Evening star., 1918-08-05
I18-TO-45 BILL IS
SENT TOCONGRESS;
EARLY ACTION SURE
Proposed Draft Law Refer
!. red to Committees in
Both Houses.
RETURN TO SENATE IN
FEW DAYS PROMISED
Total of 2,39s, ,s45 Electives Will
Be Added to Glass 1-Analysis
of the Bill.

De dQQeO TO ClaSS 1-dualySlS
of the Bill.
The administrations man power bill
extending the military draft ages SO as
to include men from eighteen to forty.
five years old, was presented to the
Senate and House today by the chair
men of the military affairs committees,
Senator Chamberlain and Representa-
tive Dent. The measure was referred
to the committees on military affairs,
which are expected to begin work on
it as soon as possible.
When Senator Chamberlain intro
duced the bill in the Senate today,
Senator Curtis of Kansas asked If it
was his intention to call the military
affairs committee together at once to
consider tbs bill.
Sept. 5 for National Registration.
Provost Marshal Generel Crowder,
in statement submitted by Senator
Chamberlain, suggested September
as the date for a national reglstra-
tion of men within the proposed new
ages, and said that in order to get
the 100000 men to be called in Sep
tember it would be necessary to take
men as rapidly as they were placed
in class one, without waiting for the
completion of the classification.
Weekly registration of youths at
tanning the age of twenty-one in the
next few weeks was proposed by Gen.
Crowder as the only means of obtain
ing the 100000 men to be called to the
to be done by presidential proclama-
tion and would add about $4,000 to
the number Of men available.
Committee Meets Tomorrow.
THE committee h1 been called
to meet at 1880 tomorrow morning. -
replied Senator Chamberlain. II hope
the committee will be able to report
the bill to the Senate in a few days"
Senator Curtis then suggested that
steps should be taken. to call the Sen
ate back, without further delay, to act
on the draft bill.
IT am in accordance with the view
of the senator from Kansas" replied
be reported within few days by the
committee, 1 hope a quorum of the
Senate can be got together and in ac-
cordance with unanimous consent
agreement. the Senate can begin work
on the bill three days afterward."
Aided by Agreement.
Under the unanimous consent agree
ment no business is to be transacted
in the Senate until August "a unless a
quorum of the Senate assemblies in
the meantime. In that case any busi-
ness may be taken up three days
thereafter.
Senator Jones of Washington also
urged Senator Chamberlain to do all
he could to have the bill considered
by the Senate at the earliest possible
moment
Analysis of New Draft Limits.
When he introduced the bill Senator
Chamberlain submitted a statement of
what the proposed changes in the draft
, will do, prepared by Provost Marshal
: General Crowder This showed that a
] total of 2,3sS,S45 additional electives
! class 1 would be available.
A study of the males from eighteen
to twenty years of age show the total
humber in this country to be 3,171 I'll.
OF these 15S.185 are married. 1t is es-
because needed in agriculture and in
dustry. Other deferments would bring
the total number of electives in class
1 down to 1.7s7,609. The statement
prepared by the provost marshal gen.
eral also provided study showing what
would result if the draft ages were
made nineteen to forty and twenty
one to forty.
The draft extension will subject to
registration and draft. If needed,
more than one and a half times as
many men as did the original draft.
1t is estimated that If those who
have volunteered are counted. one
out of every four residents of Wash
ington either will be in the military
service or subject to call.
51,7e5 New Eegistrants, Estimate.
It is estimated also that 51.7s5 reg
cen and twenty-one and thirtyeone
and forty-fve, will be called upon to
sign up under the proposed new law.
The registrants between the ages OF
twenty-one and thirty-one number
registrants. II the new bill is enact
ed unchanged, will be 84.167.
War Department officials are count
ing on IN Army of about 1000, ,00O
men. They estimate that 1000, ,000
men Of the physique and type now in
France will be obtained from the reg
istratien and draft of men from
eighteen 10 twenty one and that the
registration from thirty-one to for
ty-five will produce another 2,000, ,O0O
men Cf similar type. The present
draft with the volunteers, is capable
of producing the other 100000 men,
it is said.
Another War Department estimate
was to the effect that there would be
a total of 16.000. 900 registrants when
the new bill becomes law
Glass in D. c. Exhausted.
The available men in class l under
:, tho 6rst draft have been completeIy
: exhausted In the District of Columbia
and BY the end of this month will
have taken all Of the men of the class
Of 1918, registered last June, who
!, are In class 1. A start will be made
eoon, therefore, on the men in class
, ] under the proposed new draft.
Senate and House Hard Hit,
There are eleven senator's listed in
the Congressional Directory who are
forty-dve years old or under. In the
house there are about 100 men with
in the new draft ages.
The senators within the new draft
ages are Ashurst, Arizona; Wolcott,
Delaware; Trammell. Florida; Hale,
Maine; France, Maryland; Henderson,