Evening star., 1936-02-15
SENATE EXPECTED
TO VOTE BIG ARMY
$545,226,318 Appropria-
tions Pass House Without
Record Vote.
BY the Associated Press.

0J Inc ASSOClhteu HTeSS.
Backers Of the big Army sppro-
priation bill-which ran House
gantlet and emerged without q scar
hope now for quick Senate approval.
An opposition House bloc was baked
at every turn yesterday in repeated
efforts to trim items in the record
peace-time bill, which calls for the
spending of $545. .226,3 ,318. The meas
ure passed without record vote and
went to the other side of the Capitol.
The bill would appropriate $376,-
866,333 for national defense purposes
and $168, ,359 ,985 for rivers and har-
bors and flood control work. Con-
tract authorizations and reappro-
priations bring the strictly military
funds available for the 1867 fiscal
year up to $500, ,667 ,044.
Included In the measure designed
to tighten up the Nations land de-
fenses are the following:
Total of $8,518 994 for defenses on
West Coast, at Hawaii and Panama
Canal.
Funds for 565 Planes.
Funds and authorization for pur-
chase of 565 new airplanes.
Stipulation for increasing enlisted
Army strength to at least 10000
by June 80, 1887, permitting full
strength at Hawaii and Panama
Canal
Funds to increase National Guard
strength by 5000 officers and men
and to modernize its heavy artillery.
Fund of s1,884.S12 to provide for a
years active duty for 1000 Reserve
Ofhcers' Training Corps graduates
annually.
Provision TO limit to 10 per cent
the profits of contractors supplying
the Army with planes and munitions.
Provision for $138,677 ,899 for rivers
and harbors projects, of which $780,
000,0 is for actual work and $16.-
620,1 for food control.
The final losing struggle of the
small bloc which sought cuts came on
the Reserve oficer training item.
which even the Appropriations Com
mittee had disallowed. Representa-
tive Woodrum, Democrat. Of Virginia
declared the President doesn't
want it."
Led by Chairman McSwain Of the
Military Affairs Committee the legis-
lators pushed the item through, ll6
to 81.
Amendment Tossed Out.
When Representative Zion Check,
Democrat, Of Washington tried 70
have the National Guards allotment
trimmed from s1o.o34,9l5 to $685.
63a, his amendment was tossed out
without a standing vote.
A proposal by Representative Marc
antonio. Republican. of New York TO
prohibit the spending of r. o. T. C.
funds for compulsory military training
in land-grant colleges also was re-
jected He warned against what he
described as "the goose step" on the
campuses.
When the purely military items
were disposed of, the struggle began
all over again on the ones of non
military nature.
Representative Hook, Democrat, of
Michigan asked that S7,500, 900 be
earmarked for the Great Lakes area.
and Representative Mott, Republican,
of Oregon added request for 81 ,00o,-
900 for his State. Both attempts were
defeated.
The House denied s29 ,oo0, 900 for
the Passamaquoddy Dam project, the
Florida ship canal and other New
Deal projects. Mott later offered an
amendment to add s29, 900 900 to the
rivers and harbors allowance. 1t was
quickly voted down. Mott did not
explain whether his suggested funds
were intended for the New Deal prof.
ects in question.