Show MUDDLES P PAID AID FORBY fOR fORBY BY LIVES CHARGED Wadsworth Denounces Utter Lack of System Shown in Conduct of War Says Loss of Men len and Money l J Great JOB TOO HEAVY VY FOR PRESIDENT UNAIDED Without Farsighted Men l to Map l Operations Government Govern Govern- ment Is Cruelly Handi Handi- N. N Y Senator Says W vv Feb 5 Develop clop ments meats to today ay promised ed indefinite extension of the contro controversy ersy in ill the Senate o over oer er American war efficiency an and the military committees committee's bill f for foi foia fora r ra a war cabinet and munitions director Sen Senator Wadsworth a Republican L Land and military affairs committee member member member mem mem- ber delivered a prepared speech In behalf be be- halt half of the proposed legislation criticizing criticizing what he described as utter lack Jack lacko o of or sr system and comprehensive planning In the governments government's war activities There were no r replies today b by adminIstration adminIstration administration admin admin- spokesmen but several everal expect to speak tomorrow In spite of or efforts to curtail the agitation so many senators sena nena- tors have ha Indicated their Intention to prepare addresses on one side or the theother theother theother other that the dl discussion probably will in continue Into next week at least Bak linker r to lii rodo Today Senator Shields Democrat and Sena Senator Senator tor Kirby a Democratic committee member plan ilan to speak tomorrow tu the former to attack the constitutionality of ot the committee measures and the latter latter latter lat lat- In Ina Ina ina ter to defend the army's operations a review re of or the lie committees committee's e evidence Senators McKellar Democrat and Weeks Republican both committee members are framing addresses s In InS S support It or of 1 the h. h leI legislation la tion l Further disclosures of ot the governments government's govern govern- ments ment's military program are expected d tomorrow when Secretary Baker reappears reappears reap reap- committee for tor pears be before to ft the military ross cross examination The rho secretary's statement to the committee com corn last lait week that a h half lt million men would be In France early this year and another million In readiness to go having been attacked yesterday esterdaY b by Senator Hitchcock a as absolutely preposterous preposterous pre exaggerated and wildly I because of or lack of or shipping Mr Ir Baker may give the committee the information I. I lion tion on which he based hi his assertion Will AVIM III Be De A For D Details Detail talla lie will be questioned about various arlou phases of or his statement and will be asked to go into detail concerning concen his reorganization of oC the war department the manufacture of ot ordnance the aviation aviation avia avia- tion program and other subjects In anticipation o of a a. crowd crowd- of ot I specIe specIe- toys tors at the hearing the thc has bas arranged to 5 secure cur the large room In Inthe I the tho Senate office building where Mr Ir Baker appeared last week Senator orth In tn n his address addre J and not today toda declared that the time system Individuals Is responsible for tor present I conditions which he lie said said cruelly cruell handicap the time government go and preclude pre pre- elude clude businesslike e team work worl on the part of or bureaus bureaus and various arlou official orations or or- coh conglomeration con constituting a scattered agencies agencies agen agen- lion ion of or ambitious and cies des lIe Ho ln insisted th that t a war cabinet or other name is similar r similar bod body under some Borne essential because it is physically Impossible Im in- possible tom for the lie President to coordinate the governments government's functions Not ut to hamper lre lr denied that the S Senator legislation was designed to or 01 would result in Interference with tho the Pres Presidents President's dents dent's authority lie Ho confined himself largely largel to an argument for tor the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- of ot for tor centra posed legislation agencies President Wilson Wll- Wll war making making- not c coordinate these agencies son can ho he said and with a 1 long war ar In prospect prospect pros pros- steps stops to 10 unify the tho nations nation's nations nation's na- na pc t radical tion's efforts are necessary ar That great things have ha been done don cannot bo denied lie He declared That Thai things timings have o been left undone un- un other great Sone done dono must be admitted The Time credit for the tho things accomplished can be as assigned assigned as- as signed to several Individuals The blame for or shortcomings ought not to tobe tobe be laid upon an any Individual Criticism should be directed against our system or rather the thc lack of or cohesive o system l ht kID l Charges c 11 Kore Recounting difficulties arising through indiscriminate priority orders arid and competition In the purchase of supple's sup- sup pies pie's delays on account of ot departmental absence of 0 tat tal red rell tape tap and amid the Continued on Pago Iago Z I I SENATOR SCORES COSTLY r Continued from Pa Page c 1 power in tho the council of national de defense do- do the tho senator continued Mind l you ou I do not attempt to In lay laythe 1 i I tho the blame blamo upon any anyone one man or any anyone one department I insist this I fill ful situation has lull resulted from an ut utter Utter utter ut- ut ter lack of planning from l from a n lack lacic of oC vision The plain fact Is that we wo have no agency in our government to today a char charged ed with the time dut duty of ot projecting I Its Us vision Islon far Into the future anticipating anticipating antici antici- the emer emergencies which may urle urise an and laying the plans by which o thern we can can moot meet and lie Beyond One Power Pov No one In Ill his senses would propose I that lint any other office be created to take takeaway I i away from fromn the President the powers the time constitution confides to him It I cannot be bo done It Is unthinkable But nut there then Is no place In Washington where I Ithen the needs of tho the situation and plans to meet them m can be brought together co and Ind settled upon I II I l realize that thai some ma may contend I I that the time President can cnn make male nil these I j decisions and therefore there Is no j I need for 01 an any additional element clement In our II i ar time machinery My Iy content contention Ion is I itha I that tha be bec he c ever so a able le nb President President- s i t- t I no numan t m 1 jOO LV A u i I task It Is utterly Impossible Impossible for for one I man nina to examine Into all these intricate questions Tin Thi days and nights are I not long Ions enough I Snot Says J Probe Only Referring to the tho committees committee's war var In in- in In-I In Senator ra Wadsworth worth said It had hatI covered ered only a Q part of the tile ground bround and anti I that to Investigate ato all army activities j I which might justify Inquiry would not notI I I permit tho the committee to finish Its vork ork during the time present sessions of oC Con COIl gressIn gress gross I In both the time or ordnance nance and anti quartermasters quartermaster's quartermasters quartermaster's quarter quarter- masters master's departments he sal said we I I discovered a n distressing state of a- a fairs Those Thos who attended cr c every overy day became deeply impre impressed with the conviction con con- that purchase and production con I antI and initial distribution of or the tho vast ast st amount of supplies s must be e essentially essential essential- I ly h an aim Industrial operation and that military mull mil men with rare exceptions are I j incapable o of bringing about the l best est results All of or the expert civilians appearing before tho time committee Senator Wadsworth Wads Wads- worth declared testified in the tho snob same direction proper propel proper centralization of or au authority au- au established preferably h by statute statute statute stat stat- ute whose decisions ma may be promptly reached and accepted as final Shows Cumbersome A Lack Lac-k of or preparedness before beCore the war the senator said said Is costing many man many lives and millions million o of dollars besides prolonging tho the war Illustrating his argument from a large late chart hUn hung on omi the Senate wall with Secretary Balu Bakers Baker's rR leol reorganization plan and antI that of the committee shown to together Senator cammen I attention to tho e existing vast ast number of or semiofficial and purely ad advisor advisory ad- ad visor agencies s. s bureaus and other bodies which he asserted are arc not co coordinated coordinated co- co consulting or harmonizing On tho the railroads tho tIme senator declared goods with tag blue tagged blue ed priority orders have lave c exceeded normal and in inthe inthe the thc cast 86 per cent of ot all nil freight was wasso wasso so tagged Supplies Being Heine Ruined What hat has been beon the result he asked A hopeless Jam and c Lion of our railway transportation fa fa- fa duties A million three hundred thousand thousand thou thou- sand tons of munitions and supplies arc piled upon the tho docks along our Atlantic coast billed to France and Hal Italy alone Some arc aro deteriorating rapidly In some places locomotive boilers and great plies piles lles of shells and other important materials ma- ma h have o been dumped out upon the ground and lie rusting In winter er Reviewing the governments government's handling of ot the coal industry the thc senator said As IS a result of ot lack of ot planning planning- we have great communities tics starving star for coal and an order ordel Issued by the fuel administration closing down thousands of factories and throwing out o of work I hundreds of thousands of ot men and women costing millions of dollars In wa wages es and delayed product and crippling crippling crippling crip crip- I pling for tor the time being those very ery er activities upon which we much de depend depend IC- IC pend for 01 the winning of the tho war Iut Centralize Control Other emergencies will overtake us Senator Wadsworth said In conclusion If we are wise and prudent and farsighted farsighted far far- sighted we e shall establish some agency I In n our government whether It be called a war var cabinet or b by some other othel name whose whoso members shall sit around a council table every da day morning noon and nl night ht and devote their whole time and every cry ability toward working out In n advance the methods of or meeting and overcoming the emergencies In concluding Senator Wadsworth said Bald that without needed ordination co b by a a. bod body to mal make e and direct broad war wal plans the nation Is cruell cruelly handicapped handi handi- capped Senator Thomas Thom a Democratic member member mem morn ber of or the military committee an announced announced announced an- an that he would address uh the Senate Senate Sen Son ate on the tho subject next Friday and anil di did not reply toda today as ns had been expected Apparently Apparent that closed the time subject for tor the day dar without debate and the Senate turned to the tho administration bill to provide proville for a moratorium for tor troops |