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Show ft Li! MEN FOP, NATION'S DEFENSE REORGANIZATION BILL PROVIDES FOR BIG INCREASE IN REGULARS REGU-LARS AND RESERVES. Action in Senate Hastened by German Crisis, Substitute Bill Being Pasced, Differences to be Settled Set-tled in Conference. Washington. An army reorganization reorganiza-tion bill that would produce regular army and reserve military forces in the I'nili'd Slates aggregating a million mil-lion men was passed by the senate Tuesday night without a record vote. It is a substitute for the Hay bill, passed by the house, and the differences differ-ences will be worked out in conference. confer-ence. On the eve of a Joint session of the houses of congress to hear a message from the president on grave international interna-tional issues the senate hastened completion com-pletion of the bill amid scenes of excitement, ex-citement, repeatedly rejecting all amendments tending to reduce the proposed strength of the .army. The vote to increase the regular army was non-partisan. Twenty-two Republicans and twenty-one Democrats Demo-crats supported it and twenty-six Democrats and eleven Republicans voted against It. " In the closing hours of debate the senate made provision tor a regular Standing army with a peace strength of 250,000, as compared with 140,000 in the Hay bill, which passed the house; retained, after a close fight, the plan for a federal volunteer army reserve calculated to aggregate 261,-000 261,-000 men, and federalized the national guard forces of the states at an estimated esti-mated strength of JSO.OOO men. In addition to this combined regular regu-lar and reserve force of 790,000 men, an amendment was passed to create a school and college youths' reserve corps in time of war or threatened war, which would recruit a force of trained young men, schooled by officers offi-cers of the regular army, the strength of which is estimated anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000. |