Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-27
House Group
Accepts 100000
Limit on Draft
Johnson Sturts Long
Attack on Measure
Delaying Senate Vote
(Senate Roll Call on Page Az
BY J. A. OLEARY.

BY j. A. OLEARY.
AS the Senate approached pas
sage of the compulsory military
training bill today. the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee accepted
the 100000 limit in the Senate
measure on the number of draftees
who could be under training at any
one period in peacetime.
While Senator Johnson, Demo-
crat, of Colorado was making what
may be one of the last long attacks
on the bill, the House committee
made plans to report out a some
what different version late this aft
ernoon.
Another Senate provision ap-
proved by the House group this
morning safeguards the right of
men in training to vote by mail. in
States that permit absentee ballot
ing.
Chairman May also announced
that the committee adopted a sec
ton similar to the procedure laid
down in the National Guard bill to
aid drafted men in being reinstated
to heir jobs when their year of
training ends.
Provides Court Procedure.
1t provides. in substance. that II a
man is not re-employed he may take
his case to District Court and di-
reefs the United States district at
torney to plead his cause.
Other amendments placed in the
House bill are: An authorization
for necessary appropriations for the
induction of men into the service,
up to the 100000 limit at one time.
This limit is in addition to the
Regular Army and National Guard.
Counting those forces there could
be approximately 100000 men un.
der arms at any given time.
An exemption from compulsory
training of men who have been &C
cepted for admission to the United
States Military Academy.
The House Committee expected
to complete work when it recon-
vened at 2 o'clock. The essential
difference between the two houses
now is in the age limits. The House
bill requires registration of all men
between l8 and So. inclusive. and
makes all between 81 and As, in
elusive, available for training. The
Senate bill would register and train
only those between 81 and 81 years.
AS the Senate debate was resumed
today Senator Smathers, Democrat.
of New Jersey delivered one of the
shortest speeches in recent years, in
favor of the bill.
1t was less than $50 words long,
and ended with this appeal:
Let's stop serving the country
with talk-speeches. The people of
the Nation in this hour of world
crisis are demanding of the Senate
action. Let's vote!"
In his address, Senator johnson
charged that former Secretary of
War Woodring was replaced because
he opposed "peacetime conscrip-
ton"
The Senator said Mr. Woodrings
successor, Henry L. Stimson, has
favored compulsory training for %
years.
Later in the day, Majority Leader
Barley is expected to make a new
effort to limit debate If he succeeds,
the bill probably will pass tonight.
Even without a limitation, a final
vote is looked for by tomorrow.
Burke Is Confident.
Senator Burke. Democrat. of Me-
braska, co-author of the selective
training bill, told reporters, we'll
pass this before we quit tonight"
and Chairman Sheppard of the Sem
ate Military Affairs Committee sup
ported the forecast.
Senator Johnson, one of the few
members of the Military Committee
opposed to the Burke Wadsworth
bill. told the Senate:
I'VE hate Mr.. Hitler, but we are
about to strike our precious liberty
a death blow by adopting his Prus-
sian theology of CONSUMPTION. I can
see the Smirk on his cold express
Sionless face as the United States
Stabs democracy in the back because
of him"
Last nights session of the Senate
brought the following major results:
Adoption of the Lodge amend
ment to prevent drafted men from
being sent beyond the Western
Hemisphere, except to Territories
and possessions of the United States,
including the Philippine Islands. 1t
carried, 81 to4.
Defeat of the move by Senator
Clark. Democrat. of Missouri to con-
fine their service to the Continental
United States, on which the vote
was 80 to 49,
Approval of another Clark amend
ment to preserve the right of men
called to camp to vote by mail in
States that permit absentee voting.
When the Senate quit at 10 o'clock
last night after IL continuous hours
it had made more Roadway on the
bill than in two previous weeks Of
general debate.
Exemption Question Up.
When it reconvened at IL o'clock
this morning the pending question
was motion by Senator Connally,
Democrat. of Texas to clarity the
definition of Federal officials who
would be exempt from military
service.
AS it stands the bill would ex-
(see CoNsCRIPTIoN, Page A-2.)