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Show II EE (IF IT t'HUE REVIEWED Bill Appropriating $1,500.44 I for Chemical Service With-stands With-stands Assaults WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Horrors w gas warfare were pictured today In ths house by members opposed to an appropriation ap-propriation of $1,500,000 for the chemical chem-ical warfare service of the army. An amendment by Representative Montague. Mon-tague. Democrat, Virginia, to cut the amount to $1,000,000, however, waa voted vot-ed down nearly 4 to 1 and the amount cnrriedMn-the army bill remained unchanged. un-changed. Declaring that the use of gas "de stroys the last vestige of civilised warfare," war-fare," Mr. Montague said the "world waa horrified," when the Germans began be-gan to use gas. but that nations which deplored its use most were now conducting con-ducting experiments to make it still 'more deadly. Representative Sisson, Democrat. Mississippi, favoring the $1,500,000 declared de-clared he thought the United States should make war so frightful that an enemy nation wouldregret ever having hav-ing tackled Uncle Sam.' "If we ever get Into another war he declared. "I want the United States soldiers to kill as many of the enemy as quickly as possible with the smallest posMibte loss of life to themselves. "How about dum dum bullets," he was asked. "I don't see much difference between shooting a man with poisonous bullets and killing him with one not poisoned,' was Mr. Sissons reply. Debate on the army bill closed today. The vote probably will not come before Tuesday. |