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SENATOR Weeks
CnIT.CiSES BAKER
Only 81 Per Gent. Of Men
Pledged in France.
L. S. PROGRAM DELAYED
The Senator Declares Recommends.
tions of lie Root Mission to Russia
Were T.rHS Gown.

tons of lie Root Mission to Russia
Were T-ra< d Gown.
Washing on, Feb. 16.-EXactly "a
per cent OF American troops that Sec
rotary OF War Baker predicted would
reach France BY February Is have
landed tire, Senator Weeks, Of Mas
eachuse;ts. asserted in the sense.
During the course OF a speech ad
vocatinc TIE w@r cabinet and NUM-
tons director bills, tn senator said:
The CT -s.i1n i. ; arisen about the
number OF trS2ons in Europe. | am
not going to say how many, although
know But he suggestion has been
made by these in high authority that
we have done very much better than
We anticipated.
81 do not think it is fair that this
wrong impression Should be given to
the public.
"On October I had conversation
with the secretary of war, who told
RE the number of troops we had in
Europe or en- route, What the depart
ment planned and what he believed
the department could do in the future.
"The number of troops in Europe Is
exactly "a per cent of the number that
would have been there on February IS
II Secretary Bakers anticipations had
been fulfilled.
81 do not say this in criticism Of
Secretary Baker. I do say that 1t Is
: n answer to the IMPRESSION that has
heen given to the prblic that we have
Teen doing even better than the war
department projects ANTICIPATED.
at is unwise to sive the public er-
roneous impressions. 1t is unwise to
give the public the impression tina.
we are doing less than we actually are
TO hold up to criticism those things
where no criticism is warranted. But
50 far as possible the who'e truth in
matters of this sort when a military
secret is not disclosed, should be
stated"
The senator disclaimed charges that
lie war probe had been based upon
PERSONAL bias against Secretary Bak-
CT There he's been no attempt to
cruelty any ore" h declared.
During the speech Senator Weeks
charged that recommendations Of the
Root mission to Russia were turned
Gown by the state department. Sena-
/ tor Lewis. of Illinois, a member of
the foreign relations committees. said
the views of Elihu Root and Charles
| Edward Russell wee so widely diver
cent that they wee unable to agree
lEon definite suggestions, and said no
! hereto recommendation ever was
ade
Eff the senator will consult state de
nAment files. he will find that other
than the commission members were
responsible to some degree for the
failure; I think he will find the re
.ommendati~re were not cerriad out,
wes what Senator WeeFs asserted.
tinge ST part fa ever Ell;
/ tered the action ON the war cobinet
md munitions director bills until Pres
Jdent Wilson injected such an issue,
was stated by Mr.. Weeks, who said:
Not a question involving partisan
s"lt'i' WIS ifSJSCu uulll Tic W COiuSh'
deliberately interiected politics into
! the situation by an att0ck upon the
| chairman Of the committee, Senator
Chamberlain Oemocra), and the
committee itself, and by calling to the
White House many Democratic party
leaders, not for consultation purposes,
but to insist that discussion Of this
questi- on the floor Of the senate be
prevented if possible. Have we come
to such a pass that the action of the
most important committee in congress
at this time is to be forbidden by the
PRESIDENT"
czernin Speaks Today.
Amsterdam. Feb. 16.-Count Ger
min, the Austro- Hungarian foreign
mister, has announced his intention
Of delivering long statement to the
delegations of the two kingdoms. He
will talk on the Brest-Litovsk neso