The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-20
BREAKS away
FROM LEADERS
Rv a Margin of II Votes Adopts
Senate Measure With One
Amendment Tackled On.
cuA1RMAN KELLEY MAKES
TTIITILE FIGHT AGAINST 1T
Measure Carries $1S,OOO0OO
More Than Total Fixed by
Appropriation Committee.
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,,,ryir Of Il votes the House tonight
broEe away from it's own leadership,
,,ooa beblud the president and passed
.no 1914 neval appropriation bill with
~ amendment fixing the enlisted per-
sonnel at $4,000.
Tho vote on the Macarthur Ware
amendment. the big point in dispute
which increased the man force from
g. 400 as provided in the bill, was 22l
,o l4S with two members answering
prestnt. Ninety republicans voted
against the $4,000 amendment while
As democrats supported 1t.
hare clap or two greeted the an
nouacement by the speaker. The gal
erles half deserted made no attempt
al a demonstration. T..
With the fighting section out OF the
way the bill was put on Its passage
and went through 279 to 7S.
As amended, the measure carried q
total Of $251, ,269, 900, or about $4,000,
900 more than the total fixed by the
appropriations committee which franz
ed Il. It goes now to the Senate, with
the charge by Chairman Kelley of the
neval appropriation subcommittee that
many millions will be added and which
Inc house would have been asked to
add had not the big navy men chang
Cd front at the last
As compared with the 30 republicans
who voted against the amendment, 173
republicans voted for It, while 16
others were paired for 1t,
AS against 48 democrats who voted
for the amendment, 81 democrats yot-
~l against It, while IA others were
paired against it.
Except on two occasions today the
bill sailed along through unruffled
seas Once, however. Chairman Kel-
ley broke loose In what members
characterized as a vicious attack on
the navy yard combination" charging
that despite the arms conference there
we're still demands from navy yards
and naval project districts for more
money than was carried in the bill.
Starting In the Massachusetts, vii
age at SQuantum where destroyers
were built during the war, Mr.. Kelley
IN picture Of the plea for more"
jumped across West Virginia, with it's
arlnor plate factory, to the South At
!antic, across to New Orleans, and
men to California and up the West
coast The house was IN a turmult
no declared that everywhere the
'eeAng seemed to be that the purpose
VI tns arms conference was to build
up and provide more work for the gov
ernmsnt plants.
haI dozen members were drawn
!H'0 me fight, Representative Dupre,
u''HUorat' Louisiana, declaring Chair
man Kelley had proved himself "a nav
~ "reeKer," The battle ragged for ten
minutes
-, ias other clash developed when Mr..
Ne"sy presented letter receiver to-
way from Secretary Denby in reply
" one Tor information In which II was
's ',a'ea that the added cost to the bill
sn'Vusn Increasing the enlisted force
Sso ~ ''VOo mon would be around $40,
,,. @'' Oenoy explained that increases
n"'Suy put in TO the bill provided for
,o..., Suu subsistence Of the larger per-
v,.a,. % that no addition for clothing
t,ss"l ,s.,a 90 needed, and that the item for
h. ''pOr'a'ion and recruiting ought to
.,,N mofeased by $4,000, 900.
49,, "nlle these increases are the only
~" ~. involving personnel" the secre-
oOl,,, wrote the department Is OF the
n.,A" su 'nat tho appropriations recon-
n,IS.' oy the committee for the
o,r' o"onanoe Of the materials OF the
M, are wholly inadequate to main
u,-. :" efficiency and to permit it to
vs,,, on its duties. This is true
tbo,. sr the ships in commission are
trbr,,Y VOVerSd by the committee's dis
n,r.'Y s.On Tor $1,000 men or the depart
tN~ proposed distribution for 90.
N. IS already submitted to the house.
Enss.,- ,Dsnoy's increases included: en-
NDo,.s F@,7Sl,0oo; Construction and
supnu.. HzSl'oOo; ordnance $1,000, 600;
and tS :. ana accounts $6Oo, 900, fuel
nra, ".1nsportation, $s,S94, 900, and
cSa,ad and docks s1,25O.OOO.
ton cora' man Madden OF the appropria-
abs unittee declared that the cost
'ad o.. bniVreaSe would reach $50, 900 600
I'M bo"eD r~'Iinan Kelley asserted it would
'eyond 10000, 900.
Srlng al was demanded on the
'pproy,,,o onendment increasing from
As ps,- -',a'e'y Sl5,OOo.O0O to S1s 900 600
''' 'OF officers and men.