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Show C HA IK MAN JAMKS HAY of the military affairs t'oitimittre of the house of leptesentatives, who prooably : will lead tho battle to put ! thioimh 1'resident Wilson's 1 prOLframnie for the army and navy, Claude Kitchin,' the i HenioiTatie floor leader, hav-! hav-! injr announced his opposition to the president's plan. fTg V ' ' ' It 1 I V 1 'A Lull isJ - 1 KITCHIN OPPOSES iTIONfl DEFENSE Democratic House Leader Informs President He Cannot Can-not Support Programme. W A ;! II N G T O N Nov. S. Kp-e-n:aTi e Oauiie Kithin, Pernor rati': oaJtT of ihe hou?e, tuM President Wilson Wil-son to-I.iy. aftor a long ronf-Trnrp with him. that h1 couid not supj-ort the nr-n;ini!t nr-n;ini!t ration program m for naval Ue-ir. Ue-ir. an-i that he tcouM oppose the p-ocrarr.nu? in a personal ra parity only, and not a? majority leaior. Mr. Kitchin was with the prsidnt more than an hoar, during whih f. WiI?on outlined to bira the army and navy plans for the n-it aession of congress con-gress and for the next five years and sought to in 3 ienre th majority lea-ier to be in harmony with tbern. "AH T can say." said "RAprrsenta tive Kitchin he left the White houf, "is that I very much regret that I cannot can-not supr-ort the president's dfen-e pro-Kraxime. pro-Kraxime. The plans do not meet with my ronriotiocs, partirularly with ret'ereoce to the navy. I shall make a clear exposition exposi-tion of my views as soon as congrew convenes, con-venes, in a speech in the house, ' ' he replied. "Of course, I shall not attempt at-tempt to oppose the programme, as the majority leader, but merely in my personal per-sonal capacity." Mr. Kitchin said he thought it very probable that the majority would favor the defense programme. Bepre?entative Kitchin 's definite announcement an-nouncement of his position will make it impossible for him to lead the fight for the administration's programme in the hous. The burden of the leadership will devolve probably upon Chairman Hay of the military committee, Chairman Chair-man Padgett of the naval committee, Chairman fcherlev of the fortifications committee, and Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee. PRESIDENT FINDS SUPPORT IN BIBLE WASHINGTON', Nov. 8. President Wileon finds gopport in the Scriptures for his policy of national defense, and in a letter to Seth Low, who wrote the preEident, commending hie Manhattan club speech, quotes verses from the thirty. third chapter of Kzekiel. Jn the letter made public today at the White house the president said: I am particularly gratified that you should so fully concur in the position took in my speech to the Manhattan club. There is a quotation quota-tion from Ezekicl which I have had very much in mind recently 111 connection con-nection with these important matters. mat-ters. It is the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth verses of chapter 33. 'i Two Hon of man, speak to the children of thy people and say unto them, when I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchman. "Three If when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the trumpet and warn the people. .yourThcn whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and takcth not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. "Five He heard the sound of (Continued on Page Two.) KITCHIN OPPOSES NATIONAL DEFENSE (Continued from Page One.) the trumpet and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him; but he that taketh warning shall deliver de-liver his soul. "Sixth But if the watchman seeth the sword come and blow not the trumpet, and the people be ' not warned; if the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood witl I require at" tn watchman 's hands. " |
