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Show SUPPLY BILLS BflpiSIED Senator Smoot Vainly Urges Provision Pro-vision In Naval Bill 'or 75 Submarines Washington, Fob. 2S. Congress worked away steadily today ind tonight to-night on its task of cleaning up supply sup-ply bills which must bo out of tho way boforo adjournment on March 1. Tho Senate passed tho nav.il bill, $102,000,000, tho fortification bill, 10,-000,000, 10,-000,000, ami tho diplomatic bill, 1,-200,000, 1,-200,000, while tho House spent the day In debating tho general deficiency deficien-cy measure, with Interruption now nnd then to disposa ot conference to ports. Tho Senato added about $8,000,000 to tho naval bill ns It pnssol tun ilouso, providing In tho tno battleships battle-ships construction program for llvo seagoing submarines histoid of uno for sixteen Instead of cloven oast defense submarines for a gunhout nnd u hospital ship, and adding $),-000,000 $),-000,000 for an armor plant and $500,-000 $500,-000 for a projectile factory. Senator Smoot vainly sought to havo authorized tho construction ot fifty seagoing and twenty lho coast submarines, declaring that "no man can tell when tho European dlstuib-anco dlstuib-anco will lnvolvo this country In difficulties." dif-ficulties." This precipitated n general gen-eral discussion of tho war In which Senators Jones ot Washington nnd Thomas of Colorado, Townsend ot Michigan and Lowis of Illinois Joined. Administration senators tonight wero Inclined to doubt that President Wilson would call an extra bcssIou of tho Senato aftor March -I to consider con-sider tho Colombian Indemnity nnd Nicaragua eanal treaties or for any other purposo. |