The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-09
ATTEMPT TO STOP CONSTRUCTION OFF
 SHIPS DEFEATED
Senate Naval Committee Re- ports Unfavorably on
 Borah's Proposal. APPROPRIATION VOTED House Committee Reports Bill Carrying 95,504,44A
 For Fiscal Year 1922.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. g. The Senate Naval Committee today returned a negative report on Sen ator William E. Borah's resolution proposing to suspend naval building for six months period
 Nearly half a billion dollars will be required to complete the United States great naval building program embarked upon in 1916, the House Appropriations Committee estimated in reporting the annual naval ap- propriation bill for the fiscal year 1922
 The commmittee said that while the cost of completing the program was originally placed at $544,7OO,- 900, increased cost of materials and labor probably would increase the total to $972,931,000 of which $538,27O,0O0 has been appropriated. #The bill reported, which, carries a. total of $395,504, 4,444, provides $9O,- 100000 for continuing construction next year.
 This amount" the accompanyine report SJdIeu, VIII dlio" thO WI !" to be prosecuted during the coming fiscal year about as rapidly as it has been possible to proceed thus far in the current fiscal year..
 156 Ships Authorized.
 The 1916 program authorized 156 ships Many of these have been completed but seventeen battleships and battle cruisers and number of auxiliaries still are under con struction.
 The bill today carried S37,775, ,129 less than the amount appropriated a year ago and $284,011,2S7 less than the amount requested by the Navy Department.
 Besides the cut in the enlisted personnel of the navy from 14S.000 to 100000 heretofore announced the committee also cut the Marine Corps from 27,4O0 to 20,00o en- listed men. No reduction, however will be made in the number of offi- cers in either service.
 A force of 100000 men, the com mittee said, would be sufficient to keep at least 384 vessels in opera tion, or thirty-two more than were were in the entire navy in 1916,
 $6.913,431 for Aviation.
 The total appropriation for aVia- tion is s6,913,431, reduction Of s2S.0S6,569 from estimates and s13,O86,O00 less than was appro- priated for this year.
 An appropriation of $55O,000 for yards and stations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is recommended, while s4,907,00O is proposed for yards on the Pacific Coast and in Hawaii.
 Among the provisions for expen- ditures on the Pacific Coast are s325. 900 for the Mare Island, Cal, navy yard: s1,405.000 for the Puget Sound, Wash, navy yard; S1,0Z5.- 900 for the naval aviation and s177,000 for an ammunition depot at Pearl Harbor; $100,000 for a similar depot at Mare Island and S25.O06 for one at Puget Sound; s2OO.OOO for the naval base at San Diego, Cal..: $40.000 for a submar-
 
 inc base at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone and s15O,OOO for a similar base at Pearl Harbor
 Appropriations Cut.
 The committee recommended an annronriation of $200,000 for the navy yard at Philadelphia, as com pared with $1,2O0,000 appropriated for this year. cut the appropriation for the Norfolk, Va, navy yard from s520,OOO to s25O,O00 and made no provision for the yards at Washing ton, D. C., or Portsmouth, N. H.
 No provision was made Tor a naval station at Guam, for which the Navy Department recommended sl,499,OO0 appropriation
 The Senate today knocked out $75.OOO item in the sundry civil bill for the Council of National De- fense, leaving no provision for main- tenanee of that organization.