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Show WILL BUILD TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS Home Committee Rejects Recommendations Recom-mendations of President That Four Ships be Built. The Appropriation DIM, as Agrees Upon by the Committeemen, Car. rles $101 000,000 for the Nsval Establishment for the Next Flstal Year. Washington Hy a vote of 13 to R, one member absent and not voting, the house committee on natal altalr nn Monday rejected the president a urgent recommendation that congress authorise at this session Iho building of four battleships nt n total tost of 3S.W)u.um, and by n unanimous vole there was Included In tho navy appropriation ap-propriation bill an authorisation for the cnnainietion of two. In coat ID, ROn.OOO, each to be t tho Delaware type Thvee representative voted In ac cordanro with tlw prealdelil'a reenin tnendUlons I llloy, nf Contievllciit, Republican). Thomas, Ohio, (Republican), (Repub-lican), M)er. Iiulalann (Democrat), Tnlbolt Maryland, (D'tnocrnt), and llohson, AInbaniH. (Demnerat) Hepreaentallvo Hobson nnmiiinted niter the eommlllee meeting that ho Iniemled In make a mlunrlt) reKirt ivcomiiieiidlng authorisation for four linltli ships The naval npproprlnllnn bill as stnended nnd agreed tiwn by Iho committee, com-mittee, cnrtles n total appropriation of llOI.OOO.oDn for tho navy establish tnent for the next Dsonl )ear. alMiut (21,000.000 less than was asked for in the department estimate Under tho head of new niithorlsu ttons for whose fulfillment congress Is bound to appropriate mono nt the next session If tire bill as recommend d passes Iho house and senate, the committee Included two bnltlewhlps to cost 110,000 004, ten destroyers, IB, (,00.000, eight submarine torpedo boats, (3,010.000, total, $30 510.090. or SJ8.730 000 less than the total for new authorisations naked for tlm navj do partmout. |