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Show 1 1 HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS I SAVED BY FILIBUSTER BBI i -" iditTSKtmMMttl J 9 & I i muni H 8 Washington, March As tho ro- BH j suit of tho Republican effort In tho B 5 Scoato durlnglho last fow days of BH the session to compel the President H j to Immediately again convono Cong- H L reus, It Ib likely that several luind- H reds of millions of dollars will ho H I saved tho taxpayers through approp BjBJ I ilatlons found unnecessary. BB The amount contained In tho bills BB " which railed to reach tho signature BB ! of tho chief oxccutlvo totaled four H ,( and a half hllllons of dollars, in- i eluding tlnoo-fourths of a billion for tho Railway Admlsttatlon. Ono of lli c so measures was tho naval approp BBB v ilntlon bill, providing for tho oxpon- BH llturc or 824 ,000,000. Tho groat- !r poitlon of this, more than $700 000,000, was for tho building prog-ram prog-ram which contemplated creating a BBJ jj navy for uio unitea states as largo H as that of Great Britain by 1925. j B f, This was urged by tho Presldont In BBJ J a mysterious cablegram to tho Naval BH . Affairs Commlttoo of tho Hous0 at BBJ 1) Uio Identical tlmo that ho was urging BH ij In I'nrls a panacea to prevent all fut- BH J uro wars. It Is llkoly that this will BBJ i bo matorlally cut down unless some- BBJ ( thing unforoncon should occur to BBJ ij etnrtld tho country Into tho rcnlizn- ft tlon that It UTiould havo a larger , BMBj If navy to ndoquatoly protect Its Jntor- U -csts'on tho Pactlc ocean. BBJ 1 With pcaco established tho Rop- BBJ ubllcans In both tho House and Son- J 'I nto arc of tho opinion that tho army BBb j appropriation bill, carrying oxpondl- (tures of $1,240,000,000, should bo bereft of oxtravagant projects and ro duced by soveral hundreds of million a Unecessary expense undor tho Shlpp- BBI ' lng Board as exemplified during tho BH war at the Hog Island yards is con- sldorcd a scandal, and It Is thercforo the Intention of Congress to par tho .sundry civil bill, with appropral-'tlons appropral-'tlons of $851,000,000, which tho Administration Ad-ministration attempted to Jam through thr-ough before adjournment. Charges of carelessness of tho executive ex-ecutive branch aro being driven homo by tlfo facts In a mistake of two billions bill-ions of dollars made by the War Department. De-partment. Ily rcnuest of tho Department, Depar-tment, under tho act of February 25, seven billion In cash appropriations and olght billions In contract authorizations auth-orizations wero cancelled. This Included In-cluded $2,096,000,000 for tho quartermaster's quar-termaster's department. After tho cancellation had boon mado It Wits found by tho War Department that tho amount Included $829,000,000 absolutely necessary for tho transportation trans-portation of troops and for supplies, including clothing and subBlstonco. This waB osscntlal to bringing tho troops homo and will havo to bo re-appropraltcd re-appropraltcd boo-.!. |