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Even so, the Draft Act encountered rough sledding in its progress through the Congress.
Democratic Speaker Champ Clark saw little difference between a conscript and a convict.
Democrat Stanley H. Dent, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, declined to introduce the bill.
Democratic Floor Leader Claude Kitchin would have no part of the measure.
In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.
After Kahn's death in 1924 Scott wrote: `` May he rest in peace with the eternal gratitude of his adopted country ''.
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