The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-05
Mississippian Dares Hitchcock
to Tell Whom He Would
Propose for New Offices
NEBRASKAN DECLINES
TO MENTION NAMES OF
MEN HE WOULD PREFER
Aid and Comfort Given to
Enemy, Williams Declares.
by Character of Opposit
to Present Administration

Washington. Feb. A.---Renewed ora
torical outbursts by tina advocates in
the senate of the bill TO establish q
war cabinet caused bareback that
routed them for the time being.
Senator Hitchcock. OF Nebraska
violently assaulted Secretary of War
Baker. asserting that he has engaged
in "exsggeration of the widest sort
when he testified that America would
have half "A million men in Frano&
early this year and a million and 3
half ready to go. The hebrsskan
liked the sound of his own voice so
well that he challenged practically
every statement made by the secretary
of war before the military affairs com
mittee.
Though the friends of the war caba-
net idea are now convinced that theiy
proposal will never pass, they have
made known their intention to talk
about it at every opportunity and con-
tinue their criticisms of the war d@~
partment They were not happy to-
night however. over the result of to-
days speechmaking. And, to all APP
pearanCes. the era of so-Called tnvs@-
legations is about at an end.
Senator John Sharp Williams. of
Mississippi. replied to Senator Hitch
cocks TRADE with a diractnesS that
evoked a feeble protest from Senator
Reed. OF Missouri. who has not nsisaed
chance to sIur the administered
But Senator Williams was not stopped.
''The presiden cannot know what is
going on" had said Hitchcock. 'NHe
is surrounded ike a king by his court
and he hears practically only ons
side"
tFHow Can You Knows
You say the president and the sec~
retsry OF war do net know" said Will
iEams this afternoon. How can you
know better than they dor In Gods
name. / ask you. You're not their
superior in brains or intellect"
| The Mississ ppiAn charged the spon-
sors OF the bill with pro- German tsn+
denotes Once he advised, II they
wished TO show where they stood, to
telegraph the kaiser" And he flung
direct challenge when he said:
! IF ! were president, ard you pass
/ ed this bill, ! would veto IL And II
t you passed II again by two-thirds
! ajorlty, I would refuse to obey II
on the grounds OF unconstitutional'ty."
! Jeremiah and his lamentations sra
/ NOT in It with tho senator from Me-
4 braska." he said. sarcasticaily- "He
tells US we have no shirs, nor THE
nor that. nor the other thing that ws
&
! we need. Tie said that he might be
accused Of giving information useful
to the enemy If he disclosed all that
/ ne knew He has dieclcssd about all
/ he knew, ana he has given Informal
/ ton useful 70 the enemy.
MY memory goes back 20 tire dav
when men stood here wanting TO seCr
shipment of focI and munitions 20
Great Notwithstanding almost a.
LII .y.-4
toe proposed. My memory goes back
to that day.
Gerrnany's Came.
That WAC the German game then.
But the German game now, is muck
rakIng the administration.
II ths senator from Nebraska In
right in what he has said. we are
whipped already, we are out Of this
war game right now Because he has
drawn and attempted 10 prove an In
lictmant against the executive author
ity or the United States government
that shows not only inetdc:ercy burt
proves stupidity, he comes here with
q measure to invest the president with
more power in order TO rrove that
the presfdert can become efficient
WITH more power. when he has been
inefficient. in tho senator's OPINION.
with less power"
History was cited by the Southern
senator.
carthage" said he ZANE rsar
running Hannibal. and II finally aid
ruin him with a Carthag gilman senate
The continental congress came near
running George Washington nth
committee on the conduct of the war,
And the senator can md that Of
all the asses that ever existed was
the typical council Of asses that came
very near running Lincoln and Grant
In the Civil war.
"He can find. too, that the Confeds-
rate congress came very near running
Robert r. Lee and Jefferson Davis
while they were carrying on war
IF there is anything any man
should know who has any sense al
all. it is that congress. or COMMITTEES
cennot carry on war AMI cannot
furnish the brains to anybody else 70
carry 1t on
\ The stupid bin, az Senator Will
liams called it, demanded that the
three distinguished men Of demons
strated ability In the war cabinet. b
appointed by the president.
$50 as the senator from NebraskA
confessed" continued Senator Will
iia ms, the whole thing goes back to
1.-The president. He must 'distinguish'
them and theis ability He Is charges
With the responsibility.
IF the president is a fool. how are
you going TO give him brains By an
, act OF congress- II he IL not fool.
what liz the need OF your legislation
;, Senator Hitchcock had read from
a currant publication a Biblical ALA
sicn, insinuating that the president
needed somebody TO hold MP his
4EANksS.