Show ARMI AMY BILL FAILS TO MEET wm APPROVAL PRESIDENT VETOES MEASURE BECAUSE HE COULD NOT ACCEPT CERTAIN provisions bill reintroduced with objectionable section stricken out but tangle threatens Threaten 3 to deny adjournment of congress washington Vas hington the army appropriation bill was unexpectedly vetoed on august 18 by president Preg ident wilson because he would not accept certain provisions in the revision of the articles of war forced into the bill by the house conferees and commonly said in army circles to be in the interest of certain retired officers at 01 cuts ts with the army chairman day of the house military committee reintroduced the bill with the entire section revising the articles of war stricken out lind the declaration that no revision at all would go through with the bill in this congress chairman chamberlain of the senate military committee announced that the senate would reinsert the revis revision lon approved by the president and tale ane war wai department but stricken out in the house bouse and that the situation has haa resolved itsell itself into a contest between the senate and housed house on one hand and mr hay on the other the bill as reintroduced now la Is in the house military committee commit tee and there Is an agreement to take it up and expedite the continental army and universal training plans and the tion of national guard reorganization which it opposed army officers also say certain features of the bill were injected into it in conference and never were debated on the floor of either house bouse of congress the articles of war have nt not been revised in a hundred years and are said to be sadly deficient for dealing with conditions which growth of the army nd development of the nation require the war ar department Is especially irs ally ando anxious tor for changes to 10 enable army officers to deal adequately with problems arising during the present af mexican service included in the revision worked out by congress over the objection of the president and the war department was a brov provision ision which exempted retired officers from court martial and army discipline it if not actually from army control and placed them under the jurisdiction of tie the civil courts it is common understanding among army officers that the section bovere covered d the easel of a certain retired officer formerly regarded as a power in shaping military legislation begu legu lation who was preparing to write a book and hesitated to do it while liable to discipline |