Show FOR WAR CONGRESS 18 OBEYING THE OLD ADAGE TO MAKE READY IN TIME OF PEACE EQUIPS THE ARMED SERVICE I 1 heeding heading the warnings of colonel thompson Thom peon and general wood it ie Is putting the army on an a j sound basis basle by GEORGE CLINTON Washington While several ire treaties atles looking to arbitration it not to actual compacts of paco between thie this nation and many others aro are in process of negotiation got lation congress cong roae la in putting the unit od states upon a Bae safeguarding guarding military footing in one of those washington dispatches roo antly it was aid said the united stated states ie in pushing to completion rapidly its fortifications in the philippines hawaii and on the pacific coast of the canami canal zone this Is in tho the only war scare story which does cot bot with either dally daily denials or ally evasion evat lon recent events show conclusively that army officers buet havo have known some timo time ago that r democratic congress intended to vote money to strengthen the armed service hy by supplying tho the war material necessary to make up known deficiencies probably the tha army amy knew also that congress intended to supply means to strengthen the fortifications and to give the army other things necessary to meet any emergency if thoro there was any war scare in the original chapter it has its supplement in tho the story of tho legislative action of today probably however there Is no real war scare in the situation the case doubtless Is simply one of an awakening to tho the necessity of taking the precautions demanded by common sense heed hec d col thompsons warning not long ago the then acting chief of ordnance ord nanco col john T thompson in an interview let it be known that while tho the united states arm army y in many respects was in a proper condition to meet the demands of warfare it was lamentably weak in field artillery and in ammunition col thompson gave this information to the country some time before congress had bad taken up the bills tor for appropriations covering fortifications and munitions of war now the legislators havo have acted and have toted voted a large sum to be used to strengthen the fortifications to b buy U the coast and field guns which are necessary neco seary and to purchase ammuel alor to make them serviceable debates in congress on the question of increased appropriations for war material were pointed and as an they were held in tho open everything that was said w bv this time known in europe and in japan the con gre gressmen semen did not hesitate to talk about other countries when they were discussing tho unprepared n ess of their own country to meet an enemy in the field or on the sea bea taking this debate dabate in connection with that on the asiatic exclusion provision proposed for the immigration bill little room for wonder is left that tho the japanese people are being kept more or less stirred up over the doings in america before long gen leonard wood will be transferred from his post as an chief of staff to some other scene of command not long before congress turned its attention to the matter of munitions of war gen wood told the committee on military affairs ot 0 the ncy in guns and ammunition at that lime tim it was asked pointedly what kind of reasoning lc it was that put it in to a bead head that it was all right to supply money to pay the men of six of field artillery and then to give them nothing to work with congress apparently saw the point of tho the question and has pio ceedee to supply the working material now the first time in years tho the army of ot the states is to bo be upon ulon something omet hinc like lilts a sound basis what of senator borah what of borah washington pro gres and republicans yes and democrats Deino crite too today are discussing the probable future political attitude of senator william 11 borah of idaho the senator as is known la Is a progressive republican ho he tas just made a speech to tho the g grent r republican club of new york which has led to comment and speculation in washington by the members of all the political parties 4 when the republican national committee met in washington last decina bor ber several progressive republicans were invited to address the members william 3 borah WOR was one of hem them ho ile was as the only republican of known progressive instructs and notions who declined in any way to mollify be the committeemen by intimating that he know knew whatever action the took with re reference ferenze to calling calline an extraordinary of tho the republican party would bo be actuated by high motives tho the senator did not dot urge the calling of a na national tiona contention and ho he was the only ono of tho the progressive republicans who took thid negative cou course it was said at tho the time that mr dorah borah declined to eland stand with other pro republicans in favor layer of au extraordinary convention of the republican party to regulate southern representation and to do other thine things in an attempt to appease the men who left the party because ho he thought that euch such a convention would bo be dominated largely by men who dominated the 1 luff I taft convention in 1912 will he join Progress progressives ives recently when champ dark clark in a speech at baltimore prophesied that borah would be tho the nominee of the republican party for the presidency preel dency in 1916 the idaho man replied by repudiating ting all suggestion of ambition and by saying certain fine flue things about the groat great leader of the progressive party which made it appear to some persona persons that ho he had bad high hope that the republicans would find some means of endorsing theodore volt for the presidency while the senator may have bad had nothing in mind except the amalgamation of the republican and tho the progressive parties there was that in what be he said which for somo some reason or other had made the progressive loaders leaders believe it ie Is within the range of possibilities that ere lone long thero there will bo be a new recruit fully enlisted in tho the ranks of ok the new party are they right the progressives in washington while apparently hopeful that mr borah bomb eventually will join their ranke aro are somewhat because 1 in his recent speech he did not come out squarely and sharply in favor of kicking the bosses out of the republican party mr borah said the ranks must rule but tho the progressives say be he should have called tho the bosses by name and have declared their departure from the party was an absolute necessity before any thought of amalgamation could be entertained in his speech before the new york republican club mr borah however said a most significant thing it did not stand out as a paragraph by itself it was wedged in between material of much less political moment the progressive gres sive leaders in washington today aro are reading and rereading these words 0 of f borah if the republican voters are not progressive in the true sound sense of the term then tho the way for some of us Is clear owens owes stock exchange bill s it seems likely now that congress will decline this winter at least to pass the bill introduced by senator owen of oklahoma and known by this title abill to prevent the UBO uso of the mails malls and of the telegraph and telephone in furtherance of fraudulent and harmful transactions sao of stock exchanges this measure stands in danger of postponement if not defeat because in it its present form a good many members of congress as many of them in the ranks of mr owens own political party seem to think that it should be amended materially before given a chance for passage this stock exchange legislative en deavor of mr owen tho the democrats seem to believe is not an admi administrative meagre measure and it Is even sa said I 1 that mr air owen has not asked mr wilson for his ap of this begir legislative la tive off oft ap spring ing of his skill some of the democrats are asking it if mr owen Is afraid of having his request for approval denied in a way that would probably kill the bill before it Is given even a chance for its life in the house and senate the title of the tle measure is one which would make it appear that what mr air owen seeks today Is worthy there is no doubt of course that the senator has worthy motives endanger endangers freedom of press that which Is to of the sharpest interest in this matter to persons who have no dealings with stock exchanges Is the charre charre made by members of con gross irrespective of political parties that in a great degree it would en danger the liberties of the press of th the a country if the bill should happen to go through at it la at present drawn n it la Is charged that postmaster pter general burleson would have given him pow era of censorship as ar great ns na those given to military authorities in time of war mar some members say that HP ho they understand the bill it seems SCAMS to them if it it became a law it would be criminal to mail any letter package circular pamphlet postcard new per or any other form of nt printed or written statement concerning transactions rind sold or offered for sale 1 by an berated stock exchange the general under the 11 of the bill the tho men who halo hao studied it say ay Is made mado the judge of violations of nr th be hw and the opponents of the mansure declare that if it were to be enforced av n its language apparently intends that it abail be 1 mr I r burleson Bur ledon not only will be the roan man in the united states but abo most mot pou powerful erful senator hitch cock of nebraska a democrat alk mr 0 owen on who is the father of the tho bill has bald said that the measure if enacted into law will put an end to the freedom of the press of the united states m a a tox to X d a |