The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-08-26
IS TO 45 DRAFT
WINS IN HOUSE
Rep. London of New York and
Gordon of Ohio Oppose
Measure.
final VOTE WAS 1856 TO z
Farmers Are to Be Placed In Deferred
Glasses if Senate Accepts Amend
ment-Flght to Call Youths
Last Falls.

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-f1ve
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
ative Gordon Of Ohio, Democrat.
The Man-Power Bill.
The new man-pOwer bill as passed
by the house Of representatives pro-
vides for extension of. the army draft
to men between the ages Of eighteen
and forty-fve.
Amendments to the bill agreed to by
the house provide that members Of
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-belNg-
erent countries will be subject to the
draft except where treaties would be
violated.
An attempt to have men between
the ages Of eighteen and twenty called
only after all in class over thirty-one
years had been called failed.
The senate failed to reach vote, as
had been expected. So many senator's
indicated a 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.
Kill Congress Draft Plan.
The house lost its nerve on con-
scrlpting its 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 SO.
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 1t over
the house decided to reject 1t, 40 to
1913.
Reject Strike Amendment.
Representative Black of Texas
forced 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. It was reject
ed 81 to 50.
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 eneble the provost
marshal general, If dissatisfied with
the work of 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 cgricul-
tural occupations in deferred classes.