Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-12-28
AMERIcA ar ENEMk,s MORO Il
Report PRESENTED to 4 tEongress Says
Country Inadequately Protected.

INVASION friom lorelSn \ governments
was recently sent to THE House as a
secret docu ulment and, after number
of conferen ices and hurried telephone
messages, tyas returned to the War
Departmen3 on the ground that the
House COULD not receive a secret re-
port.
Members who saw the document
before its withdrawal SHY 1t is re-
port of j. Id. DickinsonA Secretary Of
War; that it points opt that the
country is wholly unpretpared; that
there is fwoful inadeqhacy of men,
Of guns anH CT ammunition; that the
army should be reorgan1zed and that
a council pf national defense, with
the Secretary of War lat it's head,
should be created by Congress. The
report of Gen. Wood, which was
marked 1Eonfidential," dealt with
these matters and gavel official ad-
mission to matters that Iare of more
or less common knowledge among
army and navy experts lin this coun-
try and abroad. In fact, the real
Significance of the doculhent is that
It makes ol ficial admissions Of these
conditions.
who'd Sees Danger.
Gen. who'd, in his tebtimony be-
fore the II louse Military Committee,
furnished Jome Of the mPst interest
ing inform Iation ever given before
that body He discussed the whole
subject oil national defense, told
where the weak points LAZY, and laid
particular Iemphasis on the possibil-
ity Of attack from the Orient. He
did not give vent to apy alarmist
views as td danger Of any immediate
invasions, Put talked conf dentially Of
The need of changes as prudent and
valuable, r. guard against trouble
with JapaH or China
Thle Danger in Wtst.
Represel htative MacLaEhlan, the
author of the resolution which
brought THE official exposition of the
weakness jof the military defense,
said:
"a foreign country cpuld land
100000 Troops on the P4cilc coast
in so days and the only )intimation
of trouble would be the blowing up
OF the md'untain passes, thus pre-
venting AMY communicatioh with the
East. In the three States west of
the Rocky Mountains California,
Oregon AMID Washington-- we have
5000 rcgu lar troops and 1000 mill
tiamen. The best military authori-
ties say that 1T would take years to
dislodge fPreign troops If Ithey ever
got foothlold under these conditions.
and that pc would cost the United
States a billion Of dollarsf
A bill i)ntroduced by Representa-
tive HobstPn provides for I national
council fo1 defense and is the result
Of his conference with President Taft
and Secretary Wilson and other OFF,
cialS
HOustf Returns the REPORT.
The War Departments urecaution
to protect the report led to serious
miX-up in he House. The n eport was
marked donfidential," but that pre-
caution w(s indicated only Sn part
Of the document In the routine
handling of the report it was passed
along with other executive docu-
ments to the clerks office, where
such matters are open to public in
spection, but almost instantly it's con-
fdential nAture was discovered and it
was withdrawn to the privacy Of
the Speakers Office
After o| |oking into the precedents,
the speake|r concluded that there was
no warrant for the reception of the
report as IA confidential communica-
ton, and lhe returned it to Secretary
Dickinson with polite lettef calling
attention 20 the rules of the, House,
which require all originally executed
communication to be printed.
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