Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-12


profit in the issue Of notes based there
on. The second has lately furnished
q substantial addition to our stock OF
money, but in an unpopular form, since
people do not like to use gold money
itself, and the issues of paper money
against gold is restricted to notes OF
large denomination. These considera-
tons point strongly to the desirability
OF currency legislation which will fup-
nish to the people the kind of money
they need at the time they need it
most The present Secretary of the
Treasury would have the banks per-
form this Office But why can't the gov
eminent perform it as we'll? Whether
the banks or the government are to
control the national currency is one Of
the storm centres of the financial ques-
ton, and is bound to so continue as
long as the administration purposes an
addition to the privileges OF the ma
tional banks.
has arisen in the ordnance bureau Of
the war department, the head of which
is Gen. Burlington. This officer, Jointly
with Capt. Crozier, one Of the American
delegates to the peace conference at The
Hague, is the inventor of gun carriage
known as the -Crczier car
riage, device fully covered by patents
in this and other countries, which pat
ents are owned by the inventors. The
war department is about to expend sew
eral millions of dollars on gun car
riages, and the chief of the ordnance
bureau is strongly in favor of awarding
the contract to the manufacturers of the
Burlington Crozier carriage. There is
rival carriage, which is said to be of
equal merit. but the mead CT the ord
nance bureau cannot see it in that light.
His reports and recommendations all
condemn the rival and commend his
own invention. While Gen. Burlington
has been holding uD his end in this
country, Capt. Crozier has not been idle
in Europe. Though a delegate to the
peace conference, it is said that Capt.
Crozier has had an eye out for oppor-
tunities to exploit his invention before
European ordnance officers Capt Gro
zier, it will be remembered. was strong
ly opposed to the proposal to limit the
use Of new military inventions. Evil
IDENTIFY the Bufington-Cr combina-
ton is a thrifty one.
The Adjutant Generals Office has is
sued a tabulated statement of
THE MILITARY FORCES
Of the United States, giving the total
enlisted strength of the regular army
on Auguts 4. as 60.323 men. Of whom
1852 are in the United States, ISIS in
Porto Rico. 1894 in Cuba, and $500
in the Philippines. When present
plans are completed there viii lbe an
army of 5000 officers and men in the
Orient. With the regular army re-
cruited I'D to its authorized strength
Of $1,000 men, the total military forces
OF the United States will be as follows:
Regular army, authorized strength. Go goo
IAfee regiments organizing in Philip
pines .--......... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3 $50
Ten regiments organizing in United
otateS ..-......... -....-...-........-... 1900
| Hospital corps ...................... 240o
Total ............................ 1855
To which must be added over $500
officers, making the grand total of Off
GERS and men in the service of the Uni
ted States for the next two years foot
up nearly $1,000 men.
Pension Commissioner Evans injected
some politics into his administration
Of the bureau by issuing a large num-
| Der of pensions during the first week
in July, all of which were dated June
80, so that they might be credited to the
number of pensions issued in the fiscal
year 1899. The object of this is to bet
ter the record. SO that the administra-
! ton will appear friendlier to the old
soldier than it might have appeared
otherwise. A million dollars or more
were added to the pension expenditure
by this operation. MACKAY.