New Britain herald., 1917-04-10
KITCHEN TO PILOT
 NEW WAR MEASURES
Also Willing to Submit Leader
 ship ?. to Caucus of Party


 OPPOSED WAR RESOLUTION Martin of Louisiana, Who Voted for Clark, selected by Republican for Ways and Means Committee-Hill
 of Connecticut Gets Old Position. Washington. April 1o.-Democratic Leader Kitchen today announced his readiness to pilot the administration program through the house.
 He voted against the war resolution and there was doubt 6f his position. MT. Kitchen also announced that he would give the democratic caucus an | opportunity to decide if it desires to depose him as house leader. While a ] large majority of the democrats dis agreed with his opposition to the war
 resolution, the general feeling is that l he voted his conviction and now that l he is willing to take charge of the war measures, he is not open to at- 1 tack. Great surprise was expressed by MT. Kitchen over any question as to his
 being willing to push the war meas
 ures through the house. e"- Now that the resolution has passed, I certainly am willing to take
 charge of the measures and push ! them through" said he. II cannot
 understand why 1t ever has been in-
 timated that I would be unwilling to
 take charge of the bill. I expressed
 my willingness in my address to the
 house and wish to reiterate 1t now" i Belief was general in congressional
 circles that all the so-called pacifist
 factions would join with MT. Kitchen
 in support of the measures.
 i To avoid opposition from the re- publicans, democrats declined to call
 meeting of the ways and means
 committee today to consider the bond issue program until the republican
 members are named. Much surprise was caused today by
 the republican committee on commit tees nominating Representative Mar tin of Louisiana a progressive pro- | tectionist, who voted for the re-elec-
 tion of Speaker Clark, on the ways i and means committee. The other new republican member of the com | mittee is Representative Sterling of
 Illinois. Old members were: Fortlney,
 Mich.: Gardner, Mass: Moore, Pa; :;
 Green, Iowa; Sloan, Nebraska: Hill,
 Conn; Longworth. Ohio and G. w.. Fairchild, New York.
 Prepare Bond Issue.
 1 Preparation of a measure authoriz- ing a huge bond issue in addition to i the administration program for f1- i nancing the war was the task before the house ways and means committee l today.
 The program, as announced by Sec
 retary McAdoo last night following
 conferences with congressional lead
 CTS and others, virtually was ready to
 be laid before congress today. It calls
 for authorization of a bond issue of i $5,OOO. 900 of which $3,OOO.OOO,-
 900 would be loaned to the Entente 1 allies.
 1 The committee measure probably will be laid before the house tomorrow
 and it's consideration begun on Thurs 1 day. Indications are that it will meet with prompt approval by both house
 and senate. Secretary McAdoo said today he
 was confident that the proposed bond
 issue would be overwhelmingly sub- scribed He will take advantage, he
 said, of offers from bankers and oth l CTS to give free aid in making the is-
 sue a success. In addition. the secre-
 tary will seek the aid of banking in-
 stitutions and government agencies in
 floating the issue.
 l Drive on Opponents of Draft. ] Efforts to break down opposition to
 the draft feature of the proposed
 army bill were continued today by 1 President Wilson. He arranged to see Representative Anthony of Kansas, a
 republican member of the house mili-
 tary committee and an opponent of 1 conscription. and to explain how l strongly he believes the United States
 should apply the volunteer system i in raising big army for use against Germany. He made a similar person. al appeal yesterday to Chairman Dent 1 of the military committee, who does not favor conscription.
 There was considerable talk today of a compromise to be presented by i opponents of compulsory service ana l although the administration recog- l nized this possibility, no hint was given that it will recede from It's ln- 1 sistence on conscription. Chairman
 Dent declared it would be at least a l week before an army of any sort is 1 reported from his committee.
 Tn the senate an amendment to the l army appropriation bill not passed at the last session, authorizing the pres l ident to call volunteers in lots of ] 5OO. 900 each, is pending but probably ! yil, he disposed of on a point Of or