Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-05
NAVY YARD LOSES
ON SECOND BILL
Fail to Attach Rider to Defic.
iency Measure Today--Sen-
ate Last Chance
1900 MEN ARE AFFECTED

A second attempt to provide funds
for general maintenance Of navy yards
and docks failed today when the second
deficiency appropriation bill passed the
House after motion to include 80. 300, =
600 for the naval work was rejected.
This means there is no hope for the
present of obtaining 81 125 900 for gen q
eral repairs of ships at the Philadelphia
navy yard. Defeat of the bill will
throw 1900 additional employees Of the
yard out of work.
A deficiency appropriation bill pro-
viding $4,000 600 for the navy was de-
feated yesterday. The second deficiency
bill passed today carried an appropria-
ton of $50 400 600.
Senate Only Hope
A motion to recommit it so that the
naval committee might add an amend
ment was made as Il last resort, but it
received small consideration.
Commenting on the result. Repre-
sentative William S. Ware said: The
approximation is dead unless saved in
the Senate. 1t was defeated in the
House yesterday by the shipping inter
ests. and that's all there was to it,.
Michael Francis Doyle, counsel for
the navy. yard employees, said: The
defeat of this appropriation by the
House is no surprise TO any one who
followed intelligently the action of the
present Congress. 1t, was for this rea-
son that l did not Lgo to Washington
this week to secure its passage, because
i knew after it was defeated in the an
preparation committee that it would be
useless.
Money \ Necessity
i.There is little | can say about the
matter" said Rear Admiral Charles 5.
Hughes. cpmmandant of the yard. to-
day. Il tried to show before the
measure was considered Inau the money
was an absolute necessity if the ships
here were to be placed in proper con-
dition.
''There is nothing we can do but lay
of the men. The repairs are necessary,
but we haven't the money to make them.
N&he department makes monthly appro-
swMationS TO the navy yards, but the
auNunt received is not sufficient for the
amoInt of work we have or hand now"
We are not going to stop now; we
have just begun to fight, said Bert
Crowley, president of the navy yard
development committee
eve are getting the American Le-
gion back of the measure, which has
come now to be a patriotic issue. not n
political one, as its antagonists have
charged We will get the Chamber of
Commerce and whatever other interests
we can and try to bring the measure up
on the floor of the Senate.
Will Delay Work
There are more ships in the ward
awaiting repair than ever before. Work
on fifty destroyers now being repaired
will be stopped or Curtailed. And
needed repairs on the battleships Ohio.
Massachusetts, Indiana. Connecticut.
Maine, Iowa, Kentucky, Alabama,
Wisconsin, Illinois and kcarsarge will
be delayed. =
The men to be affected are employees
of the hull and machinery divisions al
the yard. Some of the work already
has been begun, but will be- stopped al
once.
''Since February We have been
working some men for whose pay We
have no appropriation, Admiral
Hughes said. I'VE will have to find.
funds to pay them from some other
source"