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Show ALICE DEFIES ORDERS FROM HI LOBBY President Harding Sends Word Not to Cut Navy Below 86,000 WASHINGTON, April 14 President Presi-dent Harulni? is understood to have sent a letter to the capitol urging that the navy's enlisted personnel he not reduced below 8G.0OO. The views of the president were transmitted It was said, to house members standing for an amlndmi n1 to Increase the 07.000 personnel of the navy bill. . Changing Lhell plan ii the last moment, mo-ment, house- members leading the move for a naval .enlisted personnel of 86,000. made no attempt at the opening of the house todaj t" force over until heat week a vote on tho contested section. Dess than 100 members were on the floor when the reading of the bill was begun, a big part of the membership member-ship being absent from Washington for Easter. BRITISH STRENGTH. Reference to British enlisted figures Was made during the reading of th bill by Representative Green, Rcpub-liia. Rcpub-liia. Iowa, who declared naval Intelligence Intel-ligence officers did not have the factfi 01 else did not give them to the appropriations ap-propriations committee I "The British enlistment total of 98.-iuO 98.-iuO was glen in the British parliament parlia-ment on March 16." said Mr Green ' and that was the figure stated In the committee roport D has repeatedly happened that wrong Information has been given to the house by the navy department ' M l 1 is DEP1 INT. Miss Alice M. Robertson, Republican' of Oklahoma, only woman member of I th' house, during a ten-minute speech on tho bill, declared women, a sad-1 vlsers to the arms conference delegation, delega-tion, had helped fix the 5-5-4 ratio below which sue, as a woman, thought congress should not go In fixing tho enlisted s'.rength of tho navy. This, rerilark taken by the bloc favoring! an 80.000 maximum, as endorsement of their stand, brought a round of cheers 1 Announcing she had Just received, "orders" from the American Assocla- i tlon of University Women to support tho ' small na" program Miss Rob- ortson attacked fte organization 'as the most powerful lobby in Washington." Washing-ton." and declared she did not Intend to heed 'be association's "orders." 1 |