Arizona republican., 1918-01-25
CHAMBERLAIN MAKES
 REPLY TO STATEMENT
 MADE BY PRESIDENT
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tackled both his veracity and integrity, heretofore unchallenged, but that in replying. he did so without personal feeling against the president
 For twenty-four years" Senator Chamberlain said, T have served the public in my state to the best of my ability, and in all that time 1 have never had my Veracity called in ques- tion nor my integrity impeached, and I have paused through some bitter campaigns. It is, therefore, with some fteeling of humiliation and also sad ness that I rise to a question of per- sonal privilege when my veracity has been called in question, not by an ordinary citizen, not by one of my col leagues, but by a very distinguished gentleman who has the love and ad- miration of the people, and who by their suffrage occupies the highest place in the gift of the people, and, I may say, the highest place Of any man in the whole world.
 Ut is therefore with much feeling that I rise to address myself to the attack made upon me, and I do so without any feeling of unkindness.
 "The personal charges against me amount to nothing to the American
  involve the future of this country, II not the entire world"
 Senator Chamberlain said he had been invited to speak before the Na- tional Security League, accepted or short notice and without time to pre- pare an address. He recalled that or the dais with him were Alton B Parker, Theodore Roosevelt and Julius Kahn and that the audience was a representative body that for patriotism cannot be excelled by any like body II l the United States. He then reiterated | that he assumed responsibility for tho speech as reported by newspapers. ''The people of this country may no l see this as 1 do,'' he declared, but a: 1 chairman of the military committee as an American citizen and member | of this distinguished body, 1 felt tha should say the things that are in mt and if I succeeded in making a rift il l the clouds through which the American people may see, I will feel that m! | efforts have not been in vain.'
 Got Guns from France
 Now that my truthfulness has beel questioned" Senator Chamberlain con tinued, T feel it my duty to tell tn country something I might not hav told it under ordinary circumstances do it as a man who loves his countr. best of all and who would willingl. give his life for it. I do it fearlessl. as an American citizen who desires t help and not to hinder.
 | He repeated he had not distorted tn 1 truth in his speech made in New York but that owing to the great rush 0 | business due to the war the presiden has probably not been able to ascer tain the truth and does not know tn truth. From the lips of those closes to the president, the chief executiv cannot learn the truth, he declared, no because his advisers desire to mislea' him, but because they are situated il the same position as he is.
 1 ''The secretary of war in a genera statement to the country, which wa carefully and ably prepared, tells u that $3,200,000, ,000 have been appropri ated for the ordnance department an, that contracts for $1,677 ,000,00 hay been awarded" he continued. This i true. But the secretary failed to tel the country that American failed t stand prepared"
 France, bled white,'' he continued lis furnishing America today, and tn | blOOpo SOluS dpAO NllI ItdNy nance, machine guns and airplanes. I we relied on the ordnance departmen in this emergency and this is a war 0 artillery, the war would be completed before we ever got enough to go to tn front. France agreed to deliver thi artiellery. To win America? Did sh, furnish 1t in order to invite America :?
 It was improper, he said, to give de tails of American purchases of ord nance from the allies, but referre, | senators to the confidential testimon, before the committee by Major Genera Crozier, chief of ordnance.
 If the administration. had wantet to be fair to the American people" h shouted, "why didn't the distinguishe, secretary of war, and I have the high est regard for him, let the people know so that the people could assist in get ting ready for this terrible calamit, that confronts not only America, bu the whole world?"
 Machine Guns Delayed
 Senator Chamberlain charged tha the ordnance bureau failed in 1916 | prepare for war when it seemed cer tain.
 There were omens in the sky" h continued, that America couldn't kee
 
 Nothing. It was lying supinely on it back, not making gauges for manufac turing ordnance nor discovering tn possibilities of manufacturing-but do ing nothin, absolutely nothing"
 Appropriations for jigs and dies { make ordnance, he said, had not bee used.
 I'm not blaming anybody in parti cular," the senator continued. q hay high regard for General Crozier, bu we haven't been able to do what Eng land, France and all our other allie have done and that is to retire thes gentlemen who have not proven them selves up to the mark We ought nc to dismiss them in disgrace, but fother countries they have gone into ir nocuous desuetude.
 This isn't a question of personal ities. This is not question betwee ? the president and myself. It is a ques tion of America, and every man ougt to make it his whole purpose to SC that America is saved.
 Take the machine guns," said th senator Its an old controversy an much may be said on both sides. I'll Lewis gun has been manufactured hei for the British army and there are sey enty thousand of them on the battle front. Every British officer I hay seen has expressed approval of ths gun. America was prepared to produe them, but with the country standin on seething volcano the ordnance de partment was trying to decide on gun. The war department didn't eve consider a gun until May and final adopted it in June, G917 I beliey and then only on paper. and it sti is a gun on paper. It never has had field test. The Browning gun is zoe TOO LATE iN CLASSIFY WANTED-Position cooking ft from to 20 men on ranch or minin h.. ol.sl xl