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Show I WOUNDED SOLDIERS I ; NEGLECTEDiSGHARGE H i ! Congressman Says Disabled ll Yanks are Not Receiving the Proper Treatment in U. S. , WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Sick and wounded soldiers are not receiving the treatment "guaranteed them by law," I Representative Johnson. Republican, I South Dakota, who served in the A. E. I P., declared today, in telling the house of his recent visits to govern-li'mit govern-li'mit hospitals. "Because of ignorance or neglect, nr because of wilful disregard of the laws by Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, or Rupert Blue, surgeon gen-oral gen-oral of "the United State,", said Reprc-sentative Reprc-sentative Johnson, "sick and wounded American soldiers are receiving treat-ment treat-ment that cannot be justified by any-one any-one who has any regard for the well being of the men who fought to niain-tain niain-tain the country. Replying to Representative Garner. Democrat, Texas, who Inquired the basis of the charge against the offi-i offi-i Cials, Representative Johnson asserted ' t,hat funds to provide hospital facili- ties had not been used because of the opposition of officials to taking over the Chicago Speedway hospital, and that because of this attitude funds for other hospitals were not being spent. Driven From Hospitals . "In Chicago. January 15th," Repre-il Repre-il sentatlve Johnson said, "American sol-diers sol-diers who had been and ought to be receiving treatment for their wounds, . wero requested to leave the hospital , and discontinue treatment in order that other men, in more serious condl-': condl-': tlonB, might take their beds in the hospital." "In these same hospitals," the South Dakota representative added, "men havo been gassed arc quartered in dark hallways where no ray of sun-, sun-, light has been, or ever will be, permlt-! permlt-! ted to ontcr, and this, in spite of the B 1 fact that since March 3, 1019, 9,500,-000 9,500,-000 has been available and could, and j should havo "been used. - B Many Will Die "If this conditions is permitted to exist for a few months more, there will be thousands of wounded and sick American soldiers who need treatment I and will be unable to secure it. In my li opinion, thousands of them will die Ij and the persons responsible for those H deaths will he. the men I have men- B tioned, or some of them, because con- gross has perfomcd its duty in appro-, appro-, priating the neceasary mnds while ' they havo not performed theirs in ex-pending ex-pending them." Johnson said that on last December 7, he saw 60 men at the Fort Sheridan 1 , army hospital, "who were not fed and 1 ' many others who could not secure suf-ficlent suf-ficlent food." He added that his com-plaint com-plaint of this to Secretary Baker re I suited in an Investigation which "ad-mittcd "ad-mittcd the truth of the complaint," "KKIIIH und an attempt to remedy the situa "HHHIH Johnson exhibited a photograph of i: "jjjjjjm bathroom, ten feet square in the Chi "HHHm I -ago Marine hospital, which he said "jjjjjjjH H was used for a vocational training "HHHHH 'ork room. H ii "In that bath room," ho said, holding "HHHHH. ,j .ip tho picture before the house, "lei "jjjjjjjjH ( men are supposed to work, and 1 "HHHIIH I would be crowded if three men wen "jjjjjjjjjH "j there at one time." |