| Show I APPEAL IN BEHALF OF STRICKEN ITALY In Special Message President Asks Congress to Appropriate ate Half Million Dollars PROM T ACTION IS nf TEN EN Resolutions Introduced in Senate And House in Compliance With Request ot Orders Supply Ships and to 10 S Scene ot or Washington Jan In a to today todar naked for Q a appropriation of a half halfa a million dollars for the relief lIet or of the stricken people In the earthquake zone one Italy This Ia tile mOlt macat generous fund ever by the mneri can call people polle for tor of sufferers ulf In other lands landI and It to the dispatch or of the supply ships 1 Celtic Celli from Nw New York and the Culgoa from lort Said for lna fe with their big or of In Intended Intended tended for the II heat t dIvert ted td to the immediate uso or of the Italian victims It also supplements time tile pro pre president proffer of services ot of tile the en entire n tire fleet ot of 26 whose net uee In whole or In part lung od ed only on the grateful acceptance or ot of the he ItalIAn government The message wu was brief and Ind plane plan had hadI I been mild for tor UI the Immediate enact rant into luto aw ot of tta it TI The m follow The eat of the III is all ac follows tollow To th tIre and JOUle house ot of taU he caJa calamIty which bu be befallen the people ot or Italy I Ii tui tol tollow low lowd b by and bout a wide region among many IRan wh have luave with life liCe but bt whose whon and food I and Ad means ot of living are destroyed tb o ordinary for tor supplying the Uta wants or of I communitIes is and an exceptional mer emer merene goncy ene I which that the ot of h shah 11 regard of national 1111 Sues The d ot of 10 Li Italy t the friend nl 11 bel between slid our I oars It the their laird 1 1 I I felt alt ly by great n 0 at pond p Meri calm who at N S Italy tal lbs with wI GIa Quit has as us UI I IC our safety Cly all 11 C these should bt lId Prompt UI to Sad I O N OI I Privet t I I Ihli In IC the th de by bt set Ie e fit 1 I or of the Ule Red h l qt at u 1 h v vJ I I J ordered tir th government supply hipe aIth saud to time the ene lie or Of the disaster he upon the nu au t I now from Cron you they will be 00 aWe able to dispense O food tood clothing and other supplies with the they are to so the value of about The 1 ItC hu has already ady sailed And the I Is at Port StIlt Night BIght v vessels or of U the returning battleship fleet aro am at ai meedy under minUet for Italian Hallan and that government s has been n asked it If their services caum be made useful J 1 that the Congress a ap approve o prove the application ot of supplies above Indicated and further appropriate the sum sole of to be applied to the work of oC relief relict at the discretion or of the exec executive and with the tho consent ot of to the Ital ItalIan tan Ian government 1 suggest that the law faw follow the form fonn or of that 1 1 after tho Mount Pelee dl disaster In loot 19 The House Jan 4 1909 1901 FOR Resolutions were Introduced today In Inthe inthe the senate and house providing tor or am It or of for tor Italian re reSet Set Het The rhe Jm provided that the money shall be used for clothing medIcines and other nOts cat cary articles and the president Is 18 au an to employ any vessels or of this the theU U S 8 navy or to ch employ suitable or vessels to carry earry rut oUt the or of this thin gov SENATE IU LUTION That to enable the president predent or of the united Stat to procure transport and distribute among the people ot of Italy HILly nd and It Islands such provisIons clothing medicines mone money and other articles lilt ac he hould deem advisable for Cor the purpose or of l and sue suc coring the who are In Irli and threatened with In con of the recent time sum lIum or of It III appropriated priMed out of oC an any moneys In Inthe tb the not otherwise ap appropriated and the action or of the president Ident In dl patching the naval to Italy with food sitU supplies Cor or the Italy suffer era em ii Ia hereby ratified ed and approved In the ot of this thle act oot t the Pf president may use any 1111 vessels II ot the Unit Statu navy RaVY and such other Ia a as he ma may In I hi discretion lUD That to ble the pre president ot of the elates to procure saud among the 1 suffering and destitute people of Italy Itah such I provisions cloth clothing ing medicine and aud other n ry IU an rid and to take such ot other step Ita as Itaho ho shill advisable for tor the piu JmJ of euIn and lN tile the who ho are In and threat sued with t the sum lIum of Is II hereby out or of any In the treasury nut not otherwise appropriated In the exo loll of tilt tide act the is Ia requested to ek ask and oh ob lain th the approval ot of the Italian ov ail hereby by to am In ploy any of oC tit the United navy and to charter and employ an any u bl or 1 |
