The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
WAR DEPT. APPROPRIATIONS
INCREASED BY is. Senate
Insurgents Remain Quiet
as Millions are Voted
for Militarism
Especial to The Daily Worker


WASHINGTON, D. c., March 17.--
The increasing by thousands of dol
lars of all the appropriations for va
Tious sections of the measure which
provides for the war department was
secured in the United States senate
today by amendments, without a pro-
test or a word from the so-called pro-
gressives in the chamber.
Before the increases were made
decrease was agreed to in an amend
ment to the section which provided
for an appropriation for the medical
and hospital department of the army,
reducing the originally planned sum
Of $1,197,O11 to $93S,255.
To the appropriation of 100000 for
coastal defense and repair of FORTH
cation was added the 100000 left over
from the unspend appropriation made
In 1928 for the arming, equipping and
training of the national guard.
For the construction Of seacoast
batteries on the Canal Zone, for the
defense Of the Panama Canal, the
original sum was quintupled by adding
to the 100000 the unexpended bal
Rnce of 100000 remaining from the
national guard appropriation of 1924.
This was added, as explained by SEN
ator Wadsworth, in order to hasten
the building of emplacements for four
16inch guns to be established on the
Pacific side of the canal, which would
take IL years to build under the first
appropriation and only one-ffth of
that time under the half million dol
lars appropriation. These guns are
the very latest thing in heavy artillery
with range equal to or better than
any other gun known. Significantly
enough, the battery faces the Far
East.
An additional 100000 was slapped
onto the appropriation for the devel.
opment, manufacture, purchase and
maintenance Of airplane bombs, gren-
AIDES, ammunition for small arms and
other ordnance, making a total for
this section Of 1885,, 1895. For the pur-
chase of chemical warfare gases or
other offensive or defensive mate
rails or appliances required for gas
warfare purposes" the appropriation
is increased from $1,2O7,99SO to ST.
232,9S0.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars is added to the appropriation for
military purposes on the Hawaiian
Islands for the protection of the sugar
trust against the rising ire of the ma
tive workers. Two hundred thousand
is added to the arming and training of
the national guard, raising it to al
most ten million dollars. The reserve
officers training corps gets an addi-
tional fifteen thousand and travelling
expenses for officers and noneoms con.
nected with the organized reserves
are put at 100000.
One hundred dollars was raised to
$4,000 for expenditures in connection
with national rifle matches, and the
citizens military training camps was
raised from $2,8O7,471 to $2,S2O,671.
Sixty-one thousand dollars was the
cream added to the $4,000 appropria-
tons for the establishment of indoor
and outdoor rifle ranges, and $4,000
was taken for payment of transporta-
ton of civilian teams for national
matches. Then, to relieve the monot-
ony, $4,000 was cut off the appro.
priation to build suitable headstones
for the soldiers who fell in previous
wars.
There were two more raises over
originally proposed appropriations, to-
falling an increase of $1,000, and the
days work of the senators, from the
BLACKLIST reactionary to the mildest
progressive, had been carried out
without so much as a peep out of the
latter, who blather so much about their
opposition to militarism.