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Show GOOD ROADS BILL UP FOR DISCUSSION City and Country Congressmen Are Divided Di-vided Upon the Matter; Many Speeches Heard. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. Fifty -five-minute speeches on the Sbackleford $25, 000, 0UU good roads bill, evenly divided di-vided between city congressmen, who oppose it, and those from the country districts, who support it, were delivered in the house today and more will be heard on Monday. The money would be apportioned to all states, conditional upon local co-operation. "We don't want to appropriate a lot of money for good roads that probably prob-ably will run from country depots to farmers' houses." was the way Representative Repre-sentative Alagee of New York epitomized epito-mized the opposition. "Tho greatest objection of the opponents op-ponents to this bill is that it would not provide peacock highways running from ocean to ocean for automobilists, ' ' Kepresentative Thompson of Oklahoma replied. Many opponents of the measure declared de-clared the proposed appropriations should be applied to the preparedness expenditures. |