St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
THE WAR REPORT.
Mr. LincOln's Statements Of the
Military Arm of the
Government.
Not Life Lost in the Army in War.
fare the Past Year.
Gen. Hazen Excoriated for His Report on the
Proteus Expedition.

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lows:
Salaries, contingent expenses, and
postage -...................... S2,172,9 14 sc
Military establishment-Army and
military academy. 25,64O,672 AZ
Public worl.s, including river and
harbor improvements. ........ 10, 662, 593 So
Miscellaneous objects. ...... $3.50, sos "a
ioIal' S42, o02, $40 II
which included the sum of $1,5S6, 035.72
not drawn from the treasury, but credited,
under the act of March 3, 1879 GO Statutes,
420), to the subsidized Pacific railroads for
transportation services rendered the war de-
partment during the fiscal year 1884 and
prior years. The amount carried to the sur
plus fund June 80, 1884. was 81, 010, 548.13
The appropriations for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1885, are as follows:
Salaries, contingent expenses, and
postage. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ", OSS, 624 SO
Military establisement-army and
military acade ny............... "a, 742, 1873 so
Public works. including river and
harbor improvements. .......... IL, 6s7, 4s5 90
Miscellaneous objects. ........... 3,052, 30S AZ
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .S45, $40, 551 SO
The estimates for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1886, as revised by me, are as fol-
lows:
Salaries, contingent expenses, and
postage. ....................... se,11s,s15 90
Military establishment-army and
military academy. &c, 1895 As
Public works, including river and
harbor improvements, and new
sea coast Notifications. 8,497, AGO 48
Miscellaneous objects. ........... 3,805, 147 65
Total. Observation-Disclosures $50, $50, 500 So
The estimates for the fiscal year 1886 are
below those for 1885, with few exceptions,
the principal increase being for Notifications
and other works of defense, Sc, 303, 900;
building for the Signal Office, $3.50, 900; arti
fetal limbs, $45O,000; and support of the
National home for disabled volunteer sold
iers, $199, 095.SS.
THE ARMY.
Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, com
handing the army, reports that since the
date of the last report of his immediate pre-
decessor, General w T. Sherman, the army
has enjoyed almost complete rest from ac-
tive field operations, but that its other du-
ties, consisting of occupation of posts upon
the frontiers of Canada and Of Mexico, and
stations near Indian agencies, the Profession
of Indian reservations, and the guarding of
the Indian territory from intrusion, have
been important and laborous. The reports
of military commanders show an unprece-
dented quiet among the Indians, there hav-
ing been reported during the year no dis
turbance to cause the firing of a single
musket. The renewed invasion of
what is called the Oklahoma country,
in the Indian territory, by intruders deter
mined to settle upon lands there, in defiance
of laws and of executive proclamations, has
required movements of considerable num-
bers of troops; but the intruders have been
again removed beyond the limits of the ter
rtory, and new military district has been
organized, called the District of Oklahoma,
under command of Colonel Edward Hatch,
of the 9th Cavalry, with view of prevent
ng recurrence of this trouble.
MILITARY ACADEMY.
The superintendent of the Military acad-
envy at West Point reports that there were
present at the academy September /, 1884,
three hundred and fourteen cadets, and that
there has been an improvement in the tone
and discipline of the corps.
It is believed by the secretary of war that
the rigid enforcement of the provision of
section 1925 of the revised statutes, which
prohibits the return to the academy, except
upon the recommendation of the academic
board, of any cadet deficient in studies or
conduct has not failed to exercise a benz
fetal Influence at the academy. Many iu-
stances of disregard of the provisions of that
law in former years undoubtedly impaired
the force of discipline.
ADJUTANT GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
The report of the adjutant general of the
army shows that out of total average of
5,474 pupils over fifteen years of age attend
ing colleges and other schools of the United
States to which officers of the army are as
signed as military instructors, under existing
laws, 1929 attended infantry drills and 424
artillery drills; that the aptitude of the stu
dents is excellent; aud that the interest
manifested by the faculties of the several in
situations of learning where these officers
are stationed is steadily increasing. Under
recent amendment of the law forty officers
may now be detailed for this work.
The adjutant general renews the recon-
mendation, in which concurred in my re-
port of last year, that provision be made for
the retirement of enlisted men on the COM
pletion of thirty-fye years of honorable and
faithful service in the army. He also sug-
gests the propriety, as a means of decreasing
the number of assertions, of diminution of
the term of service from five to three years,
believing that there would thus be eliminated
q great source of discomfort on the part of
men whose lack of aptitude for the service
makes them dissatisfied and desperate in
contemplating the length of the present con-
tract of enlistment entered into by them
He again recommends that the law relating
TO the settlement of the clothing account of
enlisted men be amended so as to require
bi-monthly aettlcment instead of a semi
annual settlement. AS l have heretofore
stated, it is believed that such a change
would benefit both the government and the
soldier.
The reduction in the number of unan-
swered requests for information in regard To
pension and other claims, reported last year,
still continues.
The number of unanswered calls
on hand October /, 1883, was. q, 1853
There were received during the
year thereafter. ............. 1924
Finished during the year. 155, 567
Remaining on hand October /, 1854. 1896
THE SOLDIERS HOME.
The commissioners renew the recommend
alton, made in their last annual report that
the government made an appropriation of
$4,000 for the purchase of small piece of
land in the District of Columbia belonging
to the home and now used for the purchase
of national cemetery.
The number of in mates on the rolls of the
home is 7l9. The large number, 1913, adj
mitted during the year is great in EXCESS of
the number received during any one year
since the establishment of the home
An extension Of the quarters having be-
come absolutely necessary, / approved
recon mendation of the board for the cree
ton of new building to cost about 500
building at an estimated cost of $40, 600.
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