The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-28
Emalmro or kesreHcInrnems am ame
military kssaaBIfshment.

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The country will hear with disappofDt
} ment the failure Of retrenchment in the
military establishment At the present ses
sion Of Congress The Democratic ma
jority in the House, through the Korean.
; cy Of portion Of It's numbers, succumbed
TO the demands Of Republicans IN the
Senate. The Army Bill contained the
following proyiso, reported by the APP
priation Committee after fsH considera-
ton:
That nothing hersk6 contained shall au-
tborze the recruiting OF mea on the army
rolls beyond Twenty Thousand men.
The Republicans all voted against
this >proviso for the reason that they fa-
xored larger military force to perform
police service in the States and other
wise regulate the affairs of the States.
They have not yet dispaired of re-estab-
fishing carpet bag rule in the South by
the military arm, and during the discus
sion it was avowed by the Republican
members that the military power of the
government was needed to hold in check
employees of great corporations, when
they revolt against starvation wages as
they did last summer in the labor strikes.
Nevertheless the Democrats who hold
that the Army should be used only to
protect the frontier, repel invasion, pro-
tect the rights of the country in war, and !
to respond to the call of the State author
tiles in the extreme cases prescribed In
the constitution, and that for the purposes
it would be more than sufficient at the
standard fixed in the proviso-passed it
with the limitation of 20, 900 men The
bill in this form went to the Senate, and
the Committee of that body reported it
with an amendment inserting %, 900
men instead of 20, 600, and it passed by
the following, almost strictly party, vote
= Republicans in italics:
YKAs-Messrs. Allison. Anthony, Bayard,
Booth, Bruce, Burnside, Cameron pa }, Cam |
ron (Wi$.l. Ch0fee, Chrtstiancy Coke
COnkllHg. COR0VeT, Davis (Ill.y, Ddloes, Dor d
~. Ednu1ds. Garland, HanaLiR, HDdr, H0.oe
Ingalls,, RtrkcOOd. Lamar, Nc MILAN. Mlt- {
L
ock Randolph, Rollins, Sargent. >dunder., &
lpeRcer, Teller, Wadleigh, aud Window - n
NAYs-Hessrs. Bailey. Barnum, Beck. .
ockrell. Davis wv. Va), Eaton, Gordon, =
Iarrls, Hereford, Jones Ella }, McCrrary u
Jefferson. MerrlmUn, Morgan, Ransom, Il
thurman, Voorhees,, Whyte and Withers.- II
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In 1861, the army consisted of but ci
;, 900 men, and it was ample for all b
lie purposes of the government in peace, 10
ST as that number would be at the ~
resent time. In war the dependence of in
e country is not upon the regular army ha
1t upon the citizen soldiery. The Ad- m,
inistfation, for partisan reasons, had hi
restalled the people in their determin- va
ion to reduce the army to that number y"
refusing to call Congress together to for
IS an appropriation bill before the ter of
nation of the fiscal year. The bill as p'l
ssed by the Senate, was sent to the n
'use. Mr.. Foster (Hayes Republican 1
m Ohio moved to concur, and the
don prevailed by a solid Republican
e in the affirmative, joined by eight
votes, FIVE of which were toll
N Texas. The question is not the
settled. The agitation for reform for
continue until the will of the
pie as expressed in the Presidential The
tion in 1875, and in the election Of a Ina
ority of Democratic Representatives, FOR
ecomplished. bru