UNITED STATES NAVY.
QUESTION OF DIVISION. *By Telegraph,.— Press Association.— Copyright. i WASHINGTON, Ist March. Congress has eliminated an amendment to the President's Message requiring that the navy should be divided for service simultaneously iv the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This proposal was strongly opposed by President^, Roosevelt, on the ground that Russian and Japanese experience had shown that the division of forces ■ meant weakness. A committee of the Senate recently urged Mr. Roosevelt to exercise his discretionary powers in order to keep-ono-half of the navy in the Pacific. As stated the other day, the arrival of tho battleship fleet on the Pacific coast was the signal for an urgent demand for increased expenditure on naval yards and dockyards on that coast. It was suspected in some quarters that one of the objects in sending the fleet round the Horn was to draw vividly to the attention of Congress the need for taking care of the ships on the western coast. President Roosevelt favours a "two ocean" standard, and would prefer to see new ships built for the Pacific rather than divide the strong fighting force the United States now nan in the Atlantic.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1909, Page 7
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