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Show ARMY BILL REJECTED. House Members Object to Raising Standing Army to 250,00 Men. Washington. Senate amendments to the army bill again were rejected Monday by the house and the measure returned to conference. The proposals propos-als to empower the president to raise the standing army to 250,000 men in time of peace and to raise a federal volunteer army of 261,000 were rejected reject-ed flatly by votes of 221 to 142, and 251 to 109, respectively, while the nitrate ni-trate plant amendment was substituted substitut-ed by one offered by Chairman Hay of the House military affairs committee without a record vote. |