Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-22
SENATE AND HOUSE CLEAR
 DECKS FUR BATTLE OVER
 ARMY DRAFT BILL MONDAY
Presidents Bill Is Introduced In Senate and Parliamentary Tanges Removed Assuring Show Down Early In Week House Will Counter With Volunteer Bill Monday Au- thorizing Draft If Their Scheme Fails

complete this registration. In the meantime. if the President sees it. he is authorized to call for volunteers. and upon the completion of the regis tration he has absolute power to de eide whether he will take an army of volunteers CT organize one by draft.
 Units By States
 The bill provides that organiza- tiOns of all forces. other than the reg ular army. shall be composed of men from. and of officers. appointed from. the same state or locality as far as practicable.
 Both the volunteer and the draft features of the bill authorize rhe ] President Co refuse to accept either by enlistment or draft the services of persons needed in the industrial pur- suits of the tountry"
 Baker Champions Ofart Secretary Bakers letter. included in the minority report. was written as a final plea from the military branch of the government in behalf of the adTin- istratiOn bill
 'l have deep conviction that any compromise of the principles sovein- ing the bill, submitted bv the depart ment for the raising Of a new army would be attended by unfortunate It. sulls." he wrote
 The bill as drawn preserves SO much of the volunteer spirit as can be preserved without embaTking on the experiment Of mixed system of draft and volunteering. It makes place for several hundred thousand men above the age of g who may be moved to volunteer. and by eQualizins the terms and condition of service in the resu- ;ar army. national guard. and addition al forces. gives such volunteers en- ire equality with all others in the national forces.
 The Only Jus: System
 The drafting provision start, at the outset a process by which the forces of the country can be called as they shall be needed. according to an equal and just system. and i: has these merits:
 It spreads the burden of military preparation equally throughout the Cnited States
 "2-It is short in it's operation 70 that after the registration is made every man in the country will know whether he is to be called and when ne is to be called upon. allowing those wlo are not to be called. or whose call is postponed. to continue h1eir normal pursuits undisturosd by uncer- iainty as 10 their duty and unasitated 5y neibhborhood pressure or misun- derstanding
 3-lt starts at the beginning ct the accumulation of these new forces, and has none of the character of penalty which attaches to the drGft& when it is used after vOlunteerins ms been tried and failed.
 Don't Repeat Mistakes.
 '! have studied every reDor; ! can secure of the use of the volunteer sys- tenn abroad and in our own country. and believe 1t to be true ;Lat in every place where it has been tried. whatever success it has had mas been due to a system of compilations more harassing and almost as drastic as the provisions of a law itself In the of Europe wherN the SDlIu- tecr system has obtained those respon- sible for it were excused because they could not have foreseen at the begin ming the results. but We dave their experience to guide us and I believe that those responsible in this country for repeating the costly errors which have been made abroad Will not be able to make that eNplana Ion.
 With the greatest defarence ;O the rights and independence 1f judgement of your committee and 5he house. [ still feel obliged as secretary Ot war. and therefore your responsible advt sur on this subject tO urge the pas sage of the bill as drawn. This is the greatest war in the history Of the world. Our participation in it IS as yet undetermined in many of it's modes and wholly as to it's duration anG eX- tent. but we are called upon n inaug- lrste system which, in any event oT will place our country n 3 situation where it can contribute he trained men and the means neces- ssry to bring this war to ! conelu-
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