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Show MORE RECORDS BROKEN. Appropriations by Congress Exceed Last Session by Half a Billion. "Washington. The importance of the $200,000,000 revenue bill on which senate Democrats Sunday devoted many hours of deliberation in caucus is being impressed upon leaders by the fact that appropriations of the session ses-sion now nearing completion have broken all records. With passage this week of the $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 ship purchase bill and probable prob-able approval by the house of the senate's sen-ate's gigantic naval bill, the appropriations appropri-ations of the Sixty-fourth congress will have exceeded the previous high record rec-ord by at least a half a billion dollars. |