Show T S 1 Veto Was Justified Only the watchfulness of President Vilson Wilson Vilson prevented Chairman S S Hay of the military committee of the lower ver branch of congress from succeeding in landing a very ery serious blow on the United States army I 1 The presidents president's r veto of the army appropriation bill yesterday br brought r to light some yer r interesting facts S Hay has been the arch enemy of the United States army all along and has won for himself especially throughout the East where whereS S SS j tJ these ese things are arc very well understood the utter contempt of public Vand and pre press ss He has perhaps been more harshly by independent newspapers than any other man piau in III congress II His ca caliber lb I cr can b be e ed d imagined i when the very con conservative Associated Press commenting I on the veto has this to say H. H v There has been broad intimation that the revision revIsion which 1 proposed to remove retired officers from the juri jurisdiction diction of courts martial was in the interest of a certain retired officer who was waiting for a time when he would be immune from discipline to make makeS S a public attack on the army The officer whose name was mentioned S in connection with the report was while wh in iu service very active in inV r V legislative affairs was very close to congressmen framing army bills S and until his retirement was reckoned with as a power in legislation affecting the army army- The provision forced into the bill by Hay and his satellites S exempted retired army officers from army discipline In other otherS S H c words they could be punished for offenses only in iii civil courts Other T laws make retired officers a part of the regular army and therefore S S Y if the Hay measure went through these men could bring disrepute 1 upon the profession of the soldier and yet the army would not have haveS havethe havethe S them the power to punish Says the president in commenting on this S. S F The legislative and judicial branches have drawn a sharp distinction in status between retired officers who are regarded and k governed at all times as an effective reserve of skilled and experienced S officers and a potential source of military strength and and not mereS mere S pensioners from whom no further military service is expected Officers on the retired list of the army are officers of the army S members of the military and men distinguished by their long service I S and as such are examples of discipline to the officers and men in the i 7 active army They wear the uniform of the army their educations j r and d. d service would hold them out as persons especially qualified in r j m military matters to represent the spirit spirit- of the military establishment establishmentS S H and they are subject to active duty in time of national emergency by the mere order of the commander in chief They are therefore members of the army officers of the United States exemplars of of S S discipline and having in their keeping the good name name and the good goodS S spirit of the entire military establishment before the world Occupying Occupying Occupying such relation their subjection to the rules and articles of war and to trial by general have always been regarded as necessary in order that the retired might not become a source of tendencies which would weaken the discipline of the active land forces and ImperIl that control over those forces which the constitution vests in th the president We Ve predict that the verdict of thinking men will be returned in favor of the president and he will be praised for preventing this farce hat hatched hed up by the dan dangerous erous Mr l Hay from going through 5 The bill will perhaps be made into a law Jaw in a day or two with these H 5 o objectionable ble features eli eliminated and then then the president undoubtedly H will sign it The army will breathe a sigh of relief and the tIle committee committeeS S 1 in mcharge charge of of the citizens' citizens military training camp will feel a burden lifted from its shoulders for the bill will carry appropriations to cover the expenses of the citizens in camp |