Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — SENATE 0. K. ASSURED ON DRAFT BILL [ARTICLE]

SENATE 0. K. ASSURED ON DRAFT BILL

Several Days’ Talkfest is Expected to Delay Voting Stage Until Next Week. i him i —■ m X Washington, April 20.—The first real fight over'the administration’? war program will begin tomorrow when the senate takes up the war army bill drawn by the general staff and approved by President Wilson. The bill goes to the senate with seven of the seventeen members of the seventeen members of the military committee in favor of a call for volunteers instead of the proposal of the bill to raise the war army by. a selective draft. There is certain to be several days of debate. No effort is expected from the opponents of the draft to delay a vote, but many senators who "favor the bill want to discuss it before they vote. The house military committee will meet tomorrow and go through the formality of approving the measure a majority has substituted for the general staff measure, which provides that the volunteer system shall be given a trial before draft is resorted to. The minority will vote for the staff bill and reports by each side will be filed with the house when it meets Monday. . . , , _• Chairman Dent said tonight the bill would be taken up Monday ,and that a tentative arrangement had been made to have nine hours general debating. That with the time .to be occupied under the.five minute rule, may permit a vote to be reached Thursday.