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Show DRAFT VOTED 81 CONGRESS .APPROVE PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM TO RAISE LARGE ARMIES BY SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION. Measure Provides for the Drafting of Men to Raise Suitable Army to Prosecute to Successful Conclusion Conclu-sion the War with Germany. Washington. The administration's program to raise an adequate army by Bclecfive conscription was approved on April 2-S, the senate and the house by overwhelming majorities passing the bill to raise a war army by selective draft. The final rollcalls brought into line behind the bill many senators and representatives who had fought for the volunteer system until routed by decisive defeat of volunteer amendments amend-ments earlier In the day in botli houses. The senate, which had voted down the volunteer plan, GO to 18, passed the hill by a vote of 81 to 8. In the house the vote against the volunteer plan was B13 to ()!), and that by which the bill Itself was passed was 397 to 24. As passed by the senate the measure meas-ure provides for the draft of men between be-tween the ages of 21 and 27 years, while in the house measure the age limits are fixed at 21 and 40. This and lesser discrepancies will be threshed out in conference during the week so that the bill may be in the hands of the president as quickly as possible. The war department already has completed plans for carrying it Into effect. Senators who voted against the bill were: Democrats: Gore, Ilardwlck, Kirby, Thomas and Tramell 5 ; Ite-publicans: Ite-publicans: Borah, Gronna and La Fol-lette Fol-lette ,1. Total 8. Senator Vardamnn of Mississippi, Democrat, was excused from voting at his own request. lie did not give a reason, f 2ki twenty-four representatives who Voted f.n the negative Were: Democrats: Burnett, Church, Clark of Florida; Clnypool, Grosser, Dill, Dominick, Gordon, milynrd, Iluddle-ston, Iluddle-ston, Keating, Sears, Sherwood, Sis-son Sis-son 14, Republicans : Bacon, Hayes, King, La Follette, Limdsen of Minnesota Minne-sota ; Mason, Nolan, Powers S. Prohibitionist: Pro-hibitionist: Randall 1. Socialist: London 1. Total 24. Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader Kitchen, and Chnlrman Dent of the military committee, who had favored the volunteer system, all voted for the draff, bill qu tlu? final roll call. Republican Re-publican Leader Mann also was recorded re-corded in the affirmative, as was Miss Rankin, who previously had voted with jhe volunteer advocates. ; Both sedate and house adopted amendments just before the final roll calls, which would greatly increase the pay of enlisted men during the war. The house provision would make their pay $30 a month, and that approved by the senate would fix it at $29 a month. The present pay Is only $15. Among the amendments adopted in the senate was one which would permit per-mit Colonel Roosevelt to recruit a volunteer force for service In France. A similar proposal had been rejected by the house. Among the more important amendments amend-ments adopted in the house was one empowering the president to exempt from the draff In his discretion persons per-sons engaged in agricultural work. Another would require each state to furnish a quota of men apportioned according to population and still another an-other provides "that no bounty shall be paid to induce any person to enlist" and "that no person liable to military service shall hereafter be permitted or allowed to furnish a substitute for such service." |