Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Naval Bill is Passed In Senate 69 to 8. [ARTICLE]

Naval Bill is Passed In Senate 69 to 8.

The naval appropriation bill, with a three-year building program, including the immediate ’ construction of four dreadnaughts, four great battle cruisers and fifty-eight other craft, passed the senate late Friday by a vote of 68 to 8. It carries $315,826,843, or $450,857,588 more than the measure passed by the house. Many proposals to curtail the enormous buildiryj increases written in the measure by the senate naval committee were defeated overwhelmingly and as soon as the final passage was announced the senate voted to insist .on the amendments and send the bill at once to conference. The house is expected to insist upon its building program and' a long struggle is in prospect before agreement i® reached. A seven-hour speech by Senator LaFollette against the measure and a clash between Senators Reed and Oliver over the proposal to print as a public document the Bethlehem Steel Company’s argument against a government armor plate plant, delayed the final vote.