The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
HUGE NAVAL BILL
 HITS IMMEDIATE
 SNAG IN SENATE
Repeated Objections By Borah Cause All Major Committee Amendments to Be
 Passed Over
By Associated Press

Washington, May 12.-The half-billion dollar naval appropriations bill was taken up today in the Senate only to en- counter immediate opposition from the advocates of disarmament.
 Reading of the Senate naval affairs committees amendment had scarcely more than been started when the flrst rumblings of the imminent disarmament fight were heard The first amendments slightly increasing the appropriations or the bill as passed by the House were ac- cepted without discussion but when the amendment was reached to increase the sum available for recruiting by $1,OOoOVoo Senator Borah republican, Idaho, leader of the disarmament forces, asked that it be passed over until the Senate takes up the question of naval personnel.
 This request by Senator Borah was re- peated time after time with the result that when the days consideration ended practically all of the major committee increases in the first half of the bill had passed over. These included the appro- priat ons for the Key West, Fla. subma- rine base, San Diego, Cal, naval hospital project, Guam submarine and destroyer base, Sand Point, Wash, air station, San Pedro, Cal, submarine base, and the Alameda, Cal, supply base.
 CONTENTION OVERRULED
 Senator Borah, before asking that the Alameda project appropriation be passed over along with the others until later time when he announced he wished to discuss them in detail. made a point of order against the provision of the bill au- thorizing the Secretary of the navy 10 accept for naval purposes lands at Ala meda, Los Angeles. Camp kearney, California and in King county, Wash. The Vice President, however, overruisd Senator Borah's contention that the pro vision was general legislation, and as such could not properly be included in the bill.
 The disarmament forces through Senator King, democrat, Utah, also let loose on the bill general attack, the Utah senator contending that contln- uation of the 1916 building programme was a waste of money.
 The navy department" Senator King declared, "has gone back into the tomb and dug up the naval programme of 1916.
 we haven't apparently learned any, thing from the war"
 WARLIKE MESSAGE
 Senator King, in the course Of his three-hour speech, described the bill as "a war-like message from the United States to the nations of the world. He read in support Of his statement press dispatch saying that Great Britain, because of the American naval bill, had decided to contract inn nediately for the building of four 53,- 000-ton vessels of the super-Hood type. Many of the ships now in service should be scrapped, Senator King as- serted, adding that the newly created Pacific fleet was made up of obsolete hulks, which should be placed on the scrap heap.
 Predicting there would be resist less tide'' in favor of world peace and a universal demand that the United States assume the leadership in such a movement, Senator King declared that the decision of Congress on naval appropriations would determine whether the United States is to be q peaceful or an aggressive nation"
 At this moment. when We are con sidering the appropriation of $50O,000.- coo of the countrys money" Senator Borah interjected, land the establish ment of policy which will near bii- lions more, there are seven senators in this chamber. I'd like to record tho fop