Republican farmer., 1918-01-25
p PRESIDENT
 DECEIVED ON WAR
Declares Senator Cham berlain, Replying to Criticism By
 Wilson.

WaSnlngtOn, Jan. 24-Stand- ing firmly by his charge that Americas military establish ment is enmeshed in inefficien- cy, Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, replied in the senate to- day to President Wilson s de- nunciation of his recent New York speech repeating the state ment which drew the presi- dents fire and declaring that the president himself does not know the truth.
 Senator Chamberlain declared he would show that the deaths of the hundreds and thousands of men at cantonments and camps were due to the war department and that "all epi- denies could have been prevented if the war department had been effect ive.'
 Senator Chamberlain said the Pres ident had attacked both his veracitv and his integrity, heretofore unchal- lenged, but that in replying he diG so without any personal feeling against the President.
 For A years" Senator Chamber lain said, 'I have served the public in my state to the best of my ability and in all that time I have never had my veracity called into question nor my integrity impeached and have pass ed through some bitter campaigns. It is, therefore, with some feeling of humiliation and of sadness that I rise to question of personal privilege when my veracity has been called into question, not by an ordinary citizen not by one of my colleagues, but by a very distinguished gentleman, who has the love and admiration of the people and who by their suffrage oc- cupies the highest place in the gift of the people, and I may say, the highest place of any man in the world"
 These personal charges against me amount to nothing to the American people, but affect policies which may involve the future of this country, if not the entire worFd,'' he said
 Senator Chamberlains' letter added that he was discussing only the policy "or lack of policy of the military es- tablishment. After stating his expe- rience in the military committee and testimony in the committees investi- gations, the senator's letter continued:
 ''I believe I know something about | the deficiencies in the military estab- | Iishment, deficiencies which are clearly recognized and proven " 1 in a system that ought to be remod- eled for the proper prosecution of the l war and have these disjointed and unco-ordinated defects weeded out"
 In his letter the Senator also offer ed to go over the whole situation with the President but said he received no reply and on the following day the Presidents statement criticising him was published.
 The Presidents statement and Sem ator Chamberlain's reply then were read to the Senate, and the Oregon Senator observed:
 q do not know if any reply to my | I6lIST was lSCSSSdIys eGouIlIC lhd statement is the answer"
 "The statement of the President challenges me, of course, for proof of the statement in the New York Times, to which statement I adhere and repeat before this body.
 "The people of this country may 4 not see this as I do, but as chairman of the military committee, as ar
 
 this distinguished body, I felt that ] should say the things that are in me and if I succeed in making a rift ir the clouds through which the Ameri. can people may see, I shall feel my efforts have not been in vain"
 Senator Chamberlain repeated tha he had not distorted the truth in his speech in New York, but that owin. to the great rush of business due t, the war the president has probab bl,
 not been able to ascertain the trutl and does not know the struth. Fron the lips of those clesest to the presi
 dent the chief executive cannot lear, the truth, not because his adviser desire to mislead him but because the, are situated in the same position a he is.
 , He denounced the cry that investi I gation gives information to the enc my.
 II Germany knows more about Amer ; ica today than the men connecte, s with the departments Senator Cham : terlain declared.
 If the government would be franl