An item reported that the Dutch House of Representatives with 61 against 16 votes approved the Dresselhuys (1) amendment dealing with article 16 of the Navy budget causing a decrease with ƒ 1.000. Dresselhuys wanted in fact to achieve with this amendment that the House of Representatives would not approve the building of a mine laying submarine.(2) The minister of navy (30 did not interfere in the amendment but let the House to decide.
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1. Hendrik Coenraad Dresselhuys (31 December 1870 Culemborg, Netherlands-16 December 1926 The Hague, Netherlands) 1916-1926 member of the House of Representatives for the Vrijheidsbond (Free Liberal political party). He was active in organisations which wanted to solve problems in a peaceful manner, for example president of the Nederlandsche Anti-oorlogsraad [Dutch Anti war council] between 1914-1919.
2. On 4 November 1915 stranded the German minelayer submarine UC-8 off Terschelling, Netherlands. She was salvaged by the Dutch government and regarded the Dutch neutrality in the First World War interned, commissioned in the Dutch navy on 13 March 1917, after the war bought from Germany and sold on 26 April 1934 at Den Helder, Netherlands to be broken up. In 1920 asked the chief of the Dutch naval staff at The Hague the naval liaison officer at Berlin, Germany for more details dealing with German minelayer submarines regarded a possible project investigating the use of such submarines in Dutch territorial waters or in the Dutch East Indies. Despite the intention was the first newly built minelayer submarine not earlier realized as in 1936. The O 19 (first to be named K XIX) was laid down on 15 June 1936. The Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Vlissingen, Netherlands designed in 1929-1934 a minelayer submarine but which was never built.
3. Evert Pieter Westerveld (21 August 1873 Haarlem, Netherlands-4 August 1964 IJsselstein, Netherlands), naval officer between 1897-1915, conservative liberal politician, minister of navy between 1922-1925, who defended without success the Vlootwet (Naval Law), which was disapproved by the House of Representatives on 26 October 1923 with 50 against 49 votes.
