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Show APPROPRIATION FOB ARM! OF ONE HUNDRED MILLION Senate Approves Measure Which Materially Ma-terially Increases the Pay of Of. fleers and Enlisted Men. Washington. Tho army bill, enrry-fng enrry-fng nn nproprlatlon of almost $100,-000,000, $100,-000,000, was pnssed by tho sonnto Monday, Mon-day, practically os roportcd from tho committee on military nffnlrs. Tho only amendment ndopted carried an appropriation of $20,000 for n system of waterworks for Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana. Tho bill materially ma-terially Increnscs tho pay of ofllcors and enlisted men of tho nrmy. Tho bill ns roportcd carried $98,820,-409, $98,820,-409, n net Increase of $11,012,843 over tho amount of tho bill ns It was passed by tho house. Among tho Items of Incroaso nro Increased pay for officers and enlisted men, $7,000,000; military encampments and maneuvors, $1,000,-000; $1,000,-000; field artillery for organized mil-Itln, mil-Itln, $250,000; manufacture of arms, $300,000. A resolution Introduced by Mr. For-okor For-okor was adopted. It calls on tho secretary sec-retary of war for tho names of nil former for-mer soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry in-fantry discharged without honor on account of tho Brownsville nffnlr, who havo applied for reinstatement. |