Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-16
SEND ENOUGH MEN
TO FRANCE TO WIN
QUICKLY IS PLAN
Army of 100000 on West
Front June 80, 1919,
Program.
STRIKE HAMMER.LIKE BLOWS
TO FORCE EARLY VICTORY
Lack of Senate Quorum Blocks
Immediate Action on Man
Power Bill.
ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY
oehhtor Chamberlain Hopes to Have
Measure Enacted by Saturday
OF Next Week.
STRIKE HAMMER-LIKE BLOWS
TO FORCE EARLY VICTORY
ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY
rBy Associated Pres,.l


ior beginning consideration in the Sen.
a'e next Monday OF the new man-powe,
o"'' extending the draft ages. were
osoeked to-day by failure OF 1uoru.,
10 appear when Chairman Chamber
iain' OF the Military Committee. sub
mitted the measure with favorable
report.
The plan now Is TO begin considcra-
non OF the bill mex, Thursday. II
possible.
Senate leaders had telcgraphed mem
oers to return from vacations SO that
the agreement for thrcc-day recesses
until August ls might be set aside.
ana thus clear parliamentary obstacles
10 taking up the bill Immediately upon
converting Monday.
Only forty-three Senator's answered
to their names when the roll was call
cd. six less than a quorum. There
were twenty-five Republicans and
,wenty-one Democrats.
The Senate adjourned until Monday
CHAMBERLAIN HOPES TO
GIFT ACTION IN WEEK
Senator Chamberlain still hopes TO
pass the measure by Saturday OF next
week He said a Quorum seemed as
sured for Monday. and he then Will
renew his request To set aside the va
cation program and proceed Thursday
with the bill. He expressed confidence
of It's passage within three days be-
fore the national wartime prohibition
proposal comes before the Senate as
privileged husinezs. There vas some
discussion Of seeking to have the pro-
hibition measure set aside II the draft
bill should not be finished by Saturday,
but the general opinion was that the
prohibition advocates would not con
sent to sidetracking OF their measure.
Thirty-one American divisions. or
approximately 100000 men, now are
in France with Is many more in camps
in this country as reservoir. Secre
tary Baker said to-day that the accele
rated program OF troop movements
overseas which had enabled General
Pershing to organize his first field army
Of some l.25o.ooo men will be continued
because OF the generous action OF the
British government in supplying ship
ping.
To carry out the present program Of
eighty divisions overseas by June 80.
nearly 100000 men must he sent 10
France in the next eleven months. MIR.
Baker would not be drawn into any
discussion Of the country's ability TO
transport men. but 1t is known that
many more than that number could bc
landed in the war zone a the present
rate Of shipments.
General March told the committee.
according TO the report to the Senate.
that he was in favor of young men for
the army. and that the youths OF eigh-
teen registered under the new draft
Law would be in France by June so.
He estimated that some 100000 men
qualified for fun military service would
be secured from tho new registrants.
and he outlined the calls for the next
year or more as follows:
August. 100000; September, 200, 600:
October. $4,000: November. 100000:
December. 100000; January. 100, 900;
February. 100000. and 100000 monthly
thereafter until the end OF next year.
These calls would aggregate 1905. 900.
against the estimate OF 100000 TO be
had from the new registration. but no
explanation was made of this and other
discro pancies in the draft figures.
General Crowder has said that the
present reservoir in class l will be
exhausted by next October |. but Sec
re,ary Baker made il plain to-day that
this country is sufficient to keep up
the present troop movement overseas.
AMERICA WILL PUT
4,O0O.0oO on WEST FRONT
In reporting the administration man
power bill extending draft ages to-
day. Chairman Chamberlain disclosed
70 the Senate that General March told
the Military Committee IT was up 10
the United States to put enough men
in France to win the war or the west
front. and he expressed the belief that
100000 Americans under one com
mander could go through the German
lines whenever they pleased.
Immediate extension of the draft
ages was declared by the army rep
resentativcs TO be imperative in order
that the United States may throw it's
FUN strength In the struggle and win.
The report also revealed that the
new American war program calls for
eighty divisions. or something over
2 o00. 600 men, in France by June 30
next year, with eighteen more divi-
sions in training at home then.
WILL CONCENTRATE TO
WIN ON WEST FRONT
secretary Baker informed the COM
mittee, the report said, that the Pres
dents policy called for concentration
or American forces on the western
front, including Italy, and that the
theory OF the fighting In the future Is
that we must force the issue and win
ON the western front"
In his report Chairman Chamberlain
CONTINUED on Second 9age)