Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-27
SENATE WILL VOTE
TODAY AT 4 P. N.
0NDRAFT MEASURE:
Bill Will Probably Become
Law as Presented by
Department.
WORK -OR-FlGHT AMENDMENT
NOT FAVORED BY PRESIDENT
Probabilities Are That 1t Will Be
Lost Before Final Vote Is
Taken by Senators.
TO EDUCATE YOUNG SOLDIERS
Senate Accepts Reed Amendment,
Providing Schooling for Minors
Returning From War.
TO EDUCATE YOUNG SOLDIERS

WASHINGTON. August 2s.-The SEN
ate agreed late to-day TO begin voting
on the man-power bill and pending
amendments at o'clock tomorrow at-
ternoon This agreement assures pas
sage OF the measure before Hnal ad-
journment for the day. Debate will
be limited after l o'clock.
1t now seems probable that the
measure will become a law virtually
as presented to Congress by the War
department The one important
amendment now pending in the SEN
ate-the antistrikc or work or fight
amendment-is not regarded with favor
by the President or the War Depart
ment. They hold that IL Is unncces
sary and that the power given by the
amendment. IL necessary. can be exer-
cised by regulation.
This amendment, II +, should pass
the Senate. will not be permitted to
prospects are tina; II VIII he lost from
the pin before the final vote is taken
by the Senate.
The Treadway amendment, adopted
ny the House. providing for the ap-
pointineni Of special examiners by the
ProVost-marsha general 20 reclassify
isting law. was promptly stricken out
by the Senate Committee and probably
WIN not be revived; IS i Is not resard-
and might seriously cripple the ma
chinery OF the draft
An attempt In the Senate to-day to
get the work -or-hght amendment in
shape TO prove acceptable 10 majority
OF the chamber was unsuccessful and
got, the amendment into such a snari
that IL was necessary TO lay II aside
in order that it might be rewritten
overnight and submitted tomorrow.
SENATOR THOMAS SPEAKS
IN FAVOR OF AMENDMENT
In supporting the amendment Sena
t1- No. ~x.f.. 4 II L.
feared ,hat failure TO enact such a
provision OF the law would prove a
constant; menace 10 the war program
lions arising through the strikes or
threats OF strikes OF men engaged in
important war industries would prob
ably grow worse instead OF better in
the absence Of Federal legislation Gov
ering such conditions
Other Senator'S opposed the proposed
necessary and believed that provisions
OF the first draft bill. which are not
affected by the pending legislation.
marshal genera! to deal with such sit
uatIons. and TO call men to the colors
when not engaged in essential industry.
This has been proved by the work-or-
fight regulations put into eftec, with
regard to reSistrants under the pres
ent draft law.
senator smith. Of Georgia, G proposed
Quartermaster's department be directed
10 sell at cost TO officers uniforms and
equipment. He said that young officers
chants and that often men who win
commissions. and are without means
or resources. experience great difficulty
in supplying themselves with uniforms
or equipment.
The amendment was unanimously
adopted. 1t had been accepted in one
form or another three times, but de-
feated in the House. and unless Chair
man Dent, of the House, changes his
attitude that will be its fate this time.
The two committee amendments of
the Senate, one providing that the
wives of soldiers and sailors shall not
be barred from government employ
ment on account OF their married state,
and the other providing for the edu "a
ton of soldiers who return from the
war berore attaining the age of twen-
ty-one at government expense. were
adopted. The Shields amendment that
the civil service rules should not apply
to the wives OF soldiers and sailors
seeking government employment for
the period OF the war was defeated.