Show WARNING BY WOOD CHIEF OF STAFF TELLS CON GRESSMEN ABOUT SHORTAGE OF ammunition ENOUGH FOR BUT ONE BATTLE supply for field artillery especially la 4 short lawmakers ra spend money for gun guns but not for powder and nd bullets Bullet 3 oy by GEORGE CLINTON washington gen gon leonard wood soon wu will retire from bin position aa C chalot lot of staff of tho the united states army arm y tho the other day tho the general in what may bo be called perhaps a faro fare well message of warning told tho the house committee on military affairs that it ought to appropriate for fiord field guns and ammunition for the regular army here in brief Is the tenor of general woods warning note if wo we sont sent out troops into war as an they are now without guns or nm am it would bo be absolute laughter if it called into tho the field suddenly wo should have to go with a very small allowance of ammunition oven even for tho the guns in the hands of the troops and wo we should have neither guns nor ammunition enough for our field artillery forces there Is to something to this testimony of general wood to make it extremely interesting not only from tho the military point of view but from chat may bo be called a legislative point of view it points up for the fact facts arc are are man general has given them qa on occasion of con congre gres and of congressional action there aa a a of course many men in tho the elates and they ire lre constantly making their influence felt who hoping for pence ence between all the nations of the world think that disarmament Is to the way to bring about concord among the peoples guns but no ammunition aa As long aa as cong congress rss continue continues to vote money for the gu support u port of tho the army and navy it natu naturally ally would seem that the money should be well applied and well expended hero here Is to where ono one of the peculiarities aties of con gressional gress lonal thought and action shows itself every year the lawmakers law mahera appropriate prop a good deal anoro than each for tho the army and the navy take the army case of which general wood speaks men here and they aro are not all military men either are asking what possible use it Is to for congress to vote large sums of money for field guns which tho the uninitiated should know are the light artillery pieces of tho the service and also ampro money for the pay of six regiments of field artillery and yet withhold money for the purchase of the ammunition which would make the batteries serviceable I 1 in other words the curious thing from a legislative as well aa as from a military point of view is why the lawmakers should ask the tax payers to expend large sums of money for guns for which there is no possible use for it does not take a brain of the size of that of daniel webster to make a man appreciate that a gun without powder and projectiles to fill it is a pretty useless sort of a weapon enough for only one battle it Is known to be a fact for the records show it that if w wa 1 were to have bavo a war today with an country worthy the name of a power our beld artillery could not engage in more than one battle with its present sup ply of powder and shot it takes a R long while to manufacture field anil artil lery ammunition and to get it to die tile front general wood has said also that there is in a very small allowance of ammunition evon evou for the gun in the bands hands of the troop these guns of course are the rifles of the infantry Infant rv and the carbines of the cavalry and also the small arms of the coast artillery for the heavy gun men must ierio on occasion as infantrymen in men it Is understood that the condition so far as our infantry forces aro are concerned Is absolutely nothing like so a bad as that with which the field artillery is confronted the foot so soldier dier with his modern springfield probably have cartridges enough to give a good account of himself in many a battle but the of the fiala forces after a fw rounds would be obliged to stand at his caisson or at the mouth of the alce ce as a mark for the riflemen rifi emen without any chance to return shot for shot about cans canal zone rule it Is believed that greald president ent wll wit eon son Is in about to give expression to his views ae an to the best beat means to gavern the panama canal zone after tho the isthmian canal commission passes out of existence secretary of war garrison already has bus communicated to the president prealo ent hia ideas as tn ta what hat ought to 0 o constitute a proper system of ut government lovern ment for the janal strip sart it may ruay or may not ta la that the Pre will agree with him somo some time atno ago isthmian canal cow cam 11 richard 4 metcalf signed od a changa change in tho the law which for the zono zong government after tle commission li Is abolished if idd mor ideas shall prevail a part pail of the law na an it stands must bo be 1 thoro there are mun men in congress of all parties who think that the metcalf puo la to tho the only ono one strong enough to serve tho the interests at to 1 tho the executive departments depart monta of the zone and to guard tho the tron frons thin un sinister letor influences of politic tho the law which fixes the form one of government for far tho the panama canal caral glyds givas great power into tho the bano hands of tle president pro eldont it provide provides for a one oue man rulo rule of tho the rond mr matcak thinks that thoro there should be a abree rulo rule and ono one does not baa a t logo CP far in this town to find supports for tho the metcalf plan ae an against tho the plan which has already boon been elven ue the force of law would divide outlet dutler tho the law ne as it ie Is allow tho the areail dont dent to appoint olther either a military maw or a civilian to tho the governorship if it his tits choco falls upon a civilian the unquestionably will bave have his military troubles ice and if it aban fall upon a military man ho unquestionably tion ably will havo have his civilian troubles if tho the metcalfe Mot calfo plan shourd be ber adopted and a commission 11 of throe throw mon men should bo be appointed to coven novel abo panama canal one of abo anew bors born would bo be a military man another a physician and sanitarian and tw third a layman chaigen will with tir the dw ties of civil administration under tho the existing law the dent not only appoints tho the governor gorer nox of tho zone but ho he appoints all or CU tho the subordinate officials it in i now being asked what will happen if aber roan man chosen for governor happen iff to bo be a politician A governor be naturally would expect to havo have ovva thing to eay say about the md who arr to serve under him in th P cw case tw tb question Is would we not haro bare au abw ib canal zone political doctore doctors loutica civil administrators and pollO eel 0 everything else outside of tha izaac lo 10 diato diate ranks of the army it Is to known definitely that scum of tho the men who have done areat work wor t on the isthmus us sea fear the coming of taw 1 day when politics may enter into the zones government the safety az c the waterway tor for instance Ineta delft absolutely upon the sanitation of abw zone colonel gorgas made the alee not only habitable but one ID to bmw wit teto it Is to a delight to live J and sanitarian of achievement aoe gK to secure an appointment sus as a u mav ber eaf the isthmian canal 11 certainly could bo be depended upon sa see that his subordinates did work bouli equal dependence be I 1 placed upon a canal governor alone in authority and being with many judgment detleu dupew some of which he was not qualified by tr alsing to pasa pass going easy eai on business even in the face of certain knowledge that some antitrust legis Is to be enacted it stilt still seems to 1 thiv washington observer that for OW r rest of this session congress congre ass w proceed cautiously in the eff eg legislation of a far reaching ma ture As has been eald said bacare te these there dispatches this does not beaw that thid congress will not have wicnty to do the one thing which seems to go bs assured since it came together agals le i that tho the democratic majority kne evv tip ken note of the sensitiveness cs cl business and Is going to spread its tion over a rable period cj d tisae in order thit th it condition conditions may way themselves to the coming ordes orde now that it Is in cert certain aln forbidding tho interlocking of ewe borates of at corporations and some things Is to pass tho the attention atten tio of ness men as sho shown n by lettera letters congressmen receive Is sharply davet ed to the future and to just what so I 1 tarr tip be expected in the ay of lawa laar ave enting the doing of bertz which in the past some bus bu alnes lueza zama appear appeared pd to think they bai bao a rib brigt T at todo As an example of at tie tise intent loB lou aa c i the in congress to go gor estber 7 with nith I 1 its ts le legislation I it may be said that it probably w 1 be two before effect will bo be given to jbv aft tew which Is to be enacted tw b locking ter directorates what be the business men want to know as an abawi by their letters Is what things ax to up como in the future there is a feeling manifest republican members of congress con gresa uwe business depression is bound to fonow democratic legislation legisla intended to tv sup replant P lant the sherman act it abound v w said however that the i members are not talking dia aate our loud as they did some time ago they bavo have found perhaps not only that W was bd iliad politics but that it waa was em sideres in many parts of kikm as being unpatriotic it was aber charge of lack of patriotism hi in bryla wolf 1 even it thoy thought they aw ono one which probably has ow change in the republican manner of voicing their to 11 LED the administrations methods of ca i trust legislation |