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can not find the truth, because their
duties are so multitudinous that
they cannot ascertain the truth.
America today stands unprepar-
ed so far as ordnance Is concern
ed. 1 challenge anyone to read the
testimony and come to any other
conclusion. Poor bleeding France
is today furnishing our troops
abroad with heavy ordnance and
machine guns"
Recommendation that some of the
men who have not proven them
selves up to the mark" was made
by the Senator. He named Gen.
Crowder as one of these. He said
of the delay in selecting a machine
gun:
On Volcano Edge.
while we stood on the edge Of a
seething volcano the ordnance depart
ment trified along trying to find a
gun. Finally they adopted a gun-a
gun on paper. The Secretary testified
that during the middle Of December
we had nine guns-nine guns to go up
against the millions of Germany! And
the Remembering of the rifles! While
the house was burning the ordnance
department discussed what should be
built to put out the fire."
Here the Senator read correspond
ence between himself and the Secre-
tary Of War on the subject of short
ages at Camp Sherman.
II am going to show that it is due
to the inefficiency Of the War De-
partment that thousands of young
men are dying at the cantonments,"
he said.
He had read that Surg. Gen. Gorgas
predicted there would be epidemics
from overcrowding and bad sanitary
conditions.
Then the Senator read the letters
telling of the deaths Of soldiers in
cantonments.
II put these in the Record, horri-
BILE as they are." he said, simply
because 1 want to arouse the people
OF this country so that every mother
who has a son will write to the Pres
ident in the same patriotic spirit in
which these two letters are written.
They simply appeal-not for re-
venge, not to punish anybody-but in
order that the fate of a beloved son
or brother or husband may arouse
the attention Of the country and save
lives Of young men who are the sal
walton of America.
@Meddling, By Congress.
Alluding to the Presidential state
ment that the investigations had done
no good, Senator Chamberlain said:
with all due respect, he serves no.
tice on the House and Senate that
they had no business meddling in this
affair. differ. We are a great CO.
ordinate part of the government.
When I become a rubber stamp in the
discharge Of my duty I shall get out
of the Senate and public life and let
somebody more subservient in dispo-
sition take my place.
81 have stood here In season and out
of season to get through nearly every
piece of military legislation on the
statute books that my friend Baker
now boasts of and the President is
proud of. I have taken charge of
other measures. do not claim credit.
1 give my colleagues credit for these
things.
But where a principle Is involved
and my conscience is enlisted follow
no man. am doing that today when
I try to call attention to the dangers.
I'm Gods name, when are we going
to get over to France? There are
men on the seaboard who should have
gone two months ago.
''If America is to play any part in
this war she will have to get at II
pretty soon.
+ And the only way to get over there
is to arouse the country to the~neces-
sity OF time and the danger of the
crisis"
Senator Chamberlain closed his
speech by saying:
II apologize for having taken such
a long time. But my reputation, and
the love my friends have for me, is all
I have. When they are gone, life has
no more attractions for me. With my
reputation assailed. my country in
danger, and my appeal made only in
behalf Of my country. I know you will
excuse me.
There Is no man In America
would go sooner to the relief Of than
President wilsop.v