OCR Text |
Show HOUSE AUTHORIZES PURCHASE OF SITES WASHI.VflTO.N'. Keb. 56. After a hot debate. the house Thursday ndoplpd a senate amendment to tho diplomatic appropriation bill providing; pro-viding; for the purchase of embassy sites and buildings abrond and the chanting off of the amount against the war tlebta X( any nation from which obtained. Republicans and Democrats alike declared the proposal was the most monstrous thing of the kind ever put before cong;re. They said It was j beneath the diamlty of the I'nited States and would be the enterinR wedire for other trades by foreign countries, which soon would be offering; of-fering; barren islands to wipe their ledgers clean. 7 |