The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-02
new STANDING ARMY
ADJT. GEN. CORBIN COMPLIMENTS
IT'S EFFICIENCY IN HIS AN
NUAL REPORT
DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT
by His Corps of Administrator
to Criticisms as Eliminating From
unteers Are as Good as Any Ever
Enlisted.

Disappointed PIace-Seekers-VOI-
Enlisted.
WASHINGTON. Nov.1.-The annual re-
| port of the adiutant general of the army
| Brig. Gen. Corbin, was made public to-
| day. Gen. Corbin sums up the military
| forces now in the service Of the United
| States as: Regular army, e4.586; yoIua-
| teers, 1854; total, 9,16J. The regular es-
| adjustment consists of ten regiments of
| cavalry, seven of artillery, and twenty
| five of infantry. The volunteer establish
ment consists of one regiment of cav
| airy, twenty-four Of infantry and a
| Porto Rico battalion, The distribution
of these troops UP to October l last was
as follows: In the United States 1929,
| Porto Rico, 1888, Cuba Il, 187, Philippines
32,315. enroute to the Philippines 17,Ge9,
Alaska 499, Hawaiian islands LC6. G.n
| Corbin adds the following to this sum
mary:
TT IS said that by Dec. 1 next all the
| infantry regiments United States volun-
| teers, shown above as in the United
| States, will have sailed for the Phi ip-
pine islands. These, with the troops now
! there, will give total strength of 2,ll7
officers and e3,6eS enlisted men Gan ag-
| gregate of g.. 725)."
The service of many of the troops after
| their enlistments had expired causes
| Gen. Corbin to say in his repo.t:
'%The patriotism of the regulars and
| volunteers who enlisted only for the war
| with Spain, by willingly and actively
| serving after the expiration of their
| terms of service. calls for evidence Il
| appreciation on the part of the depart
/ ment. To this end it is respectfully
recommended that each officer of the
| several volunteer organizations and Acch
| enlisted man who continued in sirlice
| in the Philippine islands after March 2,
| 1899, until hOnorably discharge, he
| awarded a suitably inscribed m ,iaL.'
NEW REGIMENTS EFFiC- ENT
! AS to the newly organized regiments
i he says:
THE reports ana inspections OF these
| regiments since their oIganiza ion show
| them to be efficient, and Possessed Of ex-
i cellent material, both in officers and en-
/ listed men, in truth, 1T is nos TOO much
| to say that better volunteer regiments
/ have never been organized
| Gen. CCrbin also pays tribute to he
| officers of the new colored regiments,
! drawn from the non-comn1tS stoned CT
floors of the colored reg meatS in. he
/ regular army, or from Int 81 W no saw
| service in the war with Spain, and say ! it
| Is believed the best equipped men of
! our cotored citizens have been commit
! stoned. During the year there have been
| 62, 1I5 enlistmcn.s ard re-enlis tments, OF
which 53,024 were native born and ?.151
j foreign born. In point of color, 56 154
! q
| Indians.
Fhe following recommendation is made
| for extra pay for officers serving in our
new possessions:
THE pay of all officers below the 81 ade
I of brfgadieF general should be intr ased
| at least 80 Is per cent while Oh duty in
| Cuba or one new possessions Most of
| these gentlemen have families that they
| are unable to have with the m, and are
therefore compelled to maintain two es-
| adjustments. Also that provision be
made that all officers below the grade of
major general, VINO retire by rsasO2 Of
age or wounds received III action, shall
do on the next grade above the rank
held by them in the regular army on the
date of their retirement"
OF the criticisms on the staff organiZa-
ton of the army Gen. Corbin says:
Much has been written of late en-
corning 4 better staff tSyS, en- Ours may
be, and Doubtless Isl open 20 improve
merits, but il should be borne IN mind
that the present organization is the result
of wears of legislation. born of the best
thought and labors Of our military man.
and has stood successfully the test of all
our wars The criticisms of our system
are too often the result of d s7ppoint-
rnent Seldom has there ore appeared In
print whose authoE has net Teen a long
standing applicant for place in one OF
the staff corps or departments. The sug-
gestion that our staff officers are not ex-
perianced in the duties Of line officers Is
not borne cut by facts"
CASUALTIES AND DEATHS.
A reorganization of the casualties in ac-
tions and deaths in the regular and vol
unteer armies between May /, 1898, and
June 80, 1899, contained in the annual re-
port of the adjutant general, shows
grand total of 1905 men. The casualty
list alone aggregated S,454, of whom
thirty-five officers and 45S enlisted men
were killed and 1877 officers and 2,764 en-
listed men wounded. The death list, num-
beTinS 6,619, was made up of 224 officers
and 6,397 enlisted men, OF this total but
| thirty-eight officers and 45S enlisted men
| were killed, the remainder of the deaths
resulting from various causes, including
| the following: Wounds, ten officers and
| 1872 enlisted men; disease, 16o officers and
| 5,34f enlisted men; ACCIDENT, SIX OIHcerS
! and 209.men; drownings, three officers and
| lightweight enlisted men; suicide, two Of
| ficers and fifty-two men, and murders or
| homicide fifty-two enlisted men. In the
! REGULAR army the total casualties in &C
| tons and deaths amounted to 4,155, and In
! the volunteer establishments to 1921. In
! the casualty list the regulars had III Of
| ficerS and 1856 enlisted men killed and
wounded and the volunteers 105 officers
AMI 1856 enlisted men killed and wound
ed In the regular army, between April
! 80, 1885, and June 80, 1899, 917 enlisted men
We're discharged by sentence Of general
! court-martial, and 2,946 enlisted men de-
serted.
ARMY SUBSISTENCE REPORT.
The subsistence of the army during the
| past year, according to the annual report
| of Acting Commissary General Weston,
cost $27, 054,646 These expenditures, it
should be stated, however. in addition to
| mutation of rations to prisoners of war,
| relief of destitute Cubans, relief of suf-
| ferers from overflow of the Mississippi
| river and Red river, relief of people in
| the mining region of Alaska, issues TO
| Indians. etc
| The value of stores lost by accident,
| by wastage, transportation, etc, during
| the year for which no one was held re-
| sponsible was $685. AL. Supplies lost Tor
| which responsibility was fixed amount to
| $1S16, nearly all of which has been COL
| lected. There was a large increase over
| previous years In stores condemned. due
to Incidents and accidents of service djlr-