The Colorado statesman., 1917-05-19

dent may determine, who shall be APP
pointed by the president.
"Such district boards shall review
on appeal and affirm. modify or re-
verse any decision of any local board
having jurisdiction In the area in
which any such district board has ju-
risdiction under the rules and regula-
tions prescribed by the president. Such
district boards shall have exclusive
original Jurisdiction within their re-
spective areas to hear and determine
| all questions or claims for including
or excluding or dlscharging persons or
| classes or persons from the selective
draft, under the provisions of this act,
not included within the original jurls-
diction of such local boards.
"The decisions of such district
boards shall be final except that in ac-
cordance with such rules and regula-
tions as the president may prescribe,
he may affirm, modify, or reverse any
such decision"
| All persons subject to registration
must have attained their twenty-first
but not their thirty-frst birthday, and
subject to Imprisonment for not mott
than one year. Persons temporarily
absent from their legal residence may
register by mail under presidential
regulations.
Provisions for Volunteers.
| The proviSicCs governing voluntary
enlistment in the regular army and
National Guard follow:
THAT the qualifications and condi-
tions for voluntary enlistment as here
in provided shall be the same as those
prescribed by existing law for enlist
ments in the regular army, except that
recruits must be between the ages of
eighteen and forty, both inclusive, at
the time of their enlistment, and such
enlistment, and such enlistments, shall
be for the period of the emergency un'
less sooner discharged.
Plan Grouping by States.
provided, That all persons enlisted
or drafted under any of the provisions
of this act shall as far as practicable
be grouped into units by states and the
political subdivisions of the same pro-
| vided, further, that all persons who
have enlisted since April l, 1917, either
in the regular army or in the National
| Guard, and all persons who have en-
| listed in the National Guard since June
| 3, 1916, upon their application, shall be
discharged upon the termination of
the existing emergency.
THE president may provide for the
| discharge of any or all enlisted men
whose status with respect to depend
ents renders such discharge advisable,
and he may also authorize the employ
ment on any active duty of retired en-
listed men of the regular army, either
with their rank on the retired list or
in higher enlisted grades, and such re-
| tired enlisted men shall receive the
full pay and allowances of the grades
| in which they are actively employed.
| Provision for Increased Pay.
The army pay increases are set forth
in the following provisions:
"That all officers and enlisted men
of the forces herein provided for other
than the regular army shall be in all
respects on the same footing as to pay,
allowances, and pensions as officers
and enlisted men of corresponding
| grades and length of service in the reg
ular army; and commencing June l,
| 1917, and continuing until the termi-
nation of the emergency, all enlisted
men of the army of the United States
in active service whose base pay does
not exceed S24 per month shall receive
an increase of $40 per month; those
/ whose base pay is S24, an increase of
| SS per month; those whose base pay is
| $50, $50, or $40, an increase of So per
month, and those whose base pay is
| $40 or more, an increase of $5 pei
month; provided that the Increases of
pay herein authorized shall not enter
into the compilation of continuous
service pay"
| Presidents Powers Broadened.
An entirely new provision of the bill
as drafted is:
'"rhat the president is authorized to
increase or decrease the number of or.
| ganizations prescribed for the typical
brigades, divisions, or army corps OF
the regular army, and to prescribe such
new and different organizations and
| personnel for army corps, divisions,
| brigades, regiments, battalions, squad.
rons, companies, troops, and butter.
| les as the efficiency of the service may
| require; provided further that the
number of organizations in regiment
| shall not be increased nor shall the
number of regiments be decreased
The president will officer the regu
| lar army and National Guard under ex
| isting law, and for the conscript force
| he is empowered:
ITO provide the necessary officers
| line and staff, for said force and fol-
organizations of the other forces here
by authorized, or by combining organ
izations of said other forces, by order
ing members of the officers reserve