Connecticut western news., 1916-05-25
175,OOO ARMY
 BILL IS PASSED
Was Adopted by 8 Vote OI 349 10 25.
WOW GOES TO PRESIDENT.
Mot War Measure, Declares Repre- sentative Hay-"Fake Preparedness,' as Gardner's Characterization-Sa tt Will Satisfy Every Pacifst.

By a vote of 349 to p the hous, adopted the conference report on thu army reorganization bill The senatt adopted this conference report severa days ago, and the bill is now read! 4or the president.
 Chairman Hay of the hOu&o military committee asserted that the bill al agreed upon represented reasonable preparedness. Mir. Hay invcighrt against newspaper criticisms of the E1n and said it was ''uScless to try tc e12lighten these denSply ignorant news paper editors who have been attempt 2llg to write this legislation without Knowing anything about it.
 Representative Gardner, Republican Massachusetts. who made the princi pal speech against the conference rc port. hotly asserted that the army bill was ''pacifist measure"
 Tt will be voted for by every pacifist fn the house and will meet the appro baticn of every pacifist throughout the country" shouted MT. Gardner
 ~FOr a nation as great as ours tN support an army no bigger than we have today" said Mir. Gardner ''is al. most as sensible as it would be for Ty Cobb to attempt to hit Walter John. sons pitching with a sulphur match Instead of bat
 ~'Fake Preparedness."
 MT. Gardner voted against the con. ference report on the ground that the btll represented flake preparedness and ether Republicans took the same view. The twenty-five members Op. posing the conference report on the final vote were:
 Republicans.-Britten, Gardner, Gillette. Guernsey, Hadley, Humphreys, Husted. Johnson, Mann Morris, Morgan, Nelson. PYatt, Randall, Rogers, Sanford, rink ham, Walsh, Wheeler.
 emocrats.-Buchanan, Johnson, Thorn aS, TaTenner.
 Progressive.-Schall.M Minnesota
 Socialist.-London, New York
 In defense of the conference report Nr. Hay said the army bill provides for 115,00O fighting men and that it would be impossible to enlist greater number in times of peace.
 "NFhis is not an emergency bill: it is not intended as an emergency bill" ssiG MT. Hay Ut is not intended to raise an army for the purpose of pos Sible war with Mexico or any other power. It is intended as a peace prop, osition. and no man who understands the bill or the situation can couple it with what it must be necessary to do Nh Ghe event of war breaking out i'll the next few months.
 "We have already on the statute books a law authorizing the president to raise an army as large as he wants If we were to go to war.
 ~The bill provides as large a stand fng army as can be recruited in this country under the volunteer system. It provides for training young men as of fcers, for officers reserve corps: it pro- v1des for reserve enlisted corps from civil life; it provides for regular re serve of enlisted men; it authorizes a nitrate plant it provides for the utili sa&ion of industrial resources in time of war.
 @%lt provides for the development of the national guard, which means that an few years we will have 425OC0 men as a reserve. Forty thousand men have applied for membership in the national guard since this bill originally paSSed the house."