New Britain herald., 1918-01-24

Washington, Jan. 24.-Standi1l firmly by his charge that AmericaI military establishment is enmeshed inefficiency,. Senator Chamberlain Oregon, chairman of the military con mittee,. replied in the senate today President Wilson's denunciation of hy recent New York speech, by repeatir the statement which drew the pres dents fire and declaring that 4 president himself does not know tX truth.
 Senator Chamberlain declared would show that the deaths of the hu dreds and thousands of men at ca comments and camps were due to il war department and that all epideiE 1cs could have been prevented if war department had been effectivcs
 Senator Chamberlain read to { senate letter received from president opposing the creation of minister of munitions. He said he q this to cOunteract the preSiden charge that he had not been oonsult regarding proposed legislation, to offered in congress.
 Senator Chamberlain said the ord ident had attacked both his verac and integrity heretofore unchaIlcngs but that in replying he did so witho any personal feeling against the pre ident.
 For "A years," said the senator, have served the public in my state k the best of my ability and in all tn time 1 have never had my verac called in question nor my integrity il peached, and 1 have passed throu some bitter campaigns. It is thea fore with some feeling of humiliatiu and also sadness that I rise to a. uu{ tion of personal privilege when veracity has been called in questid not by an ordinary citizen, not by of my colleagues, but a very dist guished gentleman who has the Id and admiration of the people and w by their suffrage occupies the high place in the gift of the people, and may say the highest place of any m in the world.
 These personal charges against amount to nothing to the Americ people but affect policies which n involve the future of this country. not the entire world-~
 Senator Cham berlain said he
  before the National Security League New York. He had read to the sen a verbatim report of it.
 Upon his return here, Sena Chamberlain said, he received a Iet from the president containing a q tation taken from the New Y, World and asking of the quotat was correct. The president WIT I>1 4S the statements until he knew positi ly that the senator had actually md them.
 The letter was received too late a. reply Sunday, Senator Chamberl continued, but in a letter sent to White House the following day, replied that he had been quo substantially correct in the Wo but asked the president to read entire speech as printed in The Tlt instead of only a part of it.
 Senator Chamberlain letter ad that he was discussing only the DO "or lack of policy" of the military tablishment. After stating his perience in the military affairs ct mittee and testimony in the comm tees investigations the senator's le continued:
 "I believe l know something ab the deficiencies in the military tablishment, deficiencies which clearly recognized and proven in system that ought to be remode for the proper prosecution of war and have these disjointed unco-ordinated defects weeded out.
 In his letter the senator also fered to go over the whole situatI With the president, but said he