The Independent . mes Duncan, vice-president ofthe American Federation of Labor. Roosevelt May In spite of the fact that the conferenceGet His Army repQrt tQ ^ genate and the House of Representatives rec-ommended that the draft bill be broughtto a final vote without any provisionfor a volunteer army, the House ofRepresentatives approved by 215 votesto 178 the Senate plan authorizing thePresident to raise and maintain by vol-untary enlistment four infantry divi-sions. Altho the provision for a volun-teer army raised from men over twen-ty-five years of age makes no mentionof whom the President s
The Independent . mes Duncan, vice-president ofthe American Federation of Labor. Roosevelt May In spite of the fact that the conferenceGet His Army repQrt tQ ^ genate and the House of Representatives rec-ommended that the draft bill be broughtto a final vote without any provisionfor a volunteer army, the House ofRepresentatives approved by 215 votesto 178 the Senate plan authorizing thePresident to raise and maintain by vol-untary enlistment four infantry divi-sions. Altho the provision for a volun-teer army raised from men over twen-ty-five years of age makes no mentionof whom the President should appointto lead the force, the only man in thecountry who has enrolled a large forceof pledged volunteers is ex-PresidentRoosevelt and his claim to go with thevolunteer army in some military ca-pacity can hardly be overlooked. Thedebate in the House was political rath-er than military in character and wasconcerned chiefly with the personalmerits of Theodore Roosevelt. Manyrepresentatives, Democrats as well as. Kadel & Herbert THE YOUNGEST FRENCH BOYS ARE CALLED OUT With the class of 1918 on its way to the front, France has given her utmost in fighting men. Onlyboys seventeen or under, women and the very old men are left at home now Republicans, urged in his favor that hewas not only a veteran campaigner butan ideal representative of the Ameri-can people on a European opponents, who were found in bothparties, urged that Roosevelt was apolitician rather than a general andthat no individual should be permittedspecial honor or privilege in connectionwith the war. The Roosevelt volunteersalready number more than 180,000, in-cluding an exceptionally large propor-tion of well-to-do business and profes-sional men, and the organizers of theforce claim that it will be ready with-in a few weeks for service whereverneeded. The conference on the army bill madethe age limit of those subject to theselective draft twenty-one to thirtyyears inclusive. This was a compro-mise
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