Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-26
NEW ARMY REGULATIONS
Approaching Completion of the Rules That
Will Govern the Soldiers.
Much Interest Taken I'm Regular and
Militia Circles Over the Appear
ance of the Volume.

The new army regulations are rapidly
rearing compile elton. rhree-fourths Of the
entire work has been approved by Gen.
Schofleld. The balance is likely to be pass
ed On by him within the next two or three
weeks. 1t remains then only 10 have the
entire work approved by the Secretary OF
War. The advanced stage of the work
makes 1t probable that the new volume will
be ready for distribution before the close of
the year.
The new regulations are regarded as quite
as important as the new tactics, as they
embrace the common law of the army,
based on experience, orders of the President
and of the War Department, laws of Con-
gress, etc.
Many Questions Covered.
1t covers all questions of military disci-
pline, rank and precedence appointments
and promotions, uniforms and equipments,
burroughs, assertions, post canteens, cere-
monies, pay and allowances. flags, music,
and the innumerable forinalities which gov
ern every branch of army life.
Indirectly also the regulations are await
ed with much interest by the militia and
national guard, as the state troops adopt
the government regulations well as the
tactics
The War Department has taken the
greatest care preparing the new rcgula-
tons. A board of three veteran officers,
Coils. Curtin, Gilmore AMI Babcock, now
serving as assistant adjutant generals,
were detailed to supervise The work. Lieut..
John Il. French, who mad recently COM
pleted his service as recorder in prepar
ing the rev Infantry, cavalry AMI artillery
tactics, was given immediate charge of
the work of evolving The regulations from
the mass of rnaterial-orders, laws. Gus
toms, etc With force of clerks h has
been at work for months. the board has
frequently met to inspect, change or ap-
prove the compilation.
Scrutinixed by Gen. SchOfieId.
Gen. Schofieid has also gone over each
step of the work ard thus the now book
has been subjected 20 the most rigid scru-
tiny.
The regulations will embody the expert
erce of about one hundred years of army
life Baron Sreuben, a German nobleman,
who was the drill master of our revolution
cry troops made the first regulations, but
they were very crude and part of the tao
tics. In 1921 Gen. Winfield Scott prepared
the first systematic set OF regulations, and
they have since served as a basis to be
built upon, modified and enlarged. Sue
oessive Presidents have made changes as
necessity arose. The War Department
Issues general orders every day, applying
mainly to specific cases, but often estab-
fishing precedents for the entire army. All
thin material was digested in 1881 and
again in 1899, but the daily orders of the
last five years have required this new
volume.
Character of the Work.
Care has beer taken to base the regula-
tons strictly upon the text of original
orders, laws, ETC., so that the personality of
the revisers might not find expression.
This has freed the book from all appear
ance of being a text book of views and
observations of those who have done the
work, and has confined IL to a succinct
statement of actual orders and laws, with
the language literally preserved as freely
as possible The book will cover about 275
pages, including elaborate index of
reference and cross-reference.