Arizona republican., 1921-04-30
CHAIRMAN KAHN
 WAN TS 1 LARGER
 STANDING ARMY
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 WASHINGTON, April 29-The army appropriation bill was shot at from ambush and the open, during a five hour fight in the house today on some of it's provisions, especially one which was admitted to mean early withdrawal of American troops from Germany. regardless of action by congress on the Knox peace resolu- tion.
 In the midst of the fighting Repre- sentative Garrett. Tennessee, acting Democratic leader. introduced reso- lution requesting President Harding to inform congress, if not incompat- ible with public interest whether he intended to order the troops home immediately upon passage of the Knox peace resolution.
 The house cooled down after Chair man Kahn of the military affairs committee had attacked the bill be- cause of the section fixing the en- listed force at 16S.000. Mir. Kahn de- clared that with the world in turmoil the total was too small. His amend ment increasing the, number to 175.000 however, was not reached. Other members declared they would fight to cut the total lower than the bill pro- vides
 Asked pointediy by Mir. Garrett whether rumors that an amendment would be offered directing the presi- dent to withdraw troops from Ger mary. Chairman Anthony of the sub- committee on appropriations in charge of the bill, declared he had never heard of 1t.
 But if the secretary of war admin isters this bill as written MT. An- thony added, "he will be forced to withdraw the troops from Germany and decrease other forces outside the territorial limits of the United States"
 The peace question bobbed up again while Chairman Kahn was pleading 1 for his amendment to increase the i appropriation set aside for the army intelligence service on the ground that the whole world was off it's bal- | ance and no man could say how soon | trouble might break.
 l MT. Garrett pressed Mir. Kahn, ask ! ing if the remark was cryptic. Mr. Kahn declared the secretary of war had urged larger appropriation and there were demands to know if the
 secretary had based his plea upon early passage of the Knox resolution
 In the end the house rejected the Kahn amendment. leaving the total about $1o0.000 less than requested T am not an alarmist, I am not afraid of war, but we all know that l world conditions are unsettled, Chairman Kohn declared.
 And in the interest of true econ.
 omy in the interest of the welfare of the country. I shall appeal to tho
 membership of this house to sup
 port such an amendment"
 Citing the fact that Japan and Chi na both had much larger armies
 than this country. the California rep
 resentative said that in proportion t population only Colombia and Uru quay had smaller armies than the
 United States.
 Thousands of our fellow citizen
 believe" said Mir. Kahn, that thi
 country by its action in the way o
 reducing its army can bring abou international disarmament withou any difficulty. Some months hay
 elapsel since we reduced our forces have seen no indication anywher
 that any other nation in the worl is making efforts to follow our foot
 steps. Therefore. I consider it tn part of wisdom at least, for the pres . ent, to maintain a force the minimum
 of which will be 175,000 enlisted men. Answering the demand for reduction of, government expenses, MT. Kah , declared the secretary of war coul , be trusted absolutely to cut expense wherever possible without injury { !, the military esta ablishment. Tt seems to me the facts are s , palpable that no one at this tim
 ought to want to cripple our militar F establishment" NIT. Kahn declared
 we nave grave international ques
 tions which our state department
 trying to solve. We hope they wi
 be solved with honor and credit e our government. During the pend e ency of these matters and in their so lution, no individual can foretell wha [. is going to happen. l, for one, believ e we can afford to be prepared for an ', possible emergency, and I think tn S American people will approve the in I crease in our enlisted force.'