Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-29
Minimum Age the Same in Both Bills, Though Maxi
 mum Limits Differ.
KIRBY MAINTAINS
 ORIGINAL POSITION
Continues to Talk and Vote Against Democrats Three Republi.
 can Senators Fight to End.

Washington. April 2S.-By an over whelming majority both the senate and house passed late tonight the ad- by selective draft.
 Final roll call brought into line be- hind the bill many senators and rep resentatves who had fought for the volunteer system until routed by the decisive defeat of the volunteer amendment earlier in the day in both houses, but Senator Kirby of Arkarl- sas was among the few who voted against the administrators plan on the balloting on the measure.
 The senate, which had voted down the volunteer plan 69 to IS, passed the bill by S1 to 8. In the house the vote against the volunteer plan was 313 to 109, and that by which the bill itself passed was 397 to 24. As passed by the senate the meas ure provides for the draft of men be- tween 21 and 27 years, while in the house measure the age limits are fixed at 21 and 40. This and lesser dis- crepancies will be threshed out in conferences so that the bill may be in the hands of the president as quickly as possible. The war de- partment has already completed plans for carrying it into effect. Those Who Opposed It.
 Senators voting against the meas ure were:
 Democrats--Gore,H Hardwick. Kirby, Thomas and Trammell.
 RepublicaMs-BOrah, Gronna and LaF'ollette.
 Senator vardaman of Mississippi, Democrat, was excused from voting at his own request, and he gave no req son for evading to take stand in the crisis.
 Representatives who voted in the negative were:
 Republicans- Bacon, Hays, King, LaFOllette of Washington, Mundeen of Minnesota, Mason, Nolan and Powers.
 Democrats-Burnett, Church. Clark of Florida. Claypool, Crosser, Gill, Dominick. Gordon, Hilliard. Huddles- ton, Heating, Sears, Sherwood and Sisson.
 Prohibition-Ra
 Socialist--LOndon
 Both the senate and house adopted amendments just before final roll call which will greatly increase the pay of enlisted men during war. The house bill makes their pay 80 . month, and the senate measure @29 month The present pay is only @1t.
 In the house, at the last moment, Chairman Chamberlain of the approx priation committee objected to the. appropriation of $3,000 000, 900 in the bill for the expenses of the new army. and the section was eliminated. MT. Fitzgerald declared that to place this, vast sum in the hands of the secre- tary of war would make Of congress a mere aut0maton." and promised that if 1t would be voted down the committee would provide funds sepa- Tately.
 Speaker Clark. Democratic Leader Kitchin and Chairman Dent of the military committee. all voted for the draft bill on the final roll call, Re- publican Leader Mann also was re- corded in the affirmative.
 The senate adopted by. 56 to 31 an amendment offered by Harding. de- signed to permit Colonel Roosevelt to raise four infantry divisions to 20 to the European battlefront Sena- tors Robinson and Kirby were among those voting against the proposal, y The house yesterday rejected such ah amendment. The proposed ameHd- ment does not specifically me1tion Roosevelt, but It's purport hasf been we'll understood, and it's autAor re- ferred to the fact that it would per init the former president yo@ kase troops to go to Europe. Manly m nrafa voted for if -..Ss !. 2Hs4cs Y1