The Washington herald., 1917-05-18
DRAFT MEASURE PASSED
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his duty TO defend him with all his
power" he said. II have listened with
surprise, chagrin, and humiliation to the
speech Of the eloquent Senator from
Missouri in which he excoriated Col.
Roosevelt and held his division up to
the scorn Of the country.
"Had the words spoken by the Senator
from Missouri been uttered by anyone
else outside the Senate chamber we
and his division were not wanted. /
glory in the Roosevelt division. 1t is with
pleasure and bubbling Joy that support
it.
Asks Right to Die.
"All that he asks Is the right to die
for his conutry. My God, when was it
that this nation decided to deny its sons
the right to fight for it. 1t is a sad thing
that the remarks OF the Senator from
Missouri were made at this time. We
have stood shoulder to shoulder and 1t
has remained for the Senators to inject
politics into the Roosevelt Amendment
To say that Theodore Roosevelt is in
spired by political ambition in Offering
to raise this division is without founda-
ton or fact.
After all is said about San Juan, the
fact remainS that Theodore Roosevelt
fought, and today he asks the right to
hght again. He fought the fight for a
brave man and he led his command to
victory. He's got red blood in his veins
and the tenacity and the courage to win
when he fights That's the sort Of Amer
lean we need in this war. 1t is an awful
thing that his motives should be ques-
ton. oh, for more Roosevelts and more
divisions to follow him"
When the opposition threatened to send
the hill hank IN
tor Chamberlain, in charge of the meas
ure, warned the Senate that from thirty
to ninety days delay would ensure from
such action. He explained that the con-
ferees had decided not to limit conscrip-
ton terms to the present war because
under strict Interpretation of the law
the army would be disbanded the mo-
ment peace was declared with Germany,
no matter how disturbed might be the
other foreign relations of Germany.
Sees UIteriOr Motive.
Senator La Toilette. Of Wisconsin. de-
clared that mo miscroscope was needed
to see the motive behind the omission Of
the provision, and openly charged that II
was part Of the War Departments plan
to establish conscriptlon as a permanent
policy in the United States. Senator
Hoke Smith. OF Georgia, put an end to
the objection by offering the omitted
section as an amendment to the army
and navy $500. 100000 war budget
The final roll call on the conference re-
port follows:
For the bill-Ashurst, Bankhead. Beck
ham, Borah. BrandeEee, Chamberlain,
Cummins, Curtis, Fernald, Fletcher
France, Frelinghuysen. Gallinger Gerry,
Hale. Hitchcock. Fusting, Johnson (Cal),
Jones IN. Mex), Jones WASH, Kellogg,
Kendrick, Kenyon, Knox, Lewis, Lodge
McCumber, McKeller, Mclean. Martin,
Nelson, New, Newlands. Overman, Owen,
Page, Penrose, Phelan, Pittman, Poin-
dexter, Pomerene. Ransdell, Reed, Rob
inson, Salisbury, shafroth. Sheppard,
Sherman, Smith (Ariz), Smith (GaO,
Smith (Md.), Smith CMich.), Smith Is. CO,
Smoot, Sterling, Sutherland. Swanson,
Thomas, Thompson, Townsend, Wads-
worth. Warren, Weeks, Williams, and
Wolcott-
Against the bill-Gore, Gronna, Hard
wick, Kirby. La Toilette, Norris, Stone,
Trammell.