Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-20

a Il votes the house tonight broke away from the leadership. stood behind the president and passed the 1923 naval sp- propriation bill with an amendment fix ing the enlisted personnel st Ss.9oo. The vote on the McArthur-vs-e amendment. the big point in dispfite. an which increased the man force from ST. 900 as provided in the bill. was 2o1 to 14S. with two members answering pre- eat.
 Ninety republicans voted against ,'1- S6.OO0 amendment while 4s democsts supported it.
 There was no great shout at the f1 | ish Ike that which filled the chsmbe- a week ago when the same proposal Wa. put through the house, sitting in cor | mittee Of the whole by a margin Of {: votes A bare hanaciap or two greete the announcement by the speaker. TT galleries. half deserted. made no ai- 1 tempt at a demonstration.
 With the fighting section out of tn ! wsI the bill was put or its passage and went through. 279 to 7s. AS amended the measure carried 10 total of s25l.2se | 900. or S1S.0OO. .00O more than the toiH fixed by the appropriations eonlmitts" wh!ch framed 1t. It goes no to the sen ate with the charge by Chairman Kelley | of the naval appropriations sIb-commi: tee, that many millions vii he added and | which the house would have been asic.l to add had not the big navy men chang | cd front at the last"
 1 As compared with the go republican ! who voted against the amendment. i7 republicans voted for it, while IS other ! were paired for it.
 As against the 4s democrats who vc- l ed for :he amendment. 57 democrats vol cd against 1t. while If others were psire- against 1t.
 Attacked Navy Yard Continuation"
 Except on two occasions today the bill sailed along through urruffled seas. Once, however, Chairman Kelley broke loose in what members characterized as a vicious attack on the "nafyy yard com bonation." charging that despite the l arms conference there were still demand7 from navy yard and naval project dis tricts for more money than was car ried in the bill.
 Starting In the Massachusetts village of S1uantum where destroyers were built during the war. Mfr. Kelley. in a picture of "the plea for more" jurnped across West Virginia. with its armor plate factory, to the South Atlantic coast, across to New Orleans and then to California and up the west coast. The house was in a tumult as he de- clared that everywhere the feeling seeul- ed to be that the purpose of the arms conference was to build up and provide more work for the government plants.
 Kelley Called A Naval wrecker."
 Half a dozen members were drawn in- to the fight. Representative Dupre. dem ocrat. Louisiana. declaring Chairman Kelley had proved himself "a naval wrecker-" The battle ragged for ten min utes. with some members shouting they would not agree to further time 10 com plete the word picture the chairman was seeking to draw.
 The other clash developed when Mir Kelley presented letter received today from Secretary Denby. in reply to one for information in which it was stated that the added cost tothe bill through increasing the enlisted force by 19.00C men would be around s40.000.0OO. Copies of the letter had been received meanwhile by Representative Rogers. republican. oi Massachusetts and others. which wal brought out on the floor, and. while Mir Kelley was proceeding to discuss the fig ures and after the house had announced he would read the letter. republicans shouted wildly to him to go ahead ana read 1t
 Denby Explains Increases.
 Mir Denby. explaining that increase= already put into the bin provided for paI and subsistence of the larger personnel that no addition for clothing would b' needed, and that the item for transporta ton and recruiting ought to be increas set by Ss,Oo0, ,00o.
 While these increases are the only ones involving personnel" the secretary wrote. 'the department Is of the opinio1 that the appropriations recommended b, the committee for the maintenance O the materials of the navy arc wholly in adequate to maintain Its efficiency an' permit it to carry on is duties. Tht is true. whether the ships in coTnmls | sion are those covered by the commit tees distribution for ST 100 men or tn departments proposed distribution fo
 se.000." as already sumbitted to th. . house.
 : Mfr. Denby's increases included: En
 giueering. S4.7S1.o0o; construction an' repair. S4.241 900; ordnance. Sl.2oooo9
 supplies and accounts $500. 900; fuel sn' transportation. ss.ss4.oo0; and yards ana docks. s1.e50.ooo.
 [ Chairman Madden. of the appropris . tions committee. declared that the cos of the increase would reach Sso,ooooo , | ana ChalrUlan fNe@Fg aSStANSN 4e "N~a' , run beyond S7o.ooo,0oO.
 No roll call was demanded on th
 Swing amendment. increasing from n proxlmately S15,0o.aoo to Sls.ooo,ooo th
 pay for officers and men.
 Satisfied that they had the votes t' |; win. leaders in the fight for the bigge personnel decided to stay out of the de , bate. Representatives Rogers, LonEworth McArthur, Ware and others on the re publican side. and Representative Gal livan. Massa chusetts, leading the demo crats for the amendment. counted n'Ise at three o'clock and found that thei pool still stood above sixty majority.