New-York tribune., 1921-06-02
Bigger gggge Navy
Bill assed
BY Senators
Measure Provides for q
$500, ,0OO,O 600 Appro-
priation and Personnel
of 12O, 600; Vote 54-17
rom The Tr'buns's Washlagtous Eu~.au

Prom The Tr'bune's Washington Eu@sau
WASHINGTON, June With FIVE
Republicans and twelve Democrats vot-
ing against it, the Senate this after
noon passed the naval appropriation
bill carrying an approximate total of
s000,000,000. This is in round num-
bers $i00,000,000 moro than the bill
provides as it passed the House.
The Borah amendment requesting
the President to call conference OF
representatives Of the government OF
Great Britain, Japan and the United
States to consider reduction OF naval
rrnaments, was retained in the bill.
On the final roll call The vote Oh the.
bill was 54 TO r.. Those who voted
against it included Senator's Cspper,
La Toilette. Lenroot, Norbeck and Nor
rfs, Republicans; ard Dial, Glass, Har-
ris, Harrison, Hefin, Hitchcock, King,
Pomerene, Sheppard. Stanley, Tram-
neil, and Watson, of Georgia. Deuto-
Gratis.
last previous to tie final vote Sen
ator King, Of Utah, nlcved to recor1-
the purpose OF striking 5000. .0oQ,GN0
from The total. This vas defeated 25
TO 40.
Provides Personnel Of 10000
Aa passed to-day She bill contela-
ylates carrying forward the 1915
building proeranl and provides foc
personnel OF 900 for the coming
;scal year, or 10000 more than tsie
l. 'i.; kt.e
thorization OF two airplane carriers at
q limit Of cost OF $26,000,000 each, are
the cslief increases provided for by
the sseHgte.
For nearly three weel.s The bill has
been pen2ila before the Senate. It
has callod Forth bitter snd protractad
debate in which the subject Of reduc-
tion OF armanlenIs and disarn.rleI.ts
has played a large part. Severe criti-
cism has been offered from both the
Republican and the Democratic sides
against the increases in the bill as
reported by the Naval Affairs Commit
tee. Warnings have been given repeat
edly to the Republican leaders that
the country would not submit patient
ly 10 the vast expenditures involved.
between the two houses. A struggle
ences Of opinion, moreover, have de-
veloped over the form the disarmament
amendment shall take. House Leader
Mondeil, after a recent conference
with President Harding, expressed the
view that the House favored policy
which would include land Rs we'll as
naval disarmament.
Public Opinion Appealed To
Tn tha nloci7or 40
to-day various Senator'S protested
against the enlarged expenditures pro-
vided for in the Senate bill and ad-
monlshed the Senate that this was in
the face OF hostile public opinion.
Some days ego an item of $1,150,000
for a dry dock at Charleston Harbor
was knocked out il committee Of the
whole. To-day, after Senator Dial, of
South Carolina, had protested against
that action, the Senate reversed itself
on viva voce vote.
Repeated efforts to cut the bill ma
terially and to change it in important
nothing.
The project Of new supply base at
Alameda, Calf, carrying as a begin
ming $1,500,000, was stricken from the
bill recently. No attempt was made in
the final stages to restore it, and it
remains out of the measure.
When the bill was brought up to-day
Senator King, Of Utah, who has led the
fight against it on the Democratic. side,
again spoke in opposition. Tie criti-
oizad, among other things, the failure
OF the submarines TO meet the require
ments of modern navy" and declared
provision had not been made for con-
struction Of suitable submarines. De-
spite the fact that up to 1920 more
than S6,000,000 900 had been spent for
the navy Senator King said, "it is prac-
tically obsolete now" A construction
program of battleships and battle
cruisers was now projected, he said,
coo.
Warns of Hostility in Orient
He sounded warning against action
in California and Hawaii calculated to
earn, the mass hostility Of the Orient.
"The American people," said Senator
King, will not submit. They will gise
ara protest against this indefenaible
policy of extravagaEt waste The SEN
ate ought to have stricken $200,000,000
trcm the bill, he asserted.
Amendments by Senator King to halt
construction We're voted down. 4 corl-
mittee amendment Increasing by 81
100000 the allowance for yards and
smendment for the restoration to the
Naval Academic of ITO midshipmen who
were found deficieat was defeated.
After passage of the bill conferees
were named for the Senate headed by
Senator PcindeXter. The Senate con-
ferees, it was learned, will stand by the
. EOral, aO1nndn, prI