Show SENATE WORKING AT RECORD PACE PAGE Appropriations Bill Passes With lith Unprecedented 2 Celerity 1 t ABOVE HOUSE ESTIMATES Millions Millions' for Defense as Recommended c mended by Taft i Board k 3 Washington April G. Less G. G Less than z a ae e of r senators acting acting- for or the entire senate established a new speed record in Il the appropriation of or public mone money I today The new rate exceeded an nn authorization of ot more than a t minute the arm army appropriation bill r requiring an nn expenditure of ot about I j. j i 1000 OOOO h by the war department nest ext year being authorized In little littlemore t more than lImn an hour f f Several nev new records were ero etab- etab 41 4 lI In connection with this bill It wa reported by b the tho appropriations ii t J committee at noon and arid was ordered o-dere 0 to the calen calendar ar Instead of ot following the tho usual course and being laid over o for a number of or days or weeks however however however how how- ever the amended ell and the tho lengthy length report accompanying It Jt was as rushed to r the public printing at once i Copies Cople were sent In late In the after after- r flOo noon 1 v Senator Warren chairman of or the committee on military a NaI rs who was vas in charge or of tho the bill managed to hold the senate In session until the hc printed r. r r- r J. J bill iiii arrived c and aud as soon as It was rc- rc et cei it was Vas put on final passage c. It J went through without serious ob C It r r tion almost as fast as tho the clerk could I rca read It As It Jt pro I provides es for an I. I of moro more than fourteen millions moro more than tho ho house allowed when It pa passed tl several weeks ago it will now go to conference Tho ho fortifications bill which was reported today Is to come up for pa passage tomorrow This Tills i provides pro for tor an m expenditure of 11 III- k j Tor for new fortifications al- al l Ot every dollar ollar of which Is to t bo o spent upon the Pacific coast Jn fri Hawaii and the Philippines This Is an Increase of over the tho amount amount of the bit bill when It the tho bouso I and tills too must to nce j rho as reported today corres- corres ponds Ute roc Vou Y HU the Tatt board for tor construction construction tion ot of new nw fortifications upon the Pacific It Includes an appropriation of for tor the construction of yun iun and mortar batteries and concrete concrete con con- o. crete emplacements Instead of allowed in the house and DOp for tol sea ea coast guns suns mounts and equipments In Puget Sound Sound ns as against F only allowed by the house It Is expected that tho house will concur In tho Increases In both the army and fortifications bills after aftel registering complaints In a perfunctory 1 tOr tory manner r Tho The most Impo important items of Increase In Increase In- In crease creaso recommended cd by the senate committee are Construction o ot of mortar battery batten Current for power ver anc and lighting at sea seD ea coast fortifications Sea wall vahl at Fort Travis Tex TeL Operation and maintenance of ot fire control Insulations Sea Sea coast cannons carriages S r sights nights etc eLc Sea coast batteries In Hawaiian Ha Islands islands islands Is- Is lands Submarine mine structure In Hawaiian J Islands L I Torpedo o planters and lockers Hawaii and Philippine Islands Guns and carriages for tor same me 9 OO Ammunitions mm for tor Insular posses posses' dong Ion RI lUIJt LIt WILL lULL HILLi Who Ile- Ile 1 Greet i 1 tunic O C Over O r Or Oregon KulI Trail Washington April 6 Representative 6 Engel Bright today introduced a bill billi directing the secretary of war to have i surveys survey made of ot the Sacramento river from the mo mouth th of ot Feather river to ton view of ot Improving Improving improving im Im- Im- Im Red fled n Bluff Cal with the proving the navigation nn of at the river rl rho Tho Oregon trail the roa road cut through the wll wilderness train from St. St Louis to Puget Sound by the tile pioneers to Is-to by monuments If 1 a bill be bo marked house committee on reported by the It lt carries s an appropriation appropriation l library passes of oooo for that Purpose summer Extra Meeker lc ono of or orthe J Last ast Tai Pa- Pa Pacoma from fromi the tho trip made ma e the pioneers pioneer the city of Washington Washing coma Wash to scheme the i rouse Interest lu In ton to old ohi trail It was his idea the to mark marle national road built along a have to team H. H came with an ox the trail ot of tin du old wal Wagon n. n a replica 5 and settlers or of of the western the outfit J halt half century n o no ilo than n a moro more President r ahl his to attracted much attention ut at- at v velt t and the team before the White Whit rested reste It tenton as greeted Meeker president House The Tho private audience warmlY gave him a travelerS traveler'S and nn Inter later inspected Ins the the bill making mak- mak passed house to toda r. r 1 The for tor available ble irig ing naval at worl woric on a p arl harbor n a total The contemplates for th the The or of dock has been ue cost of the dry o Jt the thenay theS the thu 1 secretary and a into S to to 0 enter i la Is given ghen u navy y erection o Or for or the S contracts tIred needed the for ln an and the th harbor sate safe I the n l to malO mahe to |