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Show FORTIFICATION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE WASHINGTON, Junev22. The fortification forti-fication appropriation bill, carrying $34,300,000 for defense and for both coast and field artillery ordnance and ammunition, was passed by the house todav, 165 to 0. Its total is an increase of about .$17,000,000 over last year'B bill. An amendment by Representative Ta vender, itcsignca to aoousn stopwatch stop-watch systems and to prevent tho payment pay-ment of bonuses to labor in government govern-ment arsenals, was carried, 197 to 115, after a hard fiybt. |