The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-19
Measure Now Goes Back for Passage With Objection
 able Feature Eliminated
OFFICERS AT OUTS"
 MUST OBEY RULES
Chief Executive Puts End to Plan to Please Some Politicians" Who Wear Uniforms and Want to
 Criticize Department

 propriation bill was unexpectedly vetoed today by President Wilson because he would not accept certain provisions in the revision of the articles of war, forced into the bill by the House conferees and commonly said in army circles to be in the interest of certain retired officers "at outs" with the army.
 Chairman Hay of the House military committee at once rentroduced the bill with the entire section revising the articles of war stricken out, and the declaration that no reviison at all would go through with the bill in this Con- gress.
 Chairman Chamberlain of the Senate military affairs committee announced that the Senate would reinsert the re- vision approved by the President and the war department, but stricken out in the House, and that the situation had re- solved itself into a contest between the Senate and House on one hand and Mir Hay on the other.
 TANGLE THREATENS DELAY
 The tangle threatens to delay the ad- journment of Congress and incidentally completion of the preparedness pro- gramme, as we'll as to hold up appropria- tions for the army increases and all tho extra expenses involved ill the Mexican service.
 The bill as reintroduced now is in the House military committee and there is an agreement to t~ke it up and to ex- pedite passage Tuesday. The fight, if one develops. will come when the Senate puts in a revision of the articles of war and sends it back to the House.
 The Presidents veto, one of the few he has exercised, marks another stage in the long fight between the army and Chairman Hay. The army, charges Hay with defeat of the continental army and universal training plans and the sub stitution of National Guard reorganza- ton which it opposed. Army officers also say certain features of the bill were. in- jected in conference and never were de- bated on the floor of either House. REVISION IS NEEDED The articles of war have not been re- vised in hundred years and are said to be sadly deficient for dealing with con ditons which growth of the army and development of the nation require. The war department Is especially anxious for changes to enable army officers to deal adequately with problems arising during the present Mexican service. h. cluded in the revision marked out by Congress, over the objection of the Presi- nd ba rfr rrO vision exempting retired officers from courtmartial and army discipline. if not actually from army control, and placed them under the jurisdiction of the civil courts. It is common understanding among army officers that the section covered the case of a certain retired officer, formerly regarded as a power in shaping military legislation, who was preparing to write a book and hesitated to do 1t while liable to discipline. The President in his veto, however, situation.
 PRESIDENTS VETO MESSAGE
 President Wilson's veto message fol- lows:
 ITO the House of Representatives: have carefully considered the bill entitled. An act making appropriations, for the support of the army for the rlscai year ending June 30, 19l7,' and now take the liberty of returning it with my objections to its approval
 '"rhe bill constitutes an essential part of the legislation providing for the mil |itary establishment of the country and wisely and generously provides for the reorganization of the agencies of our national defence, and it is with genu- inc reluctance that I delay it's becom- ling law by suggesting the elimination of one of the provisions which has been embodied in the very necessary and inn portant revision of the articles of war which has been added to it. "The existing articles of war are un- doubtedly archaic. They have not un- dergone comprehensive revision for more than 100 years. They do not al- ways furnish the means of meeting (Continued on Page TwV)