Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-19
Republican A. P. Leased Wirel

denounced preparedness program and
urged adoption of his resolution for
! President Wilson to call a neutral ma
ton peace conference
| Quartermaster General Aleshire con-
| tinued testimony before military COM
mittee
| Passed Ferris stock raising home
| stead bill, the last of the administra-
| ton conservation measures pending in
/ the house.
! Consideration of good roads bill post
| poned.
Bill to license bonded grain and cot
| ton warehouses faVorably reported by
agricultural committee.
Representative Sherwood. of Ohio
| introduced bill to provide for S5,000,-
600 government munition factory at
| Toledo.
Adjourned at sos p. m. to noon
| Wednesday,
| Congressional machinery was in full
! motion today toward the formulation
! of the bills which finally will be drawn
and brought to vote as a result of the
administrations program for strength
ening the army and establishing a def
Unite military policy for the nation.
Before the senate military committee
the war departments plans We're re-
! viewed by Secretary Garrison Vir-
tually as he presented them to the
house committee last week Major
General Leonard Wood, former chief of
staff and now a commander of the de-
partment of the east, will appear to-
morrow, to be followed by Major Gen
eral Carter retired, author of the most
recent work on the military philosophy
of the United States
| Brigadier General Aleshire, quarter
master general, concluded his testimony
| before the house committee during the
day and was followed by Brigadier
General Scriven, chief signal officer.
The latter was questioned closely
about the aviation work of the army
| The trend of Secretary Garrisons
examination by the members of the
senate committee indicated less opposi-
ton there to the plan of the continental
army than had been shown in the
house committee. Mr. Garrison again
urged that the president be allowed
wide discretion in the organization of
/ Ni'i'' 'iCt, WHICH lie SdiU WAS a TASK
to be accomplished only in the light of
Senator Chamberlain chairman of
the committee, with the reservation
that he foresaw many obstacles to
the continental army scheme and had
not committed himself to it. suggest
ed that it should be submitted in the
form of a general authority conferred
upon the president the work of or
ganlZatlon to be carried out under
rules and regulations laid down by
the war department. Secretary Car
rlson agreed to this
Questioned about a suggestion made
before the committee by Miss Jane
Adams that a commission be an
pointed to determine if the best nos
sible results were being obtained
from present expenditures on the
army, Mr. Garrison said he could
find no evidence of extravaganza in
the existing system
Describing the regular army as a
highly polished. costly diamond" the
secretary said army machinery would
operate for larger force at a greatly
reduced per capita cost.
Mr.. Garrison expressed strong OBJ
! position to payment of national
guardsmen BY the federal govern
ment.
The one thing that has prevented
the working out heretofore of an ad-
equate military policy" he said, has
. | been the attitude of the state troops
! II you put them on the federal pay
roll, we will never get a sensible
military policy"
General Scriven, before the house
q committee, placed the producing ca
pacity of American aeroplane facto-
+ | rles at twenty complete machines per
day. The United States certainly
could count on several hundred ma
chimes month, he thought, in time
Of war
Substantial reduction in the price OF
!, armor plate was promised the senate
+ naval committee today by L. G. Grace
president Of the bethlehem Steel com.
, | pany if congress would adopt the ad
ministration's five-year navy buildins
{, program. Mr. Grace was testifvins
ut a hearing on Senator Tillman'.
bill to provide for a government ar
NOR factory.
l
& purchaser the government of thu
- United States, and that purchase
without policy said he. adopt
y. policy and we will meet with thi
committee or authorized government
officials and make a price which.
am sure, you will admit is fair. w
ire willing to take almost any pric
to prevent the government operatin
;" its own plant and make us thro,
~ away the $7,10O,OO0 we have investe
n this highly specialized business"
Z Mr. Grace produced records to sho,
u that the total cost of producing ar
NOR plate was 1915 a ton, if his plan
III vas operated at full capacity, blu
IT. that it was operated at only one
third its capacity, bringing the cos
al to $499. The government paws s42
~ ton. Under the administration
l. building program Mr. Grace said hi
r plant would run at two thirds ca