The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-10

This amendment was disagreed to, and
the bill was then read third time and
passed. 1t now goes to the House as
passed by the Senate. It provides for
I'VE regiments OF artillery, twenty-five
regiments of cavalry, and forty-five
regiments of infantry. Three of the
new regiments of cavalry shall be
colored troops. The fourth section of
the bill provides that the forty-fve
regiments of infantry provided for in
this act shall consist of, the first ten
regiments of ten companies each now
in service, of twenty-seven regiments,
of ten companies each, to be formed by
adding two companies to each battalion
of the remaining nine regiments or of
the eight new regiments of ten compan-
les each, five of which shall be COM
posed of colored men, and all original
vacancies in grades of first and second
heutenRnts, and one-half of the original
vacancies in each of the grades above
that. First lieutenants shall be filled
by selection from the officers and SOL
diers of volunteers, and the remainder
from officers of the regular army, all of
whom must have served two years or
| during the war, and have been distin-
guished for capacity and good conduct.
| All officers appointed to fill original
vacancies in regiments of colored troops
shall be selected from officers who have
been in the service during two years of
II
for capacity and good conduct in the
field.
The fifth section provides that the
appointment of twelve, made from the
army rolls of the officers and soldiers
under the provisions of this act shall be
distributed among the States, Terri
tories and District of Columbia in pro-
'Iportion to the number of troops fur
ntshed by them respectively during the
late war, reduced to an average of the
three years service.
Section nine provides that there
shall be one general, one lieutenant
! general, five major generals and ten
brigadier generals, who shall have the
same pay and .emoluments, and to be
entitled to the same staff officers in
number and grade as now provided by
law.
Section 25th abolishes the Office ofsut-
Ter in the army and at military posts,
and authorizes and requires the SUBJ
sistence department to furnish such ar
ticles as may be design ated by the In
specter General, to be sold to officers
and enlisted men at cost prices, and if
not paid for when purchased, the ac-
count thereof to be kept and deducted
by the paymaster at the payment next
following such purchases. Provided
that the section will not go into effect
until the first day of July, 1867.
The twenty-sixth section provides
that Tor the purpose of promoting
the knowledge of military science
among the young men of the United
States, the President may upon the ap-
plication of an established College or
University within the United States,
with sufficient capacity to educate at
mt one time, not less than $50 male
students, detailed by an officer of the
army, to act as First Superinten-
dent or Professor of such College or
University; that the number of officers
SO detailed shall not exceed 20 at any
time, and they shall be apportioned
throughout the United States as nearly
as practicable, according to the popula-
ton, and shall be governed by general
rules to be prescribed from time to
time by the President. The other sec
tions relate to the organization of regi-
ments and departments, and have been
printed heretofore in the Senate report.
The Senate then adjourned.