The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-05
ARMY REORGANIZATION
scope of Proposed Legislation for
the Military Embellishments.

scope of Proposed Legislation for
the Military Establishment.
All the authorities agree that military
II -isIation Will be one OF the features Of
the Fiity-sixth Congress, but whether leg
islatiOn Of this character viii be couspicu-
Gus during the long session is
e. point upon which the authorities do not
agree. Representative Hull Of Iowa.
Chairman Of the House Committee or
Military Affairs, believes that the army
viii play a prominent part in Congress
even during the present session. but he
also believes that the law passed by he
Fifty-hfrh Congress ct its third session
viii answer all requirements as d tempo
rary measure new army reorganization
scheme Is necessary, though. inasmuch as
the provisions Of the Hull Army bill q the
Fitty-hfth Congress expire by limitation
July I. 1901
One Of the ideas which will be embodied
i'm the next army reorganization scheme
VIII be the tbree-battaliou formation,
which was put into effect under the last
Hull bill 1ni which il is said has given
general satisfaction and which has been
productive Of good results. A feature 70
which viii be given special attention viii
b that allowing the army TO expand from
p
instead Of eulisting new regiments
Secretary Root and Mr.. Hull after sew
eral conferences have agreed that a detail
star system is preferable to a permanen:
stan- The permanent stan system is that
employed in the armies Of Continental Eu-
rope, but the detail plan" is that provided
FOR in the army Of Great Britain.
II is likely. though by no means certain
that the medical department Of the army
nil 10 IN al hot Of
army. In that army, the medical service
Is directly under the medical division Of
the war ministry and is presided over bv
the surgeon general Of the army. who holds
the rank Of lieutenant general The med
zeal corps consists OF military doctors with
assimiaJed grades OF commissioned Off
GERS; military doctors graded as non-com-
TisslOngd officers; nurses sick bearers.
ard hospital attendants"
.GeiiCal officers are obtained from militia
ry surgical institutions or from graduates
of other medical schools. the Kaiser VIII
helm Academic being the principal pre-
paratory school. Hospital attendants are
taken from the ranks after not less thar
six months service and trained in the low
or branches OF the military service. After
passing the prescribed examination they
may be employed in the hospitals OF re-
main with the troops. Each army CORDS
trains annually from forty to fifty nurses.
and litter-bearers needed.
Medical units are Medicine wagon de.
tachments. sanitary companies. field hos
pitfalls, etappe hospitals. and war hospitals
The medicine wagon detachment, having
Filters and two bandage knapsacks with
the necessary personnel taken from the
troops is the smallest unit
II is the policy in the management Of the
permanent military hospitals to relieve the
medical officer OF all responsibility for
property that he may give all his attention
TO the care OF his patients. There is no
sick-call in the German army. II an en-
listed man complains of sickness and ap-
pears to be unfit for duty, this fact is re-
ported TO the first sergeant who summons
the medical officer.