The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-02-09
SENATORS Reject
.uAvYRECESSPLAN
Committee Reports Against Six
Months Suspension.
HOU,E PASSES ARMY BILL
Great Britain Does Not Regard
American Fleet as Menace, Sir
Sir Philip Gibbs Says

ashington, Feb. IA negative re
port was ordered by the >snate naval
affairs committee On the resolution Of
Senator RCrah asking for the commit
tees opinion whether il was Dracti
cable nj advisable for the government
[, suEEnnI naval hul1ing operations
fc! six r3uniiis
Cheat Britain will NOT undertake a
race With The United States for sea
respondent, declared before The house
naval affairs committee. England
hasn't the money, he said, and NEST
Engli,hmen do not regard the Ameri-
can navy ''as Il menace.
Sir Philip said that before any agree,
ment for disarmament could be reached
by the principal powers, The Russian
question would have TO ne settled and
the Russian people drawn back into
the family of nations Representa-
tives of the Russian SoYiet government
should by all me>aS be Included in any
| conference to discuss disarmament, Sir
| Philip declared. He characterized the
Russian Red army as the greatest
military menace in the world
There is spirit of revolt, entirely
apart from BOlsheviSm, III Europe to-
! day because of the general fear Of an
other war, the witness declared. add
| Ing that the people felt that they had
been betrayed in the iast war, because
they had been told that IT was Il war
to end war.
The burden of ornaments in Eu-
! rope is greater today than it was in
1914" he asserted England Is spend
Ing S1,35O,O0O,0O0 a year on its mill
| tary-naval establishment, he said.
Ar invitation from the United States
for q disarmament conference would
meet with the approval Of most OF the
people of Great Britain, he said, al
| though some sections Of the govern
ment are opposed to the general idea
of disarmament.
The army appropriation bill, carry
ing approximately 1929, 100000. and
providing for a force of only 10000
men in 1922, was passed ny the house
and sent TO the senate.
The measure was passed practically
as it came from the appropriations
committee. A last-minute move to cut
the number of officers from 1900 to
1000 was blocked by Il vote of 27I 70
IS.
The house also refused, by a vote of
219 to 40, to insert Il specific provision
that the army be reduced to 100000
men during the year, but the funds
appropriated for enlisted mems pay is
sufficient only for a force of that
size
Under masure finally passed by
the senate over President Wilson's veto,
recruiting must be stopped immediate
" until the present force is reduced
to 10000 men and further reductions
next year will be necessary If the SEN
etc approves the house provision of
the appropriation bill setting aside
money for the pay of enlisted men.
At the instance of Senator Johnson.
the senate foreign relations committee
directed Chairman Lodge to ask Secre-
tary Colby, if not Incompatible with
the public interest, to submit to the
cOIlliliISe ii copy VI lhS hSiSSllSd'
reached between Ambassadors Morris
and ShidChara regarding new treaty
to deal with the situation resulting
from the adoption by California of an
alien land bill.
Unanimous approval vas given by
the senate agriculture committee to a
measure by Senators Glass and Swan
son To authorize the treasury TO pur
chase S1OO,OOO,OOO of farm loan bonds
so as to make available funds for loans
to farmers