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Show COAST D E FOVS ES 19 BE STRENGTMEFtED By international News .Service. WASHINGTON". Dec. US. The fortifications fortifi-cations cnmmittfto of the house, a subcommittee sub-committee of tho appropriations committee, commit-tee, will have these three propositions i before It for recommendation immediately after the Christmas holidays: J'irst To provide a new type of Bix-t'-en-liK-h gun for tin roast detVime forts and for Hawaii, Panama and tlie Philippines. Philip-pines. Second To provide means by which the disappear I rip gun carriages In the coast duVnes may he altered so as to allow a greater elevation than is now possible . of ibe twelve-Inch guns. Third To rnnsdder and recommend the ways and means of pruvidinR adequate i defense aj-'ainst an attack from the land ! i side of an invading force against the J , co;tst defense forts. 1 'J'hct'o suojects have been reported on bv tin; Fpevlal hoard appointed by Secretary Sec-retary Cam son t hree weeks ajro to formulate its ideas as to how best to meet the possibility and probability of superior gunfire from an attacking fleet, i Members of the fortifications committee commit-tee are already in possession of the main points of the report, which axe as outlined out-lined above. Secretary Garrison will appear before this committee, hut It is not lifuly, considering- the confidential character of the recommendations made to him by General Wood : General Crosier, chief of the bureau of ordnance: General Weaver, chief of tlie coast artillery, and General Kingman, chief of engineers, that the suggestions sug-gestions of tho experts will b-e made public. The report of the experts was framed hy Assistant Secretary of "War llreclcnridge, who was appointed by Mr. Garrison us chairman of the special board. |