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Show HOUSTON OBJECTS TO ACTION OF CONGRESS Addresses Vigorous Protest to Senate on Matter of Classification of Draft Eligibles. WASHINGTON. June 10. In a letter to the senate agriculture committee today vigorously objecting to a provision inserted in-serted by the house in the annual agricultural agri-cultural appropriation bill prohibiting the payment of salaries to employees given deferred draft classification, Secretary Houston said he had passed upon all such cases personally; that the men involved were performing real war services, and that the bill as it passed the house would seriously disrupt essential activities of the department. He inclosed a letter from Secretary Baker saying the war department depart-ment recognized that the needs of the army had been fully considered. |