The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-25
CHAMBERLAIN REPLIES ID
 PRESIDENT
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 resentatiye Dent of Alabama. chair man of the military committee. and Representative Glass of Virginia. in l the house. Secretary Baker probably will make his own answer Saturday when he appears before the house l committee. Representative Dent cali ed at the department late today and invited him to make statement to The committee
 l The senate committees bill for a | var cabinet about which the con troyersy, was referred without objec- ton today to the committee. The understanding is that it also will be referred to the naval committee later Senator Chamberlain detailed in his peech what he declared was proof of army iucfficiency. He asserted that not only was Che president ignorant )f he truth abou conditions. but that Secretary Baker also was misleG halengiue thc senate and the couu- iy to inquire and then deny his as ertions. Despite the presidents op-
 position, he declared the commitJee army investigation woud proceed and the committee plans to resume its in- quiry tomorrow by calling Surgeon General Gorgas to testify regardins lealth conditions.
 kirhys Reply to Chamberlain. "rhe senator says" said Senator <irhy that i'm lgl4, when it was ap-
 parent that war was going 10 come on, the ordnance department was ab- soluteiy inquissent and that no move
 Fas made 10 manufacture heavy ord nance He cites as an instance ot why the military establishment is in efficient In 1914 the United States had not gone into the war and since 1914 we fought out presidential
 campaign on the proposition that we
 would not go into war. Then why in 1914 should the military establish ment have insisted that we ought to manufacture heavy ordnance at that inc?
 Another proposition that the sen
 ltor cites is this: In 1914 he said
 lur Ambassador Gerard over in Ger
 many said that the German people
 were unfriendly and some day we
 we're going to have trouble. Do you suppose that the ordnance department or the secretary of war is going on what the ambassador to German night have reported here in a secret way? Would we have expected any thing of that kind? No. No man would have expected it and no man would have excused it if money had been expended along that line.
 The senator said we are not able now 10 put our men in the trenches in France and supply them with heavy guns We have them They are there. They are in the hands of our soldiers today and can be used ef- fectiyely when we see fit to put ou, men in the fighting front
 "Yes, but the senator said we have to buy them rom France We have to buy them from France instead oi trying to manufacture them which would have taken a longer time. It seems 10 me that is conclusive evil dence of nigh efficiency To get the thing that you need when you need it, and it makes no difference where. so you can supply it. That was done do not see any inefficiency there"
 Senator Kirby said the uniform to- day is the same weight it always has been in the United States army.
 Every man." he added, lon the other side has been supplied with clothing with ammunition. with rifles. with machine guns and every hing else 10 best equip him for eff fective fighting
 q want to assume entire responsi- biity for what l have said, and
 say it to you as a man who has heard this investigation as a man who is l accustomed to reading testimony, as a
 man who is accustomed to rendering
 judgment that my opinion of the condition as it is today that the mili-
 tary department has not fallen
 down"