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Show House Favors U. S. Army of 150,000 Men 168,000. Representative Kahn, chairman, chair-man, military affairs committee, offered of-fered an amendment for an army of 175,000. Representative Fish presented an amendment to this for an army d! 156,000. The Kahn amendment, as amended, was defeated by a vote of 97 to 74, and then Representative Byrnes of South Carolina moved that the army should be fixed at 150,000. This was adopted by a vote of 109 to 82. By reducing the army to this size the appropriation for the army for the next fiscal year is reduced from $83,000,000 to $72,000,000. Representative Kahn and Republican Republic-an Leader Mondell pleaded in vain for acceptance , of the recommendations recommenda-tions of Secretary Weeks and the army officers. The small-army men admitted that the world was in a most chaotic condition, con-dition, but argued that the addition of a few thousand men to the American army would not settle that chaotic condition. They said, also, that congress should pay more attention to the people and less to the general staff. iT WOULD appear that official Washington has more than one idea as to the proper size of the American army. Anyway, the small-army small-army men in the house, combining j with the Democrats, outgeneraled the Republican leaders and succeeded in amending the army bill so as to fix the size of the army at 150,000. This was done despite the request of Secretary Secre-tary Weeks that the army's size should not be reduced below 175,000. The house adjourned without passing pass-ing the bill after a prolonged debate during which the Republican leaders pleaded for a good-sized army because of the disturbed world conditions. Tlie bill provided for an army of |