The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-03
PRESIDENT PLACES BATTlESHIp
SQUADRON AT SERVICES OF
STRICKEN PEOPLE.
TWO SUPPLY BOATS SENT
gress Tomorrow Urging That it Ap.
propriate 10000 for the Relief Of
Sufferers in SiciIy-Other Contribu-
tions Are Growing Daily.

Washington, Jan. Preside mt
Roosevelt tonlgnt announced that he
has sent two supply ships with $780,
600 worth OF supplies ~ Italy, that
he will ask congress for additional
aid and that he has offered the use
OF the batteship fleet to Italy.
The announ. ement is made in "A tel
esram made public at the White
House, which the president sent to
Patrick +. McGowan, chairman of the
Italian general relief committee. New
York city. The te.egrdm follows:
Il earnestly wish success to the
American Italian general relief COM
mittee in its great mass meeting at
Madison Square garden. 1t ia, of
course, not possible for me to at
tend in person. / am doing everything
that can be done to get aid to the
sufferers, and on account Of the ex-
tremc urgency OF the case have sent
two supply ships with 100000 worth
of food and provisions without wait
ing for the authority of congress, be-
ing confident that congress Will ap-
prove my action. ! shall also ask
congress for additional aid and
throughout the coming week win keep
in the closest touch with congress and
through the state department with
Italy so that everything possible to
be done by the United States may be
done.
Furthermore, / have cabled the
Italian government proffering the ser.
vices of any or all of the battleship
fleet IL such can be of use In this
crisis Signed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Congress viii. on Monday next, ap-
100000 for the relief of the
sufferers in Italy. Both houses will
receive special message from the
president recommending the granting
Of this sum. Then the two bodies will
vie with each other in the speedy pas
sage of the relief message. The sum
to be appropriated will cover the val
lie of the supplies already forwarded
to the sufferers on the order of the
president. The appropriation will be
greater by far than ever made in the
past for similar purposes; the largest
grant heretofore made was mat or
fZ0O,ocb 10 Martinique.
Naval Stores.
The president has not yet begun to
,rame his message, but 1t is under
stood that it will be short and win
recommend that congress authorize the
lse of any naval stores aboard the
leet, on the Culgoa or in the New
ork and other navy yards, and in the
laval stations that may be needed In
tally.
Meanwhile, the American Rcd Cross |
ociety is continuing to send money |
or the sufferers relief and 100000 |
vent forward to Italy today. Fifteen |
housand dollars additional came from
he New York society today, while
he California organization announces
is sending $4,000.
Thanks Expressed.
Thanks for American generosity is
expressed in a telegram received by
he president today from President
1assiglia of the italian committee at
lew York city.
Mr. Griscom today cabled that no
ames of American citizens killed or
njured by the earthquake had yet
cached him.
Ambassador Griscom at Rome Is do
lg what he can to help the situation.
le has notified the department that
everal persons attached to the Amer
AN service in Italy left today from
aples for Messina to assist In relief
ork and to report on the conditions
American citizens who may be In
lie danger zone. They include Bay
I'd Cutting, Jr., the consul ut Milan;
lajor j. +. r. Lundis the military
ttache at Rome, and Winthrop I
hanler, a private citz and a.
rother of former Lieutenant Cover
or Chanler of New York Is