The Archive · 1921

A Compromise Over the Army

Washington, March 3.

The conference between the Senate an? the House of Representatives agreed to the Army Appropriation Bill providing for an army of 152,000 enlisted men for the next financial year.

This agreement evidently ensures the passage of the army budget estimates of $385,000,000 in the present session.

Later.

The House of Representatives has accepted the Senate's compromise on the Army Appropriations Bill providing for an army of 156,000 men. The measure has now gone to the President for signature.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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