The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-02
"A Deplorable Deadlock

CNHOUl.D Messrs Hay and Dent the two Dem
" ocratc members OF congress who are the
house representatives. on the military affairs epnl
ference committee succeed in defeating the volun.
teer army section Of the Chamberlain Bill, as the
adviccs OF saturday indicate may be the case the
conference being dcadlocked the cause of national
defense will have been dealt body blow. Five
Of the seven niembers=of the Joint committee are
known to favor the measure Senator Chamber
lain. the chairman Of the senate committee re
CARDS it the most important section of the bill
presented hy his committee; Senators Warren ,ant
Du POnt the Republican Senatorial cOnferees
have fought for the volunteer scheme through foul
weeks ct debate: Senator BrouSSard. the SECOND
Democratic conferee from the upper house is the
president Of the Preparedness League of America
and stout champion of universal military training
The remaining representative from the h0us,
is Mr.. Kahn oi California who advocates not only
the volunteer army proposal but increased faol
tieS iOr business men and student camps
The volunteer plans proposed in the Chamber
lain Bill have the endorsement of the War Col
lcge and arc identical with the terms of the Noun
tccr Bin proposed by Mr.. Hay two years ago ,anS
now ON the Statute Book. except that where thu
law now reads that the President is authorized t.
raise volunteer troops I'm time of when wal
is threatened" Senator Chamberlain has inter
polated the phrase lat any time" Mr. Hay, Thea
is fighting his own law and, in taking this posi-
ton. he represents neither the people OF the coun
try, who are clanonng for adequate defenses, moi
the National Guard, whose champion he sets him
self up to be. 4@.,
The National Guard and the National GuarC
Association must not be confused One is a BODY
of hard working, patriotic and efficient either
soldiers. the other is an association composed o
The generals Of the several States npltti
cally appointed in most cases and one representa-
tive for each five hundred members Of the Nationa
Guard. 1t is the Association, an organization
which is supposed to control many Thousand oil
votes that Mr.. Hay is attempting to please.
Senators OF many years service have recently de-
clared on the floor OF the senate that the present
lobby maintained in Washington by the Nationa
Guard Association is the most vicious political or
ganizatun that has mixed its fingers in public mat
tiers in the past decade.
The impression has gone abroad throughout III,
country that because the National Guard lobby de
clared war the volunteer section of the Cham
berlain Bill and almost succeeded in knocking il
out on the floor OF the senate, nothing or very lit
tie, is done in the senate measure for the Nationa
Guard As a matter Of fact the Chamberlain draf
contains word for word, in section after section
many provisions that appear in the Hay Bill 1,
came from the house. The senate bill did full jus
tice to the National Guard, and took scrupuou,
care that it's interests were not neglected, and
that the federal government shall not only be able
t. muster it into active service but to control it
though it were federal force.
The National tudrd lobby is fighting the ruluu
teer section uf tive senate bill not because the
guard ha~ been neglected in the proposed lcgi'
lation but purcl, and simply because the guar
does not want Il competitor i'll any volunteer army