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Show HOUSE IS LI! lilllfifflE WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. The largest naval appropriation bill in the country's history was passed .today by the house and 'sent to the senate, where a subcommittee sub-committee immediately was appointed to hasty its consideration. It carries more than ?3SS. 000. 000, provides for the second installment of the great three-year building build-ing programme adopted last year and includes in-cludes administration emergency amendments amend-ments authorizing the government to commandeer private ship yards and munitions, mu-nitions, plants in time of national peril and to purchase the basic patents of aircraft. air-craft. . The vote on the bill was 353 to 23. eighteen Democrats, headed by Majority Leader Kitchin; four Republicans and one Socialist voting against it." During the debate, which was in progress prog-ress intermittently for about a week, various vari-ous provisions proposed as a result of the submarine crisis were added to the measure. meas-ure. Because of the government's difficulty diffi-culty in placing contracts for warships authorized last year, an amendment-asked amendment-asked for by Secretary Daniels, providing an additional 512,000,000 for equipping navy yards for construction, was inserted. The "army bill will be taken up in the house Thursday. |