Show PREPARES FOR WAR congress 18 15 OBEYING THE OLD ADAGE TO MAKE READY IN TIME OF PEACE EQUIPS THE ARMED SERVICE heeding heading tie the warning warnings of colonel thompson and general wood it Is I 1 putting the army on a sound bound bid basis by GEORGE CLINTON washington while several treaties looking to arbitration if it not to actual compact compacts of peace between tola this nation and many others are in process of negotiation got lation congress la is putt lat the unit ed state states upon a safeguarding mill tary footing tooting in one of these wash ington dispatches recently it waa was laid said the united states la Is pushing to corn com rapidly ita its in the tb philippines hawaii and on the pacific coast of tha the panama canal zone this la in the only war care scare lory story which doe does not meet with either dally daily denials or dally daily evasion recent ev event e ants show conclusively that army officers must have known borne some time ago that a democratic con cress intended to tote vote money to strengthen the armed service by supplying the war material necessary to make up known deficiencies probably the army knew also that congress la in tended to supply means to strengthen strength eit the fortifications and to giva give the army other things necessary necea eary to meet any e emergency mer gency if it there was any war scare in the 0 original chapter it has its supplement in the story of the legislative action of today probably however there it 1 no real war scare in the situation the case doubtless ts is simply one of an n to the ances sIty of taking the precautions demanded by common sense heed hood col thompsons Thompson le warning not long ago the then acting chief of ordnance anco col john T thompson Thom pion tn in an interview let it be known knowis that while the united states army tn in many respects was as in condition to t 0 me beut t the demands of warfare it was lame mably croak weaken la field artillery and in ammunition col iThompson ColA homp gou gar say this information to the country isome time before congress had taken up tho the bills for cov covering tring for and munitions dfwar of ar now na the tho legislators bate have acted and have bay voted a large largo sum to ba be used to strengthen the fortifications to buy the coast and field guns which are am necessary and to purchase amanual tion tomake them serviceable the debates o I 0 A congress con rees on 4 zi the question of increased i appropriations for war material were warie pointed and as they were bield in the open everything that wax was said la Is by this time known and in to japan the congressmen gr essmon did not hesitate to talk about other countries when they were wore discussing the of their own country to meet moot an on enece L thal la in the field gold or qu the sea son taking this debate ato tn in connection with that oa on the allatto exclusion provision for the immigration bin bill little room tor for wonder to Is left that ike the japanese japan people p are beag kept more orle burree p over the doisa ts in america army en on euna gun baglia sate before loag gee gen loard 71 will j be bo transferred from t his pt i ahlet of staf OAR to aee other scene booe aroe fo oe mand not mac before couf coo grews fro its atton attention tion to the matter af or I 1 fay U actions dfwar gon wood told the th committee pa PM military affairs alum of the deficiency ia in guns and add at that time it etwas was asked pointedly what kind of reasoning it was that pet put it lato a head that it was as all to supply money te to pay par the men man of six regiments of held artillery and thea then to gire give them nothing to work with apparently saw the P point of tb question aad and baa bas proceeded prop to supply the working material now the first grit time a leafa the anay of tho the united stat states la Is to b be up apoe at something am ething ilk like a basis croul which to begin active A badty ahadi alc 7 w j what ef of senator j whitlaw what fit borah washington pro im aad and republicans 4 1 yes aadi a democrats t too 00 today af are ing the pro probable bablo future political at william of idaho tt senator aa an la known la is a it republican he has just made a speech to the great republican club of at new now york which has led to comment and apdo omon in washington by the members of all the political ps parties artles 0 when whon the republican national eom albee met rest la in last december several progressive republicans were wore invited to address the members rae abers william B E borah bomb was one of them lie was the only republican cf of known 1 instincts and acal actlis nt who declined la fit any way to mollify tho th committeemen by intimating tati matIng that be li knew know whatever action thy they took aka ref reference orience to calling an extraordinary convention of the republican party pany would be ae by high motives the senator did not irge the calling ailing of a bonal aatlo aal OTtin tIOU and he fie W wea the only oae one of the progressive re public publicans aps who took this negative course cow r it waa was eald geld at the time utne that mr 8 bof of ah sh declined to stand with ather foi prelove pr jai la favor of an coave atlon of the re publican party to regulate late ao athern and to do other tor thing things la in oa attempt tempi to appease the men who left wn the party became because he I 1 bat I 1 uch nab a convention would be e ki u rv 1 i largely by men who daml dominated the I 1 taft convention in 1912 1 will he acin 1 recently when champ dark clark in a 0 speech at baltimore prophesied that f borah bould be the nominee of th the ja republican party for or the preside presidency ac la in 1916 the idaho man replied by re mutilating pud lating ting all suggestion ot of ambition and by laying saying certain fine thing about the great leader of the progress ive party which made it appear to some perso no that be he had high hope that the republican republicans would find omo some means 0 endorsing endo ning theodore roosevelt for or the presidency preel dency abile the 01 benator may have had nothing tn in mind ind except the amalgamation ot of the republican and the progressive par ties there was that in what he aid said which for some reason or other had bad made the leaden leaders believe it Is within the range of possibilities that ere ore long there will be a new now recruit fully enlisted enli eted la in the ranks of the new now party at are they the progressives tn in WA washington ington while apparently hopeful that mr borah eventually will join their rank ranks are somewhat ome what disappointed because la in h ahli in recent speech be he did not come out fe squarely qu arely and sharply in favor of kick A lag inc the bosses out of the republican party mr dorah borah said the rank ranks must rule but the progressive progressives lay say he a should have called the bosses by nam name and have declared their departure from the party wai was an absolute nece ity sity before any thought of amalgam u tion could be entertained in his speech before the new york tork republican club mr borah bomb however aid said a most significant thing it did not tand stand out as a a paragraph by itself rl it aa as wedged in to between material ot of much leu less political moment the pro PM gres greadie sive leader leaders In Washington today are reading and rereading theia theme word of borah f if it the republican voter voters are not progressive ln the true aund sound sense i p of the term then the way tor for some oi of us u la Is clear T own owens stock exchange bill it seems me likely now that congress T will decline this winter at least toj par pass the bill introduce by sana owen of 0 oklahoma ana known bj i thie this title I 1 A bill to prevent tha th f ue use of the malla mallis and of the telegraph and telephone in ile furtherance ol 01 ah fraudulent and harmful Tm Tr anao ileac a eions of block ok exchanges i y thie thin measure a tanda bandla tan dla f iii danger danial dani wl of postponement it U not defeat beasso la in its present fora form a food good many SOW t ben bars of con congreve congre greV wV pany at than a 04 4 fj rank ranks of mr owens own 3 political party eem room to think th U bs amended materially before fore chance tor for passage it 1 4 00 thie this tock stock exchange exclia on j h deanor ofa mr owen thua I 1 we V ell eem seem to believe is 1 not an alt tetra 1 five measure MW it leev a MM tat am mr owen h not aked kod mr waw W tj 7 tor for his AP phalm I 1 of this 11 off 09 V pring spring of lle fiall now of thomena abw deca crate ate ass asking it mr oliou in of having hie his nt foi jw ap adral foral kinn don do e N I 1 i N nied tiled in a way that would kul the bill before it to Is give given devea a o 0 chance for tf Us uto lafin 4 in this hones 1 i d Is I 1 nate note tee the tl tateo teo the misawo u one which would make it pw that what ar fr owen beeke to today dayle ta waray worthy lia tb ahr U 0 www of at tb taftt 00 bator senator baw bax worthy mot lyse bet er Y room or other a good many u bolk I 1 think ua frama 44 im barshal toek ee ona jehae hae bolow im I 1 WA chieh f areld armid be toma W so tb HI bill U ti 11 not oi b a aa flat he W 1 A t what they ater wom bo k tho U dooe done to things they thor do W t M to 0 b najem L I 1 plenty anty of 0 there thom bave been ben t bearin on e do ta bill 11 betor before the easto on e r banking and sad currency cur reecy romy abe the pw b garried pan part of tb 4 vi 11 dene offered la in colease of at tho exchanges mea man lB ta in hiie the wa foliang exclia OlI ang ngee ot coustry cona tryee No bf bon t kt longet ta la kemi bw of at oe method andor Alch the biag and the tho buying of kock k were drw on it Is t true ra ebers ol 01 0 va W kiy what the stock tok ashbaw 1 4 men have gala dowiat orry aim concio i lion to them that the leete latton t ik rf jap pp piled to is I 1 wrong bt thon arn othere others who ay say leh io to theia them that the pr oalee held hold CJ TJ out by ur the legia 1 labun an are of 0 a deflurin I 1 v 17 kind f 4 that W which to I 1 of the I tarpe icax inters ca V cei tot in this matter to pena peresea who ha no po dealing dealings with tock stock exchanged it the charge made mad toy by member members of coal gross gre irrespective of political pair tift that in a areat great degree it would danger the lib etUes of the drees of toe the country it if the bill 11 should happen to go through as a it la to at present drawn it is I 1 that postmaster general him pow w ere ers off ot as great aa as giren given to authorities in thas ot of war hotle sot ie members say ay that aa as hey they unde niad the bill it am to them it tt it became blaw it U would be crit criminal ninal tol to nail sall an package circular pamphlet Po postcard poet eard nowa por par or any tona of printed pentad orl ori c whitted writ ted stati statement ment concerning franx 1 and aud sold 0 offered for aale ode by an tock stock P of pro arit the under provisions of the bill ame th men 1 ibo boch bar ot ladled it may to bade mado the jad of of the law and thop 0 poneotia of the armure declare that it f it wei weso to be enforced aa ha its language av y I 1 armade tat it t aall I 1 be me rot ot only will be bo the bulpit main aa la in UM tho united stet bat t 4 the most powerful sot senator r cack of nobuka a WK NT 41 owe who la to tho th father averof at UH th MM le mid to that the measure it eota Is lete I 1 im will pet put aa in eed d to tho th n at this rf of be 4 uala tt aw I 1 W 11 I 1 ji a 11 |