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...occasion for this slashing of precedent and snapping of party lines was Mr. Tilson's amendment to the Navy appropriation bill, which asked for $450,000 to begin construction of three cruisers. President Coolidge had said in his budget message and many times since that he would brook no immediate appropriations for cruiser building. "Big Navy" men in the House were confident of defying him; potent and regular Republican leaders were backing them. The vote was taken last week; Mr. Tilson's amendment was rejected, 183 to 161. Who had saved the President...
...with President Taft in 1910 and was ousted from the important chairmanship of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry. Years later, in 1922, he arose like a ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration has had its successes: he gave the state a budget system, cut expenditures, reduced the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. To the public he is known chiefly as an ardent Prohibitionist and one of the pacifiers of the anthracite coal strike of 1923. Last spring he aspired to be a U. S. Senator...
...bushel. He has issued his verse in a special velvet-bound edition which all good subjects will buy, at $55 the copy. The Nizam, who knows a thing or two about this business of ruling after all, thinks that under these conditions his verse may help to balance the budget of Hyderabad...
...budget was approved last week by the Allied Conference of Ambassadors, whose especial duty it is to enforce the Versailles Treaty. "For technical reasons," ran the Council's indorsement, "the Army of the German Republic may be augmented in 1927 by 134 enlisted men and one officer...
...committee of the Diet reported favorably last week the funeral budget bill, providing for a total expenditure of 2,980,000 yen ($1,490,000) on the state funeral which will be held late in February. Among other expenses will be the permanent support of the oxen used to draw the Imperial Hearse, since these animals never thereafter perform labor of any kind...