Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-25
MAN-POWER BILL
PASSED. BY LARGE
VOTE.|N HOUSE
Effort to Place 18-Year-Old
Youths in Deferred
Class Defeated.
WORK OR FIGHT AMENDMENT
FAILS TO SECURE SUPPORT
Provision Objectionable to Labor
Loses by Large Ad-
verse Poll.
SENATE MAY ACT MONDAY
Prohibition Leaders Waive Agree
nient Making Temperance Icgis-
4ation Order of the Day.
SENATE MAY ACT MONDAY

tBy Associated Prcss.l
WASHlNGTON. August 24.-The new
man-power bill. extending the seIec-
tive draft to all men between the ages
OF eighteen and forty-1ve years was
passed by the House tonight with only
minor changes In the original draft
OF the War Department.
On the first roll call only two negative
! votes were .cast--Rcprescntative Lon
don, OF New York, the Socialist. and
Representative Gordon. OF Ohio. Tho
nnal vote WAS announced as 1886 to
The nnal vote was preceded by three
days debate. during which the chief
contention was amendment to defer
the calling of youths from eighteen to
twenty years until older men had been
summoned. a hnal effort was made
by Chairman Dent to-day to place
eighteen -year-old boys in deferred
CLASS. but "A motion To recommit the
bill to the Military Affairs Committee
with instructions TO Incorporate that
amendment, was lost. l9i to 10.
inc bill now goes to the Senate,
where leaders tonight predicted its
russase early next week. The senate
plans to substitute tho House bill for
the measure favorably reported by the
thur farcaitc It's hnal enactment Con-
gresBional leaders hope TO send the
measure to the President by the latter
part OF next week
An attempt in the House to insert a
work-or-fght amendment. by which
those exempted from military service
on occupauonal grounds would he re-
guired TO remain at their civil tasks,
failed. Sc 10 al. The amendment was
directed agains. strikes and was char
acterizcd By officials of the American
Federation OF Labor as Il CONSUMPTION
OF labor.
REvERsEs ACTION MAKING
CONGItEsSSIEN LIABLE
The House to-day reversed it's action
cf-resterday In voting to include mem
Z bets Of Congress in the draft. BY a ris-
Ing vote s. to l43. II defeated an
amendment by Representative Gregg. of
Texas, which would make members OF
Congress, state Legislatures and Fed
etal and State executive officials liable
{ to draft
An amendment by Representative
Smith OF New York TO exempt police Of
hcers In cities OF more than 500 900
population, and designed to relieve the
situation In New York. where "A short
age Of police officers is said to he
threatened. was defeated.
4 An amendment by Representative
Treadway, OF Massa chusetts which was
adopted, provides for the appointment
OF special examiners in local conscrtp
tion districts Tor the REORGANIZATION of
men placed in deferred classification as
means of further combng the deferred
Glasses foi additional men for active
service. Chairman Dent, of the House
Military Committee. read a lettcr to-
day from Secretary Baker in which the
latter SGT forth his objections TO the
Mckenzie amendment, which was de-
feated yesterday and which provided
for deferrirl the call of youths from
eighteen tC twenty years. MIR. Baker
said he believed the amendment would
seriously impair the ability OF the War
Department to get the men in accord
ance with the military program.
PROHIBITION LEADERS
NAME WAY FOR BILL
Hopes for u final vote in the Senat.
ON the administration power bill
before adjournment tonight we're late
to-day. abandoned by Chairman Cham
sgnounced that 1t would go over until
Monday. Prohibition leaders. he said
have agreed to lay aside temporarily
the nation-wide prohibition measure
which was to have come up auiomati-
cally at that time. until the man-power
bill can he disposed Of
Resumption OF debate on the man.
power bill in the Senate to-day was
marked by an attack ex-senator PEN
Baker and the War Department for
delay. In recommending extension of
msn 1ns had shanssa ns roh
since holding up consideration of the
question last June.
Chairman Chambcrlain of the Mill
had explained that time was needed
to frame the new mil itary program.
and when the Pennsylvania Senator
ator Hitchcock. Of Nebraska. replied
that Secretary Baker and General
March simply objected to the addition
of ill-considered Legislation TO AN APP
proprlation bill, and asked for time
to submit a program approved by the
. Opposition to drafting boys under
twenty-one years OF age was voiced by
Senator Vardaman. of Mississippi, who
said IL boys are to be called. he favored
extending the maximum draft age to
include men of sixty years.
YOUTHFUL SOLDIERS IN
WAR BErWEEN STATES
Answering arguments of opponents
ofpthe plan to lower draft ages to
eighteen, Senator Chamberlain called
the Senate's attention to the fact that
Senators Martin. of Virginia, and Bank
crate Army, and Senator Nelson, of
Minnesota. and Senator Gof. of West
Virginia. entered The Union army at
eighteen years of age or younger. SEN
ator Warren. of Wyoming enlisted
when seventeen years of age, he add
ed. Former Senator Daniel. of Vir-
ginia, enlisted at eighteen, and was an
officer at nineteen years of age; former
Senator McKenna entered the army at
sixteen years of age; Alexander Hamil-
ton was In the Continental army at
nineteen.
1.-THE young men are the ones to fight
this war 1T is to be fought to q. sue
cessful finish" the oregon Senator de-
clRred, and America intends to fight 1t
to successful finish" .
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