To enlist, and provided further that no such volunteer force shall be disbanded in any such, smaller division. The vote came at the end of two hours' debate. 

The conference report, although he officially sponsored volunteer amendments, was generally approved. In eliminating the Roosevelt amendment, the conferees, he said, had carried out the expressed declaration of both houses of Congress. Representative Anthony declared that it would be impossible to meet immediately the request for troops he believed Marshal Joffre had made of the War Department unless resort was had to the services of 10,000 patriotic Americans who stand ready to enlist under the banner of the one (Continued on Second Page)

Colonel Delighted at Action of House by Associated Press. 

By Associated Press. 

COLONEL HOSMER, N.Y., May 12. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt made no secret tonight of his delight at the action of the House, but he refused to discuss at length his plans for putting a military force in the field until his authorization to do so became official. "I am deeply grateful at what the House has done for me," he said.  House had done. Colonel Roosevelt said, "I feel they have taken a step which is eminently wise and patriotic toward enabling the country to utilize an element in the country. We would otherwise not utilize at all. This will enable a mixed force of regulars and volunteers to be put to the front during the time necessary for training the great army trained under the selective draft." 