Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 2 | Navy Personnel to be Reduced

NAVY PERSONNEt 1 TO BE REDUCED Strength ot 100,000 Enlisted Men Provider for in Appropriation Ap-propriation Bill WASHINGTON. ir"'- 12- The hoUSS to. lay a. repted without comment com-ment the provision for reducing the enlisted strength of the navy fVom 141,000 to L00, 000 men after July 1 During consideration of the naval i appropriation bill, no objection v.is raised to the section proldlng funds j sufficient only for 100.000 during the coming fiscal year. It remained In the bill Intact l i I T M K1I ORPS. Clauses providing for a reduction of tho marine corps from ait'r.lmately 27,000 to 20,000 men and for an appropriation ap-propriation of jho.ooo.ooo to carry the 1910 building program durinc the next fiscal year probably will be reached Monday After Uepresint.it l o Crcene, Rc-puhli.an, Rc-puhli.an, Iowa, ranking Republican member of the ways and means eom-1 mlltee. hal urged reduel Inn of arma- rhentS, licpresenUttlvn (larrctt. Demo-j crat. Tepii. . for lo minutes look I thi Republican party to task for. 'scrapping the only definite dlsarma-tnent dlsarma-tnent program ever laid before the! world the league of nations' RE 11 VTS OF l EAGI 1 j Representative BrltJon. Republican, llllnoit-, wit ted to know If ihe league of nations meant disarmament, why nations already in the league had taken tak-en no steps to reduce their armies and navies. g "Because the United Statea isn't In the league," BhOUted Mr (Jarrett. We're trying to build the biggest navy In the world.'" Attacks on the navy bill on the ground that ninny provisions were new legislation ontinued today, Representative Rep-resentative BrKton leading the fight. JIr was Jess successful, however, than on previous days and practically all sections considered remained Intact,