Washington, Mar. 7.
Minority members of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House to-day condemned the President for failing to invoke the neutrality act following the outbreak of hostilities in the Orient.
In a dissenting report on the huge Navy rearmament bill, the Republican members of the Committee warned that enactment of the naval expansion bill would give the President "blanket authorization to apply his universal quarantine policy and an Asiatic interventionist policy.
"This is not a defence bill" the Representatives said, ".... Circumstances indicate that it originated in the White House with the purpose of putting into the hands of the President power to implement his foreign policy.'
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