Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1909 — $29,000,000 MORE FOR NAVY [ARTICLE]

$29,000,000 MORE FOR NAVY

House Committee Cuts the Battleship Program In Half. Washington, .Taiff 12. —An Increase of the navy to the extent of $29,000,000 was agreed upon by the house committee on naval affairs. The following naval program for appropriations at this session was adopted by the committee; Two battleships of 26,000 tons displacement, $19,000,000; five torpedo boat destroyers, $4,000,000; three collers, $3,600,000; four submarines, $2.000,000; one subsurface boat, $400,000.