The Ghost of Major John Wigmore Returns-Congress Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)

摘要

The U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary gathered for a rare Saturday morning hearing on 22 September 1917 to hear legal giants of their time-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; Major John H. Wigmore, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps; and Walter George Smith of Philadelphia, President of the American Bar Association. Secretary of War Baker began: In a sentence, this bill [The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act] is intended to place our soldiers, who in a very short time, will be overseas in very large numbers, in a state of mind where they and their families will be relieved from the anxieties and solicitudes which follow from legal complications at home to which they cannot give their attention.