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Show I OFFICERS MUST PAY I HORSE SHOW BILLS j J I : NewiYork, March 28. Officers of I 'l ' the United States Army will, If a bill I ! now pending In Congress becomes I ; law, hare to pay their own expenses I : .when exhibiting horses in the show I ' ring. An amendment to the army ap- I - propiiatlon bill, which has passed the I House, provides that "no part of this I or any other appropriation shall be ex- I pended for defraying the expenses of I officers, enlisted men or horses at- I tending or talcing part In horse I shows." f Officers of the National Horse Show I ; Association are understood to be j :( strongly apposed to the bill, which probably would put an end to the International jumping competitions that have been among the spectacular features of the annual exhibitions in Madison Square 'Garden for several years. Representatives of the armies of Russia, France, England, Italy, Holland Hol-land and other countries have matched match-ed their horses and their horsemanship horseman-ship with those of American cavalrymen cavalry-men from various army posts In these competitions, and a team representing represent-ing the United States Army has once or twice gone to England' for the Lonr don International Horse Show. Their expenses on these occasions have been defrayed in part or entirely by the War Department though. . a "company "com-pany of New York horsemen raised a fund by subscription land.bought their horses for them on thefr first trip' to England. |