The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-09

will be taken possession of by MT. Hays committed Then will begin a series of hearings at which army ex- perts, and perhaps the Secretary of War will explain the various features of the measure. These hearings will run up probably to the middle of Jan. uary. At the end of them the com naittee will reframe the bill for sub- mission to the House It then will be referred back to the Military Com raittee, when general hearings will be afforded persons both in favor of and in opposition to it.
 The opposition hopes to enlist the services of former Secretary of State Bryan and Col. Roosevelt in present. ing objections to it from their re- spective viewpoints. Invitations will be extended to MT. Bryan and Col. Roosevelt to appear before the com nlittee.
 MT. Bryan is opposed unqualifedly to any increase in the armed forces of the nation. Col Roosevelt demands that the provision contemplated by the Administration be doubled.
 If the two distinguished critics of the Presidents program for national defense should accept an invitation to make known their reasons for their opposition, they probably will appear some time s early in February or
 
 that the defense measures will not advance, to the final stage of a vote much Before May, or possibly June.
 MT. Hay said today that he hopes to have the support of the majority of Democratic members of his com nnittee behind his bill when it goes to the House.
 Army Bill Ready In January. s T think now said MT. Hay, that we will have the bill ready to submit to the House about the middle of Jan uary.'
 The House Committee on Naval Af- fairs will not be as expeditions as the military committee. The bill eInbody- ing the ideas of the President and Secretary of the Navy probably will not be even reduced to printed form man Pargett of the committee said yesterday afternoon he hoped to get through with the naval experts in time to submit the measure in com pleted form by the 10th of February.t
 The Senate will hotsmaI5e any move to provide for tho increase of the army and navy until after the House has begun it's consideration of the bills relating to the subject. Senator Till- man, the chairman of the Naval Com mittee Of the Upper House, said last night that he did not believe it will be , ings before his committee, as the sub 5ect would be well t1lreshed out on the House side
 Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Conimfttee on Military Affairs. shares the view of Senator TiI1nlan in so far as 1t relates to the feature Of the defense plan intrusted to his com. 1nittee.
 Senator Ti11n1an win offer several amen dn1ents to the Naval Bill The first I will introduce,'. ne said. twill be one to provide for the con- structipn and operation of plants to znanufacture armdr, so as to keep private concerns from robbing the governrnerlt
 The facts about arnnor contracts seem to be about like this. Up to some years ago, only two concerns made arxnor for the nsrvy-tI1e Car .negfe and the RethIehem plants The Midva1e came in and underbid the two old contractors. The CafneRies and Bethlehem made no effort to get back the contracts. but they induced Roosevelt to third, the contract md ar the pretense that the Mfdvale people were not able to take care of the bus fnHss
 By thus dividing the work among three, Roosevelt planned for a. com biI1ation instead of competition. In this way, Roosevelt destroyed conpe- Hition for the armor contracts and en- couraged a combfnation- The Colonel is the last nan to be howHnE about sa lack of preparedness
 The MIdvale concern went into court and did away wit the Kr11pp patent on aT1nor that added to tlfe cost