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Show c 1 1 I ii E " " Senator Chamberlain to Rise to a Question of Personal Privilege and Answer the Attack of the President Upon His War Council Bill and Himself. I OTHER DEMOCRATS SHOW ACTIVITY 1 I I : Republicans Not En-; thusiastic Over the Measure; Naval Affairs Af-fairs Committee Will j Demand a Chance to ; i i! Help Frame All Such j ji Legislation, !j ; ji By LOUIS WOOD. ' International News .Sorvieo Staff V . Correppondrnt. I WASHINGTON, Jan. The !ig driva on tliu war eahinct vill boy in loniorvow :U noon. i Adniinistral ion fun es were inas&cd and i proparod tonight (o nirrL tlie a I tuck. Thoy 1 1 were rathantlv confiik'nl thai the bill ! ; I ! would never go p'tt tholr trenches. In ; j fuel, ihry said, it a i tjneMlon If it cvtr ! ' I rOK'Mlt'H a "OtC. i ; Parliamentary proi-rdnri: will tlio li i Ioiik' diylanee nun of I he. administration Demoorata. Tliey nny they hao It loaded, I too. ( I yotiatur Clia mhei ialn ol t'reKoii. . .'..( r man of tlie senate mili la ry a I'talrs coin-mittee coin-mittee and one of (lie HinhutH of tho Mil, will reply to the atlaeK nnnle. upon him by President WilMon. lie, will penk as soon as tlio seniitc h.JS eonene.). Jin will use personal privilege us the fj round for ilsinsV. The Oregon senalur. wlm is known oh i luird fly liter, lakes I ho position, so hla j friondH say, (lift! "jio one ean call mi a. liur and pet away with it." In ajiflwcr to tho president's eharKeis that h had "unjustifiably "un-justifiably distorted the triilh," Senator Chambei lain will presuit fn ei h developed during- the invest tion by liia uommltlec?. Persuasion Fails. Administration sennt'trM hoiikIi! today to prevent Ilia reply to the president. Sena.- ! tr Simmons of North Carolina viih closeted clos-eted foj' some time, with Senator (riianibcr-lalu (riianibcr-lalu eiideaviii inK to dissuade him. JiuL the Oregon senator feeln t hat Hn iiiuhL not allow Ids motives to be Impugned. : T.esides," he said to-biy, "I feel that. I we m nst have a reoi n;ui,n Ion of rond i -tions in tlie war department If w uru to i win t la.- wm r. A nil tlie met iian people are in this va r In win ll." j There exisls a douol whether tlie nd- ! rn inis! ra turn will even answer (lie ''hain-ber!,"in ''hain-ber!,"in HJieer-b al this llui-. The elmtr-ma elmtr-ma li of t he mill t ;i a flairs eoni mil t'e will ii.'j ve bis a mi mu i dl Ion n I hand. Tho i White limine supporteiH have not f;alh- j ered Ih'jrs l.esl.le their j.;uiis. ( The prcli mi nary ha t lie pi;(u ton! (.'lit Is to allow Senator ( 'hii m ln-i l;i 1 1 1 to rrli-r his bill to his committee ami iln-n to have H reported out. Tliis procedure In ftoto-n.ji ftoto-n.ji 1 1: and taken hut n m i n u i e or t wo. I rn med ia 1 ely t hei i-a fi i-r Sena i or S w a nsou, eiialrmao nf tlie jm;il Mfljitrs eoinrnit !', will move its rdei;n! to IiIm com nn t leu. Naval Committee Active. ! "And bow run 'hi' rnl i t;i In ob.ie.rt t o thai?'1 a nit I he a d m i n j ht ra l ion J n-iiio-'rat:'. '"Die n;ivv (k as uni'ii ;ttfeeed y tin bUl as. the. army. The naval affairs rijiniijit lee, Ik as murli entilb-d f emi-f emi-f i'l-r the 1 1 ii a su re as in the mil i tary a l-lairs l-lairs omriiji tee." Oim-i. ihe bill 1r inside t ) i - naval ;il('airn eornmit e- i Is n js a bundi, the J e:nu' ra t s say. T 1 1 y- com : n i It ee has ten n-mo'-ra t jf riM'iiili''iH, pr'arfi. ally all clrorn; ;ul .-m-rent h "f th j -i esidrn t Ti I) -man. Swa n: -on, Srnilh of a ry la nd, IffWlH, 1 1 'iif.u ii, 1 'I T t ma ii. W'a lr)i, I'.iduwi ni, ' it -Try and T r am u ie 11. T)h - re a re ae ven epuidiCiu members - I 'euro we, Iodf;o, Smith of MirhiL:an, i'aK', J'oinde;te,r, IJardMiJ.: aiui Dale. (thr parliamentary mo', i-h m.'iy be unci'- r! n ken. Sena t or1 "ha m her la I n has the 1 authority of com ml 1 1 : to report the j inii out, otherwise ir',-suri' mlyht be j t'lnnu'iit. to bear (here to keep it tied up I ln'-ide. j i if Ihe ten ienjf,.r t jp iiindiers only t hre rriiHiihnfliiin, lifhi-o.-k a ml Ate-K' Ate-K' ! 1 .1 1' tia ve O.- iared den,,ii--ly for tlio VII. Three oihf-rs- Klrby. J-'b-ti-her a rid Sbeppard are a!:Miril 1 1 . Senator Sln:n- pard vr.ie) for the bill in eominilte., hut ' ! e pla lie d ye - : i rda y he ;t '-i "untlnr a. ml! a ppt e iient-i' ii. " ' f lii.- re n ia i ri i n k four, ! Tbornas, M.veis and I lei ; tn:i n are said to 1 f.j.poe the bill and i;e(( to .(U ji iuvor ; 1 of ,t, : ; Democratic Contention. I if n, oi ra t .iit r mien, that ihf; advifl- i -,r.' eom.rii: tr.e o, nH- ih.n. 0f national ' ! ie'.-ii.-e wi!) i,f loin;- r play a part in i i n,y pineii.ises liraier S:Tut;i ry Hake.r 3 1 ' I oru'a :, !za 1 ion p)a n. b.at :-lie:,y. wil) be h.jd upon the eJim:- , nation of I he eomnd I tees. Ar-inmiil (Continued on Page Two.) i ' r DRIVE Oi CABINET TO BEGIN HT MOM (Continued from Page One.) he made that they caused most of the delays and brought most of the criticism. Senators who visited the White house say the president did not know the extent ex-tent to which power had been delegated to the various committees. Democratic plans were laid today in an Informal conference between Senator Martin, the floor leader; Senators King, Simmons and Shields, and Representative Flood, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the house. It is understood under-stood that so much confidence was felt it is not believed that the president will go personally before congress or have to use his veto power. Republicans Not Excited. Republicans did not display as much combined enthusiasm over the bill today as has been expected. One of the most prominent men on the left side of the chamber said ; "What's the use? Why should we have another body if we are to have the same sort of men as those now in powerful' places? How do we know who the president presi-dent would ask the senate to indorse?" Opinion obtains in congress that the army reforms will be pushed rapidly regardless re-gardless of the executive action. Leaders on both sides concede that the senate committee has brought to light startling conditions. The fact that Secretary Baker today dissolved the bureau of labor standards, stand-ards, which was the target of much attack, at-tack, was greeted with satisfaction by friends of the bill. Backers of the reform in army preparedness prepar-edness said today the reopening of th senate inquiry would display no mildness on the part of the military affairs committee. com-mittee. They predicted that Surgeon General Gen-eral Gorgas would be asked most searching search-ing questions about the epidemics in the army camps. Blame ia not aimed at the head of the medical corps, for he recommended recom-mended changes long before they were put into effect, and prophesied that epidemics epi-demics would occur; Telegram Given Out. The "White House gave out this telegram tele-gram received by the president from former for-mer Representative John J, Fitzgerald, who was chairman of the house appropriations appro-priations committee: "Investigation during entire session ending October 9. demonstrated wonderful wonder-ful results accomplished by war department depart-ment under great ' difficulty. Opening paragraph Northcliffe's book on the war graphically pictures accomplishments. Officials Of-ficials desire and should have encouragement encourage-ment and sympathy rather than be hampered ham-pered by constant nagging and criticism." House Republican Caucus. Republicans of the house in conference tonight voted, 75 to 19, in favor of the creation of a department or bureau of munitions and ordnance, with a director appointed by the president. There was some discussion of the war council proposal, pro-posal, but no attempt was made to put the conference on record in regard to it. When the vote was announced the point of no quorum was made and the conference adjourned, leaving tlie way open for another discussion of the subject. sub-ject. The resolution voted on was introduced in-troduced by Representative Gillett of Massachusetts, acting floor leader, as a substitute for the McCormick-Lnroot resolution considered last week. It follows: fol-lows: "Whereas. In the conduct of the existing exist-ing war the Republican members of the house of representatives have taken thp position that there should be no partisanship, partisan-ship, but that all Americans should be united in the support of the government in pressing the war to a successful conclusion, con-clusion, and in voting ungrudgingly the administration all the resources and pow-I pow-I ers to that end and will continue so to do ; and, ISeed of United Country. "Whereas. The need of a united conn- ! try demands that where conditions exist1 causing unnecessary delay or waste, due to tlie overlapping jurisdiction of the bureaus and departments, or for inner causes, revealed by congressional investigations, inves-tigations, it is their patriotic duty to suggest remedies for such conditions: therefore, be it "Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference tliat there should be created a department or bureau of munitions and ordnance, the director of which shall be appointed by the president, confirmed by the senate, and be immediately responsible responsi-ble to the president, to systematize the manufacture and purchase of ordnance and munitions by means of which the success of our armed forces may be j speedily attained.' Representative Gillett told the conference confer-ence the time had come for the Republicans Republi-cans to take some action, but that it should be constructive and not in the nature na-ture of a criticism of the government's conduct of tlie war. Representative Foss of Ohio declared President Wilson had been playing politics. Representa tive Cram ton of Michigan said conditions found abroad hy members of congress who had been there made it essential that a change be made in the war department's depart-ment's methods. Representative Kelley, a member of the naval committee, protested against anv change in the navy's purchasing system and urged that any reorganization should apply to the army only. |