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Show (ireut Kcfliiclion in the Xavnl Service. Washington, 24. The navy appropriation ap-propriation bill which passed the house yesterday, appropriates f 5,577, -451 less than last year, the sum then being $17,511,300. This saving has bieu eU'eeted by a reduction in the personnel of the navy from S,500 to 7,500 men, and also by reductions in the construction, engineering and ordnance bureaus, and a reform in the pay of ollicers, some of them heretofore having been paid wailing orders and shore pay, when they should have received lurlough pay only. |