The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-24

PERMANENT FoRCR or 100000
SEEMS TO BE ABOUT WHAT THE
PROGRAMME WILL
CALL FOR
SOME NEW LAWS FOR ALASKA
Are In Very Urgent Demand, Accord
ing to the Annual Report of
Gov. John 6. brady, of
That Territory.

WASHINGTON, Nov 2s.-Cbairman
Hull Of the house committee on military
affairs today called meeting of the COM
mfttee for next Tuesday. He hopes that.
a quorum will be present and that the
committee can go to work Immediately
upon the outlines of a 1lew army bill.
1T will be In the direction of economy
to pass the army bill without delay
said Mr.. Hull today. The army now
in the Philippines will have to be brought
home in the summer, that is those of
the men who don't care to re-enIist. The
transports which go out for them should
depart laden with the troops who are to
replace them, else the ships will make
one voyage empty"
Mr.. Hull, was in conference today with
the president and with officials of the
war department upon the character of
legislation desired by the administration,
He said the president viii communicate
to congress very fully his recommends
ton about the army and he did not as
sumo to speak the presidents mind in
advance.
He thought however, that the admin
! istratiOn would not be content with any
makeshift legislation or proposition to
continue the present law for two years
more. His impression was that the presi-
dent wanted authority to raise a regular
army sufficient for the.needs Of the coun-
try, 100, 600 men, if necessary the number
to be reduced when there was no longer
need for them.
Mr.. Hull said the Taft commission had
reported that Is, 600 Filipinos could be
enlisted Immediately in the army for the
Philippines, and that they would make
good soldiers under American officers
There was no fear of a repetition of
Great BTitains experience with the Sc
poys. for the Fflipinos, Mr. Hull said.
have no national feeling, like the ma
tives of India. Moreover, added Mr..
Hull, the experiment of enlisting native
troops has proven successful and there
are no more loyal nor efficient soldiers
than the natives enlisted in the British
army in India.
NEEDS OF ALASKA.
The annual report of Gov. John =.
Brady of Alaska, to the secretary of the
interior, urges congressional legislation
on the extension of the general. land laws
to Alaska, giving the natives the same
legal status as the whites and the rep
resentation of Alaska by a delegate in
congress. The report says that at Capa
Nome, Everything and everybody is pell-
NELL there are several claimants for
each town lot, beach claim and creek
claim, fully %, 900 people waiting for the
Despite recent Legislation of congress
creating additional courts and a new
code Of laws, the whole southern coast
from Unalaska to Yakutat is without pro-
lection. Within this area the population
is very considerable and property inter
ests will amount to millions of dollars
Another court is urged, to be established
either at Valdez or Kodiak. The Indian
natives OF Alaska are chafing under their
present state and aspire to citizenship
The governor says there should be equal
rights and opportunities fer all in the
territory. After referring to the outbreak
OF the grip, accompanied with pneumonia
and measles, that occurred among the
native Eskimo this year, the governor
says they were threatened with utter ex-
termination last summer. He adds: "a
deathly plague and a wild stampede of
hungry and avaricious whites pouring
IN on their precincts and turned loose
upon them by shipload after shipload,
bringing with them the arts and accom-
plishments of Sodom and Gomorrah. 1t
is hoped that through the missionaries
this change from hunting to a pastoral
life, a remnant of a noble people may
be saved.
"The withholding of the land laws is
the real difficulty in the way of getting
terrial government for Alaska. If con-
gress would treat Alaska as it has 9TH
er parts of the Western frontier in re-
gard to land titles, there will be within
few years population there ready to
assume the burden of an expensive gov
ernment, where now an entire populatio
who are simply squatters, with a very
few exceptions, are not able to do so.''
MISS GAKY's WEDDING.
Mrs. Mckinley has. decided not to ac-
company the president and the members
n he N1 n Eo14i TOW
attend the wedding of Miss Gary, daugn-
ter of former Postmaster General Gary
The ladies who will accompany the party
will be Mrs. Gage and Miss Wilson. The
president and the cabinet, after the we'd
ding, will continue their journey to Phila-
delphia, where they are to attend the
Union league banquet tomorrow night.
MORE ARTILLERYMEN NEEDED.
The annual report of the board of ord
nance and fortifcations Just made public
sums up conciselX a very large amount
OF experimental work accomplished by
the board, in the last year The general
statement of what is needed in the fu-
ture is contained i'm the following para
graph:
The work of equipping our coast
fortlhcad dons is Progressing, rapidly, and
large portion of the number of arma-
ment IS already installed. There is inn
perauYe need for an adequate force of
trained artillerists to care for and man
the guns now mounted. The board,
therefore, deems it within It's province
to invite the attention of congress to the
necessity for reorganiza ton and ma
tsrlal increase of55he artillery arm of
the board also recommends that steps
be taken at an early date to provide the
coast artillery personnel with suitable
ranges and other facilities for carrying
out each year a system Of practice with
heavy guns under conditions approach
| ing those of actual service.
A reference to the subject of rearming
the artillery branch of the service is
the only statement that can be construed
as having the slightest bearing upon the
French gun secret On the other hand
to show that the United States service
has secrets rof it's own, the report refers.
TO important tests Of Prof. Uangley's
nylng machine now in Pittsburg, but In
such general terms as to throw no light
on the success achieved I'm that direction.
Realizing the importance of increasing
the rapid fire batteries for coast defense
purposes, the board has recommended
the adoption of a pedestal type of bar
bette mount for four, FIVE and six-inch
guns. 1t proposes. a series of competitive
tests during the coming year to obtain a
new field gun, and expresses the opinion
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