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Show ARMY BILL TO CARRY ABOUT $5,000,000,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. The army appropriation ap-propriation bill for the next fiscal year, on which the house military committee was to resume hearings January 3, probably prob-ably will carry close to $5,000,000,000 for the whole military establishment, exclusive ex-clusive of fortifications and field artillery artil-lery guns, which will be provided for by the appropriations committee. The bill is expected Lo be ready about February 1. The. total army appropriation estimates to congress bv the war department ag- ; gregate 56,610,000,000. 1 "The military committee will give the1 war department everything that they rea- ' sonably can convince the committee they need," said Chairman Dent today. "We , will call up the bureau chiefs and then ask Secretary Baker to appear to go ! over his military policies. The sessions : will be executive, because of the military secrets involved." |