Speech #650092427

I am directed by the Committee on Foreign Relations. to which was referred Senate joint resolution 83. looking to the enlistment of certain alien residents in the Army of the United States. tb report as a substitute the following Senate resolution. and I submit a report (No. 93) thereon. The resolution (S. Res. 108) is as follows: Whereas there are In the United States a vast number of subjects and citizens of the several European nations now waging war against the allied central powers of Europe . and Whereas nearly all of said subjects and citizens have emigrated to this country either for the purpose of becoming citizens thereof or for the purpose of securing the benefits of the greater wages and better opportunities afforded in this country. which opportunities have been created. defended. and maintained by the energies and sacrifices of the American people. and Whereas it is the moral and patriotic duty of said subjects and citizens to support the several Governments to which they owe allegiance in the desperate warfare in which such Governments are engaged . and Whereas the United States is also dngaged in war againstthe said central powers for the protection of the rights of the several nations so waging war against. the said central powers as well as Its own sacred rights. and Whereas it Is most unjust to ask or require the Amerlan people to sacrifice their sons. their brothers. and their treasure in battling for the mutual rights and welfare of all the other nations prosecuting this war against the said central powers while their own subjects and citizens in vast numbers enjoying In this country the special &nd wonderful industrial opportunities which this war affords them are - wholly relieved from service or sacrifice : Now. therefore. be it Rcsolv cd. That the President of the United States be. and he is hereby. requested to propose to all European nations engaged in war against the said central powers and. if possible. secure from them an agreement authorizing and empowering the United States to apply the provisions of the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States." approved May 18. 1917. to all such subjects and citizens domiciled inthis country in the same manner and to the same effect as such provisions are applied to the citizens of the United States in selecting and raising an army or navy for service In the present war.