Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1914 — $139,560,334 TO ENLARGE THE U. S. NAVY [ARTICLE]

$139,560,334 TO ENLARGE THE U. S. NAVY

Program Includes Two Battleships and Fourteen Other Vessels—- “ Little Navy” Men Defeated. Washington, May 7.—The annual naval appropriation bill, carrying $139,560,334 and providing for the entire administration construction plan, was passed by the house today without a roll call. The building program includes two battleships, one to be built at some governmewc navy yard; six torpedo boat destroyers, one sea-going torpedo boat, three coast defense submarine torpedo boat®, to be constructed on the Pacific coast, and four submarines.

The “little navy” men made their final stand agtainst two battleships, on a motion to send the bill back to the committee, -which was defeated 201 to 106. . Democratic Leader Underwood, Republican Leader Mann, and other prominent figures in the house supported the motion. The senate has passed a bin to erect a $25,000 memorial in Washington to John Frisson, builder and constructor of the Monitor of civil war renown. .