UNITED STATES NAVY
—4 mBATTLESHIPS. PRESIDENT'S PLAN REJECTED. BIG EXPENDITURE. tr TBl.SGßtrll—l'ltltßS ASIOCIATIOK—coriBiani. (Rec. April 17, 0.30 a.m.) New York, April 16. Tho American Houso of Representatives, by 190 votes to 79, rejected an amendment to the Naval Appropriation Bill, providing for tho construction ef four battleships this year, instead of two. Mr. Tawney,. chairman of the Naval Committee, declared that tlio United States is spending, in preparation for. a po3siblo war, more than any other nation in tho world. The House has evidently failed to be moved by Pr9-;ident Roosevelt's stirring appeal for the building of four battleships.' In Mb message to Congress President Roosevelt said: "If wo build only , two battleships a year, America must ' go backward in naval rank and relative power among the great natioiis. This would be unwise if she fronted merely one ocean; it. is doubly unwise when she fionts two." • ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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