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Show Or MAINE Cannot Be Recovered at This Time"--Bodies to. be Removed JJater Washington, Aug 20. As much of the wrecked battleship Maine as the available funds will permit will be removed or prepared for removal from Havana harbor, it was maJe known today, and then the mammoth cofferdam coffer-dam surrounding -the ruins will be refilled re-filled with water to await an additional addition-al appropriation by qongress to finish the raising operations. Congress failed to act on the President's Presi-dent's request for an additional $250,-000, $250,-000, and the war department has - mapped out its plans for the expenditure expendi-ture of, the money on hand, which probably will Ue exhausted by the time congress convenes in December. Because of the lack of funds, even funeral services over the recovered remains re-mains of the dead and the erection in Arlington National cemetery of the mast of the ill-fated vessel as a monument mon-ument to them raust be postponed. The remains and tho most will be sent to the cemetery to be stored there until congress acts. The terribly wrecked forward part of the vessel, or about two-thirds of It, will be cut down to the levels already reached by the pumpage, then taken out and dumped into deep water outside out-side Havana harbor A small cofferdam will be built Inside In-side the main cofferdam to a depth of about forty feet around the forward part In order to extricate the rest of It later." One-third of the after portion por-tion of the vessel, it Is believed, can be floated. It will be pumped out , and bulkheaded, but not'moved, pending pend-ing the appropriation of more money. Major G. L Erwin, of the quartermaster's quarter-master's department, has been ordered order-ed to Havana -to superintend the removal re-moval to this country of the bodies recovered from the Maine. oo |