Show RINGS OF IDE THE LATE CONGRE 6 6 I 1 notable for response to the demand domand dema doma ma rid for preparedness authorized A GREAT NAVY provided alo also for increase Inc reaia and beor of army som some of tho the momentous economic statute statutes that wen were paced passed NN washington ashington march 5 the sixty fourth congress filch has passed 1 ii 11 t the annals of 11 eliat at ere will III b bv long remembered as al tle the congress which responded to the demand tor for national preparedness A hile economic statutes tatu tea of 0 pith and moment hav been written into the law qt the land preparedness measure inspire ry y the tl european wr mar out top all other although ample provision hue has been made for fortifications and anti authority haa has been granted by congress to more than double the standing army of the he country the metamorphosis of the united states stats from n commer commercial lal to a agli ting nation hue has lwi teen wrought by tho the naval anra increases authorized the tito congress now expired haa has no an theorized zed naval armaments dc distl twined ned to make uncle sam sent eventually the peer of any nation on earth in meet power excepting perhaps great rest britann la in the two tiso sension sen sex slon lons the sixty fourth congress there have been authorized and al for no lens less than war mar craft nor Is this all the first session adopted ft a three year building program the con of which should be under taken prior to july 1 1018 this program included aided this allotment 0 of fight ing ships ten battleships six ils tattle cruisers ten scout cruisers BO 50 tri boat beat destroyers nine fleet submarines 08 const submarines one experimental submarine neff system eye tiro three fuel ships one repair ship one transport ono one hospital ship two destroyer tenders one avet submarine hub marine tender two ammunition ships gunboats gun boate boats nal N al vessels appropriated for ily by act which aich adopted thil this building program congress appropriated for four battleships battleship t four battle cruis cra ers four scout cruisers 20 2 il lyet st 80 submarines and one each of nf tt tf ese pao craft erp I mental submarine alel hip ship hospital ship ammi anition ship and gunboat during the second sesmon provision was made for three bat one battle cruiser three scout IS 15 destroyers destroy erts eue destroyer di tinder under one submarine sub marino tender and IS 18 submarines if it the fifth con cresa three year pr be remainder of the unito for the reorganized battle fleet will bo for next year staggering sums have been required to meet int these dc demands mands the naval nara tiera ra I 1 appropriation or the second set se slon of the expired congress alone amounting to a round half bil uon dollars so crent great have been these expends tures turea that the ordinary sources of rev rey ebue ore are not sufficient and end a special revenue measure had find to be majority under and Oia lirman of the bouno ways and inears committee a it small navy man in drafting the revenue measure and lims sIng it to passage through the houe house charged full responsibility for the measure to the advocat al of preparedness pa redness the army increases of the ri regular gular army and its reorganizations under the na tiona niU defense act were less striking than the naval increases 1 nut but the regul regular str army WM was indrea increased froin from an authorized peace pence strength of to an author lied ired pence strength of capable of expansion in war aar time to after prolonged agitation for prepared ness both on land find sea ea the bonsen bus us of tho the military experts was that the united states with ith its enormous enon nou length of coast coat line must rely on its fleet to defend its shores in the discussions that preparedness prem prepared redness agitation in conglis provoked it was again 1 and again d that the temper of the american people Is absolutely sol a x big standing stand ormy army former secretary garrison formulated and laid before congress with mith karesh dent wilsons Wll sons approval ap provat q scheme for a continental anny to be recruited and trained under the universal military training principle 1 hay of virglnia then chairman of the powerful bouse house military committee opposed the Conti continental 1 I army idea and substituted for it la in the national defense act the be of the national guard mr air hay won on president botet to 10 his way bayot of thinking the d national guard became the second line of the land defenses and secretary garrison resigned fro broo a the fitnet other notable acts although preparedness was as the keynote of legislation the sixty fourth congress found time also to enact a alp ship purchase bill the adamson eight hour railroad law a child labor lator law lair a ines measure sure to forbid the tile immigration of 1111 illiterate aliens a diral credits hilt a vocational educational bill and aa an act the gov government emment of to ditico aej tending tk we lh islanders andere Lil the ship purt bise bill established gov government shipping board to sua 0 o shipping matters ge generally nemly II 11 appropriated rioted to be obtained from the eale safe of panama anal canal boua bools as tor for the or construction of ships to be leased to private anit visuals in aa an effort to restore the american marink i the Adar adamson nse tight Ight hoar hou railroad s law as ons enacted eted on the eye ve of ad i journ ment of the first session of the 4 lat lost congress the enactment of the prevented a natios tt wide strike it however t has neer neier become effective between the time thine of its enactment and 4 the time fur the commencement of its 4 operation january 1 last tho the 1 tiona lity of 0 the measure wa was chal by the railroads and the whole matter la Is aw now pending in the supreme court railroad legislation proposed by president llan u in his tits annual message ines sace laet last Vv december vember failed of thia this legislation would mould have provided for the prevention of strikes by compulsory legislation it ans ns heartily opposed by all of tho the bodies of organ lied labor had sought the eight hour ro d law child labor and ard immigration the child labor law barred from front in ter testate tato commerce all product products of chil dran under sixteen yeara years of ago age in mines c r of children under fourteen la im fac factories torleA tha massae of 0 the immigration bill mith li Is literacy eat text was max accomplished over second veto tito literacy feature had been a subject of houtrow rity beauten the executive and legislative branches of the roverne A for the past twenty year years 1 president presidents taft and cleveland both ve v loed 1 I measure measures because hey carri carricut cit the literacy feature filch nil all three presidents denta thought was not a proper of the fit neiti of V aliens for admission to the united states the federal farm loan act commonly only i called the rural credit bill created I 1 12 federal land bank vita with j espital each the bill provides a ye 0 tern tent whereby lonne loons may be made to farmer farmers for productive purposed Sep through national oat nati lonal oual form loan ass ocla tlona it will speet inore more particularly the need needs of in the west and smith under the vocational educational act the federal government on n gradually Inc rending scale cover covers every state op atlon dollar for dollar for seton k dary dory school in agriculture 1 and the mechanical and industry Indus trl A I 1 art it rt a 1 on the eve eye of adjournment congress con grean passed the post office appropriation bill with ill en an amendment makiri kinking lt hone dry all states having prohibitory law laws thia this measure wae was introduced in the senate by benator senator steed of its unexpected enactment had the effect of prohibiting the ship anent in interstate corni nerce of canta cants nto into states or which A A fored the or eale sale of 1 liquor it also clobes the malls to all liquor y advertising including ad neither can ketterl solicit ing liquor orders be carried tn in the mall malls sixteen senator senators retire sixteen senators Bena tore have now disco dedi their togus and prefixed their titles with er this disturbance pf t pe per sonnet reduces but doea not upset the democratic control of tho the upper hou houie houm m the democratic majority of 10 in 1 cut to 12 leaving leitTl nr out of consideration auth senators natora ee and senators elect ae as LB le fol irol lett hiram johnson Il andt norri norris ome officially illy classed as n 11 ans but not atay voting according to 1 among the nationally known sepi tore tors now retired 11 to private life arel a clarence D clark of wyoming vib h has ha served iri in the lie dince january Jartun ry 23 alores IL clapp of BlInne minnesota sots one of 0 the orl orlitta itna pro luke lea tea of Tenn estee now fa only thirty year years old known ar a r the baby senator james B E It Martl artines nei of new jersey who acquired famo tame early in liln tits senatorial career by hi life tanch stanch defense of applejack an a beverage and john IV kern of indiana who haa has been democratic Democrat le leader of fh th senate needing no introduction among thai new iena pc natora tors are hiram johnson of california frank 1 IL trust butter buster of minnesota and I 1 ailts lilts aderi P knox of pennsylvania unlike the tb tet rest of the senators elect their cepul 10 are made all they dottl to dc dot ig to I 1 te tole up to crop k |