Show BORAH PROPOSAL WINS LONG FIGHT AGREEMENT ON NAVAL REACHED BY HOUSE AFTER MUCH discussion idaho dho senator wins battle against great odds speech by lloyd george was waa influential factor in senators Senator laFavor favor washington an agreement has been reached by the alif conferees confere cs on the naval appropriation bill paying paving tho the way for tho the passage of the he borall borah for a conference on international ter of 0 naval expansion mansion pan sion tho the house leaders it Is understood have agreed to abandon their tuto tute for the borah proposal the ben ate in ill turn yielding the elimination of nearly ull all the increase Inci caso in the naval appropriation made by the senate i charges have been made that the substitute proposal propos al ral wits was designed to kilt kill the borah ami dment dra ent can leaders in tho the house announced last week that they would press their substitute to a vote na as an entirely separate resolution on monday when they began w a canvas calvaso of tho sittia lion I 1 they discovered that hat there was a strong sentiment against their plan among the and that they would have to combat a healthy insurgent move inove the ohio delegation composed entirely of republicans held a conference and decided to bolt although t are were differences as to tho the method of bolting some of the Ohl olans announced that they would stand by the borah amendment while others wanted representative burton abne one of the leading international authorities in congress to draft a substitute mr burton drafted a substitute but tho the republican members of the foreign affairs committee turned it down then the wisconsin delegation went on the and decided almost unanimously to support the lorah dorall resolution with this situation behind them the house contreas conferees con trees frees went into the naval conference tuesday in a badly weakened condition the argument was made that dragging la in the whole question of disarmament on land as well as on sen sea would involve the question ot of cutting down naval expenditures in hopeless hop eleas entanglement on the other hanti ann it wits was pointed out that the united states without waiting for action of other powers has cut t the he size of its army to men leaving hardly enough for policing purposes another influential factor in the situation was tile the speech of Pren premier tier lloyd george monday in which he expressed willingness on the part of the british government to enter cuter inac a naval building holiday with the united states and japan in this connection senator borah 3 ift a statement in which he declared that public sentiment in all three countries Is practically united in favor of cutting down naval expenditures the opportunity Is here for the united states to ledd the way said bald senator borah |