Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
WOrkhlgoI1
 War Cabinet Plan
PRESIDENTS OPPOSITION WILL
 NOT HALT ACTION ..
CHAMBERLAIN TO REPLY
President Wilson is Confident of Sup port of the Country in His Antason- ism of Measure That Would Dis rupt the Present War. Machine.

Washington, Jan 22.-Neither the aggressive opposition of President Will son nor the apparent certainty that their measure would have no chance in the house, even if passed by the senate, is halting the campaign of ad- vocates in congress of bills to estab- fish a war cabinet and a director of munitions.
 Chamberlain Expects to Reply.
 When the senate reconvenes Thurs day, according to plans made today by Chairman Chamberlain and his asso- ciates on. the military committee be- hind the legislation, the contest will be opened. They propose, with a motion to refer the war cabinet bill to, the military committee as the vehicle of debate, to open discussion of the nler- its of their war machinery reorganiza- tion program, and Senator Chamber lain expects to reply to the statement issued by President Wilson last night criticizing him for his New York speech. in which the Oregon senator said the military establishment had l broken down."
 President Confident of Support. 1 Administration leaders also conferred 1 today at the capitol and planned to | fight the Chamberlain bills and answer attacks upon the governments con- | duct of the war. In preparation, a number of democratic senators saw the president last night It is understood 1 the president told them he believed the | country would support him in his op | position to legislation which would abandon a machine carefully develop ed since the war began in favor of g new and untried organization taking over many of his own constitutional
 powers under the proposed war cabi- net bill.
 1 Great Accomplishments
 The president advised his visitors that under the present organization the war record of the government has beer one of the great accomplishments ant would result in placing abroad by nex
 June twice the number of American. a gigantic task, he suggested, were t(
 be expected. F7.
 I To Elaborate on Delays.
 To meet the arguments of the ad
 ministration spo kesman, Senate n tGhanbeFlain and s S supporters afi
 preparing to elaborate on the deficien cies and delays in providing army sup plies and equipment disclosed in tn,
 
 committee decided to resume the jr
 vestigation next Saturday, callini { Surgeon General Gorgas to testify re
 garding cantonmant sanitary cor(ii ! tions.
 The record of the investigation t
 date was hastily completed today to b , furnished to senators in readiness fo
 Thursdays deoa.e. Late in the da, Senator Chamberlain included in tn
 record a statement furnished by tn t war department showing shortage Q
 equipment Of national guard and na tional army cantopnents on Jan. 1. c, that date the oyercoat shortage wa
 over in all camps and the principa
 deficiencies in most of the camps wer
 of minor clatting items, but Cam \ Lee, Virgln!a, slowed large shortag of woo!en ,,lats, Camp Funston, Kan
 sas, % per cant. in blankets. m Camp Sevia:;. SSoath Carolina, fapart
 ed shortages of S5 er.l SC per cent. re
 spectively, in g;coien h-aeches an
 coats r :, Secretary Baker submitted with Iii report letters rst.T ciils certain state nlents naae to tbe ct.Iamittee som :, time ago regarding aa,fFiciepcy Of cloth Il ing at Camp Sherman, Ohio
 2 New Publicity so.scY. : Prompted. by i'ressdan. Wilson }, statement last aiglis, the ordnance bti - reau of the war department has em n parked upon new I,ublGi.y polio.
 While no official statement was avai, = able, it was indicated that whereve s military necessity does not slaman . suppression of facts and figures fl u information as to what the bureau = doing or has done will be given &o tf # press.
 l. In connection with the now polio
 1t was disclosed that reorganiza:io e of the ordnance bureau began early If May. 1917, less than month after Il d declaration of state of war A roue r. draft of the ganizations refsrre = to by President Wilson in his stat, l. ment, so far as that bureau is co1 " cerned at least, was drawn up durir IS May and had the approval of the pres al dent himself before it was undertake