Washington, Jan, 21.
IDENT Roosevelt announced here to-day that his anxiously "4 awaited message to Congress on national defences would: be ready next Monday or Tuesday.
No indication was forthcoming, however, whether the President would Jend added weight to his message by reading it personally before Congress.
While American Navy Department officials continued con-, sideration of plans for the construction of the largest battleships in the history of, the world, the House of Representatives to-day passed without a ingle alteration the record peace-time Naval Appropriations Bill recently approved by the House Appropriations Committee.
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