The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-03
CONSUMPTION Joker in
Military Bill Is
Disliked
WILSON WILL TRY
TO SECURE REPEAL
Gives President AbsO-
lutte Power to Fill
Army Ranks
RI OLSON GARpNER.

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team work between President VII
son and Secretary OF War Newton
p Baker is Indicated I'm the pub.
/ location of Circular 80. - carrying
regulation covering conscription In
time OF war
Thcsn regulations would cali into
actiye service an male citizens be
tween re agse Of rs and 80 They
carry ont The provisions in the Hay
Chamberlain law which President
Wilson described during the recent
campaign az much 700 sweeping in
its terms" and for tho repeal OF
which no promised his aid The con
scripu0n paragraph Is known as the
/ Hayden joker" and has been de-
scrioed ~ Representative Huddles.
ton OF Alabama as the biggest
secret m Official Washington It
was passed without debate or dis
cussion and without tho knowledge
even of the members OF the military
affairs cowmittee which supposedly
drew thc lIl
When President Wilson'S attention
was called io.ihif paragraph OF the
| law during 'ho campaign hc oX-
pressed gfoai surprise and Secretary
TumulY was directed 70 pre- pare
torm ltt'er In which The president
disapproa was expressed Further
tho president gave personal assur
ance 20 MANY people that he would
sce ihai me iokor was repealed ~
this So sion of congress Repre-
sentat.t Huldl ION has introduced
the r'pea.ue hiu md Representative
Dent eha mau az nc military com
n,etc indicated hts wiilnenc
~ roolcra,e in securing The re-
pcal
tnversal CONSUMPTION. even ia
lumo OF Nar a. step which tha
ouniry would take only with dc
liberation u IS inroncciyable that
mould h" doptcd without q word
~ di ION
lh. reliar army clique q tho
ter. Aeparneul are, of course
mons for The morn nearly oar
au ctn ap madn to resemble that
or Germany hr better pleased The,
an" Con ERUPTION even tho limited
10 war tin fep u Wnar they
con TO- ih reht direction
Circular nHmtcr 81 which bears
,te appro 81 secretary Bakor,
carrie fGe lato III november 3 bu,
far come reason b. was not promul
a4fad a general order until be
mhs 81 puts INTO general or
tefs Ulc provisions OF section ~ OF
the Ifay Chamberlain law which pro
idc- Tor iho formation Of reserve
organizations 10 on gaps in the reg
STAR organizations
The order SAL Int eli for ans
ro op ibpt hel - ~ enough re-
er,isfa ~ enough voluntary enlist
ufnts a. orlanizc or 10 keep tho
reserve baunlions AZ 90 prescribed
strength. sufficient number Of the
unorganizcd militia shall be- drafted
/ hy TIE president into tho service oi
ihc United states 10 maintain such
battalion or other lesser reserve unit
af The prescribed strength The
object of such reserve battalions or
either lesser reserve units is 20 train
recruits and 20 replace losses or 20
hll vacancies in active organ1a.
tigns"
The %unorganized militia" here
referred 10 are all male citizens be
tween The ages OF IS and 50 Any.
body. and everybody can be grabbed
as in Russia or Prussia. and sent
10 thc front.
England hesiiated long before re-
sorting o The draft Ouciss reports
show that 100000 men were raised
les the volunteer method and that
IS hen cQnecription was finally re-.
ortrd t0 there were only $4,000
available men left to be conscriptcd
During tho Civil war practically
sFst' tho lighting men on both sides
were Lolnntcers. OF the 2:S59,l32
federal cnlistments just $4,000 were
added ~ he ranks by the drau
llut The memory Of the "draft riots"
in many OF the principal cities Of
tho north i-e stu fresh In the minds
Of thousands sim living
IN Nicolay and lays Life Of lin
coin IL Is stated that the efforts 10
psc CONSUMPTION on the southern
side were equally unsuccessful. The
chief of The bureau OF CONSUMPTION
AT Richmond. Va, in a report dated
April 80. 1860. confessed that the
SYSTEM had failed" Why Secretary
Baker should have approved the &C.
ton ~ the war college and general
sian in putting the Hayden joker
into general orders nobody can IN
der-iand Every step of this sort.
tho president fools makes more dif
fculi his task of gctting this Joker
out Of The law