With feverish haste we set to work to execute the naval program of 1915 and to construct 11 great battleships. 6 battle cruisers. and other war vessels ut a cost of more than $1.000.000.000. Contracts were hurriedly let to great steel plants and other manufacturing institutions at prices 100 per cent or more in excess of those prevailing in 191516. Public officials and the press discuss the island of Yap and Japanese immigration and urge that the situation is such as to Imperatively require the expenditure of hundreds of millions to give us the greatest Navy in the world. The demand is made that we immediately appropriate $500.000.000 for the maintenance of the Navy and to carry on the program of construction for the current year. I repeat that this condition necessarily will arouse apprehensions in Japan and in other parts of the world.
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