Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-04
AGREED TO At DAWN
Compromises Reached on the
Naval Bill.
PRESIDENT SIGNS MEASURE
Official Reception Here in Connec-
ton With Canal Celebration.

Official Reception Here in Connec-
ton With Canal Celebration.
Containing the Swanson amendment
providing for visit to Washington. with
official ceremonies, by the representative
Of foreign governments TO the Panama
canal exposition in San Francisco in
1915. and for a naval fete al Hampton
roads in connection Herewith. the naval
appropriation bill was signed by the Pres
ident this morning.
Following its passage by the Senate
yesterday afternoon. IL was hurried t.
conference, and at 4 % clock this morning
the report of the conferees on all bul
two of the Senate amendments was pre-
sented. y complete report was presented
and agreed TO after daylight had broken
through the glass roof over the Senate
CHAMBER
The Swanson Provision.
AS the Swanson provision was passed
and became q law, il provides:
by a joint resolution OF Congress
the President of the United States has
quested by a proclamation. or in such
vite all foreign countries and nations
to attend and participate in an EXPOSE
ton at the city and county OF san
Francisco, Cal. on or about the first
day of January, 1915, TO celebrate the
completion and opening of the Pana-
ma canal, and also the four hundredth
anniversary OF the discovery OF the
Pacific ocean.
The President is further authorized
and respectfully requested. in extend
ing his invitation to the foreign ma
tfons in pursuance OF the aforesaid
joint resolution Of Congress to invite
their representatives and their fleets
to assemble at Hampton roads, Va, ana
from thence come to the city OF Wash
ington, there to be formally welcomed
by the President: and, at the conclu-
sion Of the ceremonies at Washington,
the President is requested to proceed
TO Hampton roads and there review the
assembled fleets as they start on their
--oyage to the city Of San Francisco"
Crypt for John Paul Jones.
Provision is also made in the naval ap-
preparation law signed today by the Presi-
dent for the completion of a crypt in the
chapel of the United States Naval Acad-
envy as a permanent resting place for the
body OF John Paul Jones. the first great
admiral of the American navy. The
House bill only authorized the prepare
crypt: but the Senate adopted substitute
directing the preparation Of plans and
the approval of the plans by the super
intendent of the Naval Academy and the
Secretary of the Navy. and appropriating
$4,000 for the completion and furnishing
Of the crypt in accordance with the plans.
The Senate's provision was accepted by
the conferees and therefore becomes
part Of the new law.
Titles to Lands on River Banks.
The provision for the institution of suits
to determine the title to lands along the
banks of the Anacostia river and other
waterways in the District. adopted by the
Senate, was dropped out in conference
and therefore was not enacted into law.
The House conferees refused to accept
the provision.
The building program for the navy was
enacted into law practically as the Senate
provided. the House granting the Senates
increases. The law provides for the con-
struction OF two first-class battleshps,
two fleet Golfers. eight torpedo boat de-
strovers. four submarine torpedo boats.
one submarine tender, one gunboat, one
river gunboat and two seagoing tugs.
AS agreed to in the Senate the law makes
the eight-hour law apply to the construc-
ton of the battIeships and the four sub
marine torpedo boats.
Antitrust Restriction.
The Stanley antitrust provision. which
specifies that no money is to be spent for
armor or armament purchased from a
trust, is in the law, but the clause limit
Ing the purchase price to mot in excess
Of 100 per cent above the actual cost OF
is out. That clause was
cut out on the floor of the Senate yester-
day afternoon, when Senator Owen pro-
tested that the margin Of profit was too
the clause was inserted on the floor Of
the House in spirit Of humor, and the
conferees agreed to let II stay out.
The bill became law without the Senate
provision for partial payments on con-
tracts as the work on ships progresses.
Officers on Engineering Duty.
The Senate provision, inserted while the
bill was being considered i'm the Senate.
that officers on the active list of the line
Of the navy, who perform engineering
luty on shore only. are made additional TO
the numbers in the grades in which they
are serving. is in the law. Likewise. the
provision that il an officer of the navy
fails in his physical examination for pro-
notion because OF physical disabilities
in the line of his duty. he shall
entitled him to be promoted.
rhe conferees, however. dropped out the
putting clerks to general store
keepers at navy yards and stations under
he civil service.
Transportation of Coal.
AS the bill passed, the Navy Department
still has authority to transport coal from
he Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. the
House prohibition against such procedure
,eing dropped through action in the Sem
ate.
The proposal of the Senate to increase
,y $4,000 the appropriation for the
~ geographic Office OF the Navy Depart
nent to enable it to- produce its own
maps of the harbors of the world instead
# buying maps OF foreign harbors abroad.
allied in conference.
Young Mems Christian Associations in
lavy yards and stations can get heat and
light free of charge from the federal
,lants. under a provision which the con-
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