Arizona republican., 1918-01-25
CHAMBERLAIN MAKES
 REPLY TO STATEMENT
 MADE BY PRESIDENT
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try would believe that everything was Lovely and the goose hung high, so Tar as clothing is concerned" 1 But when you talk to the men | that command these boys you find it isn't there,' he continued On a per capita basis it is there. but not when it comes to effective distribu- ton; they simply havn't got the clothing
 'I realize the difficulties of the quartermaster general. He has done the best he could under the present 1 system. The president inherited that ! system and has done the best he could. The president isn't responsible Tor the system. But the fact re- mains that we havnt the clothing" Senator Chamberlain said he pro posed to show by Secretary Bakers own testimony that the secretary did not know of actual clothing con- ditions.
 That is why I say" he continued, that the president did not know the truth. And I did. He must have gotten his facts from the secretary, who in turn got them from somebody else and somebody must have lied And that's why l say the president
 
 Striding into the center of the aisle with an attitude of defiance, he shouted:
 T feel it my duty to my country and my conscience to tell the truth have no fear of God, man or the devil, when my conscience prompts And no man in the country can keep me from telling the truth. The only fear is that this discussion may have q bad effect on the country But if the conditions exist they ought to be corrected and quickly. Great Britain found the same conditions and corrected them quickly. So did France"
 Senator Chamberlain passed around photographs of wooden machine guns, rifles and heavy ordnance used at cantonments and asked senators to study them carefully. Ridiculous Wooden Guns
 They are of some use" he ex- plained, in training men. But if l had boy training for the battle field I would not want him to have his training with nothing else than a wooden cannon"
 England and France, he said, saw the mistake of having artillerymen
  You must go to men who have done these things to get results" he said, and congress should face this without fear of any man, but with due regard for the distinguished cOmmander-in in- chief The commander at Camp Sherman, Ohio, told him there was a shortage of seven thousand overcoats there, the senator said. He referred that statement to Secretary Baker.
 In his usual placid way he said That's not true" remarked the senator.
 Senator, Chamberlain then read from a letter from Secretary Baker saying a later report showed 7,OUO |, overcoats were needed at Camp Sher- man, but that they were in course of shipment"
 That's the way ever since the war started, in course but not get ting there" he shouted.
 Then placing in the record chart submitted to the military committee by Secretary Baker showing short ages of material at all camps, vary ing from one to 19 per cent. MT. Chamberlain declared he wished that condition to become known to the people.
 "I want it shown whether I distort- ed the truth when I said the mili- tary system had broken down. he | said.
 Reading from the table to show shortages of overcoats running as high as 75 per cent, the senator reminded the senate that the troops were lin the midst of winter T am going to show that these hundreds of thousands of men dying in the cantonments are due to the