improvements through a plan Involving the advancement of | funds for the— receipts from tho for- n would proi agriculture —rvlca to obtain and disseminate fering the first resolution In the Sen-1 curate Information regarding ate to reduce the price to be paid for movements and prices, armor. Ha and I served In the Sen- 3. a land mortgage be««n«g set ate tqgether for many years, and he which shall Inject bnalne— methods is now. like myself, old and some- into the bondliag of form flnnadh 0*4 what feeble. He is not'loved In the | place'farm securities upon the South, where the older generation l ket In a responsible way. was taught to hate him, and all Southerners know him ss “Old Bill Chandler"; for he was always active and a somewhat pestiferous man in reconstruction days; and besides he nortdaTrfr HRV«L°in°1 T* 1 ” 1 " actlon Promote local “iwilSi? to Now 1 EMUnd^Md ‘oi 4 - 'f, Ir “ t „ w * t r. P °” r ability as a senator he has been tec- wlt ^U th * national foreata and to no man I have known fc| P* rtod f; 8™* authority an- \V ash Ing ton. His heart is In the right d ? l “ bt ^ ly wou,d ald waUr place, and he is only selfish like the .. .. . _ average Yankee. He Is not as quick . 6 ‘ Tb ® classification of the remain- and alert minded—although os quick l?*, pab u ic S****®* la ® da t® detonnina as lightning as John C. Spooner, t* 1 *^ charac t er an d to Infor- who added to hit alertness of mind f? a Jj.°® “po® which to bare plans for hrillancy of oratory and the greatest th ® lr * u V? r ® im Prot r ®“®nt and use. legal ability. It delights me to speak Authority for the sale of lands thus of two distinguished Republl- ft r . loc V. ® nt ® rpr I“ a , ,n S* r ' cans I have served with here, and I tai . n 1< £ al,t, ® a w 4 Ilh “ *® Alaskan for- take occasion to say also that during 0n * an< l»w my twenty years of service many of 1 on by tbe <l e P art n i ®nt, with definite my warmest friends have been on the Republican side. They were parti san, as I am and have been always,' but that did not htndpr recognition of their lovablw quatHfes and great! ability. provision against alienation of tho— chiefly valuable for wa*or power sites, for the handling of timber re source#, or for otbor'public purposes. 7. More effective control over tha production of hog cholera serlum. To Before leaving this phase oKthe a ?®® m .P 1 J® b ^ d ® < ^® subject I wish to say that the critics fJ* an ^*PJ°L vln ® tb ® wtnbllshment by of the navy department under Secre-|* b ® ^® d ®. ra 2 K^emment of a station tary Daniels have befen unusually ac-1 tes U n K all serum Intended for tive and outrageous In their work, Interstate commerce la not hesitating to even make false | out * ned * or con8 i < l e ratIon. statements. One man particularly ProyjsloiL- for a 1 well balanced active in this criticism has been his enlarged program for agricuRurgl re- immediate predecessor, Mr. George searc hi when normal conditions ore von L. Meyer. Mr. Meyer seems to restored. bq. unconscious of the fact that in in- 9. The continuance of approprla- dicting the navy, as he has, under tions for the purchase of forest lands Secretary Daniels, he, in truth, is in- in tho Appalachian and White Moun- dicting himsdff and his Republican tains until areas sufficient to be in- predecessors In the navy department, fluential in prete :ting these rdgjons The congress has appropriated are acquired. , enough money, God knows;- but it has been squandered, misappropriated, or spent unwisely. If Mr. Meyer should convict Secretary Daniels of •gross negligence—which he can not do— The report also recommends that the present unwise distribution of authority between the departments of commerce and agriculture over fur bearing animals in Alakka be corrqct- he will damn forever, In the estlma- ed, and that ce tain amendments nee* tion of right thinking men, the Re-|essary to the effective administration- publican secretaries of the navy who G f the Alaska game law be adopted, preceded him. Poor old Massachu-1 i n addition, suggestions are made for ?«“?• how unfortunate In giving I improvement in the methods of col- birth to such a man as he! The grand lectlng and publishing statistics relat- old state deserves a better opinion ing to the.tobacco crop.—Dunn's Re- -knd the, bo—ag-of the Uarnegla Co-r fpy ballistic • iirkSvn tb-lr aHmittor* at af ams»n_ _ I* * a as and. upon thoir. admitted' statements,' 1101' denied, admitted in open court, so to speak’, before the committee, tbe report was made. They confessed- ■that they had pat off fraudalent armor on the government. The com mlttee summed np is this way: ' ”If the erfinlnallty of a wrongful test were retreated with the intention of improving their ballistic resist- nnce, without the knowledge of the government inspectors. In oaa com, at least, the conclusion is almost ir resistible that tha bottom ob another plate was substituted ter tha tav half of ploea A_ll» after It had haa* than he has been giving it to the average man. I have known many noble and great men from that state; have associated on this floor with two of her greatest sons, Moar and Lodge; and I feel sorry that she should be,held up to scorn—if such a little and mean man can hold her up to scorn—by the actions of Mr. George von L. Meyer. But let me get back to the manufacture of armor plate. ' . In spite orUTIha proof brought to bear by me and others, Congre— has continued year after year under Re publican control to follow this out rageous policy fit paying special ia- tereats and pets of tha Repablicn party enormous sums out of tha pub lic treasury Now, It can only undar vlew.- '4-L.Mi-V Congressman Buchanan has at tempted to avoid arrest by claiming tbe prerogativj of Immunity frenr ar rest, but officidls,think he cas.ba - served with the warrant even la Washington. Wa fall to see whore the Congressman can bo benefiting by a postponement of his aa—. Tha beat immunity ha —& hare is aa acquit tal. .. - of tha Ford Dunted to t44.9i», i Now York World this s«a Is tho work at tho Ford U out that of three dayi* g mk r