Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1919 — HOUSE AGREES ON AN ARMY OF 300,000. [ARTICLE]

HOUSE AGREES ON AN ARMY OF 300,000.

Further reduction in the size of the army to ’be maintained for the next fiscal' year *was tentatively agreed upon by the 'house Wednesday in deciding to base appropriations for pay and maintenance of the army on 300,000 men instead of 400,000, as recommended by the house military committee. The war department had recommended provision for an army of 509,000.