New Britain herald., 1918-02-05

)6daly By ssnafop Wadsnartf M VI 1lhe seina 2 Publican member of the n1ilitar affairs committee.
 The speech renewed the debate oxze war efficiency Several senators wer waiting with replies upholding Presi dent Wilson's opposition to the com mlttee's war cabinet and ml1nftior director bills
 f Senator Wadsworth confined him. self largely to an argument for thd proposed legislation for centraIiza ton of war making agencies. Presil dent Wilson cannot coordinate thesd agencies, he said, and with a lond war in prospect, radical steps i'd unify the nations efforts are neces sary.
 That great things have been dond cannot be denied' he decIaredI
 That other great things have beerI left undone must be admitted Ind credit for the things accomplished can be assigned to several individuals The blame for shortcomings ought mol to be laid on any individual CritiI cism should be directed against oul system or rather the lack of cohesivd system
 Accounting difficulties arisin through indiscriminate priority ofdarl and com petition in the purchase oI supplies; delays on account of departI mental red tape" and the Ih5once ol power in the Councl1 Of National Dc1 fense, the senator continued
 'The plain fact is that we have n E agency in our government todd E p hn I1ttyy of T;t, it's vision far into the future, antici ' rating the emergencies which ma arise and laying the plans by whicl we can meet and overcome them.
 No one in his senses would pro pose that any other office be created to take away from the president tn G powers the constitution confides t him."
 Investigation Offers Wide Field.
 Referring to the committees wal inquiry, the senator said it had covI cred only a part of the ground and that to investigate all army activi| ties which might justify inquir1 would not permit the committee t{ finish its work during the present session of congress.
 Tn the ordnance and quartermasl ters' departments" he said, i've dis covered a distressing state of affairs Purchase and production and inftia distribution of the vast amount q supplies must be essentially an in E dustrial operation and that milItar men, with rare exceptions, are m capable of bringing about the bes results
 Lack of preparedness before thI war, the senator says, is Gostin| many, many lives and millions o dollars" besides prolonging the wal He called attention to the existinI vast number of official. semi -ofIicia and purely advisory agencies, bu reaus and other bodies which, he aa serted, are not co-ordinated, conN sulting or harmonizing.
 Abuse of Priority Rule.
 On the railroads, he declared goods with blue tagged priority on ders have exceeded normal shipment and in the east S6 per cent of freight was so tagged.
 What has been the result? asked. "A hopeless jam and conges ton of our railroad transportatio facilities. A million, three thousan tons or munitions ana SuppllSS "i piled up on the docks along our Al lantic coast. Some are deterioratln rapidly"
 Reviewing the governments hand r. Ine of the coal industry the senato said:
 "As a result of lack of planning wi have great communities starving fo coal and an order issued by the fue administration closing down thou sands of factories and throwing out u1 work hundreds of thousands of me and women, costing millions of do lars in wages and delayed produced and crippling, for the time bcint those very activities upon which w must depend for the winning of tn war"
 Other emergencies will overta k us," Senator Wadsworth said. "I we are wise and prudent and fa sighted, we shall establish som agency in our government, whethe it be called 8 war cabinet or by som other name, whose members shall si