Arizona republican., 1916-02-11
GARRISON QUITS
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1 duISe In no reasonable expectation of
 any acceptable result"
 lie insisted that there could be no substantial solution which did not re- suit in national forces under the ex-
 elusive control and authority of the national government. Admitting that
 there could be legitimate discussion
 over the means of obtaining these national forces, the secretary assert
 ed that from the beginning of the government, the acknowledged weak
 ness of the situation arose out of lack of any syster producing federal
 forces.
 The situation was rendered worse
 he added, "by the presence of state 1 troops, raised. officered trained and governed by the states"
 There is distinct line of cleavage
 MT. Garrison held, between reliance
 upon system of state troops and
 reliance upon national forces.
 Upon this subject" he said in his
 letter to the president, there does not
 exist and there cannot legitimateIv
 exist any difference of opinion
 among those who are unbiased and
 who believe in real national security
 and defense"
 lie declared that if a policy based l upon the reliance on state troops was
 adopted mot only had no advance
 been made from the deplorablc and lneNcusable situation in which we have so long been, but an effective block had been placed across the
 pathway toward proper settlement"
 The secretary severely citricised the national defense plans of Chair
 man Hay of the house military com
 mttee.
 Tn my judgment the effect of the
 enactment of Mr Hays program
 would be to set back the whole
 cause of legitimate. honest. national
 defense in an entirely uniustifiable
 and ineXcusable way. It would be
 Tn my judgment a betrayal of trust
 of the people in this regard It would be illusory and apparent without any reality or substance"
 MT. Garrison declared further that MT. Hay had the power of dealing with a subject concerning which the
 rest of the house has no knowledge
 and about which it has never con
 cerned itself" and suggested that Mir
 Hays proposal of settling this mat
 ter by voting money to the members
 Of the state troops appealed to the
 direct personal, political interest of
 the members"
 MT. Hays proposal to inculde q draft provision so that at the out
 break of war, the national guard could
 be brought under the control of the . federal government was character lzed by Mir. Garrison as utterly fail ing to meet the essential objections to the perpetuation of a militia svs- tenn.
 Following an interview between the president and Mr. Garrison on the army plans, the secretary again wrote the president specifically stating his position. The president informed him that MT Hay told him a federal volunteer system could not be ob- tained, and that the same end could be achieved by utilizing the state troops and making appropriations to pay to the statee on conditions that the federal government control the mili- tia.
 MT Garrison then replied that the continental army plan absolutely dis carded a military system based upon
 state troops and that the two sys- tems were diametrically opposed to each other and are irreconciliable | We are challenged" he wrote, "by \ the existing situation to declare our | selves promptly, openly and unequi- | vocally, or be charged properly with \ lack of sincereity and good faith ! He added that since MT. Wilson's word \ was final he did not wish to cause E any embarrassment and would with ' draw if it would relieve the situa E tion.
 \ TEe president wrote in reply that ! he and the secretary agreed that the chief thing necessary for the army \ was that we should have a trained ! citizen reserve, and that the training \ organization and control of that re serve should be under immediate fed eral direction" He declined, however \ to take an irrevocable stand on the ground that it would not be proper \ Gress that it would have to take his E plan or none. He declared he did not believe members of the house dealing with military affairs were ignorant of the military necessities of the na- |. tion, but had found them well in