Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — WILSON BEATEN IN DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE [ARTICLE]

WILSON BEATEN IN DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE

Now Turns to the Senate For Aid, Relying. On Floor Victory—Will Work Hard for Bill. Washington, D. C., April 18.— President Wilson was defeated, today by members of his own party on the house committee on military affairs m his fight for selective conscription. He won on the same issue in the senate. The house committee rejected, 13 to 8, the administration provision for raising an army of 500,000 men in addition to the regular army and national guard, by immediate selective conscription. The committee adooted an amend- • ment offered by Ohairman Dent providing that the president should call for 600,000 volunteers under the exist, ing volunteer army act and apply conscription only when he “decides that such additional forces cannot be effectually raised and maintained under the call for volunteers.” The senate committee on military affairs accepted the administration bill with the selective conscription feature by a vote of 10 to 7. Mr. Wilson, still threatening to pillory this new group of “willful men” opposing his program in the hquse committee, immediately centered his attention upon the senate, which he hopes will pass the army bill before the house acts. In the house he will renew his efforts to defeat on the floor the volunteer system provision with the aid of republicans favoriel? an adequate army plan.