Every
new Spanish parliament got the same problem how much was to spent to obtain a
new navy. According to rumours wanted the minister of navy to increase the
budget for 1906 with 10,000.000 peseta’s so the total amount would be
43,000,000. This was necessary to able to buy needed equipment and to improve
the harbours. However this increase was excluded the projected building of
fleet. The department planned to built 8 battleships, each of 14,000 tons, with
a total of 336,000,000 peseta’s building costs and another 60,000,000 peseta’s
for torpedo boats and submarines. The department advised the Cortes (Spanish
parliament) to loan 396,000,000 peseta’s and built a part of the ships on
Spanish yards which could be hired by companies. Large plans according to the
newspaper but the journalist didn’t believe that the plans were realized within
a short time regarded what the newspapers of Madrid reported dealing with a
political crises. A calm political climate in Spain was first wanted before
such large amount of money could be spend.
