| Show CRITICISM OF WAR V MAKING ANGERS WilSON V 1 President Plunges Into Spectacular Spectacular Spec Spec- Spectacular Fight Fight With I Senators I IBy By L. L C. C M Martin rtin United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 22 President Wilson has begun gun the most spectacular lar fight of the war for control of con con- gress Battling against passage of the Chamberlain war war cabinet bill bill- bill which would amount to congressional recognition of the administrations administration's al alleged alleged alleged al- al failure to conduct Its Us war plans properly the properly the president is faced by al almost almost al- al most solid Republican opposition added to a a. few in his own party To add zest to the battle Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived today to I take up the cudgels for the Chamberlain Chamber Chamber- I lain measure An editorial in the i morning papers under his signature preceded arrival of his snow blocked train It conveyed his determination to throw his influence against the president It Insisted upon passage of the Chamberlain bl blU bil so that we wo may never again be caught utterly and shamefully unprepared All factors in the pending struggle have gone before the people for sup sup- port President WiLson Wilon in a statement last night declared the tho legislative measures proposed to wrest from him and Secretary Baker direct administration administration administration adminis adminis- of the war work worle and had not even eve been brought to his attention in conference that they would delay progress rather than hasten it and that Bakers Baker's plan of reorganization was based on experience and therefore better Senator Chamberlain in reply stated today that he is willing to abide bythe by bythe bythe the expressed will of the people pe Its their war he declared declarer Roosevelt through his writings for months has been trying to swing popular popular popular pop pop- ular opinion against the administrations administration's administrations administration's administrations administration's tion's conduct of the war Today he is prepared to personally enter the lists in an effort to bring about a change In the wake of the bitter r partisan outbreak in the senate yesterday during dur dur- ing log which Senator Stone sharply criticised the Republicans for injecting politics into the war work and was heatedly answered by Lodge and Penrose Penrose Penrose Pen- Pen rose trying to stop criticism of the president president- party lines were drawn taut today The appearance of Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt only served to accentuate the bitterness bitterness bitterness bit bit- of the Democrats Democrats-a a vast majority majority majority ma ma- of them them them-at at what they hey believe a concerted plan to discredit the ad admInistration administration administration ad- ad ministration previous to the opening of tho fall fail congressional campaigns But Dut a few Democrats are standing behind Chamberlain in his effort to Improve what he believes to be a faulty situation in the war department These with the virtual solid lican strength will make the fight for I control of the senate senate for for or against President Wilson the Wilson the most dramatic in Its history The battle will open when the senate meets Thursday Senator Chamberlain Chamber Chamber- lain will carry his Issue to opponents of the measure immediately by calling up the war cabinet bill for second reading and nd reference to committee Administration forces are loaded for Chamberlain They will demand demanda a a. roll call on Senator Swansons Swanson's motion motion mo mo- tion to refer the bill to the naval committee committee com corn as well as to the military at- at fairs committee Swansons Swanson's argument was that as the proposed war cabinet would have control of naval as well as military plans the navy committee ought to pass on the bill Senators standing with the admInistration administration adminis admInis- against the bill made no secret today of the fact that Swansons Swanson's move move- was merely tho the first in a series de designed des designed de- de s signed to beat the bill The r roll l call f on eC committee reference re will test senate sentiment on the bill Senator Chamberlain said today Already there is talk of compromising compromis compromis- ing hig the fight by accepting the director of munitions in return for the defeat of the war cabinet measure The di director director di- di rector of munitions would prove much less objectionable to the tion be because uge he would have authority only over purchasing and production of supplies Even that much upsetting by congress of the present plans of the war department wili ill not be ac accepted ac- ac however except pt to prevent en enactment enactment en- en of the war cabinet bill Re Re- Republican publican leaders today were planning a caucus to decide how they will vote on the war var cabinet and munitions director director tor bills Democrats probably will have a similar session Some congressional le- le leaders leders ders saw the danger of the majority party being forced to accept one or both bills purely from the standpoint of safety first The political fires tires are now raging Senator Penrose has announced he will make a speech showing up Democratic mistakes in the conduct of the war Other Republican lican senators are considering like speeches When Penrose does speak he will get as vigorous an answer as he gave Stones Stone's attack The partisan flames are likely to spread to the house many of whose members listened to Stone and Pen- Pen rose There was no denying the fact today that In both houses politics Is no longer under control |
