Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — CHARGES CONSPIRACY [ARTICLE]

CHARGES CONSPIRACY

Tawney Sees Scheme for Big War Appropriation. The legislative battle over the war scare engendered by the withdrawn secret report of Secretary of War Dickinson over the inadequacy of the defenses of the United Spates, is expected to be renewed in congress. It is now an open secret that Mr. Dickinson’s note of alarm was sounded with reference to Japan. Representative Tawney, bctvever, sees among the forces that called it forth a “conspiracy” to gain a big appropriation for war equipment purposes, and thus to fill the pockets of gunmakers and other persons. “I do not.like to use the Word ‘con spiracy’ in connection with this mat ter," Mr. Tawney is alleged to have said, “but there may be interesting developments when the whole story is told.” It is said Secretary Dickinson will send to the house a revised report which will eliminate the data in the report that was designed to be “confidential.”