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Show ARMY SUPPLY BILL DEBATED IN HOUSE Some Members Uphold the President, While Others Show Pacifist Tendencies. i WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Many features fea-tures of the international crisis came in for comment today in the house during debate on the annual army appropriation bill. Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin, a Republican, said that in severing diplomatic dip-lomatic relations with Germany, President Presi-dent Wilson only did his duty( and declared de-clared that propaganda to avoid war is a greater peril at present than war with Germany would be. Representative London of New York, ! Socialist, replied with the assertion that a war with Germany now would bo a war to establish the right of munitions makers to ship to the belligerents. "Jingoism" was attacked by Representative Repre-sentative Garret of Tennessee, a Democrat, Demo-crat, and Representative Reavis of Nebraska, Ne-braska, a Republican, brought forward a plan for enforcement or American rights by armed neutrality. The only important step taken during the day toward perfecting the appropriation appro-priation measure was the rejection on a point of order of an amendment recommended recom-mended bv Secretary Baker to increase from $1,000,000 to $4,q00,0O0 the amount j which could be used out of the war department's de-partment's unexpended balance for 1 aviation sites and buildings. House lead-j lead-j ers hope to pass the measure Tuesday, i . |