Selective Service Act of 1948
Subtitle: conference report (to accompany S. 2655)
Contributors: Andrews, Walter Gresham, 1889-1949; Gurney, Chan, 1896-1985
Series: Report / House of Representatives, 80th Congress, 2d session -- no. 2438; Military legal resources
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Draft
Description: On June 19, 1948, the committee of conference chaired by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Walter Andrews issued this conference report, H. Rep. No. 80-2438. The Elston bill (H.R. 2575), which was to revise the provisions dealing with courts-martial in the Articles of War and which had been delayed in the Senate from January to June 1948, was incorporated as Title II of the Selective Service Act, the measure that established the first postwar draft in American history. When President Harry Truman signed the Selective Service Act of 1948 on June 24, the amendments to the Articles of War became law (the Elston Act, Pub. L. No. 80-759, 62 Stat. 604, 627-44 (1948)). W.G. Andrews, W. Sterling Cole, George J. Bates, Carl Vinson, Paul J. Kilday and Carl T. Durham signed on the part of the House. Chan Gurney, Leverett Saltonstall, Wayne Morse, Millard E. Tydings, and Harry F. Byrd signed on the part of the Senate.
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Electronic reproduction. [Washington, D.C. : Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 2005] (Military legal resources). Digitized image of the original.