The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-24
18 To 45 DRAFT
To Be ADOPTED
BY HOUSE TODAY
Plan TO Call Is to l9 Boys Last
Was Lost.
PAGES FAIL AS EXHIBIT
Showing of Four Little Fellows Fully
Equipped Was Offset by -Four
Strapping Marines.

NdSnlnStOn, Au5. Zo.-hOln houses
Of Congress continued debate today
on the Man Power bill. Little prog
ress was made in the Senate, where
the feature was the notable speech by
Senator Lodge.
In the House, where general debate
was ended and the bill went into its
final stages, some OF the amendments,
such as the Mckenzie proposal to call
youths of IS and 10 years after the
force Of men between 20 and 45 years
had been exhausted, were defeated.
The bill, slightly amended, will be
passed by the House tomorrow
Before adiourninll the House, in
committee Of the wnoe, rejected
amendments seeking to change the
ages and likewise declined to give
election qualifications to soldiers be
low the ages OF 2l.
Representative S Hubert Dent,
Chairman of the Military Affairs Com.
mittee, in charge of the bill, had in
tended to procure passage OF the bill
before adjournment Towards Z
O'Clock. after the House had passed a
nu of minor amendments, Chair
ms - Mt forced an adjournment to
block me adoption OF an amendment
offered by Representative Madden Of
MT Inn
those engaged in Government work
solely by reason of such employment.
Sentiment in the House apparently
is strong in favor of forcing into
military service the 10000 or more
men OF military age who are working
in civil life for the Government in exc
cltiye departments and commission
in Washington and elsewhere. Mr..
Madden, the author of a resolution
which exposed this condition pressed
for the adoption of an amendment
which would take these men out of
Government department unless they
come under the terms of deferred
classifcations as laid down by the
Provost Marshal General
Although Representatives Dent,
Fields, Cannon, and others vigorously
opposed the suggestion, 1t was appar-
ent that the House was most willing
to support Mr.. Madden. To prevent
such action and block other proposed
attacks Mr.. Dent forced an adjourn
ment
Adjournment was not taken, how
ever until it had been shown by a de
cisiye vote that the age limits would
not be changed and that the War
Department would not be compelled
10 exhaust those between the ages OF
20 and 50 before calling into military
service those from is to 20. The de
feat OF the Mckenzie amendment
which was opposed by the Secretary
Of War. indicates that the House will
give the military authorities full and
unhampered power to raise an army
of ninety-eight divisions and transport
eighty of these divisions overseas by
June 80 next
The House began voting on amend
mcnts at o'clock, after day of per
functory debate and dramatic Incl
dents. Representative Albert John
son OF Washington. staged one OF
these incidents. and Representative
Tilson of Connecticut managed th'
other. Mr.. Johnson exhibited two
page boys, Is years old, loaded dowr
/ with full equipment Both boys
( we're rather small. and selected
TO carry out his argument that youths
of that age were undeyeloped ant
unable to even carry their full mill
tary equipment The pages wer,
| Charles Mainhall of the District o
Columbia and Joe Doyle of Missouri
The former weighs l02 pounds and il
five feet six inches tall, while Doyl,
stands four feet and two inches
Before NJ Johnson could emphasiz,
his point in his speech Representativ,
Tilson interrupted to say that thes
pages were undeyeloped boys, neithe
Of them in good health and, as such
would not be called into service.
But there are boys of that ar
who are strong and powerful so
diers' exclaimed Mr. Tilson. VIII
called upon four strapping marine
in tho Speakers gallery to stant
They did SO, amid great applaus,
and informed Mr. Tilson that none {
them was over Is years old