Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — Defense Budget is Slashed. [ARTICLE]

Defense Budget is Slashed.

Washington, Mar. 17.—The house committee on fortifications to-day reportsd to the full committee the fortification appropriation bill with the estimates of the war department slashed from 138,448,945 to $8,210,611, to avoid the Impression that tha United States is preparing for war with Japan.