The Monticellonian., 1917-01-25
DEBATE ARMY BILL
OPPONENTS AND PROPONENTS OF UNIVERSAL TRAINING PRES
 ENT ARGUMENTS.
SENATE IS LIKELY TO ACT
Indications Are That Upper House Will Either Pass or Reject Measure, but Chance Of Action in House at This Session Is Believed Slight.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

l probable that the senate will debate l and either pass or reject bill for universal military training before this short session is ended. The indica- tion is that Senator Chamberlain measure on this subject will be re l ported favorably before long. The hearings are drawing to a close.
 l It is perhaps true that on no matter of legislation which has been before | congress for years have the lines of 1 favor and disfavor been so sharply i drawn as on this piece of proposed legislation which would give the youth of the United States, irrespective of | their poverty, wealth or social stand ing, military training. It is only the truth to say that the proposal has grown in favor in congress since it be- came so clearly manifest that the leg islation in its effect would be so broad 1 ly democratic. This means that no young man, no matter what his fam iiy's position, power or wealth, could escape what the young man without money, power or position must give to his country.
 l It is not at all likely that universal military training will become a fact in this country for some little time. It is, however, entirely within the | possibilities that the senate will pass l the measure at this session. It is known definitely that some of the ad- visers of the administration have changed their minds about the legis- lation. Originally they were opposed | to 1t and now they are in favor of it. There are men here ready to predict that if the senate shall pass the meas ure, although there is no hope that the house will act at this session, that gest universal military training in his | address to congress.
 Hearings On for Some Time. The subcommittee of the senate committee on military affairs has been holding hearings on universal military training for long time. Opponeats | and proponents of the measure have been appearing daily to give their views. There is in Washington an organization called the American Union Against Militarism. This or ganiZation is opposed to universal military training. It has just had it's hearing before the senate subcommit- tee. The organization produced some physical training experts, a number of college students, some general educa- tors, some representatives of par ents' associations" and some former en- listed men of the regular army to bear evidence against the necessity of uni versal military training.
 Unquestionably the reason for the growth of favor of the measure in Washington is due to the difficulty in getting volunteer recruits either for the regular army or for the National Guard The last army bill passed by congress has not met the expectations of the men who supported it. They say so George E. Chamberlain, Demo- cratic senator from Oregon. but who is native of Mississippi. has just made statement declaring that real understanding of the bill and what it rANlil dO VIII tduSc llo OppOhthtS tV change their minds on the subject of universal military training.
 Capital Mourns for Cody.
 News of the death of Col. William F. Cody, familiarly and affectionately known as Buffalo Bill, was received with sorrow in the capital. In Wash ington Colonel Cody always has been marked and familiar figure.
 Among those who watched Buffalo Bills illness, with alternating anxiety and hope and fear for the outcome is Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. s. army (retired). Through many cam paigns Miles and Cody camped, rode and fought side by side. There was brotherhood of affection between the two men.
 Colonel Cody came to Washington every winter of the latter years of his life. He always met General Miles who makes this city his home, and to- gether they lived over the old days on the plains from the time that Miles was in the field against the Arapahoes, the Cheyennes and the KiowaS, through his campaigns against the Sioux of the North and ending only when the last great Indian uprising following the ghost dance craze, closed with the surrender of Kicking Bear. Short Bull and the rest of their followers at Pine Ridge, S. D., in February, 1891.
 knew Buffalo Bill intimately in the not-so-old days. He was a gentle soul, but an untiring and hard fighter when the necessity came. In December, 1890, the Indians of the Northwest became affected by Sitting Bulls prophecies of the coming of an In- dian Messiah who would set all things right. The buffalo were to return in the herds of another day, the white man was to be overcome and the red man was to be restored to his own.
 Sitting Bull was killed near Stand ing Rock agency by Indian police. Big Foot and his band of 300 Indians, firm in the belief that the ghost shirts would turn the bullets of the white man, met and fought the Seventh cav airy at Wounded Knee creek. The band virtually was exterminated and ->~-~N~o->-~-~o-~~~~-~