Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-04 | Page 6 | Baker Clashes with Senators

bTherWsIs! i WIMNATM Chamberlain Accuses WlA' Department of Applying! Axe to Inferior Officers. WASHINGTON, Nov l-SccreUrS Halo r and Senator Chamberlain, Dew;' ocrat, Oregon, former chairman of torn senate military committee, clashcSj sharply todaj a i eai r.c of i suWfc committee dealing v.iih the mililarwi Justice controversy. "Whenever an inferior officer gBB into a disagreement with his superlonfi he is liki to u 1 t the axe very soBJ denly," Senator i bamberlain declared "That isn t Secretarj Cakjt "But I sa i' Sen oi i":,;,r,iber lam responded "We know it up bor.1 uoi. rse, Mr. D iker itlpi 'when an officer come-- up to conJi commit tees and says thilflL thai are Independent of dppartmea,, you class ai thing I hat happesjH to him after, as punitive punlshment-m "Take your own actions," said Sen?Fl! ator Chamberlain " hat did you OM to General Kenly for his aircraft s(atSfl mentfl nn here''" 111 j "He was not disciplined," SecretsJH j Baker returned. 1 "No, you call II discipline," ScoslB: 1 liimberlain remarked. "What htfj pened to Ansell" (former acting judB .oh oi ate -tri-neral) Vnu put him 10 pli of inocuous desuetude an i rfjj duced him in rank." m "I did that," Mi Baker replied. "Hm not onh dl .,.: m; v. itli his SH perior, he was slandering hira." JL' "Yes, ami what b i tnn ol AdJutalW" General McCain when h thought hifj' ottico ought not i in the con-JP nral ;.,,! s- nafoi Ch.in.befW ' i sai e him the opportunity to cOjjJ mand a di ision in Ihe ti-M thfJ heart's desire of ever soldier,'' Bak r si ni t.l "Yes, bu p ask lo be rclievedM Senator I bamberlain persisted. J "He'd never had anything but offiCjil experiepi i I mfe that l did nflj knoM his military record.'' Mr. L'-'f: said "1 thought he had commanded troops " Senator I hamherlain named othei officers of lower rank and 'he -'crfj tary conceded that some of them h" been demoted afi nansf-rrel. "When a man can't Ket along 1 his chief he ought to get out of nj seriee," he concluded, "unless M chief i- wrong, and i It. n yen ouyht 10 change the chief."