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Show FAVORS EXPANDED HAVY.ASSAFEGUARD MICHIGAN CONGRESSMAN SAYS WHEN WE ARE PREPARED WE CAN ADVOCATE DISARMAMENT. Cliioan Also Declares for an Adequate Navy and Urges That There. Be the Nucleus for a Large Army for the United States. Washiii'liiii. I i :i rin;i nh-ii i discus ."ion Mdotnirkod ronsiil.-ni i ion ol' the loiv.il iiin-on-i;ii ion bill In the house oil -Moiid.-iy, w hen Kopn'siMil ; I i vc Kel-Icy, Kel-Icy, (('publican, .Mb-hi-jiii, bruiiuhl for-wnrd for-wnrd the coiniiiii lei' ii'oio,s;ils to provide! pro-vide! if:!!l;,IMMi,IMK lor I he navy's next llsen! year, of u'hicll .f:M,(K)U,iKH) would be used toward completion of Ihe I'.IIO building program. The expansion program, pro-gram, .Mr. Kelley asserted, would help "lo lift Ihe load now on the shoulders of the world for armament construction construc-tion and maiiilenanco." "When these ships we are building have been completed," he said, "the I'nlled .Slates will equal in sea power any nation In the world, and will be In a position lo offer proportionate reduction re-duction in firmament." 'Theodore Jinrlon, Id-publican, Ohio, former sonalor, supported the committee com-mittee .spokesman in his declarations for an adequate navy and also urged Unit there be the nucleus of a large army for the United States. He declared, de-clared, however, that the "time has come for an International conference for the sake of .stopping this maddening madden-ing competition for the construction of armadas." This view was indorsed by Itopresentatlves Iiyrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, who, turning to taxation tax-ation features involved In military programs, pro-grams, said congress this year would appropriate five and a half billion, or -Vol) a head for each citizen of the United States." Kepresontative W. Iiourke Oockrnn, Democrat, New York, Introduced a resolution to- authorize the president, In view of dreadful economic conditions condi-tions Which can be remedied only by immediate and active employment of all human hands and capital in productive pro-ductive Industry, to offer on behalf of the United Slates to disarm, and in case of refusal to meet "great military mili-tary forces established anywhere resolutely reso-lutely by creation of greater forces on land and sea." |