The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-05-27
BRYAN'S PEACE POLICY
APPROVED BY WILSON
WILL OPPOSE ANY ATTEMPT TO
PLACE THE COUNTRY IN PRE-.
PARATloN FOR WAR.

The administration continues TO turr.
a deaf ear to army and navy officers
who plead for legislation which will
place the United States in a condition
of military preparedness, and 1t Is the
consensus of opinion in Washington
that the recommendations of the gem
eral staff of the army and the general
board of the navy viii be largely ig-
nored in making up recommendations
to be sent to congress- says a Wash
Iington correspondent. Nothing short
of the United States becoming involv-
led In the European conflict, 1t is be-
lieyed, will force the president to ask
congress for extraordinarily large APP
preparations for the army and navy.
Accepts Bryan's View.
For several months the demand mas
been made that congress be assembled
which will largely increase our
strength on land and on sea. The
president, the secretary of state and
the secretary of the navy are firmly
opposed to such a session and to such
Legislation, The Bryan peace ideas are
Improved by the president and the Sec
rotary of the navy, and the secretary
of war, who has radically different
ideas of his own, has been repeatedly
overruled when he has entertainec
opinions and made recommendations
that do not meet with the approval or
these three peace at ANY price" men
in the cabinet. Other cabinet officers
having no direct concern over the mill
tary problems, have deferred to the
judgment Of the president, leaving
Secretary Garrison without a support
err in the presidents official family.
Garrison Prepares Plans.
Secretary Garrison, however, has
war college to prepare a general plan
for the betterment of the army, bur
this plan will be far from radical and
far from comprehensive, as limitations
Ldko DGCu pleICeu ny lllC
ton. 1t will provide for the creation
Of an army reserve; 1t will provide for
an adequate coast artillery-adequate
to man the Notifications now built o.
building; it will provide for the bet
ter equipment of the quartermaster
and commissary departments based
upon an army Of the size already au-
thorized. But if the general stan
terially larger army; if it recommends
heavy expenditures for coast defense
and recommends the investment of
millions of dollars in the building o.
guns Of type found most effective IN
the European war; in fact. If 1t goes
to the extreme of recommending &
truly efficient army and reserve,
judged by European standards, that
part of the recommendation will be
vetoed by the administration and will
not go to congress.
Navy Boards Recommendations.
The general board of the navy, cor
responding to the general staff OF the
army, already learned by experience
that its recommendations are to be
subjected to radical modification by
Secretary Daniels and while it will, If
allowed to exercise the judgment OF It's
members, submit a recommendation
favoring greatly increased navy, lay
til otiY,
it's recommendations as transmitted to
congress will be so cut as to be unrec-
ognizable by bigger navy officers.
Secretary Daniels thinks the American
navy is growing fast enough: he IS no,
in favor of increasing the building pro-
gram. And Secretary Daniels in this
respect has the support and CO.
operation of the president and Sec
and Secretary Daniels who tied up
many Of the recommendations pre-
pared by Secretary Garrison last year
and Secretary Daniels took care of the
of the general board ,
of the navy.
No Extra Session.
There has been some speculation as F.,
to the possibility of an extra session
to consider bigger army and bigger
navy legislation, but that speculation
has been idle for an extra session for
such a purpose Is known to be far
from the thought Of the president.
Some demand for such a session has
come indirectly from military authori
ties, none of whom dare voice their
views publicly, and similar demand
has come from civilian organizations
which are working for a bigger army
and bigger navy. But in administra-
ton circles this demand is speedily
showed aside; 1t has no sympathy un
less 1T be the silent sympathy Of Sec
rotary Garrison, who is not permitted
to think out loud" on this subject.