The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-07
GREATEST BUDGET

lhe greatest budget of expenditures \ placed before any American Con Iss in dimes of peace was brought in 'l tisa varioas hraneiaas Of the gov snent, the total being some $170,000, more than was asked for last year. great part of the proposed in , sed expenditure is for the enlarged in working out the problem of na-. Ial defense it will be the business songress to raise the revenue to pay s it
 lle day was especially marked by \ submission of Secretary McAdoo's snate of the sum to be required for Sernment expenditures during the il year 1917 and the storming of Esgress by 1000 members of the Con :, ,Asional Union for Woman Suffrage. he Secretary of the Treasury asked 1.-the appropriation of $1,2S5,S57 ,S0S.- $170,00o,000 in excess Ishe appropriation of the last Con- 1s. Notable increases are required ;:the District of ColumbR the war ,trtment the Panama canal, the navy 'Lrtment and the interior depart gIt. The announced building pro- jhme for the navy includes provis N for the construction of two bat i;lips, two battle cruisers, three Users, 15 destroyers, two gunboats, Al hospital ship, one fuel ship. five H submarines, and 25 coast subma- ts For reserve munitions, the navy 4 for an appropriation of $S.000,000. M SITFER ON SCENE pie other principal event attend Hthe beginning of the session was I appearance to the front of the |tol where so many Presidents have tered their inaugural addresses of 1.-two envoys from western suf- &ettes bearing petition to Con #s. The envoys were Mrs. Sarah w Field of Oregon and Miss Frances Fife of California. Behind them ex- aed a row of women numbering N than 1000. The ballot seekers ks greeted by committees from the. Etc and House, and in the after N were cordially received by tho A,ident. Tomorrow begins the annual Mention of the Congressional Union sSWoman Suffrage. 7Aat preparedness" will be the key sl of the session ~as given impress J, emphasis in the afternoon when in- 3l,rable bills were introduced bearing ? hat subject Of chief interest to h.lfacturing sections was that of Mr. Mnner of Illinois, providing for the h.ruction of an armor plate and gun Eng plant at cost of $6000,0O0. If Nbill is enacted each community will Asnt it's resources and urge that 1t be the plant.
 ! JUNGLE JOE ON THE JOB Eminent democrats, prepared to at {. the meeting tomorrow of the na- k3l democratic executive committee, tsessed the beginning of the session, Nidition, there were present other dis Flushed men and women from every S of the union, all galleries and cor IS were crowded for hours. and the Etng, bustling, but good na- Ea crowd lent color to the whole Isssible of description. The not dis Rested but irrelevant throng might been compared to the wild and joy
 rabble which captured and held the
 Its of Paris and ushered in the revo-
 h which attached q period to the old Eiry of France and opened way for |hew condition of freedom
 -timers, most of them republicans,
 ected after going down before the
 Ilential landslide of 1912, came troop
 back to places in the House eager
 part in the absorbing business of
 ext few months Uncle Joe' Cam
 ,at on a bench in the front row and
 hed while the House got into it's lit
 bw over the rules and hot references
 -annonism'' were hurled back and
 across the dividing aisle.
 Fin though today was cnly a field
 one for making new acquaintances
 Renewing old ones. the congressional
 Fas charged with the seriousness of
 business of the months ahead. the
 less of legislating for a nation at
 in world aflame with war and
 unded with almost endless possibili-
 ]the stream of bills and resolutions
 poured into the hopper were not
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