The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-08
ARMY BILL
Alger Approves the Measure lutts-
duced BY Hull.
NOT GENERAL MILES BILL
PROVIDES AN ARMY OF 100000
MEN.
Differs In Many Respects From the
Measure Prepared By General
Miles-No General and But One
Lieutenant General-Thirty Regi-
ments of Infantry

M11eS-No General and But One
Lieutenant General-Thirty Regi-
ments of Infantry.
Washington, Dec. Representative
Hull, chairman of the house committee
on military affairs, today introduced a
bill increasing the regular army to ap-
proximately 100000 men. The bill was
framed at the war department and has
the approval of the secretary of war
1t is not the bill framed by General
Miles and this measure has not the high
ranks proposed by the Miles bill, and
some of the appointments are open to
officers Of the volunteers from civil life.
It provides for a lieutenant general and
what is considered a sufficient increase
of major generals and brigadier gener-
ais to command an army of 100, 900 men
scattered from Puerto Rico to Manila.
The artillery arm is reorganized, sepa-
rating it into coast and field artillery,
but promotion is to be made by senior
ity of the whole arm. A decrease of the
enlisted men is made, so that the army
can be increased by recruits in case of
war to full strength. The cavalry is
increased two regiments, the infantry
five. The enlisted strength of an in
fantry company is not to exceed las,
so that in case Of war new regiments
would have to be formed, probably all
of which would be volunteer but the
regular army would make substantial
first line
The bill provides for the three battal-
ion formation. The staff corps are in
creased about 40 per cent and, with
the exception of the adjutant general,
inspector general and ordnance are
open to appointments from the volun-
teers or civil life. The most noticeable
change IS in that of the medical de-
partment, ir which provision is made
for a hospital corps Of 5000 privates,
with the necessary on-commissioned
officers, With d largely increased num-
Der of surgeons and assistant surgeons.
All officers and men serving in the sub
tropical countries are to have an in
crease of % per cent in pay. Under
the Immediate control of the president,
inhabitants of the new countries may
be enlisted III the organizations there
serving.
The bill gives total of fourteen regi-
mentS of artillery, twelve of cavalry
and thirty of infantry.
DIFFERS FROM MILES BILL.
Chairman TiulHs bill is cast on Ell
tirely different lines from General
Miles bill, SO that detailed comparison
is difficult. The Miles bill is based on
the theory of one soldier for one thous-
and population while the Hull bill is
based or the idea of a total force OF
100000, the organization being con-
structed so as to reach that total
General Miles. provides for a general
and for two lieutenant generals, While
the Hull bill makes no provision for d
general and has but one lieutenant gen.
eral. Qtaer Important differences are:
Hull bll. thirty regiments of infan-
try; Miles bill, fifty regiments of infan-
try.
Hull bill, twelve regiments of caval-
ry; Miles BILL fifteen regiments of cav
airy
Hull bill, a corps of artillery; Miles
bill, fourteen regiments of sea coast
artillery and two regiments of field ar
tillery.
The Hull bill in its first section. sums
up the reorganized army as follows:
One lieutenant general, six major
generals. twelve brigadier generals,
twelve regiments of cavalry, a corps of
artillery, thirty regiments Of infantry,
an adjutant generals department, an
judge advocate generals department,
a quartermasters department, sub
sistence department, a corps of en-
ment, pay department, a corps of en-
gineers, an ordnance department, a sig
nal corps, thirty post chaplains, the
chief of the record and pension Office,
the officers Of the army on the retired
list, the professors, corps of cadets,
an army service detachment and band
at the United States military academy
and such other officers and enlisted men
as may hereinafter be provided for,
ARTILLERY ARM
The regimental organization of the
artillery arm is discontinued and that
member is designated as the corps of
artillery
The distinction between coast and
field artillery is similar to the Miles
bill, but more elaborate in detail. The
Atlantic division of the coast is defined
gulf seaboard and the coast of the great
lakes, and shall ultimately include the
coast line of the West Indian posses
sions of the United States
The Pacific division is defined to in
clude the Pacific seaboard, and shall
ultimately include the coast line of the
various possessions of the United States
in the Pacific ocean"
The corps of artillery embraces IA
batteries of coast artillery and twenty
four field batteries. Each regiment Of
infantry consists of twelve companies.
organized into thirty-seven battalions
of four companies each. The company
in addition to commissioned
and nom commissioned officers, is 112
men. In various staff corps express
provision is made that persons who
have served as officers in the volunteer
army in the war with Spain and per-
sons in civil life may be appointed to
various specified grades.
Section 16 is as follows: Organiza-
tons serving in Cuba, Puerto Rico and
the islands of the Pacific may, in the
discretion of the president, be recruited
in whole or in part from the inhabitants
thereof, to whom the legal restrictions
upon enlistments in the army as re-
CARDS terms of service, age, citizenship
and educational qualifications shall not
apply, and who shall be entitled to such
pay and allowances, not exceeding those
now authorized, as the president may
direct -