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Show WTLS Q NVET Q ES-AR M-YLIMIT-A-TIQN COITIONS III WORLD CITED President Intimates i nai Safety for Nation Demands De-mands Ample Force for Protecting Borders WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. President Wilson today vetoed the joint resolution directing direct-ing tha. war department to atop army recruiting-until the force la reduced to 17190 men. Returning tha measure to tho houaa, the president aald ha waa unable to aeo- fn tho condition of the world at largo or In the neede of the United States any change" that would Juatify a restriction upon the minimum enlisted atrength of 280.000 men provided for In the recently re-cently enacted army reorganization bill. TEXT OF VETO. Quoting th reaolutlon restricting restrict-ing th enlisted strength of the army to 175,000 men, the president says: "No. provision Is made in the resolution reso-lution for the preservation of any proportionate strength In the combatant com-batant corps of the army, and a mere discontinuance of enlistment would, for a long time, preserve the staff corps disproportionately enlisted and the combatant corps Insufficiently manned to maintain the Instruction and training which ouvht to be assured as-sured If an army of 175,000 men Is to be efficient In proportiom to Its ag-gregate ag-gregate "number; LOOKED AT FACTS. "On the fourth day of June. 1920, I signed a bill passed by the present congress providing for the reorganisation reorganisa-tion of the army. Because of the profoundly disturbed conditions of the world and In order that full benefit might accrue to the people of the T nited States from the lessons of the World war as to what, under modern conditions. Is required to be the nucleus of an efficient army, the war department had recommended an srmy of approximately 600.000 men. The congress, after prolonged con-1 sideration, determined to authorise, and did authorise, the reorganisation , of the army on the baals of an enlisted en-listed strength of approximately 2.40.000 men, including; in the organisation or-ganisation new arms like the air service and the chemical warfare service, ser-vice, the use of which were developments develop-ments of the war, and provision for which Is a necessary sddition to the prewar strength of the army. ON BROAD BA8IS. . "The act authorized for the first time in our history a tactic organisation organisa-tion of the army, reating upon divisions di-visions as tactical units, and required the training of the national guard and the organized reserve in territorial terri-torial areas of the United States in association with the divisions of the regular army. At that time congress plainly regarded the provision then made aa the minimum which would provide for the added arma and new dutiea Imposed on the army and for that efficiency which tha peacetime army of tha United States ahould have aa the nucleus of mobilization In he event of a national emergency. "I regret that I am not able to see In the condition of the world at large or In the needs of the United States any such change as would Justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the house Joint resolutions." |