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Show IDAHO SENATOR URGES CUT IN Daniels Delcares Borah Proposition Propo-sition Would Be Burden If Carried Out SECRETARY PRESSES FOR MORE VESSELS Time Has Not Come to Reduce Naval Strength, He Tells House WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. A resolution resolu-tion requesting the president to opi?n negotiations with Great Britain and Japan for an agreement to reduce naval building programs fifty per cent 1 for the next five years was introduced I In the senate today by Senator Borah I Itepubllcan. Idaho. The resolution would declare it to I bo the opinion of congress thaa the I'nlted States would make BU0ha re- Iductlon if an agreement could bi brought about and asserted that lh'-navrea lh'-navrea of Great Britain and Japan wer the only ones of power Sufficient to require American attention. I) Wll L6 OPPOSl s When Senator Borah ofl'i-red his resolution, Sc-crctary Daniels was be-I be-I fore th-' house naval committee strongly opposing such a proposal. "It would bo a blunder equal to n crime. said the naval secretary, "for the United Btatea to enter Into an alliance with an) two or three nations, either to suspend or urtaii naval building or for any other purpose- It would Certainly arouse suspicion among the other nations of the world." . GARR1 ' 'l l PROGRAM "I profoundly believe that the 1'nlt- .1 States cannot afford to undertake a naval holiday as It has been rumored England and Japan will suggest to this country. 1 wish we could have a v. .rld agreement that we could settle disputes without recourse to arms, but until that time comes, ami comes surely, sure-ly, we ought to carry out our naval building program." Senator Borah's resolution was referred re-ferred to the foreign resolutions committee com-mittee without debate, |