Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — PERSHING HONORED—MADE GENERAL FOR LIFE. [ARTICLE]

PERSHING HONORED—MADE GENERAL FOR LIFE.

Washington, D. C., August 29. [Special.]—With only four dissenting votes the house today passed the bill authorizing the president to appoint John J. Pershing a full general for life.' Those voting in the negative were Representatives Conally and Jones, Texas; Thomas, Kentucky, and Schall, Minnesota. Connally, Jones and Thomas are democrats, while Schall, the blind member, is a republican. The affirmative vote totaled 271. No speeches were made in opposition to the bill. Schall later gave this explanation of his vote: “Gen. Pershing impressed me, when I was in France, as absolutely cold blooded, with no heart whatever for the common soldiers serving under him. He told me he would not have hesitated to sacrifice 125,000 soldiers to take St. Mihiel. “And when I complained of the lack of medical attention for wounded he told me he could not help that. “In consequence of the lack of medical attention and the lack of heart in the American commander, thousands of men butchered at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne were needlessly sacrificed.” Representative Campbell, Pennsylvania, democrat, during the discussion boomed Gen. Pershing for the presidency. He said republicans and democrats should unite in nominating him. Others who praised Gen. Pershing included Representatives Kahn, California,- chairman of the military affairs committee, and former Speakers Clark and Cannon. The bill does not mention Gen. Pershing by name, but provides that the president ifiay thus honor a general officer who has rendered conspicuous service on foreign soil. It gives him rank over afry other officer who may be elevated to the same grade. The- companion bill applying to Gen. March was not considered, the purpose being to rush the' Pershing bill through before the general returns next month. Mr. Kahn .referred to Gen. Pershing’s insistence that the Americans fight as a distinct army. “Both the French and English demanded that our soldiers be used as replacement troops,” said Mr. Kahn. •’From the beginning Gen. Pershing fought for that proposition.” R. E. Kenny, of Chicago, has joined hns wife here in a vfeit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Jackson, who live just northeast of this city. '