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Show cuss isns CIAHLI'S Denies That the American War Machine Has "Fallen Down" and Defends Administration. QUOTES O'RYAN AND GENERAL JOFFRE Concludes by Declaring "This Year We Will Have More Than a Million Men in France." WASIirXGTON', IVb. 7. -Representative Glass, in a speech delivensl in the house today, came to the defense of the administration, answered the charges contained in Senator Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's indictment of the war dci-artment and denied that the American war machine ma-chine has "fallen down.'' Mr. Glass followed Senator Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's speech point by point and praised the work of thu administration in each instance. He said that it was General Jofiro uho sucjtcl stir-plying American troops with ammunition from French factories ''sinco it would save the unavoidable delay, the pres-inlly pres-inlly needed cargo space, the tremendous tremen-dous cost of shipment." Kocarding the machiue gun controversy, Mr. Glass asserted as-serted that the Brownini; un was selected se-lected because experts pronounced it "the best machine gun in tho world." "The only prop on which the critics now rest their case,'' he sail, "is the plea that the Lewis pin was immediately immedi-ately available, while deliveries of the Browning pin will be delayed; and they use this broken reed ia face of expert testimony to the effect that in fets the Lewis gun ba 1 utterly failed with American ammunition.' Army in France Equipped. "The Amerii-an army in France has thousands of machine uns to po up against fho enemy," he said. "It is as well equipped with machine guns as anv army in Europe perhaps better equipped than the German array. And no set of malcontents shoQld be permitted per-mitted to deceive tho people of this country into the disturbing sjppo'ltion that our fighting forces in Franco are-suffering are-suffering in equipment of any kind." "Regarding the health of soldiers in camp, Mr. Glass referred to the conditions condi-tions at Spartanburg. S. C. where, he said, there were only four deaths amnug 31.000 men during a' period of more than three months. He quoted Major General Gen-eral O'Ryan as saying that the stories of twenty-nine men treezing in the trenches was the "mere pibbering of a letter writing recruit desiring to pose among hi? people at home as a hero or a martyr. Success of the Draft. Referring to the difficulties which the administration faced at the outbreak out-break of the war, Representative Glass pointed out the success of the selective draft as a remarkable achievement. He said: "Xot until the third year of the war could Great Britain venture to applv partially a conscription law. Xot until a few months ago could Canada do it in opposition to the rebellious threat of one of its largest provinces. It has not been done 33 to Ireland and Australia has twice declined to attempt the svs-tem. svs-tem. And yet this republic, with" a clear realization of the situation, instantly in-stantly applied the democratic method of selective draft, and the eountrv responded re-sponded with unparalleled spirit of patriotism. Ten million young men marched up and registered for enlistment. enlist-ment. Such a thing never happened before be-fore in this or any other country on the civilized earth. Great military cities, known as cantonments, were built almost al-most over night; and to these, without friction or hesitation, our bovs went, offering their bodies and their lives in defense of human liberty. We have sent nearly ten times a many troops abroad as the French and English military mili-tary missions had expected that we could do in the time required, and we have trained aud are training an armv far beyond the original estimates. This year we will have in France more than a million men." "Representative Mason, Republican, of Illinois, who followed Representative Glass, told the house he admired Secretary Secre-tary Baker as a man who could admit mistakes, and added: "For God's sake let's quit fighting each other and- fight the kaiser." |