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Show SENATORS IVOR LftRGEJ FUflO NEARLY $700,000,00 OR THE NATION'S NA-TION'S DEFENi DURING THE COMPEAR. Appropriations Agn. Upon by House Increased !131,0OO,000 In the Senate, Vi. Military Acaflemy Gets O 12,000,000. Washington. Near :oo,000,000 for national defense in s fiscal year 1917 is the aggregate proposed appropriations ap-propriations with th'iesage by the senate on July 27 of; army appropriation appro-priation bill, carryiEu round numbers num-bers $314,000,000. This grand total f; preparedness still is subject to r-ion, however, because the army bi ill follow the naval bill in con fere: where deductions deduc-tions are probable, jite the firm attitude of Presiden.'ilson in supporting sup-porting the liberal -jonse of the senate to the call fcidequate defense. de-fense. Tlfe appropriatiomir preparedness prepared-ness as they now r4 are as follows: fol-lows: Army, $313,970,447. navy, $315,-826,843.55; $315,-826,843.55; fortificatic (land), $26-748,050; $26-748,050; military terny, $2,238,-426.67; $2,238,-426.67; army and de-ncy, $27,559,-348.05. $27,559,-348.05. Total, $685,34 7.27. As it passed the site the army bill exceeded the app:iations made by the house by morgan $131,000,-000. $131,000,-000. In the final hoiof debate on the measure the semagreed to an appropriation of $2,0 00 for relief of dependent famlli- of national guardsmen nd reguismy soldiers in service in the Mes emergency. Distribution of the fu:'s left to the discretion of the secrfT f war Dut in no case shall any?endent fam-ily fam-ily receive more than I a month. An amendment prfJ3lv agreed to giving the soldier the border the right to vote in : field at the November election eliminated from the bill on a poiJf order just before passage. As soon as the arm;'1 was out of the way the senate ak UD and passed, after brief detxtne military academy appropriatior". carrying $2,238,32$, an increai,f $1,019,542 over the house authoi:ion- |