Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-12-03

vision be made for q second assistant
secretary of war and that an appropria-
ton be made for the construction of the
Lake Union Washington ship canal.
The statement of expenditures and
estimates presents some formidable fig
ures. The expenditures for the fiscal
year ended June 80 last, were $62, 534,-
1874, and the estimates for the next
fiscal year, beginning July l, 1899, are
$195, 250, 377. Of this great estimate,
the sum of $50, 430, 800 is charged to
pay of the army The estimate of ex-
traordinary appropriations required for
the six months ending June 30, 1899,
are $50, III, 500, and the estimates for
that period, combined with those for
the next fiscal year, reach total of
$3.50, 42i ,91f.
At this point the secretary includes
IN his report the reports of General
Miles and al the other generals who
participated in the operations. He then
takes up the telegraphic and other cor
respondence relating TO the war, and
that matter occupies more than a fourth
OF the secretary's whole report. AS al
ready stated the dispatches are allowed
to tell the story OF the war without
comment as far as possible, although in
instances the secretary prefaces them
with short notes, explanatory of the
reasons which led to their transmission.
Much of that part of the report deal
ing with the campaigns before Santiago
and in Porto Rico, have already been
published, in the various reports and
controversies arising. The results, the
secretary said, justified the selection of
General Shafter for the command of
hp fl h0l faa 10
Santiago.
1t is shown that General Miles was
recognized, at different times, as COM
manding general of the United States
army.
But Miles suggestions were generally
ignored.
A number OF reports of various Off
GERS and officials to the secretary of war.
some of which are endorsed by the Sec
Rotary, are referred to. OF the military
academy, for instance, he endorses the
recommendation for an increase of the
number of cadets by 20 annually, to be
appointed by the president, and one By
each senator, to supply the officers
needed for the army OF the future.
OF the adJutant general S recommend.
atlons, the secretary says they are judi
clous and merit the favorable considera.
ton of congress. Instead OF increase
OF pay for officers serving III the West
Indies and Philippines to the next
higher grade, as recommended by the
adJutant general, the secretary thinks
that the pay OF those officers, as well
as those III alaska, should be increased
80 per cent. while they are serving, be
cause of the additional expense they
are put to. He says the question OF
payment of damages to farms and
other property by movement of troops
will be made the subject of special
communication TO congress RE recon-.
mends chat $50 instead of $40 should
be allowed for the apprehension of a
deserter.
Treating OF the quartermaster gen
eral's report the secretary picks out an
interesting TACT. He shows that the
government punched 30, 500 horses and
mules, 5.I79 wagons, 559 ambulances
and o2,07S tons OF coal and chartered
II vessels and purchased 10 steamships,
The use of the Missouri was generously
donated to the United States, with the
services OF her captain and ner crew, by
her owner, Is. y. Baker OF Baltimore,
and is valuable hospital ship. The
cost of transporting the Spanish prison
ers to Spain was 81 ,5l3 800. The graves
OF Inc soldiers at Santiago, Porto Rico
and the Philippines have been marked
ana tnese remains will be brought home
as soon as the plans are completed
Ia she subsistence department the
secretary nnds an urgent need for
reglmental commlssary and also for
commlssary sergeant for each regiment.
Discussing the surgeon generals re-
No If ct.aly tn dota
regimental surgeons to large hospitals,
but this could not have been avoided
and division and general hospitals,
which were indispensable, maintained
Ample provision should be made to sup.
ply the places of surgeons who fall sick.
One Of the great mercies Of the cam
paigu were the women nurses. The re
port says that until one has had expert
ence or made careful observation, he
cannot realize the work that these noble
women did for our sick soldiers in the
hospitals, but they cannot be well EN-
ployed at regimental hospitals i'll cam
paign. Both the division and general
hospitals are absolutely necessary, IL
the opinion of the secretary, but the
general hospital should be provided
separate wards for each regiment, Sc
that comrades could be kept together.
The secretary says the Red Cross and
other relief associations contributed in
a very large degree to the care and com,
forts of our sick soldiers, and should re.
ceive the grateful thanks of the nation.
The secretary calls attention to Surgeon
General Sternberg's circular of instruc.
tons to the army, issued April 20. and
says had 1t been strictly followed less
sickness would have resulted.
He feels that force of practical en-.
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