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Show APPROVES RELIEF MEASURES Congress Appropriates Millions for Hospitals and Roads. Washington. Two big relief measures meas-ures were put through the house in n hurry Monday and a third was beaten by a slight margin. Called up under suspension of rules, a proceeding which required a two-thirds two-thirds vote on passage, the $13,000,000 soldier hospital bill was passed by a rising vote, and the $100,000,000 road fund appropriation won easily. The big upset was the defeat of the Winslow bill to permit partial payments pay-ments to railroads under the guaranty sectio ef the transportation act. |