Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-30
18 TO as DRAFT
WINS IN HOUSE
Rep. London of New York ana
Gordon of Ohio Oppose
Measure.
FINAL VOTE WAS 1886 TO z
Farmers Are to Be Placed in Deferred
Glasses il Senate Accepts Amend.
ment-Fight to Call Youths
Last Fails.

Washington, Aug 26.-By a vote of
336 to the house passed the admins
tration man-power bill, making the
draft age limits eighteen to forty-five
years, substantially as drafted by the
war department.
The only votes against the bill were
cast by Representative Meyer London
of New York, Socialist, and Represent
alive Gordon Of Ohio, Democrat.
The Man-PoWer Bill.
The new man-power bill as passed
by the house of representatives pro-.
to men between the ages of eighteen
and forty-five.
Amendments to the bill agreed to by
| the house provide that members or
| congress and state legislators are not
| amenable to the draft; that farmers
| are to be placed in deferred classes;
| that the provost marshal general may
cause men to be re-eXamined after
their cases have been decided by local
| boards, and that citizens of co-bellig-
erent countries will be subject to the
| draft except where treaties would be
violated.
An attempt to have men between
only after all in class 1 over thirty-one
years had been called failed
The senate failed to reach vote, as
had been expected. SO many senators
indicated desire to discuss the bill
that Senator Chamberlain of Oregon,
chairman of the senate military affairs
committee, fOreseeing the impossible
ity of reaching a vote asked that it go
over until Monday.
An informal understanding has been
reached with the drys temporarily to
sidetrack the unanimous consent agree
ment calling for consideration of the
nationwide wartime prohibition
measure Monday long enough to dis
pose of the man-power bill.
Kill Congress Draft Plan.
The house lost it's nerve on con-
scripting it's own members. The Gregg
amendment, adopted Friday, making
officers of the executive and legislative
branches. of the government subject
to the draft, was defeated on a second
vote 143 to 80.
The house also voted down the
amendment offered by Representative :
Madden of Illinois providing that no
employee of the executive departments
of the government should be granted
exemption or deferred classification
simply because of the nature
This amendment, which caused such
an uproar in the house when it was
proposed, seemed likely to go into the
bill at first but after thinking it over
the house decided to reject it, 40 to
12S.
Reject Strike Amendment.
Representative Black of Texas
forced a showdown on the question of
drafting workers who strike after be-
ing exempted for essential industry.
He proposed an amendment similar to
that recommended by the senate mill
tary affairs committee. 1t was reject
ed 81 to So.
The house agreed to an amendment
offered by Representative Treadway
Of Massachusetts giving the provost
marshal general broader authority in
dealing with local draft boards. The
amendment would enable the provost
marshal general, if dissatisfied with
the work of a local board, to send spe-
cial examiners into the district to re-
examine the men in deferred classif-
cations.
The Treadway, McCulloch and
Campbell amendments, adopted Fri
day constitute the only important
changes made by the house in the bill.
The McCulloch amendment orders the
drafting of the resident subjects of
nations co-belligerent with the United
States unless they are specifically ex-
empted by treaty. The Campbell
amendment specifically authorizes the
placing of persons engaged in agricul-
tural occupations In deferred classes.
Baker Fights Mckenzie Move.
Secretary Of War Baker came ont
fatty against the Mckenzie amend
ment in letter to Representative
Dent, in which he declared the McXen-
zie amendment "unwise" and likely to
impair seriously the army program.
In the senate there were continued
against the drafting of
the men under twenty years Of age.
1t is believed, however, that the orovi-
sion lowering the minimum age Limit
to eighteen years viii be adopted by
a substantial majority.