The age-herald., 1900-05-05
THREE HOURS DEBATE General Miles Given Rank of
 Lieutenant-General. VETERINARY CORPS ESTABLISHED Competent Specialists Will Be Alp. pointed to Care for the Animals.
 Chaplain Provided for Each
 Re yiment
VETERINARY CORPS ESTABLISHED

Washington, May 4-Today's session of
 the senate was rendered especially notable
 by the passing, after a debate lasting only
 three hours, of the army reorganization
 bill In military circles the measure IS 1 regarded as of the most important of | the present session. ; It practically revoutionizes the present l staff arrangements of the army. It proa
 poses to change the present system of per-
 manent appointments in certain staff corps
 to one of detail by a gradual process, as
 the officers now in those corps go out of active service. As vacancies occur in the
 department of the adjutant general and the inspector general, quartermaster general | and commissary general, they are to be l filled by details from the line, the details | to be temporary and not to exceed four l years.
 The bill dscontnues the regimental or- l ganization of the artillery, and establishes an artillery corps of two branches, viz: 126 batteries of coast artillery and IS batteries I of field artillery, with a total of HAS men. | It provides for increase of 100 in the l corps of cadets at West Point. The rank | of the commanding general of the army is | raised to that of lieutenant general, and l that of adjutant general to major general.
 The Qualifications appropriation bill, car. | ryng about $,5Oo.OOo. was passed. Fight over General al.es
 After one or two amendments to the | phraseology of the bill had been made, MT. 1 Tillman of South Carolina moved that the | fifteenth section of the measure be amended | so as to read follows: That the senior major-general commands ing the army shall have the rank, pay and allowance of a Neutenant-general and his personal staff shall have the rank pay and | allowances authorized for the staff of q | lieutenant-general."
 The amendment proposed by MT. Tillman
 had the effect of striking out the provisions making the section apply only to General Miles, the present commander of the army | It was agreed to.
 MT. Berry of Arkansas moved to strike out the section as amended. He did not | think any good could be subserved by ins creasing the rank of the commander of the army.
 MT. Bate of Tennesse also objected to the
 increase of rank, and deprecated what he
 said was a tendency to increase the
 strength of the army.
 MT. Sewell pointed out that the ConfedS | eIacy had nine lieutenant generals and eight full generals He paid a handsome tribute to General Miles, the present com,
 mander of the army. He said that in any
 European army of 100000 men-the present
 strength approximately of the United States
 army-there would be two lieutenant gent erals and one full general History hA | said, would look upon the increase of ouf 1 army from 26,0OO to 275,000 men in thirty 1 days as one of the greatest of military | achievements. Yet little credit was giysh | the organization which enabled this result l to be accomplished.
 | Praised By Hancock
 
 MT. Lodge had received a letter iron,
 Major General W. s. Hancock warmly
 praising General Miles.
 MT. Teller thought the proposed ranks l ought to be given to the commander of | the army. In the course of a tribute to
 General Miles, he said that if the general | had been called into the councils, as he l should have been, during the recent war, | some difficulties that were encountered | might have been avoided. The motion was defeated to A, as fol. | lows:
 | Yeas-Bates, Berry, Butler, Clay, Cul- | person, Kenny, Money, Vest-8. l Nays-Alison, Bacon, Baker, Bard, Bur. | rows Chandler, Cockrell, Davis, Deboe, | Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster, Frye,
 Gallinger, Gear, Hale Hansbrough, Hare | ris, Hawley, Hoar, Jones of Nevada, | Keane, Kyle, Lindsay, Lodge, McComas,
 Mason, Nelson, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus,
 Platt of Connecticut, Proctor, Quarles. | Rawlins, Ross, Sewell, Shoup, Simon Stews | art, Teller, Wellington, Wolcott-A l Veterinary Cor.s MT. Kenny, democrat, offered an amends | ment creating a veterinary corps, and strongly advocated It's adoption. It was opposed by Messrs. Cockrell, Proctor, Lodge and Sewell, on the ground that the army supplied already with capable
 and efficient veterinarians-men who were
 we'll paid for their services. MT. Wolcott
 vigorously supported the amendment. He
 said the armies of Europe all had theiY
 veterinary corps with commissioned offs
 cers of high rank.
 MT. Proctor presented letter from tha
 secretary of war advising strongly against
 the adoption of the amendment. MT. Gallinger said 1t was important that educated men should be in the army tq
 care for the army animals, and said these veterinarians could be swept aside no long- CT as merely "horse doctors" MT. Kennys amendment was agreed to- 9 to 23. It provides that the veterinary corps shall consist of chief veterinarian with the rank, pay and allowances of q colonel in the army, an assistant chief veterinarian, to rank as Q major, four vet~ erinarians with the rank of captain of cav airy, ten assistants with the rank of first lienutenant of cavalry and twenty assists ants with the rank of second lieutenants o1
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