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Show oo SHERIFF REQUESTS TWO MORE DEPUTIES ppointrnent of two additional deputies dep-uties in the sheriff's deportment will be considered this afternoon by the! board of Weber county commissioners, j sheriff Richard Plncock has recom-. mended that two more men be ap- potnied to assume duty at once. He recommends O. II. Mohlmen and Charles Plncock for the positions at compensation of $140 h month. Sheriff Plncock also asks the board to appoint John Hooper of Hooper asj special deputy with a salary of $40 ' a month' The board will act on the appoin'-ments appoin'-ments this afternoon and It is believed be-lieved that favorable action will bo taken so the now men may assume duty tomorrow. oo t'hhtgo has a snow-loading machine which does the work of twelve trucks rid BiXty niUj. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 Average treiigth of the army Will be lSl.OOOl during the fiscal year. Brigadier General Gen-eral Lord, chief Of the finance bureau ! war department, estimated today In I submitting a request to the senate mil-: itary committee for funds to cover) such a force The house bill provides1 only for 150.000 men. General Iordj said, but with the present strength of 230.000 and recruiting stopped, the( force would not be reduced by explra-. tlon of enlistments below the average he submitted. SALARY Blldi PASSES. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 The logis-, latlve, executive and Judicial appropriation appropri-ation bill was parsed Monday by the senate and sent to conference. It car- rles about $11 4.000,000 for salaries and maintenance of government departments depart-ments and was the fourth of the regular regu-lar supply bills to be passed by the senate- . One of the riders added by the senate sen-ate was the provision authorizing the secretary of the treasury' to purchase $1 00,00u.00( of farm loan bonds. The provision for the annual $240 bonus to government employes. Including those in nu ardsand arsenals w hich went out on a point of order, was reinserted re-inserted by a ote of 42 to 29 under a suspension of the rules. PIIOBE l PROBERS. WASHINGTON, Fob 16 Chairman Johnson, of a house war Investigating I committee, replied Monday to Repro- jsentatlVM Flood's charges against two I investigators who worked for the com-Imlttee com-Imlttee by introduolng a resolution proposing pro-posing a full Investigation of the activities ac-tivities of the Investigators. Chairman Johnson said the report of the investigators dealt with certain alleged frauds In connection with war I con tracts In Pittsburg district. KL BILL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 The naval na-val appropriation bill carrying approximately ap-proximately $39f,000,000. was passed yesterday by the house after it had defeated 124 to 30 an amendment which would have prevented tho expenditure ex-penditure of any purt of tho $90,000,-000 $90,000,-000 provided for bat'leshlj. construction construc-tion until an international disarmament disarma-ment conference shall have been called call-ed by the president The amendment amend-ment was offered by Representative Brooks. Republican, Illinois. BIG GUN PROGB M. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1G. Continuation Continu-ation of the 16-lnch gun program for use in the coast dcfen.ses of the United Unit-ed Ststes. Hawaii and tho Panama canal for the next year Is provided in the annual fortifications appropriation appropria-tion bill of approximately $6,000,000 which will be reported to the house Wednesday This Is $27.:.oo.ooo leas than was asked by the war department and compares with $1S 000.000 for this year R Is the last of the big supply sup-ply measures to bo brought before tho house. About $260,000,000 of unexpended balances "f appropriations under fortifications for-tifications during the war will be returned re-turned to the treasury under provision Of the bill BANQUET FOR DANIELS WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Secretary Danels received the unique honor Monday Mon-day night of a farew.-li dinner tendered tend-ered him by tho full membership of the house naval affair.-, committee, Republicans and Democrat alike attending- Party lines were thrust aside in the expressions of praise and com-' mendatlon b committee members for the irhievf ments of his eight year, of naval administration Representative Britten, Illinois, ranking Republican member of : I r committee, declared that of all the i members of the cabinet, Secretary Daniels alone would leave office wlth bis "flag flying at too mast' despite the "a'v alanche of criticism" he had weathered. HARDING'S INOOHJE TAX. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. President-elect Harding has Informed Rep-j rescntatlve Ixngwortb. of Ohl6, he did not believe he should be granted exemption from paylnp an Income Lax. on his presidential salary Mr Hard-: ing wrote Representative 1-rongworth In reply to a letter seeking his opinion jp to what action the house ways and! means committee should take in a bill I introduced to exempt the president' from the income tax levy. Under the present revenue law the fax amounts' in $18,000. President Wilson, however, was i a-empted a-empted from paying under a decision . I of the United State? supreme court holding that since the chief executive 'and federal Judges assumed office prl-, or to the enactment of the revenue, law. they were not subject to the tax. WUISKKY IMPORTS DROP. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 Whiskey, importations Into the United States for 1920 amounted to 157,310 gallons, valued val-ued at $1,013,091, as compared to prewar pre-war and pre-prohibltlon Importations of 1.541,663 gallons valued at $3,153,-640, $3,153,-640, for tho fiscal year 1913. It was announced toda by the department of j commerce oo |