Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1918 — Decks Cleared For Big Battle Today In Senate [ARTICLE]

Decks Cleared For Big Battle Today In Senate

Washington, Jan. 23.—Republicans of the house in conference tonight voted 75 to 19 in favor of the creation of a department or burea of munitions and ordnance with a director appoined by the president. There was some discussion of the war council proposal but no attempt was made to put the conference on record in regard to it. Washington, Jan. 23. The controversy between -he administration and members of the senate military committee over proposals for a war cabinet and director of munitions will be brought before the senate tomorrow with prospects of spirited discussion. Senator Chamberlain plans to rise to a question of personal privilege and reply at length to President Wilson’s denunciation of the senator’s recent statement that every department of the government had broken down in the war as a distortion of truth. Several speeches on behalf of the administration also are planned.