The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-08-29
Man-Power Bill Passed by Senate


Washington, Aug. 28-The man
power bill, extending the draft age II
to IS, both inclusive, passed the sen
ate Tuesday without dissenting vote
Senate amendment to the bill wer'
rejected formally by the house Wed
nesday and the measure sent to con
ference. Arrangements were mad
for the conferees to meet immediatel!
with the hope Of smoothing out diff
fcrences after few hours of discus
sion.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma votet
against the bill on its final passage
because he was opposed to calling hoy'
If 1S to fight overseas.
When at the finish of the roll cal
his vote was the only one in negative
he said he did not want his vote tt
stand in the way Of unanimous actor
by the senate. He said he could not
conscientiously vote for the measure
and asked the senate to excuse him
from voting He was excused by
formal motion and vote.
The bill, as it passed the senate, con
tains the anti-strike or work or fight
provision. but with some Of its teeth
drawn.
Senate Adopts Strike Amendment
Senator Cummins Of Iowa proposed
and the senate adopted a modifying
amendment which will protect strikers
in their deferred classification if they
will submit their grievances to the ma
tional war labor board aud agree to
abide by its decision.
Amendment after amendment in
tended to free boys under u from the
call Of the new draft or to keep them
in reserve in this country and not send
them to the battlefront until they
have attained majority was proposed,
only to be voted down as fast as pro
posed
The bill passed as drawn with re
rard to the call of the Is, 10 and 20
year-oln boys, giving them no prefer
ence by law and altho the war depart
r,ent insists that the lS-yearold boys
will not be in the first groups as ar
ranged by the war department.
Secretary Baker does not say they
will not be called within a few months.
Neither that they will not be on the
battlefront in France by July 1919.
when the United States expects to
have her maximum army in France.
An amendment proposed by Senator
Penrose of Pennsylvania and at once
adopted by the senate. together witt
an amendment of Senator France of
Maryland, adopted earlier in the day.
is expecting to have the effect OF up
holding the spirit Of the law. The
Pcnrose amendment relieves the regis
trant from making a claim for ex-
emption in his unestionaire and gives
the local board power to pass upon the
question of deferred classification on
he facts as they find them in the ques
tionaire.
The France amendment provides
that men honorably exempted from the
draft be furnished suitable badges to
show theil status and relieve Item of
embarrassment that might conc from
not joining The co'ors.
PARIS. Aug. 2S-The German re
treat on the Somme battlefield has be
come precipitate. The French First
and Third armies are at no point los
ing contact with the enemy and are
inflicting heavy losses on the retreat
ing Germans.
German forces i'll southern f'cardE
are retratng over wide front.
Allure the capture Of Roye by the
French yesterday the German front
crumbled. The lines which have held
back the French and British for tn"
last two weeks are giving way, and to-
days official reports show the French
on line less than three miles west
of the Somme river and canal.
Thirty villages have been capture!
by the French in the advance which
was started early Tuesday Chaulnes
has been captured and many other Wit
al points have been taken from the re-
firing enemy.
British Swing Forward Fast At Arras
While the French have been smash
ing the cnemy's front along the Chaul~
mes s-Roye lime, the British have swung
forward in the sector east of Arras.
North OF the Arras- Cambria road they
have reached the outskirts of the vii
lascs OF Haucourt, Remy and Boiry
Notre Dame, about mile east of the
positions where they were known to