Show TAFT IS WORKING FOR APPROPRIATION r Secretary of War Wal Goes to Rescue of Pacific Coast Fortifications Washington Match Mat 30 This Is th the tho tIme of oC our trouble and and wo o mu t ha have adequate appropriations I for tor defenses de do- I 7 c This i is tho the way Secretary Tuft Tuft be began began began be- be gan his campaign Ji tocla today before tho the members of or the military committee going go go- ing lug personally to th I of oC the appropriations ap ap- ap for fortifications which oro vero cut from to abo about t S- S h hy by tho house This boll body contented contented contented con con- tented lf with le leaving leaving- in tho the war department U only the Amount of mono money which which which-is Is needed d for Manila Ila S bay Lay and aad tho Hawaiian islands lh There Thero ro ai ate ule however thirty coat coast t defense defenso stations and while most of ot these SO are fairly ell A provided r e l with armament the board mapped out ut a R perfect Program of- of of defense n c and andI 1 un I I PHi Her T 1 4 S j 11 J i f 1 L ri r r- r f y it l' l Sr Ii l I 1 I co TAFT IS WORKING FOR APPROPRIATION Continued t from om Price Page One i it t was on this report that the appropriations appropriations appropriations were wanted The money that haa has been allowed by bt t the thc house will provide seven of ot t the new and powerful tw twelve mob Rims guns uns for tor Manila and the Islands In Manila bay It was as also agreed to al allow allow at- at l low ow the two Installments of or guns at Manila and two more at nt Honolulu The Pacific coast how however ver would have to todo do o without twelve Inch guns cuns and depond depend depend de de- de- de pend pond on on C ten-Inch ten calibres which are very powerful but arc arcs not up to the modern Idea of or coast Besides twelve Inch guns the war department experts declare that they must have plenty of or sixty-inch sixty searchlights and especially at Puget 80 sound nd where proper prop prop- er cr mining 1 is difficult on of tho rapidity of or the curr current nt The hoJ s of Admiral Evanss Evans's ships contain some Inch sixty lights which will be taken to Pug Jt sound o but these are not enough and that place was pro pro-j vided for Cor purely b by reason of special demands made by senators and representatives representatives ol ol- the state of or Washington |