Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-23
Senate Military Committee Is
Preparing Data to Show
How Baker Has Failed to
Make Good in Cabinet.
HOUSE LIKELY TO BE
WITH PRESIDENT
Ordnance Bureau Decides to
Take on Publicity Agent in
Order to Show Public What
Is Being Done.

tBN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WlREl
Washington, Jan. 22.-Neither the
aggressive opposition of President
Wilson nor the apparent certainty
that their measures would have no
chance in the house, even if passed
the senate, is haling the campaign of
advocates in congress of bills to estab-
lish a war cabinet and a director of
munitions.
When the senate reconvenes Thurs
day, according to plans made today by
Chairman Chamberlain and his asso-
ciates on the military committee, be-
hind the legislation, the contest will
be opened. They propose, with mo-
ton to refer the war cabinet bill to
the military committee as the vehi-
Gle of debate, to open discussion of
the merits of their war machinery
reorganization program, and Senator
Chamberlain expects to reply to the
statement issued by President Wilson
last night criticising him for his New
York speech, in which the Oregon
senator said the military establish
nlent had broken down.
VIII Fight Measure.
Administration war leaders also
We're in conference and planned to
fight the Chamberlain bills and an
swer attacks upon the government S
conduct of the war. In preparation, a
number of democratic senators saw
the president last night. 1t is under
stood the president told them he be-
lieved the country would support him
IL his opposition to legislation which
would abandon a machine carefully
developed since the war began in fa-
Vor of new and untried organization
taking over many of his own consti-
tutional powers under the proposed
war cabinet bill.
The president advised his visitors
that under the present organization
the war record of the government has
been one of the great accomplish
ments and would result in placing
abroad by next June twice the num-
her of Americans originally planned.
Mistakes in such gigantic task, he
suggested, We're to be expected.
viii Call Gorgas.
To meet the arguments of the ad-
ministration spokesman Senator
Chamberlain and his supporters are
preparing to elaborate on the defi-
ciencies and delays in providing army
supplies and equipment disclosed in
the committees war inquiry Today
the committee decided to resume the
investigation next Saturday, calling
Surgeon General Gorgas to testify
regarding cantonment sanitary condi-
tions
The record of the investigation to
date was hastily completed today to
be furnished to senators in readiness
Tor thursdays debate. Late in the
DAY Senator Chamberlain included in
the record a statement furnished by
the war department showing short
ages OF equiment of national guard
ana national army cantonments on
January /.
New Publicity Campaign.
prompted by President Wilson's
statement last night, the ordnance
bureau OF the war department has
embarked on a new publicity policy.
Whiie no official statement was
aVaiiapie, 1t was indicated that
Wherever military necessity does not
uemand suppression of facts and fig
ures' full information as to what the
bureau IS doing or has done will be
given to the press.
In connection with the new policy
i was disclosed that reorganization Of
the ordnance bureau began early in
May. 1917, less than a month after
the declaration of a state ~ u,a