The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-12

bill providing for the increase of the army.
 Officers serving in the West Indies and the Philippines will, as a rule, be separated from their families and their living expenses greatly increased. It is recommended that all officers below the rank of major, while so serving shall have their pay and allowance of the next higher grade.
 The requirements of probable service in Cuba and elsewhere call for the in- crease of general officers in the perma nent establishments. There should at least be an increase of two major gene rals and four brigadier generals Provi- stons of the grade of lieutenant to gen eral is called for by the best interests of public service"
 General Corbin recommends that the men of the National Guard who en- tered the volunteer army be allowed to return and be admitted to their stale organizations.
 Advice to those who control the na- tional guard is as follows:
 While the yeary state eucampments have been productive of positive good in imparting practical instructions to the troops participating, the experience If the rscent campaign has demonstrated the absolute necessity of further as stimulating the condition of encamprd troops to the actual necessities of ac- u 5e service, making the men, while in camp dependent for their subsistence on the army ration to be furnished by the state authorities on rations returns, and cooked by the troops precisely the sane ir manner as on actual service ln the field. An organization ordered to a state camp for military instruction, de- pending on caterer to furnish the ne- cessary food, can never acquire that self-reliance which characterizes the regular soldier in active duty, for with out previously received instruct .n preparing food the natural result, when called into service will be poorly cooked and wasted rations which failing 10 strengthen the physical man. make him liable to febrile and stomach troubles incident to service in all kinds of weather, under distressing but una voidable circumstances.
 For this purpose, including the issue of rations and the purchase of field cooking stoves and utensils, the annual appropriations made by congress for the support, in part of the militia IS | totally inadequate, and it's incrs asa, urged in past years. has now become a ne oessity.
 Other features of the report refer to the post graduate schools of the army, post 1yceums, post schools, the person. al of the adjutant-ge department, the bureau of military information and military attaches. Officers who are sent at military attaches are recon n.ended to be given the rank of 1ieuten- ant colonel and major while on such duty. He also recommends that the pay of on-commissioned officers be in l creased, and that there be a reorgani- | zation of army hands which will secure the better class of musicians. General Corbin refers to the great 1 amount of work that has fallen to the adju.apt- generals department ne es sary in calling out such large army and the mastering out of 161 1,000 men. Over four million blank forms and re- turns have been distributed. The gen eral, In this connection has enlarged on the phrase from Maine to California
 by saying that the ramificatiens cf his office lave reached from Maine to Ma
 nila." Another feature of the report is tha1 not a single personal prcnoun ia
 used iE the report of forty printed paees