Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-18
BIG NAVY" FRIENDS
INCREASE STRENGTH
Of WATER FORCES
Wild Scenes Enacted as Re-
suit of Ballot Is Announce
ed Warning Sounded TO
G. O. P,

"AOI11NGIO4N, GIprll 1I.-(by
the Associated Press.)-With nearly
fifty votes to spare, "big navy" men
put through the house Saturday by a
vote of III to $50, an amendment
to the 1923 naval bill increasing the
enlisted force from $1,000 to $4,000.
Shot at from all sides, the bill
as framed by the appropriations
committee and opposed by President
Harding, wabbled at times like a
frail craft-then went down by the
head. There are other sections, of
course, to be taken up next week,
but the big fight was on the en-
listed provision.
The vote Saturday was in commit
tee of the whole. When the measure
reaches the house proper a demand
will be in order for a recorded vote,
but the wide margin by which the
amendment won means, according
to most leaders, that the result will
stand.
Some administration leaders as
serted tonight that the letter pre-
scented yesterday from the president
below $4,000 swung the tide in favor
of the amendment which was offer
ed Jointly by Representatives Nc
Arthur, Oregon, and Ware, Pennsyl-
vania, both Republicans,
Fighting to the last, holding his
ground through four solid hours Of
debate, Representative Kelley, Of
Michigan, in charge of the bill, took
the defeat with smile when a roar,
rising and growing, swept the cham
Der as the march of members down
the aisle for a man-to-man count
showed that the amendment had
won.
Wild Scenes Enacted
When the moment came for a
vote on the $4,000 amendment, the
: question was put and there was a
loud shout of ayes and even louder
shout Of noes. No presiding officers
could have decided which side was
stronger in numbers. So great was
the below of the noes" that Rep
resentative Ware, on the winning
side, jumped to his feet with a de-
mand for a rising vote. Before this
could be called, the whole house
shouted for telfers, and in moment
members were damned at the head
of the center aisle waiting for a
chance to crowd through and be
coInt"d.
Every seat filled, the galleries
4 Joined in the tumult. Guards who
had kept the crowds in order during
the day, let them shout as they
pleased.
Just before the vote was an
nounced the house halted moment
to permit Representative Mansfield,
+ Democrat, Texas, who has been i'll,
to be counted without going through
the ordeal of going down the aisle
in the wheel chair in which he has
been attending house sessions.
Representative Kelley, as chair
man of the subcommittee which
framed the bill with it's provision
for a navy with an enlisted strength
of >67. 900 men-less than navy
under the arms conference treaty
had the last word in the long de-
bate. Half of the house stood as he
started to speak. AS the gavel tap
ned the warning that his time was
I'D, the chairman, swinging away
from the point he was seeking to
drive home, namely, that the de-
mand for the increase came from
navy yard sections, exclaimed:
G. o. I. Warned
"Let me say this. We must not
promote any group of individuals
or any combination of localities to
throw themselves across the path
of the world in the goal of world
progress and peace as set by the
armament conference"
Breaking into the debate towards
TN. close, Chairman Madden, OF the
appropriations committee, said he
wantetd to warn Republicans that
if the right verdict did not come to-
dav on the vote it would come IN
November, when they would be
forced to explain why they had
failed to bring about economy, one
of the objects hoped to be opeyed
nv the arms conference. Mr.. Mad
den asserted the amendment as
adopted would add $60,000,O0O in
one lump sum to the total OF $685.
10000 carried in the bill.
Representative Fadgett, of Ten
nessee, the former Democratic
chairman of the naval affairs com.
mittee, which formerly prepared
the naval bills, made one of the
principal arguments for the in.
crease, asserting the efficiency of
the navy could not be maintained
without it.
The movement for the increase on
the Republican side was IN the
hands of Mr.. Macarthur, MI. ware
and Representative Rogers, OF
Massachusetts,.
After adopting the Ware amend
rnent the house, without division
adopted one offered by Representa-
tive Macarthur, increasing from
500 100000 to $107, 100000 the
amount carried for pay of officers