The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-04
NEW DRAFT CALL
DEMANDS AVAST
iCANP EXP ANSI0N
SO, 100000 ,O80 Fund Asked To
I Care for Big Army.
10 Call 100000 by July First,
233,OOG at Present.
KANSAS QUOTA is 4,@l
Population Still Made Basis of
the Quotas.
Baker Would Place No Limit on
Great Army.
Still Made Basis of
the Quotas.
BY L. C. MARTIN.

PRESIDENT Wilson's great army ex
i MANSION program, caf7ing for appro-
4 friations of $15 200, 300. 900 has been
. Even the right of way in congress.
. Z Some of the appropriations are
/ Needed Immediately as the increase
. o. six hundred Thousand men under
. <rms by July 1 has caused Geficien-
| &es. For this reason the house mill
8ry affairs committee is determined
b finish the gigantic measure late
Hext week and have 1t up For con-
1 Liberation the following week.
4 . The exact revised estimates will be
I Nlaeed before the committee Mon
day at which time General March,
chief of staff. will explain i'm detail
. the increase in ordnance expenditure
one of the largest items in the bill.
March is particularly interes ted in
ordnance. for he was in charge OF tnat
work while in France under General
Pershing-
What Is Asked.
Some of the approximate requests
of the ordnance department follow:
0Tdnan e, as stores Ges oeH unl'ion ana
] rArnored motor cars and tanks.
S150,000,000.
4 Machine guns. $500. 100000.
Small arm target Practice. $780,
e00.0 600.
Manufacture of arms. 100000. 900.
4 The aviation requiSition, which is
said to total more than ST. 0O.OOO,0 900
. will be considered by the committee
Tuesday.
.a No Limit on Calls.
si'Committee members have practical
ly decided to frame the bill, as the
president and Secretary Baker ask,
desiring to be over-hbera1 so that it
will be certain the war work is in no
way irnpeded by a lack of appropria-
tions. With the assurance from the
war department that it intends TO call
men only as fast as they can be equip
ped trained and transported, little
objection is expected in the house to
the presidents request for no limit on
the number of men. Senate Repub-
Hcans, however, already have served
notice that they will object vigorously
to this feature of the proposed legis-
lation.
THE house committee is frankly
pleased at the big increases, believ-
ing that the nation is fast getting
ready to strike some real blows in the
great war.
Greatest Fund in History.
Many members predict that the
1b.0oO.000.00O asked may not be suf-
ficient for the next fiscal year.
The request Is larger by approxi7
nately $4,000, 900, 900 than any other
appropriation ever granted by con-
gress. its nearest rival being the army
bill of last year.
Two important anti-spy and sedi-
ton measures are expected to pass
both houses today. The senate has
agreed to vote on the sedition bill at
4 O'Clock. while the house Is expected
to approve the state department bill
to check in this country the exit and
entrance of German spies and sym
pathizers. Present passport laws are
Inadequate, 1t has been found.
The Kansas quota is 4,4S1.
Calls by States.
Washington, May 4.-The appor-
tionment among states for the 1884,
742 draft men called by the provost
marshal generals office follows:
Alabama, $500 to Camp SEWER,
S. c.
- Arizona. 1854 to Camp Cody. N. M
8. Arkansas, 400 to Camp Beauregard
La, and 1924 to Camp Pike.
Florida, 2O2 to Camp Gordon, Ga
Georgia, 1877 to Camp Gordon. Ga
Idaho. 791 to Camp Lewis, Wash.
5000 to Camp Grant. ILL.,, 4.16s to
Camp Gordon, Ga, and 4,S61 to Camp
indiana, 3,47s to Camp Taylor. KY
Iowa, 1854 to Camp Dodge. Ia
Kansas, 4.4S1 to Camp Funston
Kentucky, s.311 to Camp Taylor. KY
Louisiana, 3,99S to Camp Beaure-
gard. La.
Maryland, Ass to Camp Meade
Massachusetts. 2.2ss to Camp Up.
4 ton. N. Y, 200 to Camp Devens. Mass.
and Ala to Camp Pike, Ark;
Colorado, 2.079 to Camp Cody, N. M
Connecticut, 3.s45 to Camp Upton
Michigan. 5000 to Camp Wheeler
Ga, 5,149 to Camp Custer. Mich.
- Minnesota, AHA to Camp Lewis
Wash.
~ Mississippi. 1000 to Camp Pike
Ark. 1.649 to Camp Shelby, Miss.
- Missouri. 500 to Fort Riley, Kan.
1887 to Camp Dodge. Ia.
Montana, 2.163 to Camp Lewis
wash.
New Hampshire, 624 to Camp Dew
New Jersey, 1857 to Camp Dix
NJ J.
N. NJ.
% New York. 300 to Camp Dix N. J.
/ $3.50 to Camp Hancock. Ga.A 1900 t.
Camp Upton. N. Y, 800 to Cam
Wadsworth. S. c., 1880 to Camp Sc
/ vfer. S. c.
North Dakota, 1880 to Camp Lewis
1 Wash.
81 Ohio $500 to Camp Gordon, Ga.
5000 to Camp Sherman, o., 1898 e
Camp Taylor. Ky.
Oklahoma, 3.4OO to Camp Bowie
Tex, 2.44s to Fort Riley, Kan.
Pennsylvania. 100 to Camp Meade
Md. 1000 to Camp Lee. Va, 5000 T.
Camp HUMPHREYS, Va. 1898 to Caml
Greenleaf. S. C..
= Rhode Island 1858 to Camp Up
ten, n. Y.
SIR. S. c.. ass to Camp Wadsworth
r. C.