PASSED ALL STAGES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 346, 29 April 1935, Page 5

PASSED ALL STAGES

UNITED STATES BIL4TFOR LARGE NAVAL. EXPENDITURE Press Association—Copyright Washington,, April 27.

j Without recording a vote, the' House of i Representatives approved the Administration's £91,500,000 Naval Bill providing for the construction of 24 ships and 555 | aeroplanes apd an increase in the Navy | personnel of 11,677 officers and men. ; An amendment to withhold building j while naval treaty negotiations were i being made was decisively defeated, as } was another amendment to reduce the j expenditure by 20 per cent. The House of Representatives Appro--1 priations Committee'offered recommendaI tions on Tuesday That £91,555,000 be spent | on the United States naval establishment j in the next fiscal year, rising to a steady j annual naval expenditure of £111,000,000 j after 1941, when the Washington Treaty ! navy will bz in operation, j The committee, however, proposed a I reduction in the expenditure for new j building by half of that proposed by the j Administration in the belief that some | international agreement for tonnage ' limitation was still possible. Neverthe- ! less £42,000,000 was to be available for ! ship construction in 1936.