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Show SENATE RUSHES EXPENSE BILLS With New Fiscal Year 30 Days Away Speed Must Be Made WASHINGTON. Juno 2. With tho new fiscal year only 3t days distant. Republican leaders in conr,'re.c Thursday Thurs-day began a drive to have all the annual an-nual appropriation bills enacted by July 1 when federal funds generally j expire Tho arm;, and navy appropriation bills, it was decided today, will bo gien right of way in the senate, the I pending tariff bill being laid aside tern j porarlly. Leaders arranged to begin senate debate on the $884,000,000 array bill tomorrow or Monday to hold It before the senate until parsed, despite de-spite th prospects ol stiff opposition to the senate committee increases in army personnel from 115.000 to 133, 000 men Tliose in charge of the tarlit bill agreed to the plan to expedite the army and navv bills. Hearings on the navy appropriation bill were closed today by the senate appropriation sub-committee and work v. us started on revision of the house measure carrying $251,000,000 and providing pro-viding a reduction In navy personnel to 86.000 men The senate sub committee com-mittee has agreed to this reduction Except for the army and navy measures, meas-ures, leaders believed there would be little difficulty in cleaning up all ap proprialion bills during the present month and preventing any technical lapue of funds. oo |