Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-07
VOLUNTEER CLAUSE
RETAINED IN BILL
Senate Refuses to Eliminate Section in
Army Bill by Close Vote Of SO to 81
National Guardsmen Charged With
Lobbying.

Lobbying.
Washington, April 1.-THE senate re-
tanned the federal volunteer provision
in the army bill late yesterday by
vote of 36 to "a. rejecting Senator Lees
amendment to strike the section from
the bin.
The vote ended a four-day debate on
the section.
Advocates of the national guard as
the first line of defense behind the
regular army, supported the amend
ment vigorously and the struggle was
one of the hardest fought in the sem
ate at this session Of congress.
1t began after the defeat of the mill
posal to create a national guard sec
ton Of the army general staff was
written into the bill.
The narrow margin by which the
federal volunteer provision was re-
tanned makes it doubtful that it will be
In the measure finally framed by the
conference between the two houses.
An effort during debate on the
house army bill to insert the section
which is designed to provide such
force as the continental army pro-
posed by former Secretary Garrison,
was decisively defeated.
without republican support the
volunteer sectioI would have been
voted out by thex democratic senators
despite the~~fac9 that 1t was unani-
mously recommel he'd bysthe military
COMMITTEES, .4g... a't s,- ts,-*
twenty y-fS1r democrats and ten re-
p1hiicans. Including nearly all the pro-
gressive republicans voted to strike it
out. Nineteen democrats and seventeen
republicans voted to retain It. The vote
follows: '1's -,
Voting to eliminate the section: So
" Democrats - Ashhurst, Bankhead,
Clarke of Arkansas Culberson, Gore,
Hardwick, Hughes, Kern, Lee of Mary
land, Lewis, Martin, Overnan, Ransrall.
Reed, Robinson, Shafroth, Simmons,
Smith Of Georgia, Smith of South Car
olina, Stone, Swanson, Taggart, Thomp-
son and Vardaman-24
Republicans-Clapp, Cummins. Cur
tbs, Jones. KerEon, McComber, Norris,
Page, Sherman and Works-10 Total
"a.
Voting to retain the section:
Democrats - Beckham, Broussard,
Hitchcock, Hollis, Hust-
ing, Johnson of Maine, Johnson Of
South Dakota. Lane, Newlands, OGor-
man, Pittman, Pomerene, Salisbury,
Sheppard, Smith Of Maryland, Thomas,
Walsh and Williams-19.
,: Republicans-Borah, Brandegee, Ca
tron, Clark Of Wyoming, Dillingham;
du Pont, Gallinger, Lippit Lodge, Nell
son, Oliver, Poindexter, Smott, Sterling,
Sutherland, Warren and Weeks-17
Total 36.
The vote followed charges that
the national guard organizations thru
out the country were conducting a lob
by against the federal volunteer plan.
Senator Cham berlain, chairman of
the military committee, warned the
senate in the course of the debate that
If the national guard proposed to be-
come politically active and endeavor to
influence legislation as it had done in
this case he would in future oppose
any further federal aid for the state
soldiers.
T. Champions Of the guard reported
that the military training camps as
sociation had been equally active in
behalf of the federal volunteer sec
ton. They pointed to the mass of tel
egrams laid before the senate by tSena-
tor Chamberlain to sustain their con-
tention. - "'" 4--