Show BY moo w EF OP OF STAFF TELLS tell 8 CON ABOUT SHORT SHORTAGE AGE OF ammunition UGH FOR BUT ONE OME BATTLE ply ly for field artillery y especially short lawmakers spend money for guns but not lor for powder ponder and bullets by GEORGE CLINTON CLINTON ashington gen leonard wood i in n will retire from his bla position as aa ef of staff of the united states ay y the other day the general in at t may be called perhaps a fare 1 I 1 message of warning told the use go committee on military affairs it t it ought to appropriate field guns and ammunition tor for the pular lar army here in brief Is IB the arof or of general woods warning note lt if we sent out troops In towar as ly ey are now without guns or am it would be absolute slough r it if called into tho the field suddenly should have to go with a very lull all allowance of ammunition even f the guns in the hands bands of at the 41 aps ops Ps and wo we should ha have ve neither as a nor ammunition enough for our I 1 id artillery forces there here Is something to this tosti abny ny of general wood to make it ex mely interesting not only from the lutary point of view buttrom hut but from what ay y be called a legislative point of ew w it points up for tho the facts are 0 the general has given them the ul larity on occasion of congress onal mal thought and of congressional tion alon there are of course many en n in the united states and they e constantly making their influence it who who hoping tor for peace between the nations of the world think that armament ament Is the way to bring about cord among the ahe peoples guns guna but no ae s long as congress continues to ate te money tor for the support of the any y and navy it naturally would em nj that the money should be well plied and won well expended here Is pere ere one odthe of the peculiarities ar atles of con ess ional thought find and action shows elf every aery year the lawmakers ap al populate pr late a good deal more than each for the army and the ivy vy take ake the army case of which genal 1 wood speaks men here and byaro pare not all military men either e asking what possible use it is for greas to vote large sums of money r field guns which the uninitiated uld know inow are the light artillery ices ces ol of the service and also ampro late ate money tor for the pay of sit she regi ats of af held field artillery and yet with jold money tor for the purchase of the which would make the Rt teries serviceable ln in other words the curious thing om m a legislative as well as aa from a gitary point of view to Is why the law lakers kers should ask the tax payers to pend large sums of money for guns ir r which there Is no possible use or it does not take a brain of the size that of daniel webster to make a an appreciate that a gun gin without ader and projectiles to fill als aig a fetty etty useless sort of a weapon 1 I 1 enough for only one battle asit it Is known to be a il fact tor for the cords show it that it if we were to ve a war today with any country orthy the name of a power our field allery could not engage in more ban one battle with ite present sup pup A fy ot 0 f powder and shot it takes a g tag g while to manufacture neld field artil arall wy ry ammunition and to get it to the nt general wood has said also that libiero re Is a very small allowance of even tor for the guns in the hands of the troop these guns ol of course bourse are or e the rifles of the infantry and the carbines ot of tho the cavalry and alo the small arms of the coast ar tillary for the heavy gun men must serve on occasion as infantrymen 9 atas understood that the condition so our 0 ur infantry forces are con ace cey aped ned Is absolutely nothing like so tiba adl as that with which the field artil oleyy is confronted the foot soldier nith walh lija hs modern springfield probably sixlo would have cartridges enough to give daood ti bood account of himself in many AJO aft battle attle but the of the 1 fald forces after a few rounds would 41 riP 1 V obliged to stand at his caisson or at athe the mouth mout h of the piece as a mark for the riflemen without any lance to return shot for shot jt about canal zone rule lt it la Is believed that president wilin n Is about to give expression to s views as to the best means to severn vern the panama canal zone after aate r e isthmian canal commission passes jt t of existence secretary of war arison rr lson already has communicated the president his ideas as to what tight to constitute a proper system government for the canal strip it by ay or may not be that the president 11 agree with him some time ago isthmian lath mian canal corn com loner richard L metcalf suggest ai a change in the law which provides r the zone government after the Is abolished it mr air met mat bits ideas shall prevail a part of the w as it sande must be repealed pere ere are men in congress of all pares f who think that the metcalf plan the ahe only one strong enough to serve 0 o count rys interests at panama in cje e executive departments odthe of the zone pd d to guard the positions tiomi from the Eti lster influences of politics athe he la lav Y mch fixes the fo foria rin bf 1 for the panama canal gives great power into the hands of the wes president ident it provides forcone tor a one man rule of too the zone mr metcalf thinks that there should the ibe a three eo raan man rule mid and one does doea not haa have to go far in this town to find support for the metcalf plin plan as a against the plan watch has a already baon given the force of law would divide matles the law as aa it la Is allows the fisl dent denato to appoint either a military man or a mi civilian villan to the governorship if his choice nils falls upon a civilian the appointee unquestionably will have his military troubles and it it shall fall upon a military man he unquestionably tion ably will save hla his civilian troubles it the metcalfe plan should be adopted and a commission of three men man should be appointed to govern the panama canal one of the members would bo be a military man another a physician and sanitarian and the third a layman charged with the duties of civil administration under the existing law the president not only appoints the governor of the zone but he appoints all OL the subordinate officials it I 1 Is a now being asked what will happen it the man chosen for governor happens to be a politician an governor ho he naturally would expect to have something to say about the men who are to serve under him in this caso case the question la is would we not have on the canal zone political doctors political civil administrators and political everything elso outside of the immediato immediate ranks of the army it la Is known definitely that some of the men who ho have done great work on the isthmus fear ear the coming of the day when politics may enter into the zones government the safety of the waterway for instance depends absolutely upon the alle sanitation of the zone colonel gorgas made the place not only habitable but one in which it la Is a delight to live A physician and sanitarian of achievement enough to secure an appointment as a member of the lath isthmian mian canal commission certainly could be depended upon to see that his subordinates did their work could equal dependence be placed upon a canal governor sitting alone in authority and being charged with many judgment duties upon some of which he was not qualified by training to pass going eay easy on builder Buil BusIn ner even in the face of certain knowlt knowl bidge that some anti antl antitrust trust legislation iu to be e enacted it still seems seema to the washington observer that for or the rest of at this session cession congress will proceed cautiously in the matter of legislation of a far reaching nature As his baa been said be before fare in these dispatches this does not mean that congress will not have plenty to do theono the one thing which seems tabe to be assured since gince it came together again to la that the democratic majority has taken note of the sensitiveness of busi bual ne ness seand and Is going to spread its legislation over a considerable period of tima in order that con conditions ditinno may adjust themselves to the coming order now that it la Is certain lo 10 legislation gi forbidding the interlocking of daree borates of corporations and some other things is to pass the I 1 attention of business men as aa shown by letters which congressmen receive Is sharply direct ed to the future and to just what is to be expected in the way of laws preventing the doina of certain things which in the past some business men appeared t to 0 think they had a right to do As an example of the intention of the majority in congress to go rather slow with its legislation it may bo be said that it probably will be two years before effect will be given to the law which Is to be ba enacted forbidding int fer locking directorates direct directo orates what the business men want to know as aa shown 1 by their letters Is what things are to come in the future itis it Is impossible apparently tor for congressmen to an answer awer definitely these letters which come to them all that the democratic congressmen can say is that whatever legislation Is passed will not be intended to injure the business of at the country but that wrongs will be righted and that no legitimate business need fear that it will suffer the word legitimate the democratic members say Is the one word of promise for those concerns which need any consideration republicans less outspoken there Is a feeling manifest among republican members of congress that business depression is bound to follow democratic legislation intended to supplant the sherman act it should be said however that the republican members are not talking disaster out loud as they did some time ago they have found perhaps not only that it wasa was bad politics but that it was considered in many parts of the country as being unpatriotic it was wa the charge of lack of patriotism in crying wolf even it if they thought they saw one which probably has produced the change in the republican members manner of voicing their opposition to the administrations methods of antitrust legislation A good mandof many of the republicans resented the hard times speeches which wore made when the republican national committee root met here last month the republicans who are critical ot of the speeches which were vero then hen made say that the country actually got the impression that the murn members bers of the national committee who as they did appeared to be eager for hard bard times in order to give the republican party a chance to come back anto power As things are now it appears the republicans will cease crying disaster ter and will confine their 0 opposition to the presidents business me measures agures ta t argument menta in debate based what they think or fear that the outcome wilt will be |