Show I 1 1 1 0 I 1 5 1 0 F 1 IT H F I 1 4 N 1 kv IL 9 I 1 1 ga I 1 A 77 I 1 not able for e t to no e wind mand for preparedness Prepared nes I 1 al 1 1 u 41 n r r f t ft 1 I 1 fk I 1 authorized ta GREAT NAVY 1 1 A t t J provided 1 14 also 1 f fo T I 1 increase and rel re I 1 1 I 1 of i tio AZ A r my ame si tj of the I 1 momentous eano economic ic tatu tea 1 that fh a t W we e r re L casid P Pa a S sId t f t 1340 n 1 L X I 1 washington march 5 the A I 1 fourth congress alch has into the anna annals Is of things that IT were ere na win I 1 b be long remembered as the cong congress 8 which responded to the ilie demand for fo national preparedness while economic statutes of pith and moment momen t have been ariff en into the ilie in law IV 0 f the land redness men measures sues by the european war air out lout top all etheil other legislation I 1 Alifi ough provision lids has been madei amadii coir or and authority has been granted by congress to more than ihan double the standing wroy of the country the metamorphosis of the united plates tates from a n commercial ti to i a fighting flohil g nation n hay has acen een wrought by all the naval 1 increases authorized the congress now expired has authorized thorl zed naval armaments destined to I 1 make uncle sm sam a eventually the peer of any nation or 0 earth in sea gea powe excepting ae perhaps grea britain in the two sessions comprising the ohp sixty fourth i correri corr congress gri W there have been authorized and appropriated for no less alin than n war croft craft nor la Is this all the first session adopted n R three year building br program the construction st of which should be undertaken prior to tuly 1 1918 ahls program grm included this 1 ali allotment bim hi of fighting ships ten battleship six battle cruisers teti tep scout cruisers crul sera 50 torpedo boat destroyers nan nine e alp ilp fleet n 6 it 58 coast submarines one experimental 1 submarine neff system stem three fuel I 1 ships one repair ship one I 1 transport abne one hospital ship two destroyer tt ten ders on one e fleeta submarine tender r two ships two gunboats gun boats R ts naval vessels appropriated for 4 by the th act h t which w h 1 ck adopted this belld millo ing program congress appropriated for four battleships four battle cruisers four scout crul cruisers sers 20 0 destro destroyers BO submarines and one ones each of these craft experimental submarine fuel ship hospital ship ammunition sh ship W and gunboat during the second session provision proy lilon was made for three battleships tle ships one battle cruiser three scout cruisers 16 1 destro destroyers y ers one de destroyer stroye r tender one submarine tender and IS 18 I 1 submarines I 1 if the sixty fifth congress adopts the three y year ear program the I 1 remainder of the units for the reorganized battle fleet will be appropriated fo for r next year staggering sums have been beed required to meet these dema demands demarias rids the naval I 1 appropriation for t the he second session ie of the expired congress alone amounting to almost a round halt half bil lion ilon dollars so great have been these expenditures that the ordinary sources of revenue are not sufficient lelent and a sp special ecial revenue measure had to be passed representative majority ledd leader and chairman of the house ways and means committee a small navy man in 16 drafting the revenue measure and pressing it ii to td pa passage asage through the houshch hou house sech charged arged full responsibility fo for r the measure to the ad advocates of preparedness pa redness I 1 increase of the army my indrea increases qs of the regular army and its reorganizations under the national naldo defense act were e less striking than the naval increases but the regular army was increased from an authorized peace strength of wan to an authorized I 1 I 1 peace 0 strength of capable of expansion in war time to after prolonged agitation for preparedness b othon othi ori land and sea the consensus I 1 of the military experts wag was that the united states with its enormous enor length of coast line must rely on its fleet to defend its shores I 1 I 1 in the discus discussions Mons that preparedness agitation in congress provoked it t was wais again and again demonstrated i that t the he temper of the american 1 people isab Is absolutely sol against a big standing ng dard army J former secretary Garr garrison lson formal formulated abed and I 1 laid tid before congress with president Wll sons approval a scheme for p a continental army to be recruited and n nd trained inder the universal military training tr principle representative hay of virginia then chairman odthe of the powerful house bouse military committee opposed them the continental army idea and substituted for it in the national dd of bense act the of the national I 1 I 1 guard sir mr hay hn y won president 9 t wilson over 0 er to his ways wa of thinking the Federa federalizes lizea national guard became the second line of the land defenses antl anu secretary garrison resigned from wa cabinet I 1 other notable acts albl although ugh preparedness was the keynote of legislation the sixty fou fourth rth congress fou nd time also to enact a ship purchase bill the adamson el eight hour railroad law ft a child ell ild labor law a measure to forbid the immigration of illiterate aliens a ural cural r credits bill a vocational educational bill and an act reorganizing reorganising ig the government of porto rico and citizenship to the islander 9 the ship purchase bill established shipping board to su BU government a matters generally getie rally it appropriated to be e obtained from the sale bale of panama ca canal nal bonds bon 4 for t the he purchase or construction 1 I 1 of shipston ship sto iob be 0 teamed to private 1 l td vi duals in a an a effort to restora ad ehg american merchant marine f the adamson n eight hour railroad law was was enacted an buoye 1 ab 4 I 1 adl f 4 d Joun ment 0 the first oes session at 0 I 1 0 of f tj ti ohp last congress the enact roa I 1 OP of the measure prevented Z jf nation wye railroad 4 I 1 ita A however I 1 1 huab has bev biever r bt q elective y between I 1 1 tte ame time 0 its enactment and t ib 0 for th mence 11 11 it s 1 operation jacq at the to conita gil of tb e maaste a was waa challenged ledged ath 11 ra lir an h lo 10 I 1 matter henoll 99 la in 1 the Supreme I 1 court couff I 1 v supplemental railroad ae 91 a I 1 proposed liv president yori innala XI P 1 annual message last december 1 f foiled lit I 1 L I ok L ena enactment this legislation wout would hay hale provided p 1 for dal strates by legislation it was by all of i the liddles bodies labor which had previously sought the eight hour railroad law r L I 1 child laboring labor Lab orind and ynie he child labor law barred from in fe all products of children under sixteen years of agean age in mines or of in factories i the passage of the immigration bill with I 1 its ts literacy test was accomplished over president dent acrond yeto the literacy feature had been a subject of controversy between the executive and legislative branche branchesi sj of bf the i i I 1 government go v er n m ent for farahe the past twenty years presidents apts taft tand and cleveland both vetoed immigration measures ma 3 ures because because they carried the literacy feature which I 1 all theet presidents though was not a proper measure of the fitness of bullens I 1 for fo r to ae the ignited 9 tied states I 1 the federal farm arm loan act commonly called the rural cred credits lg bill 1 l created 12 10 federal land banks with alt XI capital capital each the bill provides a system whereby loans s m may h y be jn ihde to farmers for brodu productive alv e purposed se through national farm joa loan a asio associations acta I 1 it will meet more particularly the needs aoa oti ta agriculturists lathe in the west ivet ind and I 1 abul ou ahw 1 I 1 I 1 under the y vocational act the fede federal J gb government on ii a ga gradually oi u 11 F increasing sai c every ra state a ae appropriation dollar for dollar for secondary school instruction in fill agriculture and the mechanical and industrial arts online eve ae of adjournment congress passed the ahe post office appropriation bill with an amendment making bone dry all states having prohibitory laws law J this measure was introduced in the cenate senate by senator reed of missouri its unexpected enactment had the effect of absolutely prohibiting the shipment in interstate commerce of intoci cants into states or territories 1 which forbid corbid the manufacture or sale 0 of liquor M closes seb we the malls mails 0 to o all alf liquor advertising including newspaper jad veril sIng neither can letters soliciting gol it liquor orders be carried in the e malls I 1 sixteen senators retire I 1 sixteen senators sen acors haven have now discarded their togas and prefixed their titles with ex this disturbance of personnel reduces but does not upset the democratic control of the upper houm bouse the democratic majority of 16 Is ca t to 12 leaving out of consideration such senators and senators elect as la follette hiram johnson poindexter find and norris officially cialli classed as republicans but not always voting according coMing ac to classification among the nationally known senators tors now retired to private life are clarence D dark clark of wyoming who has ser served vedin in the senate conten continuously husli since january 23 1895 moses E chalip of minnesota one of the original pro gresslee gres I 1 luke lea of tennessee no now w only thirty seven years old known as I 1 the baby senator james B E martine of new jersey who acquired fame early in his senatorial carterby care career erby by hla his stanch defense of applejack as a beverage beve bete e and john W kern of indiana who has been Demo democratic cralle leader of the senate needing no introduction among jhb new senators are hiram johnson of a I 1 california fr frank aak B D kellogg kellog g trust buster of minnesota and philander C knox knor of pennsylvania unlike the rest of the senators elect their reau are made till all they need todo to do Is to live up to lem cm I 1 |