Show REFERS T TO iO EXPENSE OF ARMY AND NAVY Senator Hale Moves Reconsideration Reconsideration Recon Recon- of Appropriation Bill But Withdraws I Washington Washing April 7 Senator lIttle Hale of ot Maine Mainc today asked that the voto vote on the tho arrn army appropriation bill be re reconsidered re- re considered Ho He said salt that in the ab- ab absence absence ab ab- sence settee of Secretary Taft from his of office of- of I tl fl fice e pl plans ns to Increase the size of the arm array army were drafted b by the men in charge of the department Senator Hale little in tho the course of or his speech said I 1 am not riot dealing In a finding fault wa way with any particular item In this bill which carries an Increase of at atmore more moro than more than the appropriation for the arm army last year i I merely want to show that every item in this bill represents great groat reat appropriation appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap for the future Not an arm item that I now know of ot is Js temporary but butwill will he bo carried into appropriations of ot the tho future I r I ha have o 0 also the figures for Cor the naval appropriation bill showing thero there Is a larger increase this year yc r than In the war department Last year ear we appropriated for this this purpose This year I venture venturo to toM toLay Lay s-ay M It will bo he upward of or 1 Hero v we e have another of or 20 O- O for military purposes In hi ono one year ear This Includes anI only a a. moderate moderato program not of TOl four tour battleships but butof butor butor or of two battleships Navy and ami Army rJ 1 J pc Is R. R It wo we go 10 on us its wo we arc now going the tho naval appropriation h bill In three or r four years he y o o is the tho mor 1 t llna ni ia that dep r r an m l c z this program I 1 is to bo ho out and we are to pass pa s In accord with this program we wo shall nave an nn army costIng costIng cost- cost Ing lag a year After AItel he ho had made mad his speech S Senator Senator Sen Sen- n- n ator little Halo withdrew withdraw his motion to ro- ro consider Senator Burke Burko of or Kansas insisted that Senator Hale could not withdraw his motion without confess V ho he Introduced It simply a as a n paltry excuse and a subterfuge under under un un- der tier which to attack the tho head of or one ono of oC the thc great departments of or the gO gov During the debate Senator AldrIch declared that ho he was in full s sympathy with Senator Halos Hales stand Ho lie said that ho believed ed the time Ume had come cometo come cometo to cut cul down appropriation bills bUls The senate today passed the tho fortification cation catlon bill hill calling for an appropriation LIon tion of oC more mor than for tor new fortifications |