The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-01
MINORITY RAPS
NEW ARMY BILL
Report Filed by Nickel
lar and Sheppard in
the Senate.
COSTS ARE TOO HEAVY
Estimates OF Majority Are
Disputed; Nation Over
hurdcned With Debt.

NASuiNGTON. Jan. 2i--The
army reorganization bill. with IT,
compulsory military training provi-
siou reported by tho senate military
committee. not only Will cost me
tRSpaycrs more than ll.000.0OO.0 900
annually but Will result In mill
tarisun run mad" Rnid a minority re-
port filod IN the senate today by son
tiOr hckcllnr democrat, TunncRHee
Tho report. which was concurrcI
IN by Senator Sheppard. democrat,
TcNar, said the measure would Der.
pctuhtc tho prculdcutA war powcrH
ana make him virtually "A dictator In
peace times
The minority OF the committee
submit" sUid the report. that tho
passage Of this bin carrying gpprn-
priations. which must come, Will be
to institute In this country "A military
system OF the first order. Indeed IL
Will bo militnrism run mad, a mill.
tarism OF the ultra-Gcrman typo. u
militarism never dreamed OF by our
forcfathcrr a militdriSm that ia
wholly unnecessary, a mllltArHm
that may be suhscrHiyc OF any demo-
crntlc Institutions. a miiiturism that
cannot bo defended. milltprism
hat is wholly unjusufiLblo when W.
look at our history aud at our fu-
turc."
Estimates made hy Chairman
Wadsrworth shat tho bill with tho
compulsory military training plan
would not cost moro than approx
mately 1900, 600. 900 annually were
incorrect. Senators Mckellar and
Sheppard said. declaring tho military
osta Attachments would moro ncnrly
cost ti13tli3,000 annually
10 impose n financial burden of
this kind upon the American people,
already weighed down Ivy war debt
OF something like $50, 900. viii bc
absolutely indefcnsible at this time,
sabd tho report.
THE enormous war powers grant
ed In uhis bill to tho president, nom
lnally, bur TO the chief OF staff, Hctu.
blly," aaid the Mckellar report, "nre
such powers that no good prcsiu cnt
and no good chief Of staff ought tt
want. and that no bad president and
no had chief OF starr ought to have
They are such powers as are en-
trusted only TO a dictator In times o.
great national emergency"
The report also objected to th'
compulsory military training provl
sion, declaring that II would involv'
enormous expense 10 the taxpayer
\ OF tho Unitod States when we have "A
J least 100000 young men In tn
country already well trained an
ready for many emergency for man
years to come"
"Whatever the merits OF compul
sorry military traNuinE." tho repoi
continues. there IL no nocnsssity 10
putting II in force now when IN
nation ~ laboring under such loh
OF debt and when we have an unpl
number OF well trained soldiers I'M
medintely available. Even the RdNo
Gates ot tho system ought not To IN
snst upon IL now. They ought TO n
willing TO postpone 1t Tor ie'
years"
Tho report also declared u'o
under the bills provisions Tor IN
organization of tho army supply a
vision the measure would 'turnH
another raid on the treasury an
bring about the snmc riot OF lncIi
cheney that existed before tho supp
service OF the army was consolidate
some years ago =,
Tho report also charged that III
blu provided FOR the virtual aboi
lion Of the national guard
The minority believe, s1ll u
rcport. that tho national guards
the yarioua states should be tost'r'
and buElt up They furnished one
our main rcliauces In the last war