The bill which would give the President the authority to^mobilize 360,000 National Guardsmen and reservists for one year's intensive training, met with bitter, but small opposition on the floor of the Senate. Its passage, however, cleared the way {or a vote on the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, which would auth-erizo the registration of approximately 12,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 31 as potential material for a years compulsory military training.
Observers expected that the conscription bill would be passed next week despite the formation of a bloc of a dozen Senators who met yesterday to map out their strategy in opposing the bill. This bloc included Senators Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota, Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Progressive of Wisconsin, Burtos K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, and Edwin C. Johnson, De-morat of Colorado.
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