East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-04

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-ScnatOr
Williams of Mississippi attacked
lIItc-hcock's spciseh, charging lac re-
Vcaled Information useful to tho en-
cmy and ne said IL all IS true eve are
whipped already" lie held II war
cabinet Is unnecessary.
'.IH President Wilson hasn't brains
eiIOugh 20 run tbs war, we Can't give
Inn brains by AN act Of congress-"
lie charged that "muclkraking the
administration Is part of the Ger
man game
WASHLSGTON, Feb. I.-Declar-
ing thei war department IS "better
edEhped with brakes than motive
COVER Senator Hitchcock resumed
his demands In the senate for fur
tber coordination of the nations war
efforts, IN the face of President Will
sons urgent demand for less discus
sion In the war cabinet and more uc-
tion on vital legislation. lie charged
specifically: The war department.
lGs failed on important functions;
Secretary Bakers efforts TO correct
the departmental defects have been
futile; tho transportation system is
g'"gigantlo wreck" there is no pow
er TO coordinate transatlantic trans
ltortation and production here; the
fuel situation Is due to lack of prop
er directing authority: the present
condition IN shipbuildltG is 'shock-
ing:" efforts to move food for the
allies and ourselves have mlscarricd,
the situation is due TO failure to make
the various departments cooperate
and cooE0inate. their efforts.
admits Credltable Work.
y The President Is quoted as OBJ
jecting to any change In the law on
tho ground he is responsible for the
conduct of the var. 1t would be
u2OustrOus wrong TO hold him rcspon-
sfble for the many shortcomings be-
cause none but the genius of perfec.
tioh or the power OF omniscencc
could enable one man to look after
these interests" he said. Citing alleg-
oil blundcrs in training and equip
ping. etc. he said he did not deny
uluch creditRble work was done by
tho war department. but he held
high class man as director OF muni-
lions could bring order out OF chaos,
and stop duplicate orderings etc. He
declared Bakers prediction regard
ing troop shipments to Europe was
an exasgcratjon Of the wildes:
sort!'
Great Shortages Cited.
Nine months utter we entered the
war and three months after the men
Ia,
thousands Of men ovcrcoatiess in the
dead OF winter and other serious
clothing shortages We found "A ma
iorlty Of the machine gun companies
were unable to drlll two months aft
or formation because there were no
machine guns. Even last month Wo
find twelve hundred machine guns
still in storage for some foolish rea-
son While each camp Is given only
eighty guns. We found thousands OF
incn drilling with wooden sticks for
weeks nnd months owing to delays
in ordering rifles last spring. we
found mon sent to France without
rifle or machine gun practice. We
found that only now. after being In
the war nine months, we are only be
ginning to work on two great powder
wcre necessary If We were TO supply
D million pounds moro powder daily
than tho present factories can make"
Would Coordinate Bureaus.
lie sought the creation of some au'
thOrlty to harmonize and coordinate
The great war bureaus such as
priority freight shipment board. n raw
materials board. n war industries. "A
shipping. aircraft production, allied
purchasing. war trade boards, fuel
administration, food administration
ahd director general Of railroads. He
held failure to coordinate shipping
With tho other branches had caused
two million tons of freight to pile mp
awaiting ships in New orleans. Last
Week lie said there were three ard
. iialf miillon. tons of shipping avail
abic with only eishtyfive thousand
tons Of fuel and fuel to load thcm