The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-02
ConsCriptiOn Measure Passed By
Senate for Second Time
MADE TWO SLIGHT CHANGES
One Amendment Prohibits Sale of
Liquor in Camps and to Soldiers -.a
in Uniform.


formality OF a roll call the Senate to-
day passed for a second time the selec
tive CONSUMPTION OIL land sent it to
conference, where the differences be.
tween the two houses Will be finally
adjusted
The age limit. fixed by the bill is p
to 49, r
The Senate substituted its own
measure for the House bill as an
amendment. The Senate bill, which
was passed on Saturday night and
which has separate parliamentary
identity, was discarded by a motion to
postpone action upon it indefinitely
Technically the measure which. will
ultimately go TO the President will be
the bill originating in the House or
Representatives
In passing on the selective army
bill for the second time, which neces-
STATED the re-opening OF debate. only
two slight changes were made in the
Senate to-day. One of these was a
change n the phraseology of the pro
hibition provision, made at the IN
stance OF the prohibition advocates.
which .leates the President no room
for discretion in enforcing the pro
vision so far as It relates to the sale
OF alcoholic liquor in camps and 10
soldiers in uniform. The other amend
ment, offered by Senator Jones, is
designed to safeguard moral condi
tions in military camps.
The Harding amendment to the
Senate bill designed to enable Col
Roosevelt to raise division for i'm
mediate service abroad will be fought
for TO the end by the Senate con.
feres. Since the passage OF the con
scription bill last week the appeals of
the French commissioners that the
American flag he unfurled in the
trenches has had its effect and It
is probable that were the Roosevelt
plan submitted TO both houses again
it would have many more supporters
Many members of both houses vot-
ed against the Roosevelt plan largely
on the ground that il might endanger
the selective features of the army
bill. Now that these are no longer in
controversy there will be great free
dom of action ii the question of au-
thorizing Col. Roosevelt to carry out
his proposal is resubmitted in the way
of conference report
Washington. May 1.-The House
set a record today for quick action on
major appropriations. completing de
bate at single brief session on an
omnibus emergency war bill carrying
nearly $1,000 100000. It viii be passed
tomorrow. probably with only a few
votes against it, No opposition was
voiced during the discussion today
and the only important change made
was in the adoption of an amendment
the pay of enlisted men in
thte army.
Out of total Of s2.S27 653, ,653 car.
ried by the bill s2.320591 ,907 is for
the military establishment. For the
navy $503, 3,399673 is provided, and the
remainder goes to other departments
for miscellaneous purposes, including
SAll doI ulHdly tApeHSeS uue 10 tHe
war The bill is based on depart
mental estimates totaling S3.46O,940,-
96S, the appropriations committee hav
ing eliminated more than $600000,.
600 by pairing down the amounts re-
quested to the point of urgent neces-
sity.
The military appropriation which is
in addition to the regular annual army
and Notifications bills and the S3,000,-
OOO,OOO proposed as one initial item
for the new war army, includes $231,-
100000 for clothing and camp and
garrison equipage; $130,000,00O for
ordinance stores; s39,O0O,0O0 for au-
tomato machine guns $3,750,000 for
civilian training camps: s6O9,O0O,O0O
for coast and insular Notifications and
S4,32O,000 for fortifying the Panama
canal.
More than $125,0OOOOO was added
by the amendment increasing the pay
of enlisted men from s15 to $50 a
month, a proposal already accepted
by both Senate and House as part of
the army draft bill but transferred to
the appropriation measure to-day to
facilitate final enactment. 1t brings
up to more than 1926, 100000 the total
appropriation in the bill for army
pay.
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