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Show PLANS ARE UPSET AT OGDENARSENAL Insufficient Funds May Necessitate Ne-cessitate Long Wait WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. B. Unlesa favorable action Is secured in the senate the plans of the ordnance department of the United States army to build thirty-three thirty-three ma ga sines, living quarters for an ordnance company and other structures at the Ogden arsenal will have to be abandoned aban-doned at least temporarily. The ordnance bureau requested a 1.7,-000 1.7,-000 appropriation in the sundry civil bill to carry out Its plans, but the house failed to include It when the measure was considered. con-sidered. .Senator Reed 8 moot will bring up the appropriation In the senate and hopes to secure favorable action on at least a part of the amount requested. The estimates submlited by the ordnance ord-nance department provided for thirty-three thirty-three magazines for the storage of smoke- 1 less powder at a cont of light- I ning protcton, $1..r00; one repacking i house, 120 W; a twelve-bed hospital, $10.- j 000; two officers' quarters, $J1.000; two noncommissioned officers quarters, $IH.-T00, $IH.-T00, and one barracks for 100 men, S-'U 780. I4. was explained that the bureau desires de-sires to station an ordnance company at the arsenal instead of hiring civilian help. AH requests were refused by the house committee on appropriations and the question was not considered by the house itself. Officers now at the arsenal are compelled com-pelled to live In ogden, seven miles away, because of the lack of living quarters. The magazines originally authorised were for the storage of T. N. T.. but It ia now deemed advisable to store smokeless powder also at the arsenal. j |