Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-18
Army Declared to be Obsolete
and Inefficient.
T0P-HEAVY WITH LACE
General Mct !.'iian's Son Says It IL No
better Than IA Police Force. Senator
Woicatt Discusses In,erna-
tionnl BimetaIlis,n.

Siol was ueFotSda to further. cbnS.deia-
iron OF the army appropriation bill. The
&c ate Waa particularly notable for a
I agarous speech by al r. Mcclellan
/ ebemoeraD. of New Y ork, q son on C;sSSI,
| George B. Mcclellan. attacking THE
| present army organization as obsolete
| and Inefficient.
| The army today, Mr. aIcCelan de-
clared. was little better than a clumsfly
| organized national police force, top
navy with the gold lace OF staft Off
GERS, many of whom had not seen more
active service than falls to the lot of a
tnensoer OF thst police force. The army
should, he declared, ube entirely reorgan-
| lied f1h said this in no spirit of lingo
Ism. Dut tog'. the purpose of calling the
| attention of the country to the fact tina t
we We're paying large, price for very
u'*hiieient army. utterly unprepared for
war while very small additional TX
Pense. with proper reorganization,
wound work wonders
one or the gravest NIects of the pres
ent organization. he said, was the lack
OF Property instructed and competent
staff. Thl brains of the army should be
in the stan.
In the modern sense OF the word W.
hal no staff. Our ammunition plant
was, he sad. hopelessly deficient. AT
the present rate OF accumu. a tive re
srve. hs, said at the end Of five years,
we would only have enough. nun u milton
TO supply the infantry for two uays al
the firing rate of the battle OF Gettys-
burg.
In the present conditions. hedged
ABOUT as the service was, Mr.. Mcclellan
sd4u' IL was not strange that army off,
GERS lost pride and ambition in their
profession and looked forward only to
SOFT births and retirement IT was
amazing. he sailt but it was true, that
mot one officer in the service was en-
gagged in preparing for war. Thsre was
q Ia, n &C.,,
gle skeleton ORDER for mobiliza ton. no
plans for camps Of instruction.; in fact
not one of the preliminary n cessities ia
meet a war crisis should it come. Thesa
stdeetnehts might BIZ denied, lat they
were true. 1t was the duty of Con-.
gress. he declared in conclusion IL, So
10 II that OUT arny, for its size. was as
nearly Perfect as human exaerlt N, {. ana
11to Wedge could make it. Mr.. McClel
ian remarks wire given close ettsn-
ION, ION ana ne was literally applaudeti
when he concluded. =
any increase Of tie army. -fts- charged
that the trusts were in control of the
country and constituted the mailed
hard OF power behind the DEGREES of the
courts. If the army were intr ased the
people wouJdl he said, be justified in
asking whether 1t was not to b., used. to
| barrioade the courts and break down
everything that means the FREE dom of
! telegram which he said Senator Hanna
had received from Frankfort, Germany,
| slsn.d Thy A Seligman. as follows:
| congratulate you on your election.
| 1t is most satisfactory to me-
| That mi ssage,: he said, came from the
man who helped to place mortgage on
this government of 5000 00G, COO Its in
science. he sahi. had no parallel in his
tory save in the MESA ge sent by Pom
thus Plate to the 'executioner OF Jesus
1 v Nhv-icI ,slDA ..,-- III
work was we'll done.
Mr. HUI (Repubtican). OF Iowa. chair
| man OF the committee on military af-
| fairs expressed concurrence in the
views of tMr. Mcclellan to- the kxtent
that ne believed the army should be re-
was obsolete. The discussion of the
| needs OF the army was continued by
| tMessrs. VIII eler Democrat), of Ala
bana; Clark EDemocrete. of Missouri;
Coz (DemocnaD, or Tennessee): Marsh,
] IRE publican). of Illinois. without com
| pleting the discussion. the committee
arose and at 5:u0 the H1slse adjourned,
| SENATE.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE feat
ures Of today's procea tangs In the Senate
We're the speech delivered by Senator
| WoEbtt. of Colorado, chairman OF the
| bi-metalic commission. upon the nego-
| tatfons OF the commission with Euro
pean countries relative to international
bi-mS taiidSm, and this passage of the
Lodge bill restricting immigration into
the United States. The proceedings were
| the most interesting anh important thai
nave characterized any single days
WGrk of the Senate during the present
session Quite unexpectedly Senator
| Hanna appeared at the opening of to-
| days session.
Mr. Foraker, tfne senior Senator from
Ohio presented Mr. Hanna's creden-
tails for the remainder of Mr. Sher-
mans tirm, which will expire on March
I, 1879. and asked that the oath Of office
be administered to him. Mr. Foraker
I escorted his colleagu. to the desk, where
Vite-Presdsn MT Hobart administered the
|oath
AT 1880 Mr.. Wolcott YVES recognize d.
by this time the galleries ana the floor
! wer@ crowded. Mr.. Wolcott was in fine
woes and spoke with onsy occasional re-
!erences to his manuscript, which he
mad before him. He was accorded the
closest attention of his auditors. among
whom We're many members of the
| House.
Mr.. Wolcott introduced the subject bv
saying that nv, was glad to make a
| statement respecting certain phases Of
the work Of the recent hiI1thallic COM
| mission. but in doing SD he spoke I'M
officially. not committing his associates
| IN the slightest degree"
Later in the session. he said, Eve
are certain to have ample discussion on
the subject of silver. and it will proba-
bly, be acrid and. bitbsr epcngh.''
Taking UP the subject OF his remarks
he told of the appointment of the BIZ
metallic commission. The failures OF
form'.r International conferences. ne
said. made it evident that unless som&
prior understanding was arrive; at with
some of the commercial nations, an
other faHunt. would De the result of an
International conference at this time,
and SIS France, Germany and Grat
ltBritain had within the year made lie
claratfons favorable to silver. 1t was de-
cided to- bring the subject to thu atten-
ton of the various countries and natu-
rally the first turn was made TO Frence
for many reasons. but aboy,e, all be-
cause OF Premier Meiine's belief in BIZ
metaliisn. In France. ne said, the
question OF bimetallisnn was regardedas
strietiy an international question, and
was agreed that Trance and the
united States should unite in presenting