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? / / ? ' WILLIAMS ANSWERS - ON HOW r ? (New York Times.) Washington, Feb. 4.?Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, opened the fight for the passage of the Chamberlain War Cabinet bill with a three-hour speech in the Sen-j ate today in which he attacked thej Administration as having failed to co-ordinate the war activities of the: nation. He maintained that Presi-! V ' dent Wilson "does not know the| real situation," which Senator j Hitchcock characterized as "worse i than alarming." Senator Hitchcock spoke of the; President as belonging to a "school | ? t ?1 _ .11 j. _ _ j IB oi pnnosopners wno aunei e iu me I belief that all important legislation | \. ought to emanate with the Execu-j 9 tive." While expressing loyalty to I the Executive, the Senator assertI ed the right to bring to light defects I in the war administration which, he I said, menaced the ultimate aim of! I , victory over the enemy. I I Challenging the statement of SecI retary Baker that the War Depart[ ment had achieved a triumph in the; I work done in the last nine mo-nths, Senator Hitchcock asserted that the ! yt\ : . . , ; Secretary was "out of touch" with details of department activities. , I Mr. Hitchcock declared "exaggerl ations of the wildest sort," the "sanguine predictions of Mr. Baker, J as to our ability to ship men to Eu-1 rope and to supply them when [ there." In reality, Senator Hitchcock contended, the problem of getting men * . ' a Pvnnno nroe nvfromoll7 (TfflVP. HTlH (I iiv x* xajiiv^ nuo vawa r v c. " ; , . [ he expressed doubt whether the Secretary realized the difficulties ahead. k He calculated that 5,000,000 tons of f shipping would be needed to supply 1,000,000 men in France, if the men could be got there, and he said that nowhere near that tonnage would be available. "I cannot believe," said the Senator of the Sec , retary's prophecy, "that he intended it as a gigantic bluff to Germany or to deceive us, but he was out of touch with conditions'.' I' Williams makes Repiy. 3 Senator Hitchcock's attack on the I Adminsitratioh brought a rebuke! | 1 from Senator John Sharp Williams | I ' of Mississippi, who criticised the . War Cabinet bill and the bill to; I create a directorship of munitions" of munitions as "stupid." He char-l ~ . acterized advocacy of the measures I v as an effort to "put the President in a hole." ? Senator Williams referred to the ? attitude of Senators, among whom was Senator Hitchcock, in the early \ * ' , days of the war, in favor of a measure to declare an embargo against shipping munitions to the Allies. At that time, Mr. Williams insisted, they were "playing the German game." Now Germany's sympathiz ers in this country, Senator Williams said, are "muckraking the Admint istration.' "You know these two bills can' not pass this Senate," the Senator went on. "Why do you insist on forcing them in this way? Show where you stand. Are you trying to pass them so the President will have to veto them and you can make him temporarily unpopular in! the country? If that's it, say so." j "Let us not wage this war as Re-1 publicans or Democrats," Senator j _ Williams went on. "Let us not wage j it as Southerners or Northerners, | but as Americans." Senator Reed of Missouri expressed sympathy with the efforts of S*enator Chamberlain, Senator Hitchcock, and the others standing with them to uncover War Department . delinquencies, but stated his opposition to the proposed measures as interference with the constitutional right of the executive to assume, un hindered, the authority of Com-i mander in Chief of the Army and I Naw. To foist a War Cabinet or ; (Director of Munitions upon the executive, Senator Reed argued, would be to usurp his prerogatives. The statement by the Missouri Senator of his opposition to the bill ! was the first intimation that he! would align himself with the Admin- j istration Democrats. As a member of the Military Affairs Committee, Senator Reed may be able, with his vote, to keep the War Cabinet bill! from being reported to the Senate. J Aside from the brief speeches of f Senators Reed and Williams, thej stage in the War Cabinet contro-; *?W?i k . ! HITCHCOCK ^ TO WIN THE WAR * versy was held by Senator Hitch- p cock. Tomorrow Senator Wadsworth a of New York, another member of the Military Affairs Committee, will g. speak for the Chamberlain measure. *1 In the meantime, the appearance of ^ Secretary of War Baker for cross- n examination before the committee y has been put off until Wednesday. q The galleries were jammed when Senator Hitchcock began his speech, f Democratic Senators interrupted g him several times to ask questions. a At one time Senator Martin, the Democratic floor leader; Senator p Myers of Montana, Senator Williams a and Senator Kirby of Arkansas, were g on their feet to demand why the ^ Nebraskans had not conferred with f the Administration on delinquencies 0 which, he said, existed in the con- s duct of the war. n "Oh, I've done that," replied Mr. d Hitchcock. "I have made a nui- ^ sance of myself taking these matters up with the Secretary of War. He hasn't time to bother with de- g tails. No one man could do the g, work he has before him." . Senator Hitchcock challenged Sec- t< retary Baker's assertion before the a Military Affairs Committee last week t] that the War Department had a war b plan. After listening to the Secre- j tary, he said, he was convinced that t< no plan exists. ^ Mr. Hitchcock called the delays n in the shipbuilding program as k "worse than a farce." "It's noth- ti ing short of a crime," he said. He f< spoke of the whole war administra- a tive machinery as "obsolete and I cumbersome," and contended that li the War Cabinet and munitions di- P rectorship plans would insure the co ordination that now was lacking, p He went into the equipment of sol- tl diers, presenting evidence of insuf- tl ficient clothing and ammunition as ir proof that the War Department had failed to meet the necessities of the . time. jy In speaking of President Wilson's n opposition to the War Cabinet and Q Munitions measures, Senator Hitch- p cock remarked: . w "His attitude is unfortunate, but n not altogether unnatural, since \he d< believes that all legislation should h originate with the Executive." k When Senator Hitchcock early in si his speech spoke of 21,000,000 pairs h of shoes having been ordered for an army of 300,000 in France as S showing haphazard methods in' the v War Department, Senator Myers in- tl terrupted. "It seems to me you are going in- ^ to figures that might be questioned." ^ said Senaotr Myers. "Can you vouch ^ for their authenticity?" ^ "I do and I can verify them," s* said Senator Hitchcock. tl "Who made that statement about H 21,000,000 shoes for 300,000 men?" demanded Senator Williams. a: "I carmot reveal the name," said N , Senator Hitchcock. "I am not at y liberty to, but l can assure the sen- n ators that I am speaking from tl facts." a: "The Senator is making state- d ments upon hearsay," and this h go- ir ing out to the country," insisted tl Senator Williams. "It would be sj wiser if the Senator had not re- g peated this hearsay stuff." e: "I am perfectly willing for the H Senator to dispute it and bring vin a: any evidence to the contrary," re- fi torted Senator Hitchcock. "The innnirv T V>nvp mnrlp as t.r* this find some other'matters has been among si men who have come here to serve A the Government during the war, and t< I dislike to get any of the men int& o trouble. But they are in position ei to know what the records show." p! Mr. Hitchcock told of 150 tons of ti meat being spoiled on the way to France because the refrigeration ri plants aboard ship had not been op- S erated. The meat was shipped back w to Hoboken. Senator Martin wanted to know where he got that in- cr, formation, and Mr. Hitchcock said d: that it had been widely published jr and never denied. Senator Weeks interrupted to say that the 150 tons s} of meat incident had been put up p to Secretary Baker or the Quarter- u master General before the Military ni Affairs Committee and that the wit- tl ness said it was true. w "The Senator is mentioning these ir things on the floor of the Senate," w protested Senator Martin. "It - - . \ . eems to me he should have brought hem to the attention -of the War )epartment instead." "I have done so," replied Senator [itchcock. "I have done it without vail." Senator Hitchcock was "thunder-, truck,' 'he said, over what he called tie calm assertion of Secretary Baer that he could land 1,000,000 ior^ men in France by the end of lie year. Only if there were 5,00000 tons of shipping available and ; was used incessantly, without loss rom sinking by submarines, the ienator said, would it be possible to ccomplish such a task. "I am curious to know," interosed Senator Penrose, '"whether ny explanation ha^ occurred to the Ienator as to how the Secretary of Var was so sadly apart from the acts. Had he not been informed r did he allow his sanguine dispoition and hopefuln ature and optilism to predict a result the facts id not justify?" 'hinks Baker Does Not Know Facts "I would not like to attempt to xplain the motives which led thej ecretary of War to make such a tatementj" replied Senator. Hitchock. "I think it is a terrible thing 3 mislead the people when facts are scertainable. My own opinion is fiat the Secretary of War has not een in touch with the Shipping! loard; that there has been nothing j 5 co-ordinate the Shipping Board dth the other functions of Govern-! lent, and that there 'has not been nowleage in high places of the acjal facts. It is a miserable thing or us to live in a fool's paradise nd think we can do the impossible, do not think the Secretary has deberately misled the people; he simly doesn't know." Insisting that he was loyal to the Resident, Senator Hitchcock said lat, in the main, he had supported le Executive in all his legislation 1 Congress. "On great occasions our President ises to heights of greatness," said [r. Hitchcock. "The two greatest ten in the world today are Lloyd eorge and Woodrow Wilson. But resident Wilson cannot do all the ork of the war for us alone. He eeds help; he needs machinery. He oes not know the real situation. He ears only one side of it. If he new hoth sides of it. he would not; and against measures that would ! elp him win the war." In opposing the War Cabinet bill enator Williams said that its adocates appeared to "want to give le President brains." That he said, could not be done irough legislation, if the President as not endowed with them. Mr. [itchcock and the other Senators ho attacked the Administration, he lid, had been looking for "speck3", ley had magnified trifling faults, [e went on: "Jeremiah and his lamentations re not in it with the Senator from ebraska. He begins away back beon d and tells us we have no ships, or this, nor that, nor the other i ling that we need. He has drawn j n indictment against the executive epartment of the Federal Goverotent that is very strong. During le course of his remarks he has lid that he might be accused 011 iving information useful to the nemy if he disclosed all he knew, [e has disclosed about all he knew nd he gave information very usej1 to the enemy." Muckraking-, Says Williams. Senator Williams was tired, he lid, of the "muckraking" of the dministration. Senators who tried > put an embargo on munitions and ther supplies to the Allies in the arly days of the war, he said, had layed Germany's game. He co:nnued: "The German game now is muckiking the Administration. If tliei enator from Nebraska is right in j hat he has said, we are whipped I Iready; we are out of this war ame .right now, because he has rawn and attempted to prove an idictment against the executive aulority of our Government which lows not only inefficiency, but stu-| idity. He comes here with a measre to invest the President with lore power in order to prove that le President can become efficient ith more power when he has beenj lefficient, in the Senator's opinion, ith less power. "These Aulic Council propositions have been tried from time to time everywhere. Even the Austrian Empire that runs riot had sense enough to do away with the Aulic War Council. If the Senator wanti, he can find that of all the assess that ever existed the worst was the typical council of assess that came very near ruining Lincoln and Grant in the civJJ war. The Senator could go a little further back and find that the continental Congress came very near ruining George Waijhington with a committee on the coi^uct of the war. If there is anything that any man ought to know who has any sense at all, it is that Congress or a committee cannot furnish the brains to anybody else to carry a wax on. "Here is this stupid bill, a situpid thing demanding three 'distinguished men of demonstrated ability' to be or?nniw+or1 V*ir fVio Praoi/lnn 4* f a u^^Wlll bVU Kf J 1/1IV A. XWOIU VIJV wvr VU1 i. J on the war. 'Distinguished' by whom? 'Ability demonstrated' by whom? After you are through with it as the Senator has confessed, it has to go back ot the President to 'distinguish' these men and their ability. And here is the President already not only armed with a duty, but charged with the responsibility of distinguishing men and of recognizing 'demonstrated ability.' , "If the President is a fool, how are you going to give him brains by an act of Congress? If the President is not a fool, what is the need, of your legislation? Just say what 'it' is. Are you trying to embarrass t? u,o4 IImi; JLd vital/ iv? "The Senator quoted from somebody in the Bible, 'Thou are not able to hold up thy hands by thyself alone and they shall hold his han^s, one on the one side and the other on the other.' Who is going to hold up the hands of the President? Is it to be the Senator from Nebraska and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Penrose) who will do it? "The President has already selected, in. his opinion, a Secretary of the Navy, a Secretary of War, a Secretary of State, who are three 'distinguished gentlemen of demonstrated ability.' You tre talking about the need of business abilityI in connection with this -vrar. I venture to say ,right now, you cannot name three men that you would dare offer to take these places." A Colloquy Over Co-Ordination "I shall not undeitake to do it, anyhow," volunteered Senator Hitch cock. "I never expect to be elected President of the United* States, and until I am I certainly would not undertake to do jt." Senator Hitchcock went on to say that what he sought ws.s' to establish co-ordination of the departments. < "I am here to say," he went on, "that the President doe3 not and cannot, on account of the limitation of the human system, co-ordinate them." Senator Williams wanted to know how it would be possible for the President to select fit men for a War Cabinet if he was not able to pick them from his present Cabinet. "The trouble is the chain lacks the link. It is not together. I want to bring the chain together," insisted Mr. Hitchcock. "You have not only two pieces of chain, you have a doz en." "And a chain is only so strong as the weakest link in it," replied Mr. Williams. "I do not want to add another link to the chain. The Senator is not proposing to take off any links." Senator Williams insisted that the President with his present powers might appoint any men he wanted to effect co-ordination. "He cannot," replied Mr. Hitchcock. "They cannot have any power unless it is granted by Congress. I am not criticising the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy or any other Secretary. I have endeavored 1;o avoid personal criticism. I am excusing them. I say that the system is such tnat 11 the Secretary of War or of the Navy and the Food Administrator run their departments well they are all doing it separately." If the War Cabinet bill passed, Senator Williams said, President Wilson would veto it. "And if the Senate passed it over the veto and I were President," he added, "I'd refuse to obey on the ground that it would only make worse confusion to have that war cabinet." "Does not the Senator think that, if the President declined to act under the bill, as he indicates, it would subject him to impeachment. proceedings?" suggested Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire. "Oh, Congress might try to impeach him by brute force," assented Mr. Williams. "It was tried with Andrew Johnson." "And they came near doing it," put in Senator Gallinger. "And no page in American history is more shameful, more shameless than that one," retorted Senator Williams. \ "That may be the Senator's opinion, but other men honestly differ with him,' replied Senator Gallinger. Senator Williams again styling the War Cabinet bill "stupid", turned to Senator Hitchcock and asked: "What do you know about running this war? You know less than I do, and I know nothing. General Pershing and General Bliss can be depended upon to fight it out over 1 there, and if they can't do it, we can I get some other Generals who will i and can. Let them alone, and let t the President alone. They know ] what to do." t Decrying partisanship in wartime, Senator Williams urged that Demo- * crats and Republicans alike should ^ "stand back of the President." Turn- y ing to the Democratic Senators, he y urged' that the effort to "embarrass the President with legislation he -y does not want" be abandoned, j Turning to the Republican side, he i ) 1 exclaimed: "Is there any Republican Senator c who does not believe in this war, ex- z cept a few fool pacifists who are pretty near to passing out of politi- <] cal existence?" \ Reed Asrainst Impugning Motives Senator Reed expressed the hope i that motives of Senators, who i sought to make the war machinery more effective, would no longer be ^ challenged as unpatriotic. While opposed to the war cabinet and mu- I nitions bills, he said he had faith in \ the integrity of the Senators who advocated them. c "I have no patience with the im- J pugning of the motives of men who, ( seeing faults, seek to correct those 8 faults," said Senator Reed. "Nei- 1 their have I patience with those who describe the conditions that have * been disclosed by these invetigations 1 as mere flyspecks on the firmament, * or as slight defects in the heel of the perfect statue. _ * "If 7.000 men in the cold winter , are compelled to leave- their homes J and are not furnished with sufficient clothing, that is not a fly-speck. , J That is a serious matter. It may be ^ ,a matter calling for denunciation or punishment, or itNmay be a matter subject to much palliation because of the conditions which had to be met. If soldiers are permitted to , J die in hospitals because of a want of proper medical attention, if their bodies are allowed to lie upon the floor, that is not a speck. That is a ' I tragedy, all the sadder because it befell one who was willing to yield ^ his life in the service of his country, j ^ "If cannon that might have bee'n i provided have not been provided, j ^ that is not a speck. It may mean the | lr.ee nf a hofflp flTlfl thousands Of I lives may be sacrificed. If ships * have not been bunkered with coal, and the coal was available, that is I not a speck. That is of vital import- ^ ance in carrying on this war, and whoever is responsible for that blunder has at least shown himself ' r capable of bluudering, and it might well be questioned whether he should further hold authority. "I utterly decline to accord with ^ the view that thes6 matters are trifles. They are matters of serious, \ of grave, of almost tragic import- r ance. They should be so met, so con?v> J ft/ifinn o p Pnn ffTflcc siuereu anu ouwa ouwvu g should take ought to be taken. rj "But I think we ought to be_. a little more generous in giving credit for that which has been accomplished. It must be borne in mind that we were plunged into this war t without preparation, and it must be r borne in mind that every man in d this body believed, as did the Presi- a riant n-t tlio TTnitpd fit.at.ps_ that, wp n would escape being drawn into this b war.' e As to*the War Cabinet bill, Sena- a tor Reed said that if it were passed is it would take from the President d powers given him by the Constitu- ii tion. ' si "I think there is a very clear dis-j b ;inction," said Senator Reed, "ber ;ween the passage by Congress ?pf ;he bill which will have to do wi{h ;he furnishing of supplies, with the "urnishing of money, with the creaion of the machinery that ultimate- / y results in the making of an army ind navy, and another clasl of legislation that proposes to -control- the irmy and control the navy -after hey have been created. When we some to the. latter, 1 believe ., the Resident is, as the Constitution.*airs he Commander in Chief, and hp* he right to say where the ?9gpy iha.ll go and where the navy MiutU ro and how tbey shall fight and in vhat manner they shall proceed. "If you put that power in the War Cabinet, and if the War Cabinet wcircises that power, what is 4bera eft for the President? Instead of jeing the Comander in Chief of the irmy with the power to mate plans :or the advance of the army or the etreat of the army, or the - move^ .y nent of the army, plans are <to be /. rv . V |m ; ' f nade by a war council, and it i? riven the power and authority to ^ jrocure and direct the execution of v v he same." k V V vvvvvvvvvv\v V LONG CANE V k , . .A Long Cane, Feb. 9.?Mr. and y. S. Bosler's little daughter,- Li&ioo Hay, is sick at this writing. Wo ('. lope for her an early recovery. Mrs. J. A, W-oodhurat of :ity, spent the week-end with <$fr. ind Mrs. W. T. King. Miss Linnie Beauford spent lot t : ; rhursday night with .Mr:-' and. Ma. '-'j V. S. Bosier. * Mr. John Stewartspent Thursday n the Cold Spring community, with * J tfr. and Mrs. John Stone. :V;j Mr. W. T. King was a btnrin? isitor to the city Holiday. Misses Linnie and lone an? Viola Jeauford spent Saturday evening ^ nth Miss Eva Finley. Miss Nina Beauford spent Sater- } lay in the city with Mr.anAJMta. r. M. McKellar. Mrs. Charlie King and children v r , t * ,<?k pent the week-end of last "week with v At. and Mrs. W: T. King. Mrs. W. D. Beauford and dsofher, Miss lone, spent Thursday oi ast week with Mr. and Mrs. W. S hosier. /l, Mr. Robert B.eauford of Bethia, ' U T '*.7, ' s visiting Mr. Thompson Beauforg. ' ^ Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McKeiiar or A : ^ ;he city, spent the week-end with tfr. and Mrs. W. D. Beauford. Mr. Walter hughes and uater, $ iliss Lizzie, of Cold Spring, spent v/i ;he week-end with Mrs Mattie Stew? % ?* Mrs. W. D. Beauford and daug|t- vfra ' . , ?. '!-4w ;ers, Misses Linnie and Nina, and ; , Ulie, spent Friday with Mr. -and -fj Urs. L. F. Finley. , Miss Nina Beaufjord:spent..Sunday vith Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bosler. : After an illness of seve&J . dajp, ' M ilr. Marcus Keller died at the hom* >f his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. . a^|j j. Keller, on last Friday. <Mr. dueler made his home in fche.xity. and vorked as a salesmah in their ptor* mtil a few days ago,, when h?*3M aken critically ill and was syffflyad ' ^ o the home of,his parents, ? ytyf le endured his suffering iaithfpjly , intil death came to his relief 'Frigiqr ifternoon at two o'clock, Feb. .8, i'-f.918. Mr. Keller was a young roan, of loble character and he has wo* .... ... '"-Kai nany friends in and throughout <&d- ^ leville county. ^ The funeral .j**- ^ 'ice was held at the Methediit hurch at Abbeville, Saturday . ^ ended by a host of sorrowful mis- 7$ ives and friends. The inteznunt "^gj /as at Melrose cemetery. The Jb?eaved family has our sympathy. Mr. Bob King of , BloConaiek, pent Thursday . night with Mr. W. :v| \ King. BACK TO SUSPENDEftS. One of the incidental result* his war for democracy may b* * ; eturn to the general use of juutfjlers. These supports, once wora /,*j| 11 men have in late years been, paerceded almost eveiywhere "by th* elt. New York,physicians who.have "> ?<? xamined thousands of drafted ty** /*'/? re reported as saying that tb? ball -&$j ! harmful to health, cawjn? ?jpj(JM? icitis, stomach trouble and otiui ' iternal disorders by unduly ?oa? ,io .-v't i * * . ^ tricting the central pfurt of tt* ^ ody.?Anderson Daily Mail. I ' ;i$ ; o ; !ar.?' i - ^'4fi -ai