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Show MAY EXCEED ! A BILLION Appropriat ions Run High House Swamped Swamp-ed With Work Washington. Feb 14 With half a dozen of the main appropriation measures piled up for action and the aggregate of appropriations threatening threaten-ing to run far over the billion dollar mark, the house leaders find two plaus available Cither the appropriation appropri-ation bills as framed with their vastly increased totals must be rushed through in the few remaining days of the session, or the house must go on record ii6 being unable to complete its work, and allow the appropriation bills to do oer until the special session ses-sion Neither course ia taken as fully agreeable. In the faoo of this dilemma the leaders are demanding that before, the 1 next house settles down to make its I appropriations a system be evolved to provide for tbe division of available public funds to th various purpose? ! for which money must be expended. Representative Fitzgerald, chairman : of the appropriations committee; Representative Rep-resentative Shirley of Kentucky, for-I for-I iner Speaker Cannon and Minority Leader Mann are those who insist on j that reform as necessnrv. The economy advocates on the Dem- ocratlc side of the house were active today and made the $146,000,000 naval na-val appropriation bill their special object ob-ject of attack. Opponents of a large nay, following a series of conferences, conferen-ces, were prepared to attack the two-battlesbip two-battlesbip provision of the bill and there were man threats of fntbustera to prevent Its passage at thia session. ses-sion. rvt |