Military Programme Not Curtailed by Small Cut Washington, Jan, 13.
The House of Representatives psssed the $267,197,908 Emergency National Defence Bill ye: and sent the Bil to the Senate for approval.
The Defence Bill carries funds for 518 new Navy planes and the recommissioning of 64 old destroyers and other warships. The bil, ented by the House Api Committee, represented a $4,801,615 cut in the sum President Roosevelt requested in his budget.
Mr. Clifton Woodrum, De necrotic Representative of Virginia said th" reductions in no way curtail the military programme.
The bill was the fist cppropriations bill passed by the House. It included an appropriation 5f $116,218.- 345 for the Army, $145,882,238 for the Navy, and $1475000 for the Federal Bureau of Invsstigetion.
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