Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1895-03-06 | Page 2 | They Had a Row

THEY HAD A ROW Fiery Trench Legislators Indulge In Their Daily Luxury I Pails March 5 During the discus i I ion of the army budget in th cham j ber of deputies today 31 Rod representing repre-senting the committee said France tried to place her army upon a parity I with those of other nations But since 18S7 the military expenditures of Germany Ger-many had exceeded those of France The German military doctrine was based on numerical strength and Germany Ger-many now possessed an arm ready to fight at any moment HP maintained the superiority of the offensive system when he was interrupted inter-rupted by an Insulting remark from a socialist member An uproar followed and some time elapsed before ttf Bach was able to proceed Us demanded that the French army should be a well organized as the German army claiming the economizing of a few 1 million francs might mean defeat In I the event of war Applause 11 Cavaignac minister of war reproached I re-proached M Roch for exaggerating j the gravity of the situation maintain ing the French army only numbered about 50000 less than the German army The debate wan then adjourned