The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-03
PROVISION FOR VOLUNTEER
SYSTEM THROWN OUT HOUSE
Ag S1a TO 1oe.
SENATE IS FOR ROOSEVELT
Liquor Restrictions Included in Amend
ments.-No Bounty to Be Paid For
Enlistment, and No Person Shall
be Allowed to Furnish a Substitute.

washington. - LHOLn Senate anu
House adopted an amendment just be
tore the final roll calls which would
greatly increase the pay of enlisted
men during the war. The House pro
vision would make their pay $50 a
month and that approved by the Sen
ate would fix it at 500 month. The
present pay is only SIS.
In the House at the last moment,
Chairman Fitzgerald, of the Appro-
OuHly to the appropriation of $3,OOO,-
100000 carried in the bill for the ex-
pOnse of the new army, and the sec
ton finally was eliminated entirely.
Mr.. Fitzgerald declared that to place
this vast sum in the hands of the
Secretary of War would make of Con-
Gress a mere automaton," and prom
lsed that If the section was voted down
the committee would provide funds
promptly in a separate measure.
Among the amendments adopted in
the Senate was one which would per-
init Colonel Roosevelt to recruit O
volunteer force for service in France.
A similar proposal had been rejected
by the House. Speaker Clark, Demo
cratic Leader Kitchin and Chairman
Dent, Of the Military Committee. who
had favored the volunteer system, all
voted for the draft bill on the final
roll call. Republican Leader Mann
also was recorded in the affirmative,
Rs was Miss Rankin, who previously
had voted with the volunteer adva-
Gates.
Test in Senate.
The Administration won it's fight for
the military draft in the Senate when
nm amendment authorizing a call for
100000 volunteers was rejected by
vote Of 50 to 1S. The vote was as
follows:
For the volunteer amendments:
Democrats: Gore, Hardwick, Kirby,
Mcclellan, Reed, Thomas, Trammen
and Vardaman-8.
Republicans: Borah, Cummins, Cur
It's, Fall, Gallinger, Gronna, Johnson,
California; LaFollette, Norris, Sher-
man-ln.
Against the volunteer amendments:
Beckham, Broussard, Bankhead, Back
ham, Broussard, Chamberlain, Culbuer-
son, Fletcher, Gerry, Hills, Hastings,
James, Johnson, South Dakota; Jones,
New Mexico; King, Lewis, Martin,
Mayors, Overman, Owen, Phelan, Pitt
man, Pomerene, Ransdell, Robinson,
Salisbury, Shafroth, Sheppard, Shields,
Simmons, Smith, Arizona; Smith, Geo.
g1a; Smith, Maryland; Smith, South
Carolina; Stone, Swanson, Thompson,
Y4I
'cott-40
Republicans: Brady, Brandegee,
Calder Colt, Dillingham;, Fernald,
France, Frelinghuysen, Hale, Hard
ing, Jones, Washington; Kellogg, Ken
yon, Knox, Lodge, McCumber, Nc
Lean, Nelson, New, Page, Penrose,
Poindexter, Smoot, Sterling, Suther-
land, Wadsworth, Warren, Watson,
Weeks-29.
After the Mcclellan amendment had
been rejected, Senator Trammell re-
opened the draft question by offering
an amendment proposing to substi-
tute the volunteer system throughout
the bill. 1t was rejected by an over
whe1ming roar of noes"
In the House there was no roll call.
The long fight came to close early
in the afternoon when Representative
Kahn, of California, moved to strike
out the volunteer provision written in
to the bill by hte House Military Com
mittee. AS the result of the voting
became apparent, the members of the
galleries broke into cheers, while
Speaker Clark, Chairman Dent of the
Military Committee, Chairman. Pad
gett, of the Naval Committee, and
other Democrats, who had fought the
administrations plan, sat silently in
their seats. /
Democratic Leader Kitchin, who
had expected to vote against. con-
scrfption, responded to the call for
a quorum just before, but was not
present for the vote on the amend
ment. Miss Rankin, of Montana,
voted with the volunteer advocates.
Throughout the remainder Of the
House debate pro-vo1unteer members
frequently reopened discussion of their
proposal, the climax coming when
Speaker Clark declared he might drive
out of his district some of those who
had urged that he vote for conscrip-
ton. Il
ga lot Of old skunkers all over the
country who think that nobody is 60
ing to be forced into this war except
boys from nineteen to twenty-five"
the speaker said, land that their mis-
cradle, cowardly hides will be safe,
have been sending kilograms here.
know them. I know every man in |
my district who has telegraphed me, |
and I know who is at the bottom of :
it. and I can take douhle-barreled