The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-17
LITTLE ARMY MEN
EXTREMELY HAPPY
Wilson's Compromise on Mill
tary Bill Hailed as Pacifist
Victory BY the
Ants.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. Feb. 15.-Presi-
dent Wilso reached no decision on
whom to appoint secretary of war,
while he was on his weekend trip
down the Potomac, and a successor to
former Secretary Garrison may not be
announced for several days.
The president had engagements to-
day to see congressional delegations
with candidates for secretary of war
ana others who We're to suggest men
Tor the assistant secretaryship. 1t is
generally expected, however, that the
new secretary will name his own as
sistant.
Those in a position to know. think
that the president will not name an
army mar for the cabinet vacancy.
Ihat would eliminate Major General
Goethals, who has been recommended
for the place.
Pacifists Are Glad.
One organization has found cause for
great rejoicing in the resignation of
Secretary Of Wal Garrison.
1t is the antipreparedness commit
zee made up Of peace at any price
pacltists, which has been carrying on
a lobby against increasing national
defenses since the opening of congress.
Saturday the committee sent out
cards of mourning to all of the ews
paper correspondents in Washington.
On one side they bore a cartoon of
Secretary Garrison watching the con
mental army pass by in it's last re-
view, the army being made up Of
workers in the munition plants. On
the other i was this inscription:
'Requlescat in pace; in memory of
the continental army Qittle Lindley)
and compulsory military service Qittle
Theodore), twin offspring of Dame
europe and general preparedness;
born in Washington, D. c.. December
=, 1915; died from exposure to CON
gress and a tour through the middle
west, February II, 1916, despite the
expert attention of the general staff
and the army war college"
Hay, Majority Leader Kitichin, and
the entire crew of little navy and little
army congressman gloating over their
victory in the contest between then
and former Secretary of War Garrison
for the favor Of the president. They
did not hesitate to say that the victory
means that no strictly national policy
for national defense will be enacted in
to law during this session of congress.
On the other hand, they insisted that
the country has been saved from a
oHcy which would have entaiIed the
raising OF materially larger land forces,
wholly subject TO federal control.
THE resignation Of Mr.. Garrison
Chairman Hay said, will have abso-
lutely no effect on the House military
AAS]1 IL WILL I'll L lis I'LL
just as if MI. Garrison had never been
in the cabinet or was there still"
kitchin Takes Glad Stand.
1.-THE difference between the presi.
dent and Mr.. Garrison" said Majority
Leader Kitchin, one of the stronges1
opponents of increased d~efenses, twas
that the president knew when he was
licked and Garrison did not"
Mr.. Garrison has been recognized as
of the strong men of the admins
tration. From the outset of his career
In the war department, however, he
found himself overshadowed in matters
Of general administration policy by tbs
influence OF Mr.. Bryan. This was
notably true Of the Mexican policy
| Finally, on preparedness, when the
| president adopted the course of consid-
ering Mr.. Garrison's plan for the pre-
paredness of the army as merely one OF
several alternatives rather than as the
administration plan. Mr.. Garrison re-
| signed rather than compromise on the
principles he believed should be tough,
for. In fact Mr.. Garrison is known tc
have compromised with his own per-
sonal beliefs in advocating a continen-
tai army rather han a straight out
regular army, and he was unwilling tc
| go farther in the discharge of the re-
sponsibility which he believed rested
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