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Show IISE PASSES It NAVAL BILL After Two Weeks Debate the Measure Carrying $94.-764,000 $94.-764,000 Taken up. The Proposition That Secretary of Navy Could Go Into the Open Market Mar-ket for Chains, Anchors and Cordage Is Defeated. Washington. After two wceko de-bntc, de-bntc, tho houso on Thursday passed tho navnl appropriation bill, carrying $99,701,000. Tho amendment providing that tho secretary of tho navy could go Into the open market and purchnso chains, nnchors and cordage, should It bo detn-Diisirnted detn-Diisirnted thnt thoy could bo had cheaper In freo markets thnn thoy could bo mado by tho government, was defeated by n vote of 188 to 129. By the nctlon of tho houso on tho second, amendment, upon which a scparaU rote was demanded In conjunction with iho naval appropriation bill, a 4 per cent differential will bo allowed al-lowed bidders from tho Pacific const. Tho voto on this amendment was very close, thrco Republicans changing chang-ing from no to yes, Messrs. Haugen of Iowa, Thomns and Longworth. |