Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-11

WASHINGTON, May 1O.-Eirninstin,
tne Roosevelt division amendment from
the selective service bill, house and sem
ate conferees on the army measure
reached an agreement today and will re-.
port to their respective houses as Quick
ly as their findings can be nut into
shape.
The conferees also eliminated the Fall
amendment providing for the raising of
volunteer cavalry force for border
duty.
The senate amendments prohibitinp
the sale Of liquor at army camps and
otherwise safeguarding the morals of
the troops We're retained.
The age limit for those subject to Sc
iective service was fixed at twenty-one
to thirty years. All young men who are
more than twenty-one and up to the age
OF thlrty-one will be subject to service.
OPPOSITION IN SENATE.
as IL stands, there is every probabili-
~ the senate will make some effort to
restore the Roosevelt amendment bur
since the conferees agreed to eliminate
1t and the administration does not want
1T in, it is not believed it could pass
the senate again.
~NNNSA a emu SSSSlOI lnlS morning IL
was announced all lines of difference
had been erased, but it was admitted
there might be some opposition to the
report in both the house and sonata
Senator Chamberlain said he would
introduce the conference report in the
senate early this afternoon The SEN
ate cannot act on the measure, however,
until after the house has acted.
Demands from the country for action
~, ha ar,I
the administration for machinery with
which to raise an army. it is believed.
Will hasten approval of the conference
report
Agreement today broke a deadlock in
committee Of more than a weeks dura-
ton.
Representatives Kahn and Anthony,
Republicans, announced they would not
sign the conference report
Mr.. Anthony was opposed to elimi-
mating the Roosevelt amendment and
Mr. Kahn opposed the prohibitory sec
tions, maintaining he could not approve
provisions making the United States
appear to be either a drunken or an
immoral nation.
PROHI SECTION MODIFIED.
There were a few minor additions to
the bill The prohibition section was
modified to provide that penalty shall
uniform and not to furnishing or giving
away drink Of liquor to a man off the
reservation.
One of the difficulties in reaching an
agreement was over the tribunals
which shall pass on exemptions from
the selective draft The provision ac-
cepted gives right Of appeal from a,
first tribunal to a second. No military
men are to be on either and they are
l.
United States or the states.
President Wilson awaits only action
by congress on the report to issue ms
proclamation calling for the Immediate
application of the selective service ma
chinery. The proclamation is ready and
all plans for Fastening the work of reg
istration throughout the country have
been completed.
1t is regarded as likely that within
three months the first 100000 men VIII
have been selected.
General staff officers were much
pleased at the agreement of the con-
ferees and the total elimination or the
volunteer system from the new armies.
While. they preferred the narrower age
limits of the senate bill. as it would
yield on the whole a younger lot of
men. they were satisfied with rejection
Of the house provision which Aextended
the age as far as forty.
RESERVES SUGGESTED.
Senator France, of Maryland, believ-
ing the bill defective because Of the
limited range of ages. introduced today
a separate resolution to empower the
president to enroll all men between
eighteen and fOrty-fve. for national de-
Tense, simultaneously with the selective
registration. The enroll
ment would consist of a cadet corps,
eighteen to twenty; first line, twenty
one to twenty-seven; second line. TWEEN
ty-seven to thirty-ive. first reserve,
thirty-siX to forty-fiye.
One of the bitterest intersectionaI
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