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 present and voting the Senator from California would vote "yea", and the
 Senator from Massachusetts would vote "nay."
 The Senator from Wyoming [Mr. O'Mahoney] is paired on this question with
 the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Gufey]. If present and voting, the
 Senator from Wyoming would vote "yea", and the Senator from Pennsylvania
 would vote "nay."
 Mr. AUSTIn. I announce the necessary absence of the Senator from New
 Jersey [Mr. Barbour]. He has a general pair with the Senator from Alabama
 [Mr. Bankhead].
 The result was anounced-yeas 84, nays 89, as follows:
 Yeas: Bachman, Bailey, Barkley, Benson, Bilbo, Black, Byrnes, Caraway,
 Connally, Fletcher, George, Glass, Harrison, Hatch, Hayden, Holt, Johnson,
 Logan, McGll, McKellar, Murray, Neely, Norris, Overton, Pittman, Radcliffe,
 Reynolds, Bobinson, Schwellenbach, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas of Utah, Wagner,
 and Wheeler-34.
 Nays: Adams, Austin, Borah, Brown, Bulkley, Bulow, Burke, Byrd, Capper,
 Carey, Clark, Copeland, Costigan, Couzens, Davis, Donahey, Duffy, Frasier,
 Gerry, Gibson, Hale, Keyes, King, La Follette, Lonergan, McNary, Maloney,
 Metcalf, Minton, Murphy, Norbeck, Pope, Shipstead, Steiwer, Townsend, Van-
 denberg, Van Nuys, Walsh, and White-39.
 Not voting: Ashurst, Bankhead, Barbour, Bone, Chavez, Coolidge, Dickinson,
 Dieterich, Gore, Guffey, Hastings, Lewis, Long, McAdoo, McCarran, Moore, Nye,
 O'Mahoney, Russell, Thomas of Oklahoma, Trammell, Truman, and Tydings-23.
 So Mr. Fletcher's amendment was rejected.


 DOCUMENT NO. 119 (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 74TH CONG, 2D SESS,
 MAR. 18, 1936, P. 4410), MARCH 18, 1936
 WAR DEPARTMENT APPBOPrIATIO BILr FoR THE FISCAL YEAB ENDING
 JuNE 30, 1937, SEVrNTr-FOuTH CONGRESs, SECOND SESSION, H. R.
 11035, AMENDMENT PROPOSED IN THE SENATE BY SENATOR FLETCHE

 Senator Fletcher's amendment to the War Department appropria-
 tion bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, providing for the
 inclusion of the budgetary item of $12,000,000 for the Florida canal,
 and for other items, was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 39 to
 34 on March 17.
 On March 18 Senator Truman entered a motion in the Senate to
 reconsider the above vote.
 The following is extracted from the Congressional Record of
 March 18:
 Mr. TauiMw. Mr. President, I desire to enter a motion to reconsider the vote
 of the Senate on yesterday rejecting the amendment offered by the Senator
 from Florida [Mr. Fletcher], inserting, on page 09, line 4, after the word
 "navigation", certain words, and striking out, on page 60, line 23, the figures
 '$138,677,899" and inserting in lien thereof "$208,677.890."
 The PRmBImMI Orr z m The motion will be received and entered.


 DOCUMENT NO. 120 (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 74TH CONG, 2D SESS,
 MAR. 18, 1936, PP. 4079-4080 AND P. 4110), MARCH 18, 1936

,COMMuNIATION FROM COL. GnIL RT A. YOUNGQERG, CORPS oF ENGI-
 NEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, RETBED, To SENATOR FLETCHE

 Under date of March 17, 1936, Col. Gilbert A. Youngberg Corps
of Engineers, United States Army, retired, addressed the following
communication to Senator Fletcher, and the same was introduced