The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-23
HOUSE PASSES The NAVAL BILL
ALSO THE DIPLOMATIC AND
FORTTFICATfONS BILLS.


they Authorize Expenditures Of More
Than alA2, ,OOO 100 The Na>a, Bil'
Carries All the Radical Anti.Stee'
Trust and Elght Hour Amendments.
WASHINGTON. Feb 22,--Three appro-
priation bills, authorizing expenditures In
exceee Of Si42 900, ,OoO were passed In
Jig time by tho House Of Representatives.
to-day. The measures we're the naval bill,
the diplomatic bill and the Notifications
bill Ordinarily these bills would have
consumed nine or ten legislative days
The naval bill was debated part OF
Monday. a part OF yesterday and was
put through to-day after brief de-
bate. II carries an appropriation OF
Si3s. 900 900. The Notifications bill au-
thorizes expenditures approximating So
$40, 900 and the diplomatic bill makes
available the sum Of A.O50, 900.
The naval bill IA il passed to-day carries
all the radical anti-steel trust and eight
hour amendments injected into 1t yea
terday. Only one effort was made to
amend the measure to-day. This was
when Representative PadGett OF Ten
nessee moved to recoinmit tho bill TO the
committee with instructions to report
il back with provision for one battleship
instead Of two. This motion was beaten
on record vote. 1872 to 1877. The House
thus went on record in favor OF two bat
'ts"'pr NJ P'"poS." Wv '"0 ~
mttoe
The naval bill goes to the Senate loaded
with sma,d,ponta which in tho ordinary
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the higher BODY.
What will he the action Of the House
when the hill il returned to /, minus
49,, ,,;.,ai So, o,I .i,,, hour
ri,
s'h"hi''eH'' teh'a'iS " W. sc" '",''
may br a dot-rminsd tiRht over fhlS
proposition which ia bound 10 complicate
rho i,uisla,i,.e situation in the closing
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IN" 'ortif'a'!ois piu' whict was re-
ported by Representative Walter l. Smith,
u-oyoled very little debate. The appro-
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ns tho enlnrc.d commcrri,j -elaiions 10
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no,art,r.n, ~, S,ate yhi,.h ms bse, ,,,-
,,rny.d hv Cnnyra.s and nv In. raonl.
~ largo io smeriranize th. entir. cnn.
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A ,,ro,;sion i, tho hin a,pro,r;,,;,
Z, ;o,, as The con,r,hution 81 Tho I'nitnI
State ,o assis, tho Jnternat,onal Co
ded,ic ,ssoc;a,;on IN il. work nj MEAS.
uriny tho earth licked nm somc discus-
s,nn Rerrcsen,at,y. Macon wanted to
IA. informed how long il would tnLe to
meas,lr. IN" earth
Reprcsentat,ye Foster of Vcrmont
in charge of the bin. confessed that he
did no; know
~ viii take a thousand years re
markcd Repre.entatiy. Palmer of Penn
syIynnia
'"Or as long as It took to discover the
North Pole perhaps." suggested Repre-
sentative Mann OF Illinois
Representative Macon asked Repre
sentative Foster how long the Int erna
tional Geodet.c association had been on
TN. lob
We have been contributing to this
great scientific work for twenty wears I"
r.plied Mr. Foster.
DO you know how much of the earth
has been measured in that time ASKED