The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-27

states furnish the armories aud taefray all
expenses incidental to Keeping their
forces in training. Secretary Lamont snE-
ges;s that the United States should pro-
Vide them With the implements which
they will need tn active service. arms and
field equipment. as the supply on hand Is
totally inadequate for serious and pro-
longed field operations. The secretary
recommends that the Springfield rifle. call
iber 81. be issued 10 state troops. that the
states be allowed to return TO the war de-
partn1sni obsolete arms and equipments,
10 be sold. and the proceeds credited 10
the states. and that the states be allowed
to purchase from the department supplies
al regular prices
The report shows that whereas on the
first of July. isss. in our modern defense
but one high power gun was mounted, by
the first OF July next ne VIII have In po-
stion seventy nigh power breech.ioading
guns and ninety-fiye breet loading NOR
tars OF modern design, and by the follow
ing July. completion of work already
under way. or provided for Us guns and
1ss nortsrs. A battery of two or three OF
these guns takes the place of the former
pretentious fort and is vastly more effec--
tive.
The defenses now under consideration
are distributed among the ports of Port
land. Me; Portsmouth. ". H.. Boston.
Narragansett bay; eastern entrance 10
Long Island sound. eastern and southern
entrances 20 New York. Philadelphia. Bal
timore Washington. Hampton Roads. VIII
nlngton, Charleston. Savannah. Key West,
Pensacola Mobile, New Orleans. Cal
weston, San Diego. Sap Francisco and the
mouth of the Columbia river and Puget
sound.
All OF the empiacements have been To-
Gated With view 10 carrying out the pro-
ject of the E.ndtcott board of fortifcatIons,
My ed li,sr1 ri Rf ffr
3. isss rs revised by tbe permanent board
OF engineers. The secretary says that the
department, in making these aiiotments.
was guided by a desire 10 protect many
OF the sraporis as practicable against ma
rauding attacks OF isolated cruisers. as
well as To provide more efficient defense
for the important places and also 10 utii-
ize TO the best advantage the guns for
which carriages could b. most speedily
furnished.
The total number Of emplacemen;z pro-
viied for 10 date IL i2s for guns and tiG
for nortars. of which s2 for guns and IS
for mortars were appropriated for n the
last session of congress
The number Of gym carriages completed
and building, all Of which win be 'irisf-
ed within the next fiscal year. * twenty
ia-inch sixty-nine i9-incb eighteen s-incn
for guns and f8s for mortars. BY July.
1857. there should be ready seventy gun
total number Of gums completed 20 date
since the FIRST appropriation II skis -ona
S-ineh. hffy-Stx le-tnCh. fwfgty-onp iz-inch
and eighty moTtars.
With the money already provided there
viii be completed by June 10. Iss7, seven
ty-iwo s-inch guns. eighty -s.yen I0-ineh
guns. forty seven ig-inch guns and e,Rhtv-
eight J2~iDch rnortars. The estimates Of
the department for The next fiscal year
aggregate SO ss2. ~. Win this appropria-
ton provision will have been made FOR 1873
high power gun espplaeemsnrs, 10 rapid
Ara gun smplacemeufs ~ Finch mortar
emplacements. E& high power steel gums.
nsnesy-sevgn rasid-nre gmua Esy is-lneh
mortars 10 :, 10 and fz-ipcf gun carriages.
<. ie-inch mortar carriages
The armament 0f troops with The new
magazine arms easanpiTief in May.
and the srmory ~ turning o.; - rifles or
carhina@ per day under tf- appropriation
made last year. AL the ammunition for
small arms nc@ made is supplied with
snoksiess powder Of American isanufae-
iure and of satisfactory quality.
The 80 Apache prisoners Of Geronim0's
hand, The secretary says. have led quiet,
pastoral life and have reached seif-sup-
porting condition. HE recommends nat In
sEaae the title 10 the ~ wG acres they cc~
cupy De acquired BY the government and
they thsn De placed under control OF the
Indian bar@au
The report shows sotsI expenditures for
the war department for 1s-s, aggreTstsng
s5i.a1 re Among jaem - an item ~
81. f9.5 5* for sassrSeS and contingencies in
the war offlce a. Wa&hlEgfep. Tnfs. the
secretary says. shows saving % sss2 go
from the expenditure under the saszae
head for the year isFz.
The aggregate os appropriations for shs
department. unexpenaed ard turned back
into tbs general fund OF the treasury at
THE end 81 the last ascas T@ar was sf.sTs,-
nsz For the year 1856 II was g. -ss ssT, ard
+ for 1saa IL wss 81 ss7. So an aggregate for
1 three years os more thar =, ,ssga
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