Show ARMY BILL REJECTED house members object to raising standing army to men washington senate amendments to the army bill again were rejected monday by the house and the measure returned to conference the proposals to empower the president to raise the standing army to men in time of peace and to raise a federal volunteer army of were rejected flatly by votes of to and alid to respectively while the nitrate plant amendment was waa substituted by one offered by chairman hay of the house military affairs committee without a record vote |