| Show WILSON RESENTS I ATTACK ON BAKER DECLARES WAR DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT HAS ACCOMPLISHED TASK OF OFU U UNPARALLELED P A LE MAGNITUDE I. I Issues a State Statement t Declaring Assertions Assertions' Asser- Asser of off Senator Chamberlain Chambel in Astounding and Unjustifiable Distortion of the Truth Washington All All doubt as to President lent dent Te t Wilson's Wilsons view of proposals In congress for reorganization of the governments government's gov gov- war making machI machinery nery was swept away Monday MonJa b by a statement In which thc said the war department de do- h had il accomplished a a. a task of unparalleled magnitude and ad difficulty with extraordinary promptness and efficiency ef er- ef- ef denounced the tho congressional war Investigations and declared that reorganization by legislation was proposed pro pro- posed after effective measures of oC reorganization reorganization had been perfected The presidents president's statement was Issued a as n a result of a n speech in Jn New Nev e York Saturday by Senator Chamberlain chairman of f the senate military committee com corn and after he lie had asked the sen senator senator senator ator on the telephone whether he had been correctly quoted Senator Chamberlains Chamberlain's Cham Cham- reference to inaction and antl Ineffectiveness ineffectiveness in In- effectiveness of the thc government the lc called as astonishing arid and absolutely unjustifiable d distortion or of the truth He lIe said he regarded regarded'S S 'S Secretary Baker as one one of oC the ablest public o officials he had ever er met In the statement most observers at atthe atthe atthe the capitol saw the tle collapse of f what promised t to b be a historical struggle Senator Chamberlain whose committee l has framed bills to create a n war council coun coun- cil cU all ail ij powerful under under- the president and antl to provide one man control of mu mu- find anti supplies lr continue 40 to fight Irs in pit of presidential opposition It If It was was rather goner gener generally lily ally conceded however that the measles meas incas t les es would have hn but little chance In Inthe Inthe Inthe the senate and probably none at all in Ill inthe inthe the the house j L- L Senator tor halIl n made ale a statement state state- t te- te ment ment- mentin in reply to the president ing he s poke l ole extemporaneously exten in New lurk and that his criticisms were directed di di- at the war wal var department t only a and 1111 not at ut other branches bi o of the govern govern- meat ment |
