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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN ANSWERS PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON. DENIES THAT HE DISTORTED FACTS----UNITED STATES SENATE GALLERIES CROWDED--SENATOR BEN TILLMAN WEPT. VOLUME XXXV, NO. 12 SENAT DENIES THE GAL Washington, Jan. 24.—In an impressive three-hour speech in the Senate today Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon defended himself against the accusation of President Wilson that he had "distorted the truth" in saying in his New York speech last Saturday that the military establishment of the United States had "fallen down." He spoke to an audience that filled every available space on the floor and in the gallery. It was apparent that the speech was regarded as marking a crucial point in America's participation in the great war. With no attempt to escape the con sequence of his criticism of the Administration the Oregon Senator stood by his utterance and repeated it. He wanted it understood, he said that he was not attacking the Administration, and that he was loyal, as an American, to the President. What he had meant to convey through his New York speech, the Senator insisted was that it was the military establishment alone that had "ceased functioning," and he went on to evidence given before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to prove this point. Senator Chamberlain asserted that if President Wilson did not know that the War Department had "fallen down" in its part of the war program the President lacked accurate information from his subordinates. "The President did not know the truth but I did," declared Senator Chamberlain, his voice echoing through the crowded Senate Chamber. As a murmur spread through the galleries Senator Chamberlain paused a moment and exclaimed: "The President naturally obtained his facts from the Secretary of War and the Secretary of War gave them to him as he received them from subordinates, with no intention to deceive. But if subordinates gave the information they lied." Senator Chamberlain was impelled to speak, he explained, because his integrity had been assailed, "not by an ordinary citizen but by the distin guished President of the United States." He spoke in no spirit of rancor against the President, he said, for he had "nothing but the kindless feeling toward him." "But my integrity is challenged," he cried. "No man can keep me from telling the truth. I have no fear of god, man, or the devil." Advancing into the aisle, Senator Chamberlain, in lower voice exclaimed: "My only fear is that perhaps what may say might have an effect upon the country, but it is well that the country know the truth. Great Britain has found such conditions existing and has corrected them; France, Italy and Germany have done it. And America ought to do it." In the array of evidence put before the Senate to prove his contention that the military establishment had fallen down," Senator Chamberlain referred to the disclosures of delay in army ordinance and equipment; of illness in camps, due, he alleged, to failure to create an adequate system, and of failure in general to use the last machinery of the War Department to put the country on a war voting. All of these disclosures. Senator Chamberlain maintained, more or less, is criticism that the military establishment had failed to function adequately. He argued that the Administration ought not resent any effort that would advance the country's military activity in time of war. RIGHT ON THE BILL COMES MONDAY Senator Chamberlain began Jhs speech at 12 o'clock when he arose a question of personal privilege. He took this method, instead of speaking upon a motion to refer his War cabinet bill then on the Senate Calen to the Military Affairs Committee word had got around that an effect was under way by Democratic leaders to block his reply to the resident. It had been expected that a spirited state would follow Senator Chamberlain's speech, but this program was upset by an unexpected motion to refer the War Cabinet bill back to the military Committee. This was carried by viva voce vote, after Senator Kirby of Arkansas, one of the Democratic members of the Military Committee, had denounced Senator Chamberlain's exposure of alleged War Department inefficiency as not borne out by the facts adduced in the investigation. Senator Kirby's denunciation of Senator Chamberlain was the only speech in defense of the Administration. Immediately the War Cabinet bill HONORED BY TIME! CHRIS, JACKSON'S CASE Hon. L. O. Wendenburg has been retained to assist the defense and not the prosecution in the case of Chris. Jackson, charged with the murder of his wife, Florence. The announcement to the contrary in last week's Planet was a mistake. YOUNG MEN'S LEAGUE. The Young Men's League of the Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church will open the anniversary exercises, running through the entire week, on Sunday, February 2nd. Dr. George Higler, president of the Hart-horn Memorial College will deliver the anniversary sermon on Sunday morning. Lawyer Joseph R. Pollard will address a mass meeting on Sunday evening. Lawyer Pollard is an eloquent and convincing speaker and his theme will be particularly appropriate at this time. A special musical program has been arranged and the service at 7:30 P. M. will be helpful to all who attend. A Job for a Physician. A Physician who des'res a good field will find it by going to Orange. Va. Write Dr. I. A. Jackson, Box 145. Orange, Va. Y. W. C. A. NOTES The Honorable John Mitchell, Jr. will speak for the Y. W. C. A. at the Second Baptist Church, Sunday, February 3, at 3:30. Subject, "The World War." The Committee of Management will meet Monday, February 4. The members of the Girls' Industrial Club gave their monthly party, Thursday, January 24. A. China. and. Kitchen. Utensil Shower will be given at the building Friday, February 1. at $ P. M. Refreshments will be served. Admission free. WIDOW OF EXECUTED SOLDIER RECEIVES HELP FROM COMFORT COMMITTEE Washington, January 29.—The National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee here, has just received the following letter of thanks from a widow of one of the unfortunate Colored soldiers recently executed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas: "Galveston, Tex., Jan. 21, 1918" "Ralph W. Tylier, Secretary," "National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee," "1105 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C." "Dear Mr. Tyler: I am just in receipt of your very kind letter enclosing me the Committee's check for my immediate needs. I cannot begin to tell you how very much I thank your Committee for this assistance. It is certainly a blessing that the race has such men as compose your Committee who will organize to help the poor of the race who, like myself, have had a husband so suddenly and so sorrowfully taken away. I thank God for your organization, and for the great assistance rendered me. Respectfully, (Signed) GERTRUDE YOUNG RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918. HONORED BY TIME! LET'S PAUSE FOR A MOMENT. Time may leave us poor and stranded. Dreamstance may make us them. But there is only find us meetover must they, cumrade? - in the end. PAUL LAWRENCE DURAND Edmund Jones, New York's great samario writer has completed his samario, "Loyalty of a Race," written for the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee, and the taking and making of the pictures for this great photoplay will now be rushed, "Loyalty of a Race," will be an intensely patriotic movie picture. It abounds in pathos, refined humor, during bravery of Colored troops, and many thrills. It shows the eagerness of Colored men to fight for world de moracy shows the fine devotion of Colored women, the Colored troops fighting like demons over in France and all through it runs a beautiful story of love and sacrifice. Those who have read the samario say it the "Loyalty of a Race" will be an effectual answer to "The Birth of the Nat'on." There are 120 different scenes in the film, 17 clever characters, thousands of Colored soldiers and citizens. And the samario provides "Loyalty of a Race" will have an all-colored recast. After a two weeks run here it will be put on the road to be shown in many cities for the benefit of the fund the committee is raising for the relief of dependents of Colored soldiers, especially for the relief of such as are in need who were dependents of those soldiers who met that tragic end at Fort Sam Houston recently. Moves Newsstand to New Quarters. Dear Friends: We sincerely thank you for your patronag $ _{124} $ N.Maryland avenue and will further appreciate your patronag $ _{4} $ at our new place, 901 Baltic avenue, A. A. WILLIAMS. FOR SALE—Confectionery Store, complete stock, ideal location, fine trade. Will sell reasonably. Right in the business section of South Richmond. Apply MRS. R. NOVEY 2005 Hull street, South Richmond, Va. Phone. Madison 9526. DO YOU KNOW HIM I desire to know the whereabouts of Alfred Jackson. He left this city (Danville) . October, 1914. When last heard of he was in Emerson, Ga. He was about five and one-half foot high, of a light complexion, mixed gray hair and about forty-five years old and had a fair education. Any information, please notify W. W. TURNBR, 240 Broad street. Ext. ODD FELLOWS POSTPONE B. M. C, Action Was Taken by Sub-Committee Last Week. Convention Was to Have Been Held In New York in September. At a meeting of the Sub-Committee of Management, the executive body of the Grand Unified Order of Odd- Fellows in America, which was held at the Order's headquarters at Phil- adelphia, last week, action was taken, it is understood, postponing the holding of the B. M. C. until Septem- ber 1920. The convention was to have been held in New York City next Septem- ber, but on account of conditions a rising out of the war, the committee deemed it practical to extend the time of the meeting in order not to draw members away from their work to aid in conservation of transporta- tion facilities. Whereabouts of Mrs Emily Tartt. I. Katie C. Fitzgerald, formerly Katie Gallington, would like to locate Mrs. Emily E. Tartte, formerly Miss Emily Price, Address Mrs. Katie C. Fitzgerald, P. O. Box 345, Lakewood, N J. MRS. ROGERS MURDERED. Coroner Whitfield had a long session at the hearing or inquest over Esther V. Rogers, wife of Robert Lee Rogers, who was found dead at her residence, 1112 West Loigh Street, Tuesday evening, January 22, 1918, with a bullet hole almost in the center of her forehead. The investigation was to determine whether or not she committed suicide or was killed by some one. For nearly three hours the coroner's jury wrestled with the problem and gradually as thread after thread of testimony was analyzed, it became evident that of all the things in the world that she considered doing, that of taking her own life would have been the last that would have entered her mind. DR. STOKES TO ADDRESS ELKS. Capital City Lodge Elks Home Fund Rally, Sunday, February 3, 1918, four P. M. An address will be delivered by Rev. W. H. Stokes. Special musical program. All members and friends are requested to be present. Elks' Home, 1026 N. Second street THE DEATH OF MISS NANNIE ROBINSON. Miss Nannie Robinson, after a brief illness, died at her hame on THE HUSBAND TESTIFIES Mr. Rogers testified that he met her on Leigh Street and went home with her. The large house did not Continued on Fifth Page. In Memoriam. Glen Allen, Va., January 28, In loving memory of my dear sister, Mrs. Alma G. Braxton, who died January 28, 1917, five-thirty A. M. I so often think of my darling sister, but God in His own Wise Providence saw fit to take her from me. She has left me, but will not be forgotten. By her sister, DAISY B. JONES. —Mr. S, W. Robinson, Sr., is confined to his lance. Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler, Sr., has been indisposed. Edward H. Smith, stationed with the 16th Training Battalion, Camp Lee, was here on furlough this week. Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler, Sr. has been sick for the past week, but is much improved at this writing. Mr. T. Everett Johnson, Jr. left the city last week for Hot Springs, Virginia. Miss A. M. Vann, of the Journal and Guide was in the city this week and called at the office. Dr. William Troy, of Portsmouth, Va., was in the city this week to attend the funeral of his mother, the wife of the late Rev. Dr. William Troy. Miss Maria Howard, of Fredericksburg, Va. is spending this week visiting on the Southside. While here, she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Robinson, 215 E. 17th street. Mr. Clinton C. Page, son of Rev. B. H. Page, 1305 Moore street of this city left Baltimore, Md., for Camp Meade, January 23rd. He was visiting his sister, Mme. M. P. Heath, of Baltimore while awaiting his call. Mr. Charles H. Robinson, of 215 E. 17th street, South Richmond, celebrated his forty-second birthday last Monday night at his residence. Refreshments were served abundantly and a fine time was had. SUBSCRIPTION, $1,50 PER YEAR PRICE, FIVE CENTS S LSON. SENATE EPT. OGERS ERED. Decides That She mit Suicide.==The mystery.==Husband usel.==Many Wit- ned. DR. STOKES TO ADDRESS ELKS. Capital City Lodge Elks Home Fund Rally, Sunday, February 3, 1918, four P. M. An address will be delivered by Rev. W. H. Stokes. Special musical program. All members and friends are requested to be present. Elks' Home, 1026 N. Second street THE DEATH OF MISS NANNIE ROBINSON. Miss Nannie Robinson, after a brief if illness, died at her home on Carlton Street, about two weeks ago. Her remains were taken to her former home in the country on Sunday the 20th of January, 1918. Miss Robinson was the prime mover in the organization of our Old Foaks Home in our city. She retained membership on the Board of Directors until her death. The news of her death was broken to the Board at the monthly meeting at the Old Folks Home for Colored People, 508 West Baker Street, on Friday night, January 25 inst. After logistic remarks by the members, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions of respect to her memory. The committee presents the following: Death, the great leveler, the foe to all human greatness; the arch-enemy to the accomplishment of our plans in this life, is, at the same time, the means through which we pass to endless joys. Yes, in the midst of life we find ourselves in the throes of death. The Board of Directors of the Old Folks Home for Colored People, having heard the sad news that Miss Nannie Robinson, one of the members of the Board, has been called from life to her reward in the life beyond, we take this occasion to testify to the high regard in which the deceased was held by her co-workers in the work of the home. And while we bow to the will of Him who doeth all things well, we feel very keenly our loss in this dispensation of the will of the Almighty. Yet, we would not have her back in her suffering. Be it Resolved, That in the death of Miss Robinson, the home has lost one of its best friends, and most interested and devoted worker, and a safe counsellor. Resolved, Further, That as a mark of respect to her memory, the office of the Board shall be draped in mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions shall be published in the St. Lake Herald and the Richmond Planet, and engrossed copies be hung on the walls of the office and sent to the family. On behalf of the Board of Directors, Committee—Rev. Nelson B. Brown, Fannie Brown Smith, secretary, chairman; Dr. H. L. Harris, M. D., J. J. Carter, president; E. A. Rose, secretary. Executor's Notice Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Lewis Hall, deceased, I request all persons having claims against the estate to present the same to me for payment, and all persons owing the estate will please make prompt settlement with me. MORTON DEANE, Executor of Lewis Hall, deceased DESIGN THE NEW YEAR NIGHT THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library SUBSCRIPTION, $1.60 PER YEAR SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN ANSWERS PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON. DENIES THAT HE DISTORTED FACTS--UNITED STATES SENATE GALLERIES CROWDED--SENATOR BEN TILLMAN WEPT. VOLUME XXXV, NO. 12 SENAT DENIES THE GAL Washington, Jan. 24. In an impressive three-hour speech in the Senate today Senator George E. Chambertain of Oregon defended himself against the accusation of President Wilson that he had "disorted the truth" in saying in his New York speech last Saturday that the military establishment of the United States had "fallen down." He spoke to an audience that filled every available space on the floor and in the gallery. It was apparent that the speech was regarded as marking a crucial point in America's participation in the great war. With no attempt to escape the con sequence of his criticism of the Administration the Oregon Senator stood by his utterance and repeated it. He wanted it understood, he said that he was not attacking the Administration, and that he was loyal, as an American to the President. What he had meant to convey through his New York speech, the Senator insisted was that it was the military establishment alone that had "ceased functioning," and he went on to evidence given before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to prove that's point. Senator Chamberlain asserted that if President Wilson did not know that the War Department had "fallen down" in its part of the war program the President lacked accurate information from his subordinates. "The President did not know the truth but I did," declared Senator Chamberlain, his voice echoing through the crowded Senate Chamber. As a murmur spread through the galleries Senator Chamberlain paused a moment and exclaimed: "The President naturally obtained his facts from the Secretary of War and the Secretary of War gave them to him as he received them from subordinates, with no intention to deceive. But if subordinates gave the information they lied." Senator Chamberlain was impelled to speak, he explained, because his integrity had been assailed, "not by an ordinary citizen but by the distinished President of the United States." He spoke in no spirit of rancor against the President, he said, for he had "nothing but the kindness, feeling toward him." "But my integrity is challenged," he cried. "No man can keep me from telling the truth. I have no fear of god, man, or the devil." Advancing into the aisle, Senator Chamberlain, in lower voice exclaims: "My only fear is that perhaps what may say might have an effect upon the country, but it is well that the country know the truth. Great Britain has found such conditions existing and has corrected them; France, Italy and Germany have done it. And America ought to do it." In the array of evidence put before the Senate to prove his contention that the military establishment had fallen down." Senator Chamberlain referred to the disclosures of delay in army ordnance and equipment; of illness in camps, due, he alleged, to failure to create an adequate system, and of failure in general to use the last machinery of the War Department to put the country on a war eating. All of these disclosures. Senator chamberlin maintained, there critics is criticism that the military establishment had failed to function adequately. He argued that the Administration ought not resent any effort that would advance the country's military activity in time of war. RIGHT ON THE BILL COMES MONDAY Senator Chamberlain began his speech at 12 o'clock when he arose a question of personal privilege. He took this method, instead of speaking upon a motion to refer his War cabinet bill then on the Senate Calder to the Military Affairs Committee word had got around that an effort was under way by Democraptic leaders to block his reply to the resident. It had been expected that a spirited state would follow Senator Chamberlain's speech, but this program was upset by an unexpected motion to refer the War Cabinet bill back to the military Committee. This was carried by viva voce vote, after Senator Kirby of Arkansas, one of the Democratic members of the Military Committee, had denounced Senator Chamberlain's exposure of alleged War Department inefficiency as not borne out by the facts addicted in the investigation. Senator Chamberlain was the only speech in defense of the Administration. Immediately the War Cabinet bill HONORED BY TIME! CHRIS JACKSON'S CASE Hon. L. O. Wendeburg has been in need to assist the defense and the prosecution in the case of Chris Jackson, charged with the murder of his wife, Florence. The announcement to the court is, last week's Planet was a mistake. YOUNG MEN'S LEAGUE The Young Men's League of the Third Street Belfield! A M. E. Church will open the anniversary exercises running through the entire week, on Sunday, February 2nd. Dr. George Hieler, president of the Hart here Memorial College will deliver the anniversary session on Sunday morning. Lawyer Joseph R. Pollard will address a mass meeting on Sunday evening. Lawyer Pollard is an elephant and convincing speaker and his theme will be particularly appropriate at this time. A special musical program has been arranged and the service at 7:30 P. M. will be helpful to all who attend. A Job for a Physician A Physician who deserves a good field will find it by going to Orange, Va. Write Dr. L. A. Jack on, Box 145, Orange, Va. Y. W. C. A. NOTES The Honorable John Mitchell, Jr. will speak for the Y, W, C, A, at the Second Baptist Church, Sunday, February 5, at 3:30, Subject, "The World War." The Committee of Management will meet Monday, February 4. The members of the Girls' Industrial Club gave their monthly party, Thursday, January 24. A. China, and. Kitchen, Utensil Shower will be given at the building Friday, February 4, at $ P. M. Refreshments will be served. Adm'sion free. WIDOW OF EXECUTED SOLDIER RECEIVES HELP FROM COMFORT COMMITTEE Washington, January 29. The National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee here, has just received the following letter of thanks from a widow of one of the unfortunate Colored soldiers recently executed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas: "Galveston, Tex., Jan. 21, 1918" "Ralph W. Tyler, Secretary." "National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee, '1105 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C." "Dear Mr. Tyler: I am just in receipt of your very kind letter enclosing me the Committee's check for my immediate needs. I cannot begin to tell you how very much I thank your Committee for this assistance. It is certainly a blessing that the race has such men as compose your Committee who will organize to help the poor of the race who, like myself, have had a husband so suddenly and so sorrowfully taken away. I thank God for your organization, and for the great assistance rendered me. Respectfully, (Signed) GERTRUDE YOUNG HONORED BY TIME! LET'S PAUSE FOR A MOMENT. Time may leave us poor and stranded. Circumstance may make us penn. But there is only one find us meadow, mant their, comrade?—my the end. Paul Lawrence Dodds "LOYALTY OF A RACE." 4 Washington. January 28—Marc Edmung Jones. New York's great senior writer has completed his written for the National Colored Soldiers. Comfort Committee, and the taking and making of the pictures for this great photoplay will now be rushed, "Loyalty of a Race" will be an intensely patriotic movie picture. It abounds in pathos, refined humor, daring bravery of Colored troops, and many thrills. It shows the eagerness of Colored men to fight for world democracy shows the fine devotion of Colored women, the Co'ored troops fighting like demons over in France and all through it runs a beautiful story of love and sacrifice. Those who have read the scenario say it the "Loyalty of a Race" will be an effectual answer to "The Birth of the Nation." There are 120 different scenes in the film, 17 clever characters, thousands of Colored soldiers and citizens. As the sesario provides "Loyalty of a Race" will have an all-colored req cast. After a two weeks run here it will be put on the road to be shown in many cities for the benefit of the fund the committee is raising for the relief of dependents of Colored soldiers, especially for the relief of such as are in need who were dependents of those soldiers who met that tragic end at Fort Sam Houston recently. Moves Newsstand to New Quarters. Dear Friends: We sincerely thank you for your patronage at 124 N. Maryland avenue and will further appreciate your patronage at our new place, 901 Baltic avenue. A. A. WILLIAMS. FOR SALE - Confectionery Store complete stock, ideal location, fine trade. Will sell reasonably. Right in the business section of South Richmond. Apply MRS. R. NOVEY 2005 Hull street, South Richmond. Va. Phone, Madison 9526. DO YOU KNOW HIM I desire to know the whereabouts of Alfred Jackson. He left this city (Danville) October, 1914. When last heard of he was in Emerson, Ga. He was about five and one-half feet high, of a Fight complexion, mixed gray hair and about forty-five years old and had a fair education. Any information, please notify W. W. TURNBRER, 240 Broad street, Ext. ODD FELLOWS POSTPONE B. M. C. Action Was Taken by Sub Committee Last Week. Convention Was to Have Been Held In New York in September. At a meeting of the Sub Committee of Management, the executive body of the Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows in America, which was held at the Order's headquarters at Philadelphia, last week, action was taken, it is understood, postponing the holding of the B. M. C. until September 1920. The convention was to have been held in New York City next September, but on account of conditions a rising out of the war, the committee deemed it practical to extend the time of the meeting in order not to draw members away from their work to aid in conservation of transportation facilities. Whereabouts of Mrs Emily Tartte L. Katie C. Fitzgerald, formerly Katie Gallington, would like to locate Mrs. Emily E. Tartte, formerly Miss Emily Price, Address Mrs. Katie C. Fitzgerald, P. O. Box 345, Lakewood, N. J. MRS. ROGERS MURDERED. Coroner's Jury Decides That She Did Not Commit Suicide.=The Tragedy a Mystery.=Husband Employs Counsel.=Many Witnesses Examined. Cameron Whitfield had a long session at the hearing or inquest over Father V. Rogers, wife of Robert Lee Rogers, who was found dead at her residence, 1112 West Leigh Street. Tuesday evening, January 22, 1918, with a bullet hole in the center of our armour. The investigation was to determine whether or not she committed suicide or was killed by some one. For nearly three hours the coroner's jury wrestled with the problem and gradually as thread after thread of testimony was analyzed, it became evident that all the things in the world that she considered doing, that of taking her own life would have been the last that would have entered her mind. THE HUSBAND TESTIFIES Mr. Rogers resisted that he met her on Leigh Street and went home with her. The large house did not Continued on Fifth Page In Memoriam. Glen Allen, Va., January 28, in having memory of my dear sister, Mrs. Alma G. Braxton, who died January 28, 1917, fivethirty A. M. I so often think of my darling sister, but God in His own Wisel Providence saw fit to take her from me. She has left me, but will not be forgotten. By her sister. DAISY B. JONES Mr. S. W. Robinson, Sr., is con- tinued to his fame. Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler, Sr., has been indisposed. Edward H. Smith, stationed with the 16th Training Battalion, Camp Lee, was here on furlough this week. Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler, Sr. has been sick for the past week, but is much improved at this writing. Mr. T. Everett Johnson, Jr. left the city last week for Hot Springs, Virginia. Miss A. M. Vann, of the Journal and Guide was in the city this week and called at the office. Dr William Troy, of Portsmouth, Va., was in the city this week to at- tend the funeral of his mother, the wife of the late Rev. Dr. William Troy. Miss Maria Howard, of Fredericksburg, Va., is spending this week visiting on the Southside. While here, she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Robinson, 215 E. 17th street. Mr. Clinton C. Page, son of Rev. R. H. Page, 1365 Moore street of this city left Baltimore, Md., for Camp Meade, January 23rd. He was visiting his sister, Mine, M. P. Heath, of Baltimore while awaiting his call. Mr. Charles H. Robinson, of 215 E. 17th street, South Richmond, celebrated his forty-second birthday last Monday night at his residence. Refreshments were served abundantly and a fine time was had. PRICE, FIVE CENTS S LSON. SENATE EPT. OGERS DERED. Decides That She mit Suicide. == The mystery. == Husband usel. == Many Wit= ned. DR. STOKES TO ADDRESS ELKS. Capital City Lodge Elks Home Fund Rally, Sunday, February 3, 1914, four P. M. An address will be delivered by Rev. W. H. Stokes. Special musical program. All members and friends are requested to be present. Elks Home, 1026 N. Second street THE DEATH OF MISS NANNIE ROBINSON. Miss Natalie Robinson, after a brief if mess, died at her home on Carlton Street, about two weeks ago. Her remains were taken to her former home in the country on Sunday the 20th of January, 1918. Miss Robinson was the prime mover in the organization of our Old Foak Home in our city. She retained membership on the Board of Directors until her death. The news of her death was broken to the Board at the monthly meeting at the Old Folks Home for Colored People, 508 West Baker Street, on Friday night, January 25 inst. After eulogistic remarks by the members, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions of respect to her memory. The committee presents the following: Death, the great beaver, the foe to all human greatness; the arch-enemy to the accomplishment of our plans in this life, is at the same time, the means through which we pass to endless joys. Yes, in the midst of life we find ourselves in the throes of death. The Board of Directors of the Obj Folks Home for Colored People, having heard the sad news that Miss Nannie Robinson, one of the members of the Board, has been called from life to her reward in the life beyond, we take this occasion to testify to the high regard in which the deceased was held by her co-workers in the work of the home. And while we bow to the will of Him who doeth all things well, we feel very keenly our loss in this dispensation of the will of the Almighty. Yet, we would not have her back in her suffering. Be it Resolved, That in the death of Miss Robinson, the home has lost one of its best friends, and most interested and devoted worker, and a safe counsellor. Resolved, Further, That as a mark of respect to her memory, the office of the Board shall be draped in mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions shall be published in the St. Luke Herald and the Richmond Planet, and engrossed copies be hung on the walls of the office and sept to the family. On behalf of the Board of Directors, Committee Rev. Nelson R. Brown, Fannie Brown Smith, secretary, chairman; Dr. H. L. Harris, M. D., J. J. Carter, president; E. A. Rose, secretary. Executor's Notice Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Lewis Hall, deceased, I request all persons having claims against the estate to present the same to me for payment, and all persons owing the estate will please make prompt settlement with me. MORTON DEANE, Executor of Lewis Hall, deceased Polk Miller's LIVER PILLS have been used in Southern homes for more than 25 years. They aid nature in relieving billiousness, chills and fever, torpid liver, constipation, dizziness, headache, stomach troubles, sallow skin and pimples. The most chronic cases respond readily to the prescribed use of these pills. Do not wait until you are compelled to give up. Give yourself the attention you need today. Buy a box of Polk Miller's 100 Liver Pills from your drugrist or the general store. They will do for you what they have done for you. If you have other chronic sufferers for which each box is a Zinc Coupon, buy each box in Zinc Coupon L. Huend, Virginia. 10¢ REV. E. W. MOORE, VISITING MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE MEETS. CHAPLAIN IN ARMY Issues Circular from Columbus, Ohio to the Baptist Brotherhood. 1st, as to chaplains in the U. S. Army; Up to the first of December only 3 applications from Baptist were filed. While I was at Camp Meade, 2 newly appointed chaplains arrived, but both of another denomination, notwithstanding the fact that three fourths of the men at that Camp were of Baptist persuasion, I cannot, there fore, believe that this indifference shows a lack of parishionism or interest in the religious well being of our men. Chaplains are appointed by the President and the law prescribes the following conditions: (a.) The candidate must be a regularly ordained minister of some religious denomination and in good standing. (b.) Candidate must be recommended for appointment by some authorized ecclesiastical body. (c.) Candidate must not have passed the age of 40 years. (d.) Candidate must satisfactorily pass such examinations as to his moral, mental and physical qualifications, as may be prescribed by the President; unless he has demonstrated ed such qualifications during the war with Spain. Brethren, no political pull is necessary; your ability to meet the requirements will be sufficient. 2nd, I would suggest that in each state, either through your association or state convention you appoint and support a military pastor at the camp. (The government makes no provision for this.) All the other religious bodies are doing this, thus co-operating with the Y. M. C. A. who are doing a splendid work. In Ohio we are paying our military pastor $100.00 per month. For this work select the best man you can command; not a man who is out of a job and can't hold one, but the best pastor in the state, and then support him' 3rd. Encourage your young people to take special courses in Social, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. work. Our churches can make no better investment than spending money to fit our young people for this service. For they are paid out of the War Fund. BAN NEWS OF SOLDIER DEATHS Military Funerals Also to be Abandoned at Camp Greene. Charlotte, N. C., January 19. There will be no further information given news papers regarding deaths of soldiers at Camp Greene, according to information from the undertaking establishment here having the contract to prepare the bodies for shipment and burial. A ban is also placed on public funerals and military escort to dead soldiers. Prior to this order funerals to the dead soldiers were being held in the local undertaking establishment and a military escort to the railroad station was given the bodies shipped away. Just the number of soldiers who have died at Camp Greene in the last few weeks is unknown but records in the undertaking establishment here show 23 men had been prepared for burial the week ended January 5 and 22 the week ended January 12. The records are closed for the week ending to day. The men have died in most part from pneumonia and a very limited number from meningitis. 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This camp life is getting tiresome, I seem so lonesome and blue, And the only time that I am happy is when I dream of you. I think of the happy days dear, Of the Virginii girl so true, And dear, that's why I am yarning, To come back home to you. —Arthur E. Greene, Troop A, Tenth Cavalry, Nogales, Arizona. COFFINS BUT NOT GUNS FOR PEERSHING. Time People Knew Truth About the War's Conduct, Warns Colonel Roosevelt—Says They Can Stand It Kansas City, Jan. 21.—The Kansas City Star to-morrow morning will print the following: "TELL THE TRUTH." (By Taddeo Roosevelt.) Nearly a year has passed since, on February 3, by formally breaking relations with Germany we reluctantly admitted that she had gone to war with us. During that year it has been incessantly insisted that it was unpariotic under any consideration to tell an unpleasant truth or to point out a governmental shortcoming. The result has not been happy. The famous war correspondent Mr. Casper Whitney has returned from the front so that he might avoid our famous and sniper censorship and tell our people the truth about our army in France. He shows that this army, which Secretary Baker had just assured our people was admirably equipped in reality had no cannon or machine guns except those it borrowed from the hard pressed French that there was lamentable shortage of shoes that the motor cars were poor, that we had no airplanes. THOUSANDS OF COFFINS SENT From another source it appeared that many thousand coffins had been sent over. Our troops had no shoes, but they had plenty of coffins. Their ammunition was defective and they had neither cannon nor auto rifles, but they had plenty of coffins. At the same time the death of gallant Major Gardner from pneumonia called sharp attention to the civil health conditions in most of our home training camps, and the Senate investigating committee showed a really appalling slackness and inefficiency in the management of the War Department under Mr. Baker. There is no particular reason to blame Mr. Baker; he did not appoint himself, he did not seek the office. Logwood cannon and wooden auto rifles are mostly incidental features of the inevitable outcome. All this was done in the face of repeated and explicit warnings from the best authority, Major-General Leonard Wood told the Military Committee of the Senate and of the House in detail about our shortcomings two years ago and again one year ago. The Administration not only refused to remedy these short comings but has spitfully punished General Wood ever since. HEARST PAPERS FOE TO TROOPS Mr. Hearst's papers are the foremost assaults of those who truthfully point out these shortcomings. 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By that action the Senate gives an opportunity for the heat of debate to cool off. The War Cabinet bill will reappear on Monday with a report favoring its acceptance by the Senate. With its reappearance will come a contest on the part of Senator Swanson of Virginia to refer it to the Naval Affairs Committee. On the outcome of this vote will depend the fate of the bill for if it once gets to the Naval Affairs Committee it is doomed. That the War Cabinet bill will be referred to the Naval Affairs Committee, there to lie in oblivion, at least for an indefinite period, is regarded tonight as almost certain, for the issue is taken as clear-out on support of the President and partisanship is admittedly concerned in the situation as a result of the attack made earlier in the week upon the Republicans by Sonator Stone of Missouri. While Democratic Senators —but only a handful—will vote to save the War Cabinet bill the bulk of Democrats tonight are considered as aligned with the President. Senator Chamberlain's urgent appeal to the Senate today to act with out regard to executive dictation found a response, among many on the Democratic side, but it is hardly believed he can muster enough votes away from the Administration to put h.s. War Cabinet or Director of Munitions bills through the Senate. BAKER'S FATE DISUCSSED. While opinion is very general in Congressional circles that the War Cabinet bill will fail, the view is almost as general that Senator Cham berlain's speech will have a marked bearing on the political fortunes of Newton D. Baker the Secretary of War. The speech will have the effect it is being said by Congressmen and others of focusing attention on the alleged deficiencies of the military establishment under Mr. Baker's administration and will emphasize in the minds of the Ameri can people particularly those who have sons and other relatives in the army, the testimony brought out be fore the Senate Committee on Military Affairs which members of that Committee have cited as affording examples of carelessness, inefficiency and lack of program. Senators and Representatives who have a lively memory of the circumstances that led to the retirement of Secretary of War Alger in the McKinley Administration, following the Spanish War, and Secretary of the Interior Ballinger in the Taft Administration are predating that if the American people become aroused over the disclosures contained in Senator Chamberlain's speech as to lack of Winter clothing for the troops in the camps in this country, the hospital conditions, and treatment of the sick, and the manner in which the War Department is alleged to have tempted to give a rosy impression of the situation of soldiers, a widespread demand for a new deal in military management under other administrators will come from the country. This, it is being declared by some Senators who share the views of Mr. Chamberlain, will inevitably reult in the retirement of Mr. Baker. These Senators said yesterday after Mr. Chamberlain had finished speaking that the determination of President Wilson to stand by Mr. Baker, would not save the latter. They said that Mr. McKinley was just as strong in support of Secretary Alger at the beginning of the Spanish war invig tigation as Mr. Wilson now is in his support of Secretary Baker, but the force of public opinion would be too much for Mr. Wilson or any President to stand out against especially if the mothers who had sons in camps and cantonments began to exert pressure on their Representatives in Congress for better administration of the military establishment. Not since President Wilson went before Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Germany has there been more excitement at the Capitol than today with the Chamberlain speech of defense holding the spotlight. SCENE IN THE SENATE Long before 12 o'clock every seat diplomatic gallery usually not filled until papuaeo sum seguire out if was occupied by women. In fact, three-fourths of the throng in all the galleries comprised the gentler sex. At the tap of the gavel, more than three-fourths of the Senators were in their seats, Senator Chamberlain sat in easy attitude with his arm swung over the back of his seat, down toward the front of the Senate chamber. Immediately at the opening of the Senate, the Oregon Senator arose to the question of personal privilege. His voice was steady but with a tone of gravity in it. As Senator Chumberlandian stood facing the Vice-President, in the opening phrases of his speech of defense the figure of the placid Oregonian who led the hard battle for the selective draft law early in the war and again the contest for the Food bill—both administration measures was brought to mind. It was Senator Chumberland in those tonse days in the Senate who went to the rescue of the Administration's draft program, and who saved, later, the Food bill when the measure had hardly a supporter on the floor. Today it was the same aggressive yet tranquil Chamberlain who faced the Senate. This man from Oregon, well along in years, but rugged and with the fighting spirit of the West still there, spoke this time to vindicate himself not, he exclamation, as an opponent of the Executive, who had challenged his word, but as one whose integrity in "duty to country" had been assailed. Senator Chamberlain affected no oratorical flourish. His delivery, while almost conversational at times was characteristically virile, and he made his points with emphatic force. At one time the Senator went just a bit into the dramatic when he stoppeth into the aisle and after ablution to the impreachment of his integrity after standing by the President. In all his war legislation, exclaimed: "Et in Brute." At one point Senator Chamberlain read letters from a father and a sister of soldiers who had died, they charged from woful neglect. The father, after writing of the harrowing illness of his son, spoke of finding the body of his boy, apparently abandoned, lying against a door in a base hospital. A gasp went through the galeries as Senator Chamberlain read the father's description of this unerving discovery. These letters he put in, Mr. Chamberlain explained to show what neglect had been shown soldiers who had given their services to their country. Senator Chamberlain did not hesitate to charge that the death of thousands of soldiers in camp were attributable to neglect. He asked in thundering tone if this was not evidence of the inefficiency he had charged against the War Department. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH. Beginning. Senator Chamberlain said: "Mr. President, I rise to a question of personal privilege. For twenty-four years of my life I have served the public of my State in one capacity or another to the best of an ability which Providence saw fit to endow me with and in all that time I have never had my integrity impacched, and I am frank to say that I have passed through some of as bitter campaigns as have fallen to the lot of any man. It is, therefore, with some feeling of humiliation, and I may say with sadness, that I rise before this distinguished body upon a question of person al privilege when my veracity has been called in question—not by an ordinary citizen in the ordinary walks of life—not one of my colleagues—who I feel stand upon the same platform as myself socially and politically, but by a very distinguished gentleman, who has the love and admiration of the people of this country and who through their sarguffle now occupies the highest place in the gift of our people, and, I may say, the highest place of any man on the face of the earth. "It is, therefore, with a peculiar feeling that I rise to address myself to the attack which has been made upon me, Mr. President and I do it not with any feeling of unkindness, because the personal differences between the distinguished President and myself amount to nothing to the American people, but there are great policies at issue between us and between other people of this country which may, Mr. President, involve the very life of the country and possibly the civilization of the world. "Some days ago a distinguished body of citizens of New York invited me to deliver an address before the National Security League, I accepted that invitation. On the dails with me were some of the most distinguished men in America. The presiding officer of that meeting was a gentle man whom our distinguished President has seen fit to honor, and who has been highly honored by other Executives in days gone by. I prefer to the Hon. Elibu Root. "On my right sat Alton B. Parker, who was once a candidate of our party for the Presidency. On the left of the presiding officer was a very distinguished Republican friend of mine and a friend of his country, though born in a country that is now at war with America, Julius Kahn of California. To his left was a distinguished ex-President of the United States in the person of Mr. Roosevelt. The widow of ex-President Cleveland was there, and Mr. President, I say with out fear of contradiction that of the 2,000 people there they represented every walk of life and represented body of patriotism that cannot be excelled in a like number of people anywhere in the United States. SPOKE EXTEMPORANEOUSLY. "This adress was delivered to them. In the multitude of affairs that have fallen to my lot it was impossible for me to prepare an address, and I appeared before them and delivered an extemporaneous address, and did not even have time to correct the proof of or reviso it after it was delivered. It was reported in The New York Times, and appears to be a verbatim report, and I assume the responsibility of the speech as printed in that paper. If there are any inaccuracies of diction or grammar, I trust that under the circumstances the Senate will overlook it. In as much as it forms the text of the charge against me of having distorted the truth I am going to ask that the Secretary may be permitted to read it. It is not very long. I dislike to burden the Senate with it, but I want the Senate to have the context of what I said in connection with what the distinguished President of the United States complains of in the address." Here the report of Senator Chamberlain's speech, as it appeared in The New York Times of last Sunday, was read by the Clerk of the Senate. "Mr. President," said Senator Chamberlain, "that address was delivered on the 19th of this month. I returned to Washington the next day, and in the evening of that day I received from the President of the United States a letter which I send to the desk and ask the secretary to read." The secretary read the following: The White House. Washington, January 20, 1918. My dear Sir: You are reported in The New York World of this morning as having said at a luncheon in New York yesterday: "The military establishment of America has fallen down. There is no use to be optimistic about a thing that does not exist; it has almost stopped function ng. Why? Because of inefficiency in every bureau and in every department of the Government of the United States, I speak not as a Democrat, but as an American citizen." I would be very much obliged if you would tell me whether you were correctly quoted. I do not like to comment upon the statements before learning from you yourself whether you actually made them. Very truly yours, WOODROW WILSON. Hon. George E. Chamberlain, United States, Senator DINWIDDIE Normal & Industrial Dinwiddie, Virginia Fall Term Opens October COURSES OF STUDY—Grammar School, No. 1 Stenography, Music, Domestic Science, Sewing, Po Stock Raising, Blacksmithing, Agriculture GRADUATES Get State Certificates to Teach With Fine Table Board, Comfortable Rooms Faculty Unsurpassed, Thorough "Mr President," he continued, "I received that letter too late to attempt to answer it last Sunday evening, but the first thing the next morning, and as soon as my office force came down, I dictated a letter to the President, and I ask to have that letter read into the record." REPLY TO THE PRESIDENT The Clerk then read the following letter: Jan. 21, 1918. My Dear Mr. President: I received last evening your favor of the 20th inst., in which you advise me that I was quoted in The New York World of same date with your letter as follows: "The military establishment of America has fallen down; there is no use to be optimistic about a thing that does not exist; it has almost stopped functioning. Why? Because of inefficiency in every bureau and in every department of the Government of the United States. I speak not as a Democrat, but as an American citizen." You desire to know if I am correctly quoted, inasmuch as you do not like to comment upon the statements made before learning from me whether I actually made them. In reply permit me to say that the words quoted are substantially those used by me. My address on the occasion referred to was extemporaneous and without notes, but The New York Times of this morning purports to give a verbatim report, of all the addresses made, and I believe the report made is substantially correct. In that I am quoted as saying, in part: "Now, in conclusion, and I have only touched a few of the high spots, let me say that the military establishment of America has fallen down. There is no use to be optimistic about a thing that does not exist. It has almost stopped functioning, my friends. Why? Because of inefficiency in every department of the Government of the United States. We are trying to work it out. I speak not as a Democrat, but as an American citizen." You will note that there is very little difference between the two reports and, in view of the fuller report of The Times, I am inclined to believe it correctly quotes me. But, Mr. President, may I beg that you will do me the honor to read the whole of what I said, in order that the part quoted may have its proper setting? I only had twenty minutes allotted me, and in that brief time undertook to show that since the battle of Bunker Hill we had never had a proper military organization or policy and that our troubles now are largely due to that fact. I was only discussing the military policy, or lack of such policy, from the earliest days of the Republic, and immediately following the language last quoted I said: "We are trying, my friends, and I have burned the midnight oil in an effort to do it—we have tried to centralize the power of supplying the army in one man who can say 'No,' and has the nerve to say 'No' when the time comes to say it. We have reported a bill, following the experience of Great Britain and France, creating a Director of Munitions for this purpose. We have gone one step further and we have provided a bill for the creation of a Cabinet of War whose duty it shall be to lay out what we never have had—and have not now—a program to carry on this war to a successful conclusion. My friends, this is not an Administration measure, it is an America measure and comes from Republicans and Democrats both." All present understood the criticism, and you will note that ox-President Roosvelt in his speech shortly following mine made substantially the same criticism of conditions during the Spanish-American war, although, as he said, "it was waged by an Administration of which I was a part and in which I afterward became even more closely connected." I have been connected with the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate ever since I have been a member of the Senate, and have taken a very deep interest in military legislation, and I believe I know something about the deficiencies in the military establishment. Since Congress convened the committee has been diligently at work endeavoring to find out actual conditions and to find some remedy for recognized or proven deficiencies in our military system. The testimony of witnesses in and out of the establishment clearly establishes the fact. Mr. President, that there are inefficiencies in the system that ought to be remedied for a proper prosecution of the war, and, further, that there are and have been inefficients connected with the administration of a disjointed and unco-ordinated establishment. So feeling and so believing, I have felt it my duty to speak out, in the hope that defects in the military code may be cureq and inefficients later weeded out. I will be glad to join with other members of the committee and $g_0$ over the situation with you at any time, if you desire it, and review the testimony which, taken in connection with the inherited deficient system, led me to the conclusion expressed in my short extemporaneous address $t_0$ which you call my attention. Yours very sincerely, GEORGE E CHAMBERLAIN. President Woodrow Wilson, The White House. 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We will Also oe Pleased to Quote You Prices on Exterior and Interior --- of that day—last Monday—there was printed in the evening papers, and generally printed throughout the United States, a statement by our d'instinguished President, and I assume that that is the answer to the letter. The press was kind enough, small as am compared with our d'instinguished President, to print with his statement a very brief statement which I made to them upon reading the President's statement. I ask that both be read, Mr. President." The President's statement in which he declared that the speech of Mr. Chamberlain in New York was a "distortion of facts," together with Senator Chamberlain's reply was read. "Mr. President," he continued, "the statement of the President challenges me, of course, to the proof of my statement as printed in The New York Times to which statement I adhere and which I now repeat. Whether my colleagues or the country will take the evidence by its four corners and reach the same conclusion that I have reached is an entirely different proposition. They may not see it from the same angle that I see it. Two men may read the same article and draw different conclusions from it. Two men may hear one witness testify and draw different inferences from what he said. Those are the inherent differences in human nature. But occupying the position that I do, Mr. President, as Chairman of this great committee, associated as I have been with Democrats and Republicans whose single aim and effort has been to develop conditions as they exist without fear or frivor or the hope of reward. I felt as an American citizen, and I feel as a member of this distinguished body, that it was my duty to say the thing that was in me. If I succeeded, Mr. President, in mak --- --- PETER H. BURKE 603 NORTH SECOND STREET Continued on Sixth Page. 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BEYULET Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent no as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ONE YEAR ..... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ..... 80 THREE MONTHS ..... 40 FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS ..... $2.00 SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 2, 1918 "THE NEGRO MIGRANT IN PITTSBURGH." Dr. Abraham Epstein's dissertation on the condition of colored people in Pittsburgh grows in interest. He is certainly generously fair in dealing with our people and his description of existing conditions bristles with facts. No one has appeared to deny them. He says: The Negro migration is neither an isolated nor a temporary phenomenon, but the logical result of a long series of linked causes beginning with the landing of the first slave ship and extending to the present day. The slavery which was ended by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Fourteenth Amendment of the National Constitution has been succeeded by less sinister but still significant social and economic problems, which are full of subtle menace for the welfare of America. He follows this warning with the following comment upon the intelligent citizen of color: The intelligent Negro has long be believed that his only escape from the measure of suppression which still exists is to go to the North and he has seized the opportunity whenever it was presented to him. The present unprecedented influx of black workers from the South is merely the result of a sudden expansion of opportunity due to a war-depleted labor market in the North. The causes for his migration are basically inherent in the social and economic system which has kept him down for these long years in the South. The Negro is beginning to appreciate his own value and duties, and is proceeding to the North where he knows he can at least enjoy a measure of justice. This naturally means a tremendous problem for the North. The race question is no longer confined to the states below the Mason and Dixon Line, but becomes the concern of the whole nation. It may be presumed that the European immigration after this war will not be as great as it was before it. This is true and is a plain statement that the improvement of the black man's financial condition was not the fundamental cause of his migration but was an additional inducement for him to seek a northern clime This leads us to enquire. What is the race question? Is it not rather the question as to whether or not the white man North and the white man South will recognize his own laws and accord to the colored citizen the rights and privileges of any other citizen? When they do this will not the "race question" disappear? He continued: The Negro is taking the place of the foreign worker, and he is certain to become an increasingly important factor in our national political and industrial life. He is already an important political factor in some municipalities, he is soon to be a basic factor in our industries. The Negro who has lived in the North has taken advantage of the industrial opportunities which were open to him, and is continuing to do so more and more. And again: Our policy of laissez-faire adopted towards the European immigrant can no longer be contained. This war has taught us some great lessons, and probably the greatest of all is the lesson of the necessity for a redefinition of social terms, and a reconsideration of human values. It has made us realize that if we want the nation to stand united in times of stress our policy must be consistent at all times. Democracy we have learned in this struggle, no longer means "each for himself, and the devil take the mind-most." If it means anything at all, it is that we are "members one of another," and that an injury to one is an injury to and the concern of all. Our old policy has shown us that the devil has taken too many, and we have come to say, "Halt!" This must no longer continue. We must see that all the elements which go to make up our body-politic are adjusted and placed in their proper relation. Our traditional attitude, this struggle has taught us, is too costly and we cannot afford longer to continue it. We know now that it is not sufficient that a few may have --- democracy and freedom while the rest are gened economic opportunity. We are also coming to realize that "we cannot hold a part of our fellowmen down in the gutter without remaining there ourselves." Dr. Epstein's comment is of the highest order and it places him in the realms of those economists who have taken front rank in the world's affairs. He prescribes the remedy. Now let us find the physician that can compel the nation to apply it. He says: No exact estimate of the number of Negroes who have come North within the last year is possible. Estimates vary from three hundred thousand and to seven hundred thousand. There are probably about two million Negroes now living in the North, and it is of paramount importance that we look into the conditions of these people who although in our midst, are yet so little known to us, and see that they are fitted into their new environment. Our little study of the social opportunities available and the conditions existing among our Negro brethren may therefore be of great interest and we are glad to present here some of the facts which were disclosed in our survey of these people who have recently settled amongst us in order to avail themselves of our hospitality and industrial opportunities. We have discussed in the preceding pages the imme- date opportunities for Negroes in this city as to housing and wages. It may therefore not be amiss to dis-cuss the possibilities of his attaining an advanced political, social and economic status. It seems then that politically both parties have gone the right way in dealing with the colored citizen as a voter. He says: Politically, the Negro in Pittsburgh is as free as the whites of the same group. Coming from places where the vote is denied him, he is naturally very glad to receive the privilege in Pittsburgh. It is a well known fact that the Negro vote is often a deciding factor in the results of municipal elections. Although there are a few shrewd Negro politicians, and the Negro vote is frequently "en bloc" there is never an issue made on some particular Negro problem. All candidates seem to assume that there is no special issue that concerns the Negro more than any other group in the city, and unscrupulous Negro politicians, are not in the least perturbed. They always see to it, however, that no Negro vote will be lost, that their occupation tax is paid and that they are registered. This was clearly brought out in this year's municipal election. Although the Negro vote was a great factor in deciding this campaign, not one of the candidates made an issue of the housing and other problems which are confronting the Negroes at present. It can therefore be stated that in politics, while the Negro has been utilized by all sorts of politicians, he has at least nominally been as free as his white brother in the same position. God knows Dr. Epstein understands the situation. If he did not how could he use the following language? However more and more we are coming to realize that political freedom without industrial opportunities means but little. Democracy must all so mean industrial opportunity, and social democracy, as well as political democracy. But the industrial opportunity which the Negro demands is not even the same as is demanded by his more fortunate white-skinned brother. While his fellow-human beings demand a larger voice in industry and business, and a greater share of the product, the Negro is still meekly begging for his inenable right to participate in industry, to help extend and build it up. It is the denial of this right that confronts the Negro in the North and makes his problem of paramount significance. He continues: The great majority of the Negro migrants come North because of the better economic and social opportunities here. But even here they are not permitted to enter industry freely. They are kept in the ranks of unskilled labor and in the field of personal service. Until the present demand for unskilled labor arose, the Negroes in the North were for the most part, servants. There were very few Negroes occupied otherwise than as porters, chauffeurs, janitors and the like. The Negro at present has entered the productive industries, but he is kept still on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. And again: From a study of colored employees in twenty of the largest industrial plants, in the Pittsburgh district, arbitrarily selected, we find that most of the concerns have employed colored labor only since May or June of 1916. Very few of the Pittsburgh industries have used colored labor in capacities other than as janitors and window cleaners. A few of the plants visited had not begun to employ colored people until in the spring of 1917 while a few others had not yet come to employ Negroes either because they believe the Negro workers to be inferior and inefficient, or because they feared that their white labor force would refuse to work with the blacks. The Superintendent of one big steel plant which has not employed colored labor during the past few years admitted that he faced a decided short age of labor, and that he was in need of men; but he said he would employ Negroes only as a last resort, and that the situation was as yet not sufficiently acute to warrant their employment. In a big glass plant, the company attempted to use Negro labor last winter, but the white workers "ran out" by swearing at them calling them "Nigger" and making conditions so unpleasant for them that they were forced to quit. This company has therefore given up any THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA further attempts at employing colored labor. It may be interesting to note however, that one young Negro boy who pays no attention to such persecution persistently stays there. Could anything be more interesting? Oh, that we could get another colored boy, who would brave the insults and persistently stay there? We says: About ninety-five per cent, of the colored workers in the steel mills visited in our survey were doing unskilled labor. In the bigger plants where many hundreds of Negroes are employed almost one hundred per cent, are doing common labor, while in the smaller plants, a few migrate be found doing labor which required some skill. The reasons alleged by our manufacturers are; first, that the migrants are inefficient and unstable and second, that the opposition to them on the part of white labor promotes their use on skilled jobs. The latter objection is illustrated by the case of the white bargemen of a big steel company who wanted to walk out because black workers were introduced among them, and who were only appeased by the provision of sep arate quarters for the Negroes. While those is an undeniable hostility to Negroes on the part of a few white workers, the objection is frequently exaggerated by prejudiced gang bosses. This, then, describes a condition in the North. It will be seen that the colored man as a laborer is all right, as a skilled workman, he is all wrong. The same prejudice noted against him in the South in an even more virulent form is observable in the North. If he must brave or fight it out, is it not just as well to do it here as to risk it there? Southern white men backed up colored firemen and brakemen on the Southern roads many years go, and much skilled labor is now employed in this State. Tae migration North has improved conditions in the industrial plants South. Why is it that those of us who remain cannot take advantage of these war conditions and make the most of it by making personal pleas to the upper class of far-seeing white men who meet us from day to day? He says: That this idea is often due to the prejudice of the heads of departments and other labor employers, was the opinion of a sympathetic superintendent of one of the largest steep plants, who said that in many instances it was the superintendents and managers themselves who are not alive to their own advantage and so oppose the Negro's doing the better class of work. The same superintendent said that he had employed Negroes for many years; that a number of them have been connected with his company for several years; that they are just as efficient as the white people. More than half of the twenty-five Negroes in his plant were doing semi-skilled and oven skilled work. He had one or two colored forenames over colored gangs, and cited an instance of a colored man drawing a hundred and fourteen dollars in his last two weeks pay. This claim was supported by a very intelligent Negro who was stopped a few blocks away from the plant and questioned as to the conditions in the plant. While admitting everything that the Superintendent said, and stating that there is now absolute free opportunity for colored people in that plant, the man claimed that these conditions have come into being only within the last year. The same superintendent told of an episode illustrating the unicable relations existing in his shop between the white and black workers. He related that a gang of workers had come to him with certain complaints and the threat of a walk-out. When their grievances had been satisfactorily adjusted they pointed to the lonely black man in their group and said that they were not ready to go back unless their Negro fellow worker was satisfied. It would seem, then, that the so-called problem is solving itself by the actual scarcity of white labor. If colored men look to their own interests and avoid attacks of "big head" during this period of industrial activity, they will benefit not only themselves as individuals, but their people as a mass. Colored folks from the South who are in the North frequently overestimate their own importance and with the entrance of prosperity show that their ground work of breeding, as we say down here, was defective. But then another class of our people went to Pittsburgh, the better class, and they will no doubt avoid the pitfalls in which so many fell, who years ago preceded them. Dr. Epstein continues: From our survey of the situation it must be evident that the southern migrant are not as well established in the Pittsburgh industries as is the white laborer. They are as yet unadapted to the heavy and pace-set labor in our steel mills. Accustomed to the comparatively easy-going plantation and farm work or the South, it will take some time until these migrants have found themselves. The roar and clangor of our mills make these newcomers a little dazed and confused at first. They do not stay long in one place, being birds of passage; they are continually searching for better wages and accommodations. They cannot even be persuaded to wait until pay day, and they like to get money in advance, so lowing the habit they have acquired from the southern economic system. It is often secured on very filmy pre texts and spent immediately in the saloons and similar places. It is admitted, however, by all employers of labor, that the Negro who was born in the North and has been in the North for some time, although not as subservient to bad treatment, is as efficient as the white; that because of his knowledge of the language and the ways of this country, he is often much better than the foreign laborer who understands neither. Paradoxical as it may seem, the labor movement in America—which it is claimed was begun and organized primarily to improve the conditions of all workers and protect their interests from the designs of heartless and cruel industrial captains—has not only made no effort to relieve and help the oppressed black workers who have suffered even more than the whites from exploitation and serfdom but in many instances have remained indifferent to the economic interest and even served as an obstacle to the free development of the colored people. This is a social weakness among the lower classes of colored folks, this migratory movement, this flitting from place to place, this working a little while and then resting a little while. This peculiarity of the Southern colored man is a peculiarity of many of the Southern white men. Thousands of our people like to join in singing that good old religious "hymn," with its refrain, "Every Day'll Be Sunday Bye and Bye." They regard heaven as being heaven because it will be, or is supposed to be, a realm of no work, where the saints drink milk and eat honey forevermore. They do not know that the real road to happiness runs right through the wilderness of hard work and constant effort. At the end of the rainbow of honest, laborious endeavor lies the bag of gold for the weary traveler. He says: Since the East St. Louis race riots in July of this year and later on the Chester and other race clashes, the press has been full of controversy concerning the colored labor problem in the North. Employers as well as many prominent persons openly laid the blame for the spilling of the blood of women and little children at the door of the labor unions. On the other hand, the labor men almost as a unit have charged the responsibility for these riots to the Northern industrial leaders who are bringing these laborers to be used as a tool to break up the labor movement in the North. Dr. Epstein is treading upon dangerous ground, but see how he handles it: the motives of the employers who are bringing the colored migrants are obviously not altruistic. They are not concerned primarily with freezing the Negro from the economic and political restrictions to which he is still subjected in the South. It is not to be assumed that their interests extend further than the employment of these ignorant people as Mistillied laborers. Indeed the sheer economic interest of the Northern industrial concerns which are bringing the Negro migrants, may be illustrated by the following contract which is typical of many agreements signed by migrants when accepting transportation North. "It is hereby understood that I am to work for the above named Company as ..... the rate of pay to be ..... The ..... Railroad agrees to furnish (transportation and food to destination. I agree to work on any part of the ..... Railroad where I may be assigned. I further agree to reimburse the ..... Railroad for the cost of my railroad (transportation, in addition to which I agree to pay to cover the cost of meals and other expenses incidental to my employment. I authorize the Company to deduct from my wages money to pay for the above expenses. In consideration of the ..... Railroad paying my carfare, board, and other expenses. I agree to remain in the service of the aforesaid Company until such time as I reimburse them for the expenses of my transportation, food, etc. It is agreed upon the part of the 'Railroad Company that if I shall remain in the service for one year, the ..... Railroad Company agrees to return to me the amount of carfare from point of shipment to ..... By continuous service for one year is meant that I shall not absent myself from duty any time during the period without the consent of my superior officer. It is understood by me that the ..... Railroad will not grant me free transportation to the point where I was employed. I am not less than twenty-one or more than forty-five years of age and have no venereal disease. If my state ment in this respect is found to be incorrect this contract becomes void." Laborer's Name It is apparent that since the war has put a stop to the importation of foreign immigrants, the Negroes are so far the only cheap and unorganized labor supply obtainable. Indeed Mexicans were brought to work here in the same way, although the experience with them was not as satisfactory as with the blacks. Well, if our people have outstripped the Mexicans, then something is certainly said in our favor. It is a wonder that they did not try Indian labor, before they resorted to the black "army" from the Southland. Some of our folks can "soldier," but none of them can equal in lounging the blanketed tribesmen from the Far West. He says: While it may be true that the motive for bringing these ignorant workers is primarily to fill up the unskilled labor gap, and not to break up the labor movement, it is self-evident that the employers would scarcely admit the latter motive even though it was paramount. It may be that ultimately the employers may use these workers against the union organizations or against the securing of the eight-hour-day, which the total unions are aiming to attain. In deed, the employment agent of one of our great industrial plains which underwent a big strike a few years ago, pointed out that one of the great values of the Negro migration lies in State Grand Lodge of Virginia, The Independent Order of Good Samaritans and What They Stand For. THE ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT operated since October, 1901, issuing policies for One Hundred Dollars. Since 1901 we have paid in Death Claims, NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000.) The Juvenile Department Charity Fund pays TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS (,25.00) at the death of the members. Our Home Office Building at the N. W. Corner Sixth and Duval Streets, worth EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS ($8,000) all paid for. ALL DEATH CLAIMS PAID PROMPTLY. THE SUBORDINATE LODGES Pay Weekly Sick Benefits from $1.56 to $3.00 per week. The JOINING FEE IS IN THE REACH OF ALL. SUBORDINATE Grants Chief TO CARRY FORWARD THE WORK OF TEMPERATURE REFORM in such a manner that all may receive and enjoy its healing influences. To secure sympathy and relief for the unfortunate and distressed families of those who pledge themselves to abstain from all intoxicating drinks. To elevate the living, to comfort the Widows and Fatherless in the hour of their afflictions, and bury the dead of our Order, and generally in love to spread the principles of true Charity in the hearts of members, thereby creating fountains of Purity and Truth from which shall flow perennial streams of comfort to the afflicted, and blessing to all. OURS IS A SECRET ORDER. But so far from being objectionable, we claim it a morit. In whatever light opponents may choose to regard our enterprise, we at least entertain no THE ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT Since 1901 we have paid in Deat. C. mont Charity Fund paid TWENTY-I Building at the N. W. Corner Sixth for. ALL DEATH CLAIMS PAID THE SUBORDINATE LODGES FEE IS IN THE REACH OF ALL. C. F. HUBBARD J. W. THOMPSON, Grand Secretary the fact that it gives him a chance to "mix up his labor forces and to establish a balance of power" as the Negro, he claimed, "is more individualistic, does not like to group and does not follow a leader, as readily as some foreigners do." However, in only one instance in our survey of the Pittsburgh trade unions, was a complaint lodged against colored peo ple taking the places of striking white workers. This was in a waiters' cause the patrons of the restaurants strike and was won just the same, be protested against the substitution of Negro waiters. In all the others, there were no such occurrences. Indeed the number of Negroes taking the places of striking whites and of skilled white workers is so small that it is hardly appreciable. They are as we have seen, largely taking the places which were left vacant by the unskilled foreign laborers since the beginning of the war, and the new places created by the present in dustrial床 no effective effort has been made to organize these unskilled laborers by the recognized American labor movement. These people therefore whose places are now being taken by the Negroes, worked under no American standard of labor, and the fear of these unskilled laborer breaking down labor standards which have never existed is obviously un founded. This shows that the colored people are not going North as strikebreakers. They are only filling up gaps in the labor department, created by the call to the colors of thousands of foreigners, who are now in the armies on the other side. But enough for this week. Dr. Abraham Epstein has rendered the people of this country a service. So far as our people are concerned, he has placed them before the public in their proper light. We pause to remark in concluding that he has not had to shield us or hide our faults. He has told the truth and "Truth fears notaining but concealment." ```markdown ``` Worry kill's as many people as disease. It is all coming out right. God is rodding our enemies and some of our friends and He will bring all things right in His own time. Many of our friends are sending in money of the Planet. Some of them are sending us new subscribers. We need both. Colored folks, save your money Buy land and be happy at times even though you are miserable at other times. They are shipping colored folks to Europe now. They are about as well off in one place as in another. A man's life is not his own and his freedom seems at times to be a mockery. The Court Martial in Texas is now proceeding to try forty more members of the Twenty fourth Infantry. If they do less trying of colored folks and more fighting of white ones, we would be doing more to win the war. It is reported that Secretary of War Baker and Senator Chamberlain dined together this week in the Senate restaurant. It was not Secretary of War Baker that charged that Senator Chamberlain had distorted the truth. It was President Wilson Had he dined with Senator Chamberlain, it would be time to "sit up and take notice." --- Never fail to practise politeness. It will pay you in the long run. Remember to obey the law, if you know the law. But it is difficult to know the law these days. FOR 2 DAYS ONLY GLOBE THEATRE, SECOND STREET, BETWEEN CLAY AND LEIGH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FEB. 1-2 'Every Baby Should Be Well Born' EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IN RICHMOND SHOULD SEE THIS PICTURE BIRTH THE SANCTITY AND DUTY OF MOTHERHOOD ACTUAL SCENES— THE FIRST TIME HERE —NO FAKE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND AS TAKEN AT THE NEW YORK HOSPITALS. MEN ONLY EACH DAY FROM 7:30 TO 11 P. M. WOMEN ONLY EACH DAY FROM 2:00 TO 7 P. M. NO CHILDREN ADMITTED. 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CHAMBERLAIN'S ANSWER TO PRESIDENT MAAC TOUCHE ing @ rift in the clouds ang letting the sunlight into the dark places where the American people were en- titled (0 Bo and see, 1 felt that my efforts and the efforts of my colleates, for whom T entertain the highest re gard and Fespect, would not have been fn vain in our endeavor to save our country in the pending crisis, TESTIMONY NOT YET PRINTED. “The evidence has not yet been printed, ‘Phat has not been due to any fault on the part of the commit. tee, but, because of its importance, tho (estimony of each witness has been sent to him in order that he might revise i, and that the country might Ket the’ evidence as it came from the lips of the witnesses. hopo it will be finished today, so that the Senate may have it. But now, Mr. Presidomt, in viow of the fact Mat my (ruthfulness has been catled in question, T feel it my auty, not to g0 into getail—becauso iL would take me days lo do Uhat—but to say some things here in all Iindness, and 0 tell the country some things that possibly 1 might not have told under ordinary circumstances. I shall do it as a man who loves his country best of all_a man who would sacrifice not only his own life, but the Hfe of every member of his family to save it, T shat do it fearlessly, ang as an American citizen who wants to Wotp and not hinder our great Presi- dont inthis emergency. “T rather think, Mr. President, that it is mot that have distorted the truth but T have sometimes feared that in (he multitude of eares and responsibilities that Nave qevolved upon the President of the United States he has not heen able to ascer- tain (he (rath, If he has relied upon some of (hose who have come before or committee, Mr. President, and my fallow Senators, he docs not know the truth, and from the lips of some of those who have testified and who aro closest to him he cannot find the truth—not because there has been a Wsposition to deceive or m'slead our distinguished Pxecutive, but. s'mply hecause they, too, ato so situated in the mullitudinous affairs of — this great crisis Mat they cannot ascer- fain (he (ruth; and, even if _ they could ascertain’ the truth through the labyrinth of things (hat pass over their desks and (rough their offices each day, it would be impossible for them (o remember it for any purpose. So this investigation was started, Mr. Prosident, witha purpose to he crit cal where criticism was necessary, DUE its purpose Was to he constructive as well; and this committee would not have discharged its duty to the Senaie and to the country if it had fore about the work with any other purpose in view than (o criticise where criticism was Just and (o offer suggestions of a constructive nature where that was proper, UNPREPARED WITH ORDNANCE. Mr, President, the Secretary of War, in his general statement to the coun: try—which was carefully written ang ably prepared—tells us that $3,200, 000, 000 have heen appropriated for the Ordnance Department and con- tracis nave heen let for $1,677.000.000; all of which is (rue. But the Seere- tary fails to tell us, Mr. President, in his statement to the country, and it only comes out in the course of A cross-examination, that America stands today unprepared so far as ord nance is concerned. T challenge any- body to read tho testimony and come to any other conclusion. Poor bleed. ing France, my frlends—bled white, not only for her own life and for the liberty of her own citizens, but, for America as woll--is today furnishing our troops as thoy go abroad with tho heavy ordnance ang the machine gung for aircraft. and fof ground service, Why, Mr. President, if we relied upon the ‘Ordnance Dopartment in this emergency to furnish our troops with the tieavy ordnance—and this is a war of artillery today—the war would be over hefore we ever got to the front. “Why, therg is testimony before the Military ‘Affairs Committes that along some of these fronts the anion —the heavy cannon, if you please— are located five yards apart for a dis- tanco of six miles; and yet America, this great and magnificent country, is dependent upon poor France to de: liver the ordnance! Did Franco agree to deliver it in order to win America? Dig sho agro to furnish it in order to invite America? What has France to do with the debacle in Maly, my fr'ends, whore her own troops are and where the troops of her allies are? What is Franco to do for them in case of an emergency and a desperate battle for the life of ono of her allies? What has the Ordnance Department Ween doing sinco 1914? Was there a half-witted Amertean citizen who did not know and realize that there was a chance that America might become Involved? ‘There were omens in the sky, my friends and colleagues, that indicated that America woulq become involved, notwithstanding her dosire to keep ont. She could not keop out. What was the Ordnance Department doing? Noth'ng. Here we wero from August, 1914, until the declaration of what were the possibilities in raw material and the possiblities of man ufacture, Tt would not have taken any Ume; it would not have cost any: thing, to have done that. Congress appropriated quite a large gum in two or three appropriation bills for {he purpose of manufacturing dies nd Jiks and guages to be usod in the con- struction “of all of these implements of arUllery warfare, ‘That money has not been expended, and yet every business man and every sensible maint in U's country knows that for quin- tily production it is absolutely neces: sity to have the guages and the jigs and the qies, so that when you are ready to Manufacture all you have to do is to send them out, so that guns may be manufactured" along those Mes, What was the Ordnance De- partment doing? Nothing. Tam not blaming anybody in par. Ceular, Mr, President, T have a very Weh regarq for General Crozier, He has made his reputation in the army and his life has beon spent in. the service of his country, We have not heen able to do wiat Great Britain has done, and what France has done, and what Haly Mas done, and what every one of our Allies has been ablo fo qo. and that is to retire these fen. Memen who have not proved them. selves up to the mark when it comeg to wetting ready for war. We ought Hot to dismiss them in disgrace; France has not hesitated to retire them to the shades of private life, or to tie shades of military life, if you please, into positions of innocuous desuetude. Great Britain has not hesitated to do it at any time. Why should America hesitae? BROWNING GUN Nor TESTED, Senator Chambertain then went in- fo the nfichine gun issue and de elared the Browning gun had never been tested. “I do not care what anybody says about it, because it has never been given aw field test.” he said. “It hag been developed that all of these guns have to be experimented with and developed and changed ang modified in ono form or anotier before they can finally become an implement of warfare in the proper sense of the word, “I think the Seeretary testified in renard to their contracts” for the Browning gun. Contracts are out, and they are to be delivered some time, Task you to read General Crozier’s test’mony. 1 do not. want fo go into that. Tag not think it would be proper to go inty it; but we Continued on Seventh Page ee Lynehburg, Va., Dr. Ve Bacehus, Roxboro, N.C. 5 Kaw. L. Farley "Main ‘street, New Orleans La, William ang Brown, 2424 8, Rampart St, Pittsburgh, Pa., Columbus P. Beal,” 715 Allan Ave. New York City, VP. 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Fourth Street : Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia THE PANTHER SEN. CHAMBERLAIN'S ANSWER TO PRESIDENT Continued from Sixth Page. are advised that we have got some manufactured. The Secretary testified some time during the middle of December, that we had nine guns at that time—nine Browning guns—nine guns to go up against the millions of Germany. It may be that having nine shows that there is now an opportunity for quantitative production, because the guages may be ready; but we have been in the war ten months, and nothing has been accomplished. "We were furnishing Lee-Enfield rifles to the Britania Government in a large number. The factories were prepared for them. It is true that Great Britain was trying to make an improvement upon the rifles, but when the war came on Great Britain said, 'We will not waste any time improving our rifles, but will get them out just as quick as we can, and they have been manufacturing them ever since. What did America do? With 700,000 rifles in America and in our colonial possessions, a motley group of different kinds of guns, America was seeking, through the Ordnance Department, to take the rifle that Great Britain was manufacturing here and which we could have put out without any trouble in the factories. "We went to work through the Ordnance Department to improve the Enfield rifle. I am frank to say it is a great improvement. I believe it is a better gun than the English gun, but here while the House was burning America was determining through its Ordnance Department, what instrumentalities ought to be adopted to put out the fire, so that it took weeks and months before they finally got the Lee-Enfield rifle into a condition where the Ordnance Department thought it was all right. Here were the engineers of these great arms companies, who got together and finally agreed upon a program for manufacture of these guns, and finally concluded that they would manu facture them with seven interchangeable parts, and they started to manu facture the gauges, the fjs and des and everything ready for the manu facture of guns with seven interchangeable parts. "After the Ordnance Department had practically accepted the suggestion, the Ordnance Department evidently concluding that everything was not going all right, went to work through a distinguished officer in the Ordnance Department and changed that first from 7 to 40 different interchangeable parts and finally raed it up to over 50 interchangeable parts, with the result that everything had to be stopped for awhile. NO MORTARS AT CAMP BOWIE. The casual reader of the Secretary's statement would conclude that we had everything in the way of ordnance, and yet, take the testimony of men on the ground like General Grebe of Camp Bowie, Texas. They have not a single trench mortar. They have not machine guns to any appreciable number, not enough to train machine gun men. The testimony of all is that the machine-gun man is not worth anything unless he has had some practice with a machine gun. They have not any Howitzers; they have not any of the larger caliber gun. My friends, that is true of Camp, Bowie, and it is true of every cantonment and of every regular division in the United States. I af not saying it by way of complaining, Mr. President, but I am trying to show and I want the American people to realize that as to military policy America has none and that her military establishment has fallen down. If it had not been for the civilian people of this country, if it had not been for the men who have come here and given their time and their services we would not have been any where." Senator Chamberlain then turned to the Quartermaster's Department. "I realize the great difficult es that have confronted the Quartermaster General," he said. "I am not complaining of that. He has done the best he could under a faulty system, and the President is not responsible for the situation. He inherited the system. He has done the best he could. But we are without the clothing just the same. "Now, I am going to show by Mr. Baker's testimony that he did not know it, and that is the reason why I am saying that our distinguished friend the President—the premier of all the great statesmen of the world, if you please, cognized as the leader of thought in this great international cataclysm and I say Amen to it—did not know the truth and I did. He must have gotten his facts from his distinguished Secretary of War, and he, in turn got them from somebody else, and if those who furnished the evidence knew the facts, they lied. If the Secretary represented conditions to the President on their statement, he must have not given the President the whole truth or he did not know it." He then passed around some photo graphs of Wooden guns in use in the camps. "I do this," he said, "because I feel it a duty that I owe first to my country, and second to my conscience and no man and no set of men on God's green foostool can keep me from telling the truth and carrying out the dictates of my own conscience. I have no fear of God, man or devil." My only fear, my friends, is that in this discussion in some way or other, it might have a psychologically bad effect upon my country and its cause. But if these conditions exst, they ought to be corrected and corrected quickly." "Great Britain found the same conditions and she corrected them pretty quickly. France found the same conditions, and corrected them. America cannot get her army to manufacture these things. I do not care what they say, the graduates of miltary institutions stand at the top of their classes. It may be, but when it comes to a young man trained along a particular line of duty undertaking to handle great commercial and manufacuring enterprises it is not in him to do it. You must go to the men who have done these things in order to secure results. Great Britain did that and France did it and why should we not take this matter up, and if Congress feels that there are irregularities in it, Congress ought to do its duty, though the heavens fall. Congress ought to do it without fear of anybody giving due weight and consideration always to the distinguished Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. ONE CAMP'S SHORTAGE. "Now, what has been the result? I want to read the Secretary's statement about having all these things in the way of equipment &c. While he was on the stand a few days ago, reiterating again, the statement that these boys were equipped, I said to him as I took my seat at the head of that table with my distinguished colleagues: 'Why, Mr. Secretary, I have just talked within the last five minutes with a commanding officer at one of these cantomments, and he tells me that he has 7,000 coats short in his usual placid way, he said: 'That is not true.' I said: 'He just came from there, and is it not true?' He turned around to the Assistant Secretary of War and said to him: 'Telegraph to the Quartermaster General and get his report.' On the next day, the 14th of January, I got this Letter from the Secretary: Washington, D. C., Jan. 14, 1918. Mr. Dear Senator Chamberlain—On Saturday morning one of the members of the committee said that he had just talked with the commanding officers of Camp Sherman, and that there were as I recall it, 3,000 men there without uniforms. You will recall that I asked the Assistant Secretary to direct at once that a telegram be sent to the camp to find out he facts. I inclose a telegram which came on Saturday, the same day, upon which the statement was made, and which states that the 31,024 men now at Camp Sherman were at that time all in uniform and that a previous shortage) of approximately 7,000 coats was at that time provided for. I send this information because as you will recall, I ventured at the time the statement was made quite definitely to express a disbelief in its accuracy. (Senator Chamberlain—I will say this for the Secretary when he did not know he was very positive.) This telegram I think should be called to the attention of the members of the committee as it is of his highest importance to have them know both that this provision has been made and that the information upon which I have been relying in my testimony to the committee is not in accurate. Cordially yours, (Signed) NEWTON D. BAKER Secretary of War. Hon. George E. Chamberlain, United States Senate. The telegram is as follows. It came from the quartermaster addressed to General Goethals: Camp Sherman, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1918 Goethals, Quartermaster General of the army, Washington, D. C. Re tl; date; 31,024 men now at this camp all in uniform. Previous shortage of approximately 7,000 coats provided for. CASE. Camp Quartermaster, "That convinced me," said Senator Chamberlain, "that the Secretary of War knew what he was talking about and I was glad to have it con- firmed because there were some things I thought he was mis-informed about. On the very next day January 15, he sent me this letter; War Department. War Department, Washington, D. C., Jan. 15, 1918. My Dear Senator Chamberlain: I send you a telegram which has just been received from Camp Sher- man. The information in it differs from that contained in the caller telegram, which I sent you yesterday and which arrived on Saturday. Apparently the information given $t_0$ you by General Glenn as $t_0$ the blouses was accurate. This telegram however shows that an adequate supply is in shipment, though not received by the time the telegram was sent. "That is the way it has been ever since he commended. It is inchoate but does not get there. Now what does the telegram say? January 18, 1918. Goethals, per Hardeman. GOVERNMENT, per Thutombah, Office Quartermaster General. Washington, D.C. Thirty-one thousand one hundred and four men now in camp. All have overcoats and woolen breeches. Twenty-four thousand two hundred and four have complete uniforms. Sixty-nine hundred not yet supplied with coats, supply of which is now in shipment. CASE. Camp Quartermaster PRAISES GENERAL GLENN. "So with the distinguished General Al Genn at Camp Sherman," he said "a man whom I have always found willing to tell the truth, and he has said it even against his super or comanding men. He comes from North Carolina, God bless him! I wish you had more of them. Speaking from memory only, he missed it by one hundred and I think I shall show by Mr. Baker's own test mony when he makes the statement that all these places are equipped he is mistaken. But that is not all I am going to show you. With all these statements time and again iterated and reiterated, that they are provided, this committee asked the Adlutant Gen THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA --- BANKING Banking is a science. It is one of the most mystifying of all sciences. 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Jan. 12, 1918 Hon. George E. Chamberlain, Chairman Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate My Dear Senator; Persuant to tele phone request of your committee to the Adjutant General of the Army that a report be obtained showing in percentages the shortages of articles of Equipment S. quartermaster supplies, at the different divisional camps as of Jan. 1, or as near that date as possible, a telegram was sent to all division commanders, and I now have the honor to submit to your committee, attached her.with, a tabulated sheet showing the state of equipment as disclosed by these replies. Figures represent shortages in per centages. Where blank spaces exist $n_0$ shortages were reported. Very respectfully NEWTON D BAKER Secretary of War "That information comes to us through the Secretary of War himself contradicting over his own signature and in his own letter his previous statement of the case that the equipment was all there. 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"Take Camp Wheeler, Ga., and I am going to call attention to some of the things in connection with these shortages, Mr. Presidnt, unpleasant though it may be, and I am going to undertake to show to the Senate and the country as to the hundreds and thousands young men who are dying in all of these encampments that the War for Freedom itself is, that is my conclusion from the test mony, I am not an expert; I do not know; but I charge that I conclude from the test mony that that inefficiency is responsible for it, I am not going to make that statement on my own authority; I am not going to read into the record the e ports of the Surgeon General. I am not making these statements, Mr. President, without having sat with the committee and never in using a single minute except when I was called to a department. I know what every witness stated. If I had time to go into detail I could open the eyes even of the Senate. "Take Camp Donphian, in Oklahoma, where there was a 55 per cent, shortage of woolen coats. Now we will take—well, there will be any difference on this; they will either flay out of existence or else we shall win this war; but I shall do my own work to make it happen. Our attention to this condition, Take Camp Wheeler, which had a shortage of woolen coats of 39 per cent; Camp Hearth, which had a shortage of 21 per cent; Camp Logan, Texas, which had a shortage of 50 per cent; Camp Cody, N. M. 50 per cent; Camp Jonphian, Okla, 53 per cent; Camp Bowa, Texas, 40 per cent; Camp Bowa, Texas, 50 per cent, and so on down the list. In the highest shortage in woolen coats was 75 per cent. The shortage at Camp Custer was 75 per cent. "Mr. President, I will not read the whole list of these shortages, but Senators may take each item, and it will be found that these camps are in the way, as I say, from I per cent, to I per cent, format on comes right from the end on the ground. They know what they are talking about; they do not have to make their estimates on a per capita basis, as to which I tried to illustrate my post on here a Little ago, and they make their estimates on the ground, just as General Glenn did when he what the conditions were. DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. "Mr. President, right in this connection—this is as good a place to do it as any, though I did not intend to do this—but it will not do any harm. I thought it might probably not be necessary—but in view of the situation that contours me, with my integrity called in question, I feel my duty to the country to let them know, and I am not going to call attention to the reports of General Gorgas himself, to show that nearly all of these deaths and these ep-demens could have been avoided of the War Department had been efficient and effective. "In addition to the testimony of General Gorgas, we have the testimony of men on the ground. We and General Greble come up here. He is a splendid old fellow. I ought not to thank him than I am, and he is at it in service. He is a splendid man, a foe and forless soldier. Whenever you get a soldier who has not any other ambition than the ambition to service his country you will invariably get the truth. It is not as with one of these swivel-tops, but the knots to go higher, and from whom you can not ascertain the truth. "In September last General Grebe began to see what was coming to his body of fine young fellows, and he began to reach out to try to get the things that were necessary to protect them from d sease and to try to have those things done that would not appeal only to man; he did not appeal only through the regular channels; but he appealed through all channels. They had this bdy of splendid young men in pyramidal tents, twelve in a tent, packed together like sardines, when they ought not to have had at any t mo more than five or six, or, at the outside, General Grebe telegrammed to the Quarrels and stated: 'If you do not give more space for these soldiers we shall have measles and pneumonia and all the diseases which soldiers take.' He also appealed to General Gorgas, and kept on appealing. Then he was sent to Europe on a mission. When he came back he found the same condition practically exsiting. Not until some time in December did the epidemic had be asked. Then the epidemic had been out many as 8,000 young men went through the base hospitals and hospitals down there at Camp Bowle, Think of that! FIFTY FEET FOR EACH MAN "So here was an old officer who was accustomed to handle soldiers and who knew what was going to happen to any sensible man know what would happen to him. General Hearst always divided the War Department that there ought to be fifty square feet of floor space to every man, and in those little tents they had placed twelve men. He d.d not get his rest complied with and the worst had happened, until $,000 men had passed through the hospitals, and many of them had died, and abolished their friends, had died without proper nursing because of the inefficiencies of the same system. "I challenge my friends to read this testimony; do not take my words for it. You may single out a few witnesses who testify in opposition to what I am now stating, but when you get down to the men who know from social contact and experience you get the truth as it appears on the ground. "If there is one man in America who knows what he is talking about when he talks about disease and epidemics, and knows how to handle them, it is General Gorgas. He has been a leader in the fight against him, but he has achieved a world wide reputation, for his splendid work at Panama, and he has made that formerly pestulent region the garden spot of the continent in which to live because of the efforts of Jimus f and of his subordinates. "I am going to ask that all this be printed in the record. All of these agreements are radiating spots from which there goes out to the American people everything that is taking place and God grant that every young man will write to his mother and will teach his mother not in order to stay the patriotism Amer ca, but to admitate those in authority to do their duty to protect their lives, if they are to fight the battles of the country. CONFLICT OVER DEATH RATE "Mr. Secretary Baker says in his printed statement that the deaths in our forces in the United States from September to the end of December average 7.5 per thousand a year, slightly less than would have been the death rate of the men of the same age home. "Well that is that, but General Gorgas says that amongst all the troops there has been a dath rate of 8.2 per cent, covering a little longer time. It is probable that Secretary Baker's statement is correct for the time he gives, and that General Gorgas data are correct for the time he covers; but what does a little thing like 2 per cent of a million and a dath of a cent? It does not mean anything; let them die; it is only a per cent; they save the balance of them. "However, my friends, if proper precautions upon the part of the Government' if an efficient system had saved one young man who was risking his life for America, the American people would have been glad to have seen the money expended to save that one life. Particularly is that true, my husband is the head of the reports of the Surgeon General of which show that this condition was due to the fact that in most cases the troops were overcrowded. "But that is not all. With that distinguished man at the head of the medical service of the army and an able corps of assistants here he was not even advised with as to the selection of the cantonment sites. Now think of that the man at the head of the medical department here in Boston, with a reputation in his two states among the professional men in the world, not even consulted with reference to the selection of these sites. "It may be said that with the officer of the line who selected these camp sites, there was a young doctor who went around with him. Whether he was from the medical corps or whether he was some post or contract care on does not make any difference. The surgeon General Gorgas was not consulted, and all this time he has insisted morning, noon, and a night, in season and out of season, that in order to safeguard the health of these young men there must be at least 50 square feet of floor space to the man. And yet I venture to say, Mr. President, we have a single campment in the United States that has been built with that idea in view of protecting the young men. MEN CALLED TOO SOON. "But it may he said that these young men had to be called out quickly. What was the use of calling them out until the cantonments were ready? They might have been drafted into the service, and might have been assigned for duty at home or allowed to remain somewhere where they would not have to have given up their lives because of a lack of care. "I will take these camps at random, and, unhassed as I have referred to Camp Bowie, I will call attention to the men in my Southern friends and colleagues and the same conditions prevail down there, as you will know if you have taken the trouble to go on the ground." He then read this report from General Gorgas on Camp Seyler, S. C.; eral Gorgas on Camp Sevier, S. C.; Sanitary conditions here are serious. Sixty men have died of pneumonia in the last month. The camp has had 175 cases of pneumonia, about 2,000 cases having occurred within the last month. During this same period they have had 175 cases of pneumonia and 15 acces of omeningitis. The new conscripts of th's command are men who are nonimmune to measles. They come from the ne giborng Southern States, where population is scarce, and, therefore, have measles in childhood. Always with measles in childhood, the number of cases of pneumonia occur. The mortality of pneumonia from any cause is always high. Senator Chamberlain here commented upon the conditions of the different camps, and inserted letters on the unsanitary conditions written by General Gorgas, which was given in evidence before the Military Affairs Committee. This was printed from time to time in The New York Times. Senator Chamberlain gave this summary of deaths in the regular and national army, which was prepared for him by General Gorgas. Number of deaths among regular troops in United States Sept. 21, 1917, to Jan. 18, 1918 350 Average strength of regulars for same period 214,428 Number of deaths among na- THE RICHMOND PLANET tional army troops in United States Sept. 21, 1917, to Jan. 18, 1918 .... 1,263 Average strength of national army for some period .... 427,083 Number of deaths among Nn- tional Guard forces in United States s. Sept. 21, 1917, to Jan. 18, 1918 .... 1,305 Average strength of National Guard for some period .... 375,354 Number of deaths all troops in United States Sept. 21, 1917, to Jan. 18, 1918 .... 2,918 Average total strength for this period ..... 1,016,870 "That gives in concrete form the number of deaths that have occurred, said Senator Camberdaal. "What I contend is that if thy had complied with the recommendation that Genera- Gorgas has made all the tue. nec giving each of these men nfiy square teet of floor space, and if in any con- they had put in these observation places wih their cantitments, too much of death, so that very much diminished, and I doubt if there would have been one-half of the deaths that there have been." A SISTER'S LETTER Here Senator Chamberlain read the following letter: St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31, 1917. Mr. George Chamberlain, Chairman Investigating Committee, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: In behalf of a heartbroken family (a father, mother, two sisters, and myself) I wish to register a complaint for the manner in which the case of my brother, ——, was handled at the base hospital, ——. From the meagre information my folks received it appears that brother was stricken with a slight illness on Monday, Dec. 10, and on Wednesday, Dec. 10, he was taken to base hospital at, and with cerebrospinal meningitis, and on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 10:20 A. M., he passed away. First information my folks received was Friday, Dec. 14. A no gobber lady received a letter from her son, a comrade of my brother, advising he had seen brother fall out of rank at drill and was carried on a stretcher to hospital. My sister wired an officer (a friend of our family) in Company — infantry, at noon, Friday, Dec. 14. to spare no expense and to wire collect, details. Saturday morning, Dec. 15. to reply from the officer to the effect bishop of the diocese to base hospital with spinal meningitis, but condition favorable for recovery. Upon receipt of latter telegram, sister wired a doctor in Company — infanty, to wire details collect, and to spare no expense. Sister also on December 15, Saturday, wrote three special letters to the officer, doctor, and a counselor, to be delivered, for participants, but received no information until Tuesday evening at 6:00 a.m. a wire from the company officer that brother passed away 10:20 A.M. Dec. 18. 18 Sister was sent from Fort, at 3:15 P.M., Dec. 18. It does not seem that the company officers should have been required to inform information in this case and that that person would so as a matter of respect for a lifelong friend and an appreciative family. It does not be possible that the Government ordered of this proud nation of curs is not equipped to advise a father or mother of their son's misfortune in an authentic way? As not any of the information received came from the hospital direct. I notice in the paper a telegram is received clear aerosis of troops service under our flag in France, but right at doorstep our gallant soldiers might die buried without the knowledge of the father and mother, who supplied them, if it were not for the affection and thoughtfulness of their comrades. Senator Chamberlain breaking off in the reading, exclaimed: "My God, my friends! If they are suffering here in America, with the blessings and comforts of home, surrounded by neighbors and friends, that must be the fate of these poor boys if they are sent abroad to meet the dangers and the treacherous and inhuman warfare and conditions that exalt abolition." "For very palpable reasons, I am not going to give the names of these people, but I want to show you that the letters breathe the spirit of patriotism. Having given up their sons to their country, they give no complaint, except in the hope that the example in their own family may set a precedent for better conditions and better service. I am not going to mention the names of the command, but if the Senators from that State want to see it I will show it to them in compliance. Now note the spirit of patriotism that breathes through every line of this letter. It is dated Dec. 31." He read on: Brother's body was shipped with our instructions to his home, —— Kan., for burial. I had the caster opened for identification purposes, and was mortified beyond' expression to find that, although brother died for his country, he was not placed in a casket. He was not even clothed, being wrapped only in cotton and tie up on a sheet. Also discovered that a post-armament had been held, which I understand is permissible only with consent of parents or relatives. The traces of embalming were very scarce, and the features were gone entirely, making it impossible for a local undertaker to put the body in shape for my father and mother and sisters to view. My brother is dead and in his grave and I cannot expect to heal the wound in my broken heart by filling this complaint, but I am doing it all in a true American spirit and trust it will result in some good to those who may be so unfortunate as to lose their dear ones under similar circumstances. Would you be satisfied if this case applied to your brother? Address all correspondence to me, as I do not care for my heart-broken father and mother to know all of the facts. HAS MANY MORE LETTERS "Mr. President," said Senator Chamberlain, "if I were to print in the Congressional Record all the letters that I get along this line, it would shock not only Congress itself, but the American conscience as we all. I put this in the record, my friends, in order that the country may know that there is inefficiency; and, God help me, if I can assist in creating efficiency I am going to do it if it costs me my political and my own life. Somebody in this great Republic of ours, my friends, must look after these splendid young men that are doing their duty by and for their own "If I can be instrumental in giving one life, or in arousing my country to the necessity of trying to save thousands of lives, I shall feel, my friends, that my life has not been well spent, I, for one, bet in acting the sunlight in. Let but the American mothers and fathers realize that their sons might be better treated than they are, and wail. Like the parents of this young boy here, they will need for his d'charge from the service for me to see to that the public servant what he ought to see to it, will omit do his duty or retre in disgrace from public life and public service." LETTER FROM He then read the following letter which was sent to Senator Wadsworth: The Honorable _____; Dear Sir and Friend—As you know, I have recently lost a son with spinal injuries at the age that I am writing to you, in that I know to be greatly interested in the welfare of our soldier boys, and ready to do anything in your power for their well-being, and because you know me and will know whether to give credit to what I say. Please know in the very beginning that do not write to criticise the Government in any sense, nor to lay complaint against any one in authority. I realize that I am suspicious task before us as a Government and with the great diversity of interest involved, that it is impossible that there should not occur some things that should be corrected. It is with the hope that I may help somewhat the task before us that I lay bare the facts as I found them in connection with my son's sickness at * * * Through friends entirely independent of the army officers, and the medical staff, I learned of my sons sickness after he had been in the hospital for six days. W. with my wife I went immediately to the camp, arriving there the morning of ____. I found my son in the meningitis war of the base hospital. It was the eighth day of his sickness, as I was informed by the attending physic an. I gave mother and I and ____, ____, were permitted to see him through a window at toe head of his bed. The small room in which he was lying contained one other bed, which was a patient, a stove in which there appeared to be no fire. The room was not simply unsanitary; it was filthy, begging description. The bed, on which my son was lying, was even more filthy than the room. I cannot describe to you the condition of my son's body. Except to say that on her hands nor face had been washed in eight days. (The attendant answered this to me.) The reason given to his being in this condition was that he, the attendant, had but one helper in the ward, and there were eighteen cases there at that time. I asked if might put a nurse in there to take care of him and the physician said he could not be allowed. I offered to be in a trained nurse and pay ali expressions of "I then asked if I myself might be allowed to go in and clean him up and take care of him." The physician was a lady in manner all of the time said that it could not be. I then asked if would bring clean clothes for him if they would clean him up and put them on him so that his mother might see him again, and not to remember him in the plight she had just seen him in. The plight she had just seen him in. I went to lawton and got clean clothes when I returned he had made some effort to wash his face and hands, although they were still grimy and black. "His clothes were changed, his bed straightened out, and his mother was called to see him again. There was a change made in the condition of the bed. Before leaving I again made a plea he be permitted to care for him, gladly giving all risk, but the rules were inflexible. I could not he admitted in any way. The physician was kind to us, and do not wish to imply that he was in any way to blame. He told us, however, as we were about to leave, that he would not return for three or four days. To this order I had no intention of giving heed, neither did I. His mother did not see him again. The next morning his father-in-law, W. N. Harris of Arkansas City, Ark., went to the ward and the mercury was down about zero there was no water in the room, the bedding was on the bed, the boy lay on the bed made with the exception of a thin nightshirt that was up around his neck. "About three o'clock at afterparto I found him in the same condition and the room without fire. The next morning at about eight o'clock we found him in practically the same condition. No one knew of our visits to the hospital except two workers who were working On the sower ditch in front of the hospital. To them I made myself known and the purpose of my going to the hospital. I refer now, of course, to the visits we made after we were instructed not to visit the hospital. On neither of these visits was there an assistant in the room or fire in the room. A perfectly well man would have be come sick in that room. The mercury was around zero all of the time SAW THE CHIEF DOCTOR At this time I wont direct to the chief of the medical staff and told him the situation and asked to be permitted to go and attend my boy, so immediately gave orders that I be permitted to and be given every facility for caring for my son. I went at once but I was so heicd about fifteen minutes after I got into the ward and before I was permitted to do anything for him. That you may know something of the fearful handicap that the Government works under in the matter of competent help, I give you this one instance. Now, I want you to note this: I requested the attendant to give my son a drink of water. He went out and brought in a small bowl of water, and tried to get son to drink from it, but he could not. He said I guess that I had better get a funnel. (The boy was lying on his back w his mouth open.) He came back in a moment with a funnel made of a newspaper, and putting it in my son's mouth with water. In the set of pouring the bowl of water into the salted bowl I said what shall I do? I said get a spoon. The poor felow had not thought of that. My son died in a few moments. I at once hastened to the office of the Adjutant, and asked for the body, and asked the Adjutant to cremate and assured that I could be buried that evening. I then hastened back to the ward where my son died to see how the body was prepared for burial, and, as I passed into the building, I did not stop and knock, but opened the door to enter, when it struck something that would not let me walk, and looked and saw that it was my son's body on the floor of the hall, but it was his head that I struck with the door. I received every possible courtesy from the officers and medical attendants at the base hospital. I am not now filing any compla tt against any man. I have no o'ther purpose in giving you these facts than to get you to do your utmost to see that these boys of ours who are yet t₀ die at these camps may have the care that every true man wishes they might have. There are at least four wilde to most all of the facts that I have seen here who will be willing to test fy to the truth of them if it would be the means of helping the authorities to bring about better conditions. I trust, —, that you will believe me when I say that I am not in any sense seeking revenge for the death of my son. If in his dying he is the means of securing better attention for the many boys that are yet to suffer and die in these camps, I shall feel that his death was not in vain. Wishing for you success in your endeavors for humanity, I am. Sincerely your friend. INCOMPETENTS IN HOSPITALS "I just want you to see," the Senatorator went on, "that what I ask a while ago about the Medical Department is absolutely true. They do not give them competent assistants; they do not assign to them men to be trained; with the result that a blacksmith or a carpenter, or a jaw-dropping anybody else goes into these basic jobs $_{0}$ take care of these young men. "It does not make any dfference that my own party is in power, my friends. If any party on earth were in power, and I occupied this position, I would show the truth just the same. If this thing can be corrected, and these agencies of the Government made more efficient the men of the Senate and the men of the House who neglect to do it are responsible to a bureau of annual, if you please, for the deaths of young men whose lives might have been saved. If they had but given this job the attention, $_{0}$ receiving at the hands of most of the members of the Military Affairs Committee at this time. "They simply appeal not for revenge not to punish anybody connected with this crisis's that confronts us, but in order that the fate of a beloved son or brother or husband, if you please, may arouse the attention of the country to the necessities of the occasion and save the lives of young men who are valuable units for the salvation and protection of America. I realize that we ought not to cripple the hand of the President. There is not anybody who wants to do that, but no man's judgment is as good as the concrete judgment of America. I care not care who he may be and how great he may be he cannot know as much the world knows. I know how busy the president is, and I want to help him. God knows I would do anything to help him, notwithstanding the judgment he has of me and I believe I can say without oogism, that no man has tried hard to help him in everything that he no desireq for the proper conduct of the war than I. I have not done it because it was any man's policy. "I have done it because these things appeal to me as being right and because I thought the country needed them. I voted to sustain the coal order. the other day, although though it was a foolish order of Mr. Gurfried, for it on the theory that I wanted to support young lives of America and our allies in France. The evidence before the committee shows that at the time that the order was made there were over 127 vessels in the harbor of New York loaded with supplies for AMERICA and not get coal to get them out. That is why I voted to sustain that order I thought it was an outrageous order. HITS AT COAL SITUATION "My friends if there had been any program in this war; if there had been any plan laid out for the conduct of this war the coal situation never would have happened, and that is what I am complaining of. That is why our committee proposes in one of its bills to have a committee that authorize and manufacture in this program the sale of the output in the Fulh of next year, also to mobilize the raw material and get things in order and manufacture and fill the order. "In this great business establishment of ours, because war is a great business proposition now, Why has not some plan been worked out and I chaleng the production of a plan or program. There is not anybody concerned with this, and has time to do it. The distinguished President of the United States could not do it if he tried because, my friends. It requires the burning of n:night gil on the part of those who map out this program and also re go out from early morning to dewey e. HAS STOPPED FUNCTIONING "I think there was one thing in the statement I made in New York to the effect that we had almost ceased functioning as an establishment. That is a pretty broad charge, I repeat the charge, and as evidence of it I call your attention to this fact: There was a Quartermaster General's Department that had $800,000,000 to spend for supplies for the Government. "He, practically under the instruction of the distinguished Secretary of War turned the whole thing over to a distinguished retired merchant or manufacturer of worsted goods. I think his business was at Cewcand, Bio, and the Quartermaster General's Department has simply been a rubber stamp proposition, that is all. If turning over the functions of this great office to a civilian merchant was not a cessation of functioning on the part of the Government what in his name would you call it? He made the contracts, he—repared for the manufacture of the commodities, bought the goods, and presented them to the Quartermaster General to sign, and that is all. "I felt sorry for the Quartertermaster General. Not only did they do that, but they took the soldier's overcrowd that was 100 per cent, wool, even if higher than the British overcrowd than the British uniform, and reduced the wooden count to 65 per cent of wool and 55 per cent of shoddy or reworked wool, and then they got along so nicely with that that they reduced the wool content of soldiers' overcrowd to 50 per cent, of wool and 50 per cent, of shoddy or reworked goods. So Mr. Elseman asked the name of the man and to this Senator Chamber lain replied: Mr. Elseman, I have no criticism of Mr. Elseman. No matter what people may say about him he has done a splendid and patriotic work. He may be criticised about very much, but I think he has done well. When he gets getting at, is not what he has done, the remainder of this function by the Quartertermaster's Department to an individual. "The answer to that was that it was to conserve wool. There may be a wooden shortage, but France has not found it. It necessary to conserve it to wear should it and way. If anybody has got to wear should it at home. If the civilian who stays at home should give the soldier the best unit form possible to be made in America. If there has got to be a shortage of provisions let the civilian who stays at home go short and hungry, but it should be a wrong conection of our duty, but that is the way it appeals to me. NEGLECTED WOOL OFFER "My friends, I wish to give another evidence of inefficiency, and I want you to understand I am not doing this in any spirit of unfriendliness to the Secretary of War. He has been my warm personal friend, I am only doing it because I feel it is my duty. As another evidence of inefficiency the wool growers of the West came here to visit me, I think, shortly after the war briefed, and offered to furnish the Government with the Western output of wool. "The Government did not take it be cause they thought it a high price, and possibly they were charging a pretty good price. It was a little below the current market price, but they would not take it. Later on they came here again and offered it, and they would not take it. The price of what had gone away up out of sight at that time on we had contracts for large quantities of wool, but wool had gone up to a very high figure. "Now, Mr. President anybody would have known, it seems to me any efficient business man must have known that to cloth a million and a half man, or possibly two million men, we would have to get every pound of wool possible and manufacture it into clothing. Yet it went into the hands of the Governor and dealers, and when the Governor at a high price. So I made his statement about the uniforms. I think all will agree with me that while there has been great work performed, there has been much left undone that might have been done if the proper system had been in vogue." Asked what the purpose had been in reducing the weight of the uniforms and mixing wool with shoddy, Mr. Chamberlain said: "The proper weight of wool. I would rather have the conservation of life and the giving of such uniforms as are given the soldiers of France and England." CONGRESS NO RUBBER STAMP. Mr. Chamberlain objected to the President saying in his statement that he had not been consulted and inferring that the Senate had no business to try to correct conditions. He then justified his course and continued said: "Now, with all due respect for the President of the United States, he serves notice on the Congress of the United States and on the Senate that they had no business meddling with his affair. If the Senate of the Unit ed States feels it to be his duty not to go into an investigation unless it must not go into it. Now, I differ from that view. We are a great co-ordinate part of this Government, and I am going $t_0$ take the liberty of calling the attention of my Democrat friends to a Democrat of days gone by, a leader who dared to protest. "When I become a rubber stamp in the discharge of my duty I shall get out of the Senate and of public life and let 'somebody' more subservient to me and to my dislike take my place. You will remember Senators, that there was on one occasion another Democrat in the Senate, who was the leader of his party, when there was a Democrat in the White House. You remember when the famous Wilson bill was up for concession, it did not meet with favor, even with a letter, while the bill was in conference between the two bodies, unbranded RICHMOND Virginia Here Senator Chamberlain read what Senator Arthur P. Gorman said in reply to President Cleveland and contuded: "I glory in the spirit that was shown by Arthur P. Gorman. I occupy a little difference in this charge by our distinguished President has not been hurled at the Senate; it is hurled at my devotee head. I am only one of ninety-six; I am on ly a unit in this body; but above and over it all is a great principle that the Senate Democrats and Republicans the country at large ought to reent. "It may be me today; it may be the Senate tomorrow or any other member; it may come in five years when somebody else is in the Senate; it does not make any difference who; I appeal upon the principle not be cause it has been hurled at me, but this body as a co-ordinate branch of the Government has a right to speak as it pleases as to conditions. "The Senate can investigate any man or any set of men that it gets fit to investigate, and do it at its own sweet will, without suggestion and without let or hinderance. If the Senate will only do that once, then we will not be troubled with this condition very often in the future. The Senate ought to assert its dignity and its part and parcel in this great governmental machine." "Senators. I am not rostering the institution contained in the President's letters about interfering with these investigations, but I am simply calling the attention of the Senate to the conditions that my confront them at a most any time. However, it is entrify true that this investigation has done no good? Why my friends there has been a whole reorganization of the system since we started into it. "Of course the evidence tends to show that the reorganization was commenced before we got busy, but whether it was or not, they have changed the whole plans down there by bettering a bad condition. For instance the true reference to my good old friend the General Sharpe who is a splendid man and a pathetic citizen, he was wholly unfit for the job. He has gone out of it, and they have put General Goethals in. That is a part of the reorganization. 'With a lil' reference to my friend General Crozier who has been a brilliant soldier and a brilliant man, I think so. In these days, perhaps, that move so far he was not quite the man for the place. So he was practically taken out of the active control of the Ordnance Department and General Wheeler was put in. "What have they done? They have gone to work and gotten Mr. Elseman man; in other words they are putting strong men at the head and putting Mr. Elseman man just where he was to do the old regime. They have put into the department another or distinguishing good man, Samuel McRoberts, who is a very able man, and I think will possibly help bring order out of chaos." TOLD THE PRESIDENT THE FACTS Mr. Chamberlain said that the proposed War Council would bring order out of chaos and effect co-ordination. He continued: "Senators, the President says that we have not consulted him about this legislation. I am very sorry the President, that Now, speaking as a Democrat, did not as an American for a few moments—(Laughter in the galleries)—" "The Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hitchcock and I, while these hearings were going on—I am stating this to the House Committee for the first time; they never heard about it, for things were coming out in that committee that were so bad that we thought we ought as Democrat, if we were something citizens, to tell the President something, then—it would not have made any difference to me if Roosevelt or Taft or any body else had been Pres. "I would have felt it my duty to do just the same thing—anyway the Senator from Nebraska and I went to the White House and told the President the way things had been developing before the committee and that we thought he ought to know it. We went into it pretty fully; I think I stayed there an hour. I think the President was surprised at some of the things we told him; in fact, he expressed surprise. The remedy was the thing that was in our minds. I said that the proposition for a Director of Munitions had been in my mind for a long while that I had been studying the fire system and that something like that or some strong intermediary between the President might ought to be a pretty good thing. The conversation was not confidential, as I understood. We were simply talking about conditions. I would not even refer to it but for the fact that it is charged as to our committee—a splendid body of men—that none with the President discussed this legislation with the President. President did not approve or disapprove, but he had the information, just the same. PRODUCES PRESIDENT'S "Several days afterward the President wrote a letter to me in reference to that Bill. I would not give that letter to the public but for the fact that I am charged with untruthfulness and with a distortion of facts; and another thing charged to me, which I am not guilty of, is that of trying to force legislation through here without having consulted any body in authority about it. Now I am compiled, in defense of my own reputation, as well as in order that the position of this committee may he understood to put the letter in the record, and I am going to do so." He had had the clerk read the letter, which he printed on the first page of The Times, the president spoke of their conference, and gave his reason for opposing the bill for a Minister of Munition. Senator Chamberlain asked: "Was it quite fair for him to charge that he had not been consulted? Senator James asked: "Is it not true that the President when he stated that he had not been consulted referred to the 'superior War Continued on Fifth Page