The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-02
BENDING EVERY EFFORT TO CLEAN UP CALENDAR BEFORE
 TIME TO ADJOURN.
COMPROMISE ON NAVAL BILL
Conference Committees Spend Most of the Day on Bills That Had Been mended-senate Passes Amend. ment to the Federal Reserve Act

Washington March l--l}oth houses of congress worked until late tonight, administration leaders straining every resource to expedite legis aton that must be enacted before adjournment Thursday nooU
 Rural credit leglslation as an amendment to the agricultural appro- priation bill. held the house in session far into the night The senate after devoting a second day to appropria- ton tang.es in the eleven million dol. lar Indian supply bill, laid it aside this evening for an executive session and to take up general calendar bills
 A compromise on the naval build ing program was one of the impor- tant developments of the day, con- ferees on this much-discussed meas gre agreeing to two submarines
 the sea going type and sixteen
 defense submarines. Tie house provided for but one sea-going
 marine and eleven of the coas, \ fense type. N
 House conferees yielded to the SC ate demand for the sixteen coast G fense vessls but would not accept ths senate proposal for five Of the ocean,
 going type. Neither would the house conferees agree to the senate pro,
 posal for new hospital ship and a new gunboat. these being eliminated
 from the report. The provision for
 two battleships were unchanged.
 Tomorrow the conference commit ] tee will meet 10 further consider sec.
 tons of the bill relating 10 abolition
 of the pucking board and establish ment of an advisory board on aero- nautics
 Leaders of both houses continued
 their efforts on conference reports on unfinished appropriation bills through out the day and evening and it was generally agreed that the big suppy | measures were as far advanced as they usually are in the strenuous clos ing days of a congress.
 Although the army, naval agricul- tural and postoffice measures still are in conference it is expected they all would be reported tomorrow and woud be in plenty of time for ap- proval by both houses.
 Conference reports on the District of Columbia, military academy and sundry civil bills finally were ap- proved during the day. Measures ap- proved and sont to the president up 10 tonight aggregate an outlay of l $3l4,411 .223.6t The nine other bills. excluding the S3S LOGO river and harbor bill as passed by the senate. aegregate $674,029,120 A,led to this in all probability will be a joint reso- lution appropriating a lump sum of $25,00000 00o 10 $30,o00,000 to continue existing river and harbor projects Senators Burton and Kenyon sub- mitted to the commerce committee to- day list of items in the river and | harbor bill which they wanted cut out aggregating st3O00, GOO. This would
 reduce the bill to s25,00O,000 but ad- ministration leaders believe that even such a bill would provoke prolonged
 debate and practically have decided
 to offer a blanket resolution 10 pro. | vide for existing projects.
 Army engineers have estimated
 that $30,000,G00 would be required for | this.
 Action of house republicans today
 in filibustering against consideration ! of the conference reports on the gov- | eInment ship purchase bill prevented action on that measure Another ef-
 fort to get the report approved may | be made tomorrow.
 The senate toiled on the calendar
 for two hours and half and at mid night had passed 77 bills, the major ity of them being private relief meas
 ures or of purely local interest. l Consideration of the Indian appro- priation bill was then resumed under an agreement thata no other business | should come before the senate and
 that a recess should be taken at 1:30 a. m until II o'clock tomorrow.
 Among the bills passed was a meas ure extending the thanks Of congress to Colonel Goethals and other officers of the army and navy who have par tlcipated in the construction of the Panama canal The senate amended