...Attorney General of the United States stated : "The provision of the statute In question only applies to 'the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, armor,...machinery from any persons, firms or corporations,' etc. The subject being doalt with Is the purchase by the government of structural steel, etc., from...

...increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $35,325,695. That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended for the purchase of structural steel, snip plates, armor, armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who have combined...

...for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and for other purposes, appropriates various sums of money "for the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, armor, armament, or machinery." Some of the sums so appropriated are found under the heading "Bureau of Ordnance," some under the heading...

.... combinations, expended for the purchase of structural steel, ship plates. etc., forbidden. armorj armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, or...and any Territory or the District of Columbia, in Limitation any of the articles aforesaid, and no purchase of strucsfee'^'etc. or tural steel, ship...

...year 1914, Act March 4, 1913, c. 148, 37 Stat. 912, none of the appropriations made by the act were to etc., in any of such articles. § 8821. (Act July 2, 1890, c. 647, § 2.) Persons monopolizing, etc.,...

...hundred nnd fourteen, and for other purposes. ***** That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall l>e expended for the purchase of structural steel, ship...armor, armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, taVsnerman8 ' " or corporations who have combined or conspired to ucipate in n""monopolize the interstate...

...unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels. It was also provided that no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended for the purpose of structural steel, ship-plates, armour, armament, or machinery, from any persons, firms,...

...Amendment No. 72 provides that no sum appropriated in the act shall be expended for the purchase of steel, ship plates, armor, armament, or machinery...or foreign commerce or trade of the United States; and the House recedes. The bill as passed by the House carried $144,648,901.88 The bill as passed by...

...except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall...machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who are parties to any existing combination or conspiracy to monopolize the interstate or foreign commerce...

...except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall...machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who are parties to any existing combination or conspiracy to monopolize the interstate or foreign commerce...