| Show SAL APPIMPRIATIMN IL Th Ilia T Iedo letters avid Isootryrsn Washington Irch 2The naval iiproprlutlon bill as reported to the House todaycatrled a total ofJSC60S3 an Increase over last year of I376M3 and over the current e3tirmiteve of 014 S21 Gt jih For the Increase of the army the bill allows to be constructed by contract three seagoing coast line battleships designed to nay the heaviest armor and mot pomerful Ordnance dlsphl merit 100 ton with the highest practicable speed for their class tc cost exclusive 01 armament not ex ceedlng J3 000 000 each one to be named the Maine six torpedo boats and six I torpedo bOlt destroyers to cost not exceeding Si 310 000 and one gunboat tn take the place of tho U S S Mlchlgn j to Post exclusive of nnna mrnt not or 126000 to be built on the great taken OM of these ngolng otlhl Is I 10 bo built on the Pailflc coast Th contracts for the construction of all these vessels are to be made wllhli sixty days of the enactment of Ihe bill Toward the construction of four lint bar drydocki IWOOOO each Is I allowed each 10 ho not less I than 0 fee long and nlclent to meet Ilvlall m future reqUilrettlentm of the largest pill They ar 10 be Inca < lit Ivrtmollth N II Boto II A Igno Island Joe llnlld In unit Iate Island Col I agulnial ot mhon Completed not tv exceed 800 cuh At AIKIe I Ln R drydoCk Is I to be built hut in I In Its I 01 a double 141 dcd < feel no ling Iype Itivitoon aa thc om blo lolng I Ind ulngIdueltn 01 CDlllhl 11 fitting I Vessel 1 lot I 50 tun dllonLnt and 27 It dnll 01 water to coot Includlnl mooring And hurl SsOO 01 millch 52000 Ill nvrlltP this earTh ear-Th 11 I dil the appointment 01 aboard a-board o navar n1neers to determine the desirability 01 localnl < and Construct law a dr dock In the hnrhor 01 Onlve ton Tea and 10 rrl to Congress at tile next con |
