Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-14


| %ANrD. tive John r. Fellows o
| ~ ~ Vzh New York. In the de
| n& n wv bate on the naval ap
| preparation bill he sale
S5x$3s ss-sN-, to the House, but NOR,
especially to Representative Holman of In
diana:
| LET me tell the gentleman. who lives in ar
interior district not threatened at all by naya
hostilities, not at all affected by any of the
ravages that may be visited upon our coast
that every home and industry in Indiana ii
protected by the action and operation of laws
and forces now existing in all the great states
of this Union. In the state of New York we
are maintaining 10000 militiamen in the form
| OF a national guard-armed as well as any SOL
diers upon earth and splendidly officered and
| drilled. Every other state is doing the
| same, until we have, by the action and
| support OF the states, great military power
| that may be invoked whenever we are con-
fronted with danger upon the land. and around
| which the entire patriotism of this country
may readily cluster to the number of millions
OF men, finding in this trained corps of citizen
soldlery ample officers equipment and organi-
zation Tor any emergency in which the country
may be placed. The gentleman is protected by
night and by day-not by standing army but
| by system that has been established through
| out all this nation. which secures upon the land
absolute safety against every encroachment.
But how Is it with the coast line, with the great
cities?
The gentleman speaks Of the patriotic i'm
pulse which will animate our citizens if we are
confronted with danger, and recognize it.
Nowhere on earth is it SO splendidly illustrated
| as here. But tell the gentleman that $780,
OOO OF armed Americans, their bosoms burning
with lmpassionate ardor, could not save our
great American cities with all their endless in
dustrles, with all their vast resources, against
tne encroachment OF naval foe. Their mere
military power would be imperative.
| Inns country will never submit to a large
standing army. 1t depends up its citizen SOL
| diery, maintained by the states themselves. to
protect 1t against any invasion upon the land.
But 1t is only federal power that can or should
control the navy. The gentleman spoke of the
| fact, and wish now to remind him of it, that
there were no white lips in our northeastern
states when there was recent proclamation of
war. as he characterized it. Well, there was q
war cloud in the sky; every man in this House
| charged with the responsibility of his situation
| as representative, felt the gravity Of the oc-
casiOn.
The gentleman says that.the cry Of Wolff
has been so often repeated that the country has
ceased to feel alarmed. But ! tell the gentle
man that the very pith and substance Of the
liable referred to consists in the truth that there
was wolf and that it finally came and that
amid its ravages, amid the destruction it caused,
| amid the lamentations and the evil that were
wrought by Its coming, there was one sorrow-
full retiection-that the sufferers had not lis
tened with something more of acauiescence and
| belief to the predictions of their prophet of
| woe. tApplause.I Talk of ex-
penditure! Why, Mr.. Chairman, every dollar
that you Will expend now for the construction
OF an adequate naval force may save tens of
! millions of dollars i'll the future. But let me
appeal to the gentleman from Indiana to re-
| member that Pennsylvania. New jersey, Massa-
chusetts. Georgia and Minnesota and every
state In this union, out of their own resources.
are supplying the soldier and equipping and
drilling the forces that will protect him on the
soil OF Indiana, where no naval power can
reach. where no bomb from ship can explode:
that they are spending their money by countless
| thousands to protect his home when the hour
of peril shall come"
JOHNNY STILL HAS HIS GUN.
There is at least one young man in this city
who has learned to fear if not to respee. the
District National Guard. 1t was a dangerous
and painful experience but ii might have been
much worse. Private w. Il. Smythe Che used
TO be sergeant before he had himself trans
ferred to the sharpshooters' platoon of the en-
gineer corps was going home from the rife
gallery the other evening. Half dozen young
soughs remarked his passing, gave utter
ance to some insulting comments about the
National Guard and declared their intention
of taking Smythe's rife from him. They
surrounded him and started in with their
program, but scattered with wonderful
rapidity when the ringleader received a
blow on his head with the rifle butt which
knocked him senseless. Judge Kimball
took cogniZance of the affair next morning, the
injured conspirator having charged Mr.. Smythe
with assault. The case was promptly dismissed
after the testimony was i'll. Judge Kimball gave
the amateur hoodlum some sound advice and
hat t-n,.
to fool with a man who has a gun.
SOMETHING FOR EVERY OFFICER TO READ.
Orders No. Q. just issued from second regi-
ment. deal with a question which has been O
fruitful source of annoyance to many members
OF the guard. The document is worth reading.
Here it is:
The attention of battalion and company COM
manders Is directed to the matter of extra drills
that ID drills III excess of the regular official
schedule. As now prescribed each company is
required to attend one regimental, one battalion
and two company drills in each month. There
| are in the regiment many men who are attend
ing lectures. studying or are otherwise so en-
| ployed as to be unable to conveniently attend
more drills or assemblies than the regular
schedule provides. and possibly in some in
| stances not all OF those. There are also COM
panies and company commanders. anxious to
| become proficient in military exercises and TO
! do their work well, who undertake additional
| drills and endeavOr to compel attendance at
! them. The result of this is that men sometimes
attend the extra drills at the expense of the
| regular schedule. Attendance a. the regular
schedule drills is compulsory on every officer
\ and man, unless properly excused. without
separate notice of each drill. 1t is the duty of
| officers and men to be acquainted with the
drill schedule and absence from these drills
unless properly excused is absence without
leave. The following rules, therefore, will
| hereafter be strictly enforced
| First. Attendance at schedule drills is COM
| pulsory.
Second. Absence unless by proper excuse will
| be considered as without leave.
Third. Immediately after each schedule drill
the names of the company officers and enlisted
men absent from that drill are to be reported
| to the regimental headquarters through mill
tary channels with the reason in each case for
| such absence.
/ Fourth. Company commanders will there
upon be required to enforce the bylaws of their
companies, imposing fines for absence from
drill against each and every absentee without
leave.
Fifth. In cases where, for any reason. the
bylaws OF company contain no provision
| Furnishing absence from drill the absentee
without leave will be liable to trial by court
martial.
Sixth. The fines due by habitual and persistent