Show SAYS U. U S. S MEN RETURN l RAGGED Senator Declares Wilson Witson Dines on Gold Plate Yanks Are Arc Penniless Washington Feb 5 Criticising 5 aV air failure to equip properly American Am Ameri lf can forces abroad delay in n payment to soldiers and Independents Independents Independents' and many acts of o the government In the war Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator of ot New ew Jersey said in the Senate toda today that American soldiers soldIers soldiers sol sol- diers had returned ra ragged ged and penniless penni penni- less less clad clad more like tramps lIe Ho ad advocated advocated ad- ad placing of ot responsibility and concluded the following reference to President VIlson It Is cr very well for the President to break the precedents of or a century that tha he be ma may head triumphal processions lu 1 foreign capitals sleep in the chambers chamber of or royalty dine dime off or of or gold plate in tide palaces of or modern Cae Caesars and have hayo his Ills photographs taken with kings queens and princesses But what oC ot the tho ho American private who returns to tu his native nath shores dismissed without a n. dollar In His Nis pocket Senator l- l said a bill in- in in introduced introduced recently apparently with approval ap- ap approval ap Rl of oC the war d department to tu authorize authorize au nu- tine the permanent rank of ot general an and lieutenant general was designed to benefit Generals Pershing March Bliss Liggett Lis and Bullard Dullard and that Major General Crowder provost pro marshal benera general gen ben era eral cral an and Ma Major or General McCain for Cor former former for for- mer adjutant general would be bo demoted demot ed ell to their old regular rank ranI before beford signing of or peace terms Criticising th the promotion s system stem tho the senator n added dell Tire The chief of ot staff has hns been vested with military authority from day day- dayto today to today day dR until ho lie has almost become a law law- unto Ho lIt said tine the persons responsible Corth for Cor forthe forthe th the air all fiasco should ld have ha been tried Senator Kirby of Arkansas Democrat Demo crat replied briefly to Senator to h lolI r t lIn hu Men He charged that Incidents had hall been unduly enlarged enlar-cd upon antI and said criticisms had been made for partisan par par- partisan purposes and with but little and often orten no foundation In fact rho Tho ratio of or complaints to the number of or men mon In Inv Involved In- In v 1 01 has been exceedingly small Senator Kirby declared |