Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-11
ALL MEN BETWEEN
. q AND 81 YEARS
SUBJECT TO CALL
Authorization for Roosevelt
Volunteer Division Is
Thrown Out.
PROHIBITION PROVISION
CHANGED IN COMPROMISE
Conference Report Expected to
Be Approved by Both Senate
and House in Few Days.
GENERAL STAFF WELL PLEASED
President Ia BE Final Court Of Ap-
peal in Question OF f,Ncmp-
ions From Service.
IRy Assoclatch rrcss.l

IBy Associated Prcss1
! WASHINCiTON. May i0-Thc long
t deadlock OF Senate and House con
! ferces on the .clec;ivc draft military
| bill was broken day with agree
mcnt Il compromise measure under
, which great army would bc
| raised by sclective conscription OF mcu
from twcnty-one 10 thirty one years
Of age, inclusive.
Authorization for recruiting Colonel
| Rooscvclts proposed volunteer division
for service in France written into the
/ bill by the Senate. finally was thrown
out on the imsistcnce of House con
| fcrecs. In return, the House yielded
| TO the Senatc's proposal for prohibit
! ton at military posts
The conference report is expected to
he approved by both Senate and House
in a few days, and within two weeks
| fter the President has affixed his sig
nature registration of those eligible
| for conscriptiou will be under way
| throughout the country. The War De-
| partmcnt has erected "A vast and intri-
cate war machiue for assigning and
organizing the conscripts. They Will
! he assembled at training camps III
! September.
I
be generally satisfactory to the admin
| istration and to tho army general staff.
! The most important change made IN
! Congress was in the age limits, fixed
by the staff as nineteen and twenty
five. inclusive The Senate made them
twcnty-one and lwcnty-scvcn. and the
ilousc twenty-onr and forty. The ages
named in the conference agreement
make the draft applicable TO all male
voters under thrty-oue.
THROW OUT AMENDMENT
FOR VOLUNTEERS ON DORDI:w
With the Roosevelt proposal the con
fcrces also threw out a Senate amend,
mcnt under which three regiments OF
volunteers could have been enlisted for
service on the Mexican border.
The section dealing with exemptions
from draft was rewritten in part by
the conference committee, and pro-
vision was made for hearings in ex-
cmption applications before local civil
tribunals. with the right TO appeal 10
a second tribunal and finally TO the
President.
Republicans in the Senate who have
favored giving Colonel Roosevelt au-
thority TO raise and take American
troops to France declared tonight
that an effoit woull he madc on the
floor to have the Senate insist on the
retention of this feature. The general
expectation. however is that the con
ference decision will prevail.
The prohibition provision as agreed
TO excludes liquor. beer AMI wines
from any military post. but does not
forbid selling or giving these beverages
10 soldiers. except when in uniform.
The conferces put into the bill an
"A N a. ri
10 organize and equip for each inran-
try and cavalry brigade three ma
chinc-gun companies, and for each d.
vision Of these services four machine
gun companics in addition 10 those
comprised in each organization OF these
units lie also was given authority to
organize one armorcd motor car ma
chine-Sun company for each division.
EXEMPTIONS FROM DRAFT
LEFT As SUGGESTED
Exemptions from the sclcctive draft
were LETT virtually as originally sug-
-eStcd by the general staff. Those alb
SolHtcly exempt include officers Of the
United states and any state or Ter
ritory: ministers, students OF recoE-
nizcd divinity or theological schools
and members of any well-recogmi2cd
religious sect or organization at pres
cht organized whose existing creed"
forbids participation in war. Tho last
class are not exempt from noncon,-
batant service.
IN addition, the President Is au-
thoriHcd TO exclude or discharge from
draft the following:
County and municipal officers Gus
to!u house clerks. postal employees
w"rkncn in navy yards or arscnais or
arinorics; others III the Federal gov
ernmcnts employ whom the President
MAJ designate; pilots and mariners ac-
iudliy employed in sea- service; per,
sons engaged in industries, including
agriculture, found to he necessary to
the maintenance OF the military cs-
adjustment or tho effective operation
OF the military forces or the maints,
nance OF national inicrcs, during the
emergency; those having persons do 4
pendent upon them for support; and 8
those found to be physically y or 8l
morally deficient.
The selection relating TO tribunals
to hear pleas for exemptions provides
that there be civil. ani not military,