Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1920 — DECLINES EFFORT TO HAND GEN. PERSHING LIFE JOB [ARTICLE]

DECLINES EFFORT TO HAND GEN. PERSHING LIFE JOB

Washington, March 11.—Without a record vote, the house today refused to amend the army re-organ-ization bill so as to make General Pershing- the permanent chief of staff. In doing so, it approved the section permitting the secretary of war to make the selection. Representative Strong, republican, Kansas, offering the amendment, declared that “without it Pershing’s war experience in the management of the army will be lost,’’ but Representative Greene, Republican, Vermont, and Representative Caldwell, Democrat, New York, contended that the secretary of war *should be free to choose “the chief military adviser.”