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Show ADVOCATE NATIONAL DEFENSE. Democratic and Republican Leaders Fight Side by Side. Washington. Speaker Clark and Republican Leader Mann fought side by side in the house on Monday for adequate national defense. With party par-ty lines obliterated most of the members mem-bers followed their leaders aad two navy measures passed without a dissenting dis-senting vote. One, to provide for adding 300 midshipmen mid-shipmen to the entering class at Annapolis Ann-apolis next July, passed 173 to 0, and the other, to equip navy yards for construction of battleships numbers 43 and 44. passed without a roll call. Mr. Mann tried to put the anti-preparedness advocates on record by calling call-ing for a division on the naval academy acad-emy bill, but there were no negative responses. |