HOW GOVERNMENT WILL RAISE ITS GREAT ARMY FOR WAR WITH GERMANY Washington, May 11. With all | important joints of the conscription j bills settled upon by the conferees I of tho Houso and Senate, the war! measure designed to raise and train ! at onco 500,000 men will be passed ' finally by Congress and be In the hands of the President within a i short time. The bill follows: AN ACT to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. | Be it enacted by the Senate and I House of Representatives of the j United States of America in Con gress assembled, that in view of the! existing emergency, which demands the raising of troops in addition to j those now available, the President bo, l and he is hereby, authorized— First, Immediately to raise, organ ize, officer an 4 equip all or such: number of increments of the regular ; army provided by the national de- 1 lense act approved June 3, 1916, on such parts thereof as he may deem necessary; to raise all organizations of the regular army, Including those added by such increments to the ; maximum enlisted strength author- j lzed by law. 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AP • BAirr TERMI O rAnuiim / 329 Market St (Orw m Bak) U kvTtaM Use Telegraph Want Ads •- ' V FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH TWR MAY 11, 1917. mined, in the manner prescribed by the President, that the officer has not the suitability and fitness requisite for permanent appointment. Second. To draft, into the military service of the United States, organ ize and officer, in accordance with the provisions of section 111 of said national, defense act, so far as the provisions of said section may be ap plicable and not inconsistent with the terms of this act, any or all members of the National Guard, and of the National Guard Reserve, and said members so drafted into the mllltary service of the United States shall serve therein for the period fit tho existing emergency unless sooner dis charged: Provided, That so drafted the organizations or units of the National Guard shall, so far as prac ticable retain the State designations of their respective organizations. Third. To raise by draft as herein provided, organize and equip an ad ditional force of 500,000 enlisted men, or such part or parts thereof as he may at any time deem necessary, and to provide the necessary officers, line and staff, for said force and for organizations of the other forces hereby authorized or by combining organizations of said other forces, by ordering members of the Officers' Reserve Corps to temporary duty in accordance with the provisions of section 3 8 of the national defense act approved June 3, 1916; by ap pointment from the regular army, the Officers' Reserve Corps, from those duly qualified and registered pursuant to section 23 of the act of Congress approved January 21. 1903 (Thirty-second Statutes at Largo, page 7 75), from the members of the National Guard drafted into- the service of the United States, Trom those who have been graduated from | educational institutions at which military instruction is compulsory, or from those who have had honor | able service in the regutar army, the | National Guard, or in the volunteer I forces, or from the country at large; Iby assigning retired officers of the i regular army to active duty with such force with their rank on the re tired list and the full pay and allow ances of their grade; or by the ap pointment of retired officers and en listed men, active or retired, of the regular army as commissioned offi cers in such forces; Provided, That the organization of said force shall be the same as that of the corres ponding organizations of the regular army: Provided further, That the President Is authorized to increase or decrease the number of drganizations prescribed for the typical brigades, divisions or army corps of the regu lar army, and to prescribe such new and different organizations and per sonnel for. army corps, divisions, bri ga d e s , regiments, battalions, squadrons, companies, troops and batteries as the efficiency of the ser vice may require: Provided further. That the number of organizations in a regiment shall not be increased nor shall the number of regiments be de creased: Provided, further, That the President in his discretion may or ganize, officer and equip for each in fantry and cavalry brigade three ma chine-gun companies and for each Infantry and cavalry division four machine-gun companies, all in addi tion to the machine-gun companlos comprised in organizations included in such brigades and divisions. Pro vided further, That the President in his discretion may organize for each division one armored motorcar-ma chine-gun company. The machine gun company organized under this section shall consist of such com missioned and enlisted personnel and be equipped In such manner as the President may prescribe: Provided further. That officers with rank not above that of colonel shall be ap pointed by the President alone, and officers above that grade by the President by and with the advice and j consent of the Senate: Provided further, That the President may in his discretion recommtssion In the coast guard persons who have here tofore held commissions in the Revenue Cutter Service or the coast guard and have left the service hon orably, after ascertaining that they are qualified for service physically, morally, and as to age and military fitness. Fourth. The President Is further authorized, in his discretion and at! such time as he may determine, to , raise and begin the training of an i additional force of 500,000 men or- \ ganized, officered and equipped, as. provided for the force first mention ed in the preceding paragraph of this j section. Fifth. To raise by draft, organize, equip and officer, as provided in the third paragraph of this section, in nddition to and for each of the above forces, such recruit training units as he may deem necessary for the main tenance of such forces at the maximum strength. Sixth. To raise, organize, officer and maintain during the emergency such number of ammunition bat teries and battalions, depot batteries and battalions and such artillery parks, with such numbers and grades of personnel as he may deem neces sary. Such organizations shall be officered in the manner provided in the third paragraph of this section, and enlisted men may be assigned to said organizations from any of the forces herein provided for or raised by selective draft as by this act pro vided. Sec. 2. That the enlisted men re quired to raise ajid maintain the organizations of the regular army ana to complete and maintain the organizations embodying the mem bers of the National Guard drafted into the service of the United States, at the maximum legal strength as by this act provided, shall be raised by voluntary enlistment, or If and when ever the President decides that they cannot effectually be so raised or maintained, then by selective draft; and all other forces hereby author ized, shall be raised and maintained by selective draft exclusively, but this provision shall not prevent the transfer to any force of training cadres from other forces. Such draft as herein shall be based upon liability to military service of all male citizens, or male persons not alien enemies who. have declared their intention to become citizens, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years, both inclusive, and shall take place and be maintained under such regulations as the President may prescribe not inconsistent with the terms of this act. Quotas for the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, or subdivisions thereof, shall be determined in pro portion to the population thereof, and credit shall be given to any State, Territory, District or subdi vision thereof, for the number of men who were in the military serv ice of the United States under the provisions of this act from any such State, Territory, District or subdi *•:•*!••{• <♦++ v +❖ <• -S* -<•+ •{••}• v •?•++'s l ++ i * £ GIRLS! 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It Is wonderful to smoothen tough, red hands. vision, as members of any Federal force hereby authorized. All persons drafted into hereby authorized 'is j members or the National Guard on | April 1, 1917, or who have since said ; date entered the military service of the United States from any such State, Territory, District or subdl-l vision either us members of the refill- ( lur army or the National Guard. All' persons drafted into the service of 1 the United States and all officers ac cepting commissions in the forces herein provided for shall, from the 1 date of said draft or acceptance, be I subject to the laws and regulations i governing the regular army, except | as to promotions, so tar as such laws and regulations are applicable to per -1 sons whose permanent retention in > the military service on tile active or j retired list is not contemplated by existing law, and those dratted shall i -be required to serve for the period | of the existing emergency unless; sooner discharged: Provided, Thatl the President is authorised to raise and maintain by voluntary enlist ment or draft, as herein provided, special and technical troops as he may deoin necessary, and to embody them Into organizations and to officer them as provided in the third para graph of section 1 and section 9 of this act. Organizations of the forces herein provided for, except the regular army, shall, as far us the interests of | the service permit, be composed of j men'who come und of officers who are appointed front the same State I or locality. j Sec. 3. No bounty shall be paid to I induce any person to enlist In the ! military service of the United States, I and no person liable to military ser vice shall hereafter be permitted or ! I allowed to furnish a substitute • for > i such service; nor shall any substi- I tute be recetved, enlisted or enrolled j i in the military service of the United i I States, and no such person shall be I , permitted to escape such service or i to be discharged therefrom prior to | the expiration of his'term of service j by the payment of money or any | other valuable thing whatsoever as! consideration for his release from j military service or liability thereto, i Sec. 4. That the of j I the United States, Jhe officers, legls- j lative, executive and Judicial, of the United States and of the several states, territories and the District of i Columbia, regular or duty ordained j ministers of religion, students who at the time of the approval of this act are preparing for the ministry in recognized theological or divinity schools, and all persons in the mili tary and naval service of the United States shall be exempt from the se lective draft herein prescribed, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to require or compel | any person to serve in any of the forces herein provided for who is found to be a member of any well recognized religious sect or organi zation at present organized and existing and whose existing creed or principles forbid its members to par ticipate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation Mierein i in accordance with the creed or prin- | ciples of said religious organization, but no person so exempted shall be exempted from service in any capa city that the President shall declare to be noncombatant; and the Presi dent is hereby authorized to exclude or discharge from said selective draft and from the draft under the second paragraph of section one hereof, or to draft for partial mili tary service only from those liable to draft as in this act provided, per sons of the following classes: Coun ty and municipal officias, custom house clerks, persons employed by the United States in the transmis sion of the mails, artificers and workmen employed in the armories, arsenals and navy yards of the United States and such other per sons employed in the service of the United States as the President may designate, pilots, mariners, actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States, persons engaged in industries, including agriculture, found to be necessary to the main tenance of the military establish ment or the effective operation of the military forces or the mainten ance of national interest during the emergency; those in a status with respect of persons dependent upon them for support which renders their exclusion or discharge advisa ble, and those found to be physically or morally deficient. No exemption or exclusion shall continue when a cause therefor no longer exists: Pro vided that nothwithstanding the ex emptions enumerated therein, each state, territory and the District of Columbia shall be required to sup- | ply its quota in the proportion that; its population bears to the total population of the United States. The President M hereby author ized, In his discretion, to create and | establish throughout the several j states and subdivisions thereof and | In the territories aid the District of>j Columbia local boards, and where, ! in his discretion, practicable and de-1 sirable, there shall be created and | established one such local board In 1 each county or similar subdivision in I each state, and one for approximate- 1 ly each thirty thousand of popula- i tion in each city of thirty thousand I population or over, according to the j last census taken or estimates fur nished by the Bureau of Census of the Department of Commerce. Such boards shall be appointed by the President, and shall consist of three or more members, none of whom shall be connected with the mili tary establishment, to be chosen from among the local authorities of such subdivisions or from other citi zens residing in the subdivlson or area In which the respective boards will have jurisdiction under the rules and regulations prescribed by the President. Such boards shall have power within their respective juris dictions to hear and determine, sub ject to review as hereinafter pro vided, all questions of exemption un der this act, and all questions or claims l'or including or discharging individuals or classes of individuals from the selective draft, which shall be "made under rules and regulations prescribed by the President, except, I any and every question or claim for Including or excluding or discharg ing persons or classes of persons from the selective draft under the provisions of this act authorizing the President to exclude or discharge from the selective draft "Persons engaged in industries, including agri culture, found to be necessary to the maintenance of the military cstab ! lishment, or the effective operation of the military foices, or the main tenance of national Interest during the emergency." The President is hereby authoriz ed to establish additional boards, one in each Federal judicial district of the United States, consisting of such number of citizens, not con nected with the military establish ment, as the Pre3ident may deter mine, who shall be appointed by the President. The President is hereby authorized, In his discretion, to es tablish more than one such board In any Federal judicial district of the United States, or to establish one having: Jurisdiction of an area extending into more than one Federal judicial district. Such district o&rds shall review on appeal and affirm, modify, or re verse any decision of any local board having jurisdiction in the area in which any such district board has jurisdiction under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Presi dent. Such district boards-shall have exclusive original Jurisdiction with in their respective areas to hear and determine all questions or claims lor including or excluding or dla- Charging persons or classes of per sona from the selective draft under the provisions of this act, not In cluded within the original jurisdic tion of such local boards. The decisions of such district boards shall be final, except that, in accordance with such rules and reg ulations as the Ps-esldent may pre scribe, he may affirm, modify or re serve any such decision. Any vacancy in any sych local board or district board shall be filled by the President, and any mem ber of any such local board or dis trict board may be removed and an other appointed in his place by the President, he considers that the Interest of the nation de mands it. The President shall make rules and regulations concerning the or panization and procedure of such lo cal boards and district boards, and providing l'or and governing appeals from such local boards to such dis trict boards, and reviews of the de cisions of any local board by the dis trict board having jurisdiction, and determining and prescribing the sev eral areas in which the respective local bourds and district boards shall havs jurisdiction, and all other rules and regulations necessary to carry out the terms and provisions of this section, and shall provide for the issuance of certificates of exemption, or partial or limited exemptions, and for a system to exclude and dis charge individuals from selective draft. Sec. 5. That all male persons be tween the ages of twenty-one and thirty, both Inclusive, shall be sub ject to registration in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the President; and upon proclama tion by the President or other public notice given by him or by his direc tion stating the time and place of such registration It shall be the duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service of the United States to present themselves for and submit to registration unedr the pro visions of this act; eind every such person shall be deemed to have no tice of the requirements of this act upon the publication of said procla mation or other notice as aforesaid given by the President or by his di rection; and any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to sub mit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction In the district court of the United States having juris diction thereof, punished by Im prisonment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly registered. Provided, That in the call of the docket precedence shall be given, in court* trying the same, to the trial of criminal proceedings under this act. Provided further That persons shall be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall / not have attained their thuty-first birthday on or before the d.y set for the reg istra*tion, and all persons so regis tered shall be and remain subject to draft into the forces hereby au thorized, unless exempted or ex cused therefrom as In this act pro vided: Provided further, That in the case of temporary absence from actual place of legal residence of any person liable to registration as pro vided herein such registration may be made by mail under regulations to be prescribed by the President. Sec. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the service | Fumishen 29 . 31 . 3 3 35 5..,,. s.,„J Strt The Different Kind of j Ed by the President, whether such ap pointments are made by the President himself or by the Governor or other officer of any state or territory to per form any duty in the execution of this act, are hereby required to per form such duty as the President shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and persons so designated or appointed shall hereby have full authority for all acts done by them In the execution of this act by the direction of the President. Corre spondence In the execution of this act may be carried in penalty envelopes bearing the frank of the War Depart ment. Any person charged as herein provided wtlh the duty of carrying Into effect any of the provisions of this act or the regulations made or directions given thereunder who Hlinll fall or neglect to perform such duty, ■ and any person, charged with such duty or having and exercising any au thority under said act, regulations or j directions, who shall knowingly make I or be a party to the making of any | false or lncdj-rect registration, phys ical examination, exemptlop. enlist ment, enrollment or muster, and any person who shall make or be a party to the mnking of any false statement or certificate as to the fitness or lia bility of himself or any other person for service under the provisions of this act, or regulations made by the President thereunder, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the requirements of tills act or of said' regulations, or who In any manner shall fail or neglect fully to perform any duty required of him in the exe cution of this act, shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of a mis demeanor and upon conviction In the district court of the United States having Jurisdiction thereof, be pun ished by Imprisonment for not more than one year, or If subject to mili tary law, shall be tried by court-mar tial and suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct. Sec. 8. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, Is authorized to appoint for the period of the existing emergency such general officers of appropriate grades as may be necessary for duty with brigades, divisions and higher units In which the forces provided for herein may be organized by the Pres ident, and general officers of the ap propriate grade for the several Coast Artillery districts. In so far as such appointments may be made from any of the forces herein provided for, the appointees may be selected irrespect ive of the grades held by them In such forces. Vacancies in all grades in the regular army resulting from the ap pointment of officers thereof to higher grades in the forces other than the regular army herein provided for, shall bo filled by temporary promo tions and appointments in the manner prescribed for filling temporary va cancies by section 114 of the national defense act approved June 3, 1916, and officers appointed under the provisions of this act to higher grades In the forces other than the regular army therein provided for shall not vacate their permanent commissions nor be prejudiced in their relative or lineal standing in the regular army. Sec. 9. That the appointments au thorized and made as provided by the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs of section 1, and by sec tion 8 of this act. and the temporary appointments in the regular army au thorized by the first paragraph of sec tion 1 of this act, shalf be for the period of the emergency, unless soon er terminated by discharge or other wise. The President is hereby au thorized to discharge any officer from the office held by him under such ap- Non-greasy Toilet Crearrt—Keeps the Skin Soft and Velvety In Rough Weather. An Exquisite Toilet Preparation, 26c. GORGAS DRUG STORKS 10 N. Third St., and P. R. R. Station pointment for'any cause which, in the Judgment of the President, would pro mote the public service; and the gen eral commanding any division and higher tactical organization or terri torial department is authorized to ap point from time to time military boards of not less than three nor more than live officers of the forces herein provided for to examine into and report upon the capacity, quali fication, conduct and efficiency of any commissioned officer within ills com mand other than officers of the lar army holding permanent or pro visional commissions therein. Kach member of such board shall be su perior In rank to the officer whose •qualifications are to bo inquired into, and if the report of such board be adverse to the continuance of any such officei; and be approved by the President, such officer shall be dis charged from the service at the dis cretion of tho President with one month's pay and allowances. Sec. 10. That all .officers and en listed men in the regular arnik, and commencing June f, 1917, and contin uing until the termination of the emergency, all enlisted men of the army of the United Stages In active service whose base pay does not ex ceed s2l per month shall receive an increase of $lO per month; those whose base pay is $24, an Increase of $S per month: those whose base pay is S3O, ?36 or S4O, an increase of $6 per month, and those whose base pay is $45 or more, an increase of $5 per month: Provided, that the increases of pay herein authorized shall not en I begun is half done, but ▼ ▼ .why not finish the job well? 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That the President of the United States, as commander-in-chief of the army, is authorized to make such regulations governing the pro hibition of alcoholic liquors In or near military ramps and to the officers ftnd enlisted men of the army as he rtiaj from time to time deem necessary or advisable: Provide, That no person, corporation, partnershlD or associa- tion shall sell, supply or have in his or Its possession any Intoxicating 01 spirituous liquors at any military sta tion. cantonment, camp, fort, post, of ficers' or enlisted men's club, which is being used at the time for military purposes under this act, but the Sec retary of War may make regulations Permitting the sate and use of Intoxi cating liquors for inedloinal purposes. It slinll be unlawful to sell any Intox icating liquor, including beer, ale or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform, ex cept as herein provided. Any person, corporation, partnership or associa tion violating* the provisions of this section or-the regulations made there under shall, unless otherwise punish able under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a line of fiot more than 11,000 or imprisonment for not ' more than twelve months, or both. 17