UNITED STATES NAVY
COOLIDGE SURPRISES HOUSE AND SENATE INSISTS ON BUILDING OF SHIPS
(Australian Press Association.) (Rec. May 17, 7.15 p.m.) Washington, May 16.
President Coolidge surprised the House of Representatives and the Senate by a sudden and vigorous insistence that the Navy build ships. His chief opposition is a small group of Radicals in the Senate, who threaten to talk the Naval Bill to death. Senator Curtis, conferring with Mr. Wilbur (Secretary of the Navy), offered little, hope on the idea of holding Congress long enough to break the threatened filibuster. However, some encouragement was seen in Senator Johnson’s statement that he would lie satisfied with two days’ discussion in the Senate of a Bill which has been blocking the Naval Bill. The Assistant Secretary to the Navy, air. T. D. Robinson, talked with the leaders of both Houses, urging that the Bill should not be permitted to be talked to death.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 194, 18 May 1928, Page 9
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