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Show DIPLOMATIC FUND GREATLY REDUCED Congress Cuts Half a Million From Appropriation Ap-propriation Bill; Measures Bushed. WASHINGTON", Feb. L'O. Tho mills of both hnusns of congress ground fast; and long today on the griht of Appro- 1 priation bills which must become law before March 4. 1 The senate, after adding $1,000,000' to the legislative, executive- and judicial judi-cial appropriation bill as it left the bouse, passed that measure, ulsu the $Liti,UOU,000 sundry civil bill, with amendments, and took up the army ap-; propnation bills. Fourteen others uf the1 big supply bills ,aro yet to be acted ; uf'on, l An amendment increafiing the appro-j priation lor the Yuma irrigation project : in the pundrv civil bill trom $2o,000 to $934,000 was adopted by tho senate, as was the proposal to set aside $450,-000 $450,-000 for the Deschutes project in Oregon. Ore-gon. Jn tho house the diplomatic appropriation appro-priation bill v as passed after it nxd ; bepn cut 500,000. Appropriations of .f3'i0.i!nn for a consulate building at j Shanghai and $."pfi,0ii0 for entertain- , ment of Central and South American financiers at a Pa n-AmeriraTi financial conference at. San Francisco to be called i bv tho president, were cut out, despite tho state department's indorsement. A proposal to have the president take steps to recover from Cuba more than $0,000,000 spent in tho pacification also wiih eliminated. The appropriation for participation in an ex posit ion at Panama was cut from $100,000 to nO0. The house also passed t lie mil it ary academy bill appro p rial i ng $ 1 ,0;j 7,083, and took up tho $ii,O00,j0(i fortification measure. |