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Senator Barkley scoffed at reports that the isolationist bloc had strength enough to defeat the draft bill. He predicted that the bloc could not muster more than 24 votes. Senator R. Burke, Democrat of Nebraska and ce-author of the conscription bill, forecast that the opposition could only count on 20 votes.
One obstacle remained before u vote on the National Guard bill could be held—growing sentiment for the plan of Senators Alva B. Adams and Edwin C. Johnson, Democrats of Colorado, to confine the National Guard to mainland positions and the territories and thus prevent the President from sending guardsmen to the Philippines.
Another obstacle was removed yesterday when the amendment to ex. empt militiamen from a year's training was defeated, 47 to 36 votes—without provoking a general debate.
The Senate Military Affairs Com. mittee yesterday in report urged the speedy enactment of the conscription bill be "weapons without men are as futile as men without weapons, It is too late to train men after an emergency is upon us
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