Omit Clause Ousting Wood.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 13, 1912:
Contentious Features of Army Bill Dropped by Senate Committee.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, July 12.— The Senate Committee on Military Affairs has about completed its revision of the Army Appropriation bill, which was vetoed by president Taft. After the veto the House passed its original bill, without the amendments affecting Gen. Wood, which had been inserted by the Conference Committee. The bill was then sent to the Senate, with the hope that the Senate committee would revise it and put it in such shape that the President would finally sign it, the House being willing to pass the Senate bill as revised.
    The Senate committee will report the revised bill to to the Senate in a day or so. The committee has stricken from the bill much of the objectionable new legislation which was in the first bill as submitted to the President. It has eliminated the Section which was intended to legislate Gen Wood out of office and has made other corrections, notably in Section 10, which provided that officers who had been absent from their regiments for over two years, by detail, should immediately return to their regiments or lose their pay. This clause would have interfered greatly with the service in the insular possessions as well as in the Panama Canal Zone. It affected a number of officers who were detailed to the army schools, and would break up their courses of study and work much hardship among them. The Senate committee in the new bill has exempted those in the insular possessions and in the Panama Canal service and those attending army schools from the provisions of this section.
    It is now thought that the bill will be quickly passed and accepted by the House, and then go the President for his signature.