The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-24

ATTACKS WAR
MANAGEMENT
OREGON SENATOR SPEAKS
TO GREAT AUDIENCE IN
THE SENATE
Presents His Side of the
Controversy
Admits Enfield Rifle Was I'M
proved but Opposed Delay
Roosevelt in Washington Ready
to Assail Wilson Administration

to Assail Wilson Administration
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
George E. Chamberlain of Oregon,
foremost preparedness advocate in
congress, called 'untruthful" by Pres
ident Wilson, this afternoon hurled
back his evidence 10 sustain HIS
charge that Americas war govern
ment is honeycombed with incompet-
ency.
Amid a setting more dramatic and
an excitement more intense than that
attending any event il the capital
since the declaration OF war against
Germany, the senator took the floor
on a question of personal privilege
shortly after noon to answer Presf-
dent Wilson's stinging rebuke of Mon
day night.
In calm and even tones he related
the incidents which led up to the
presidents attack and then made pub
lie an exchange of correspondence
with the president in which he tried
vainly to obtain a conference with the
president to suggest a remedy for the
incompetency disclosed by the army
Investigation.
Refusing to yield an inch on his
barge that the military establishment
is hopelessly bound up in red tape,
Senator Chamberlain tliundered:
81 adhere to my statements and
now repeat them"
AS an indication of the interest in
the event six times as many persons
as the galleries could seat were on
= hand clamoring for admission before
4 he began.
0 Senator Chamberlain's address was
+ largely a review of the revelations OF
o witnesses before the senate military
s affairs committee. The senator care
I fully refrained from bitter investive
e and reminded the senate that the
4 American people were not concerned
\ by the personal differences between
= himself and the president. He point
r ed out, however, that policies were
t at issue involving the welfare of the
Il republic and perhaps the whole fu
J. trre civilization of the world.
t The house practically suspended
J. business while members hastened to
the senate to take seats on the floor
3 to hear Senator Chamberlain's an
s swer to the president.
e For twenty-four years." said Sen
+ ator Chamberlain, "I have served the
Il public of my state in one capacity OF
E another to the best of the ability will
which Providence has seen fit to en-
st dow me, and in all that time / hav,
l. never had my veracity attacked or MI
IS integrity impeached And l am franl
)e to say that l have been through som'
IS rather bitter campaigns.
ie "It is therefore with a feeling o
is humiliation and sadness that l ris
- ~.r.I 49, tTr<x
ay when my veracity has been called int
be question, not by any one in the ord
40 nary walk of life, not by any one O
of my colleagues, but by one who ha
TO the love of the people of this countr
ey and who occupies the highest officia
n position on the face of the earth"
ce The galleries hardly breathed s
no anxious were all to catch every wor
'es OF the senator's address,
n at is with very deep feeling ths
arise to address the senate today
100 the senator said. 'It is not fee
re- ing of unkindness. The personal fee
ings between myself and the presidel
of the United States are nothing to II
American people. There are, howeye
great policies at issue, involving &
In very life of the republic, perhaps Il
future civilization of the world"
is Senator Chamberlain described Il
Try banquet in New York at which
criticized the alleged incompetency
some phases of the war managemer
% He gave list of some of those pre-
20 ent.
- Il will say" he said, that of Il
-L rp 1000 persons present there were SOL
~ ~ from nearly every walk of life in t
el country and represented a spirit
aiI .Hd patriotism not to be excelled anywhe
~ in this land.
,n ,ne at was impossible for me to pr
- a.. pare an address so / spoke extempc
.ne .t, aneously"
~ . Departing for the first time frc
Wv Sno the calm and even tones of his speec
he thundered:
~ "But l assume full responsibility
VI the speech as printed"
At this juncture he asked the Gle
a. to read his speech that the sens
'Ao might know exactly wnat he said.
~ Senator Chamberlain presented
'ne series of letters exchanged betwe
NY ny the president and himself after he
no turned to Washington from New Yo
90. In the first of the letters, dated Ii
'1no Sunday, the president asked Sena
49, Chamberlain to state whether he
'..- been correctly quoted.
-'e Senator Chamberlain replied to
80 president that he made the sta
= ments quoted and repeated them.
y told the president that the Uni
n