Evening journal., 1918-08-13
SENATE RECALLED
FOR DRAFT BILL
Requests Members Pres
ence to Get a Quorum
on Thursday
KIRBY MOTION
is VOTED DOWN

WASHINGTON. kug i3.-The Senate
has been called back into session in
order to take up next Monday the new
man-power bill.
Notices were sent by the sergeant
alarms yesterday to all Of the absent
Senators requesting their presence at
the session on Thursday. so that there
Will be quorum present that day.
Under the terms Of the agreement
made when the series Of three-day re-
pesses began on July i3. in the event
Of quorum being present Thursday,
PECULIAR sessions Of the Senate can be
resumed on Monday Of next week, by &
majority vote OF the Senators present
Thursday II will require unanimous
consent Thursday however, 10 take up
the draft-bill amendments next week,
but there is no indication that the
plans Of the Senate Military Affairs
Committee to bring up that measure
Monday will be objected to.
Following a meeting OF the Senate
committee yesterday, Senator Martin,
Virginia, majority leader. and Senator
Curtis, Kansas, Republican whip, also
sent calls TO the absent Senators OF
both parties, urging them to be present
at the Thursday session. As there are
fhirty-six Senators in Washington, the
presence Of only thirteen more is re-
quired to make up the quorum, and
there is no doubt among the Senate
leaders that the plans for taking up the
bill and passing II next week will be
carried out
An effort made in committee by Sena-
tor Kirby, of Arkansas, who has been
opposed to the draft all along. to amend !
the man-power bill so that no men be-
low twenty-one years Of age would be |
called into the military service was /
voted down almost unanimously. Sen
ator Kirby left the meeting and an
nounced that he intends TO carry the
Tight against taking young men from
their mothers arms" on TO the floor Of
the Senate
A bitter fight developed at the com
mlttee meeting over the anti-strike
amendment offered by Senator Thomas
OF Colorado. and prevented the report
ing Of the measure to the Senate. II
viii be reported Thursday, Senator
Chamberlain said
Senator Thomas offered his amend
ment for the immediate induction into
the military service Of all reglstrants {
placed in deferred classes because Of {
their occupation or employment who I
are idle for more than flve days.
Senator Reed Missouri. objected to &
the wording OF the amendment and de- q
clared that he would oppose IL in the
form in which Senator Thomas intro
duced II. Senator Reed will offer an c
to Senator Thomas amend I
ment when the committee meets today.
The flght over the measure In the \
Senate will center around the anti '
strike rider that Senator Thomas has s
There is little opposition to
the new age limits or other features OF
the bill as II came from the War De {
vas'ment. The labor Senators regard \
Thomas amendment as conscription !
OF labor and have prepared 10 put up /
a hard flsht against It,
Representative Dent, chairman Of the I
House Committee on Military Affairs
again refused to call a meeting Of his q
TO consider the bill, although n
he was urged to do so by members Of :
he committee.
There will be no meeting until Au
gust 49," he said. when public hear
ngs on the bill will start ] do not :
want to interrupt the vacations Of. the
Of the committee" A
Representative Dent comes up for re-
domination in the Second district OF
Alabams today, but he has no opposi-
ion at tne polls.
The new man-power bill was made 90
he subject Of the semi-weekly debate
n the Senate yesterday. The Senators l
warned against Over-confldence and as "
sailed the War Department heads for