The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-20
NEW ARMY BILL REPORTED
Continued from First Page.)

erals department, a judge advocate
generals department, medical de-
partment, a pay department, corps of
engineers, an ordnance department.
signal corps, the officers of the record
and pension office, the chaplains the
officers and enlisted men of the army on
the retired list, the professors corps of
cadets, the army service detachment
and band at the United States military
academy, Indian scouts as now author
lied by law and such other officers and
enlisted men as may hereinafter be
provided for
Provided that when a vacancy shall
occur through death, retirement, or
other separat ton from active service in
the Office of storekeeper, now provided
for by law in the quartermasters de-
partment and ordnance department re-
spectively, said office shall cease to ex-
4 list.
The cavalry regimental organization
is to consist of colonel, lieutenant
colonel, three majors fifteen captains
and fifteen each of first and second
lieutenants. Two veterinarians are al
lowed for each cavalry regiment. OF
| these officers the captains and lieuten-
ants not required for duty with the
| troops are to be available for detail as
regimental and squadron staff officers
and also other details under the law.
The president is authorized to in
crease the number of prlvates in each
troop of cavalry to rs, but" the pro-
vision continued, "the total number of
enlisted men authorized for the whole
army shall not at any time be exceed
| ed"
All the house provisions in regard to
! the artillery are stricken out and a
provision substituted continuing the
present regimental system and giving
each regiment colonel, a lieutenant
colonel, three majors, seventeen cap
tains and the same number of first and
second lleutenants.
Twelve companies Of foot artillery are
allowed to each regiment Of artillery
and three battalions are provided for.
The president is authorized to in
crease the privates in these companies !
to So and those in field batteries to 1876,
but not by so doing to increase the size
of the army.
The language of the house provisions |
for the increase of the artillery Is re- |
tanned. The infantry regiments are al |
lowed the same general officers as the |
other branches of the service and the |
sam provision is made for detail in all |
cases. The president is allowed to in
crease the number of prlvates in infan-
try companies to 1871 but the same re-
strictions as in other cases is put on /
him as to the increase of the total
strength of the army.
The enlisted force of the corps of en-
gineers Is to consist of a band of three
battalions of engineers. The appoint
ments of chaplains by the president is
authorized at the rate of one for each
regiment including the artillery service.
Post chaplains are abolished.
The new bill continues the rank Of
major general to General Corbin so
long as he may serve as adjutant gen.
eral, but reduces the rank afterward to (
brigadier general.
Provision is also made for assistants
in the adjutant generals office and in
the departments. of the inspector gen.
~ral, judge advocate general, quarter
master general, surgeon general and
subsistence. There are to be five as
sistant adjutant generals with the rank
of colonel seven with the rank of lieu
tenant colonel and fifteen with the rank
of major.
Vacancies in the grade of captain in
the subsistence department are to be
filled by the president from officers of
the volunteer army
A female nurse corps is provided in
with the surgeon generals
office
The house provision for a separate
veterinary corps is stricken out.
The pay department is to consist of {
one paymaster general who is to be
brigadier general; three paymasters
with the rank of colonel, four with the
rank of lieutenant colonel, nine with
the rank of major and evenly seven |
with the rank of captain. These num-
bers are different from the house bill.
The heads of the ordnance depart
ment and of the signal corps are to be
The maximum strength of the army
is fixed at 100000 men and the figure is
not mentioned until near the close of +
the bill. 1t is then inserted in connec- +
ton with the provision for the enlist :
nent of Fiipinos The provision is as 3
follows:
THAT when in his opinion the condi- 7
ions in the Philippine Islands justify d
such action the president is authorized
o enlist natives of those islands for c
service in the army to be organized as t
couts, with such officers as he shall
leem necessary for their proper control, T
n rs troops or companies as authorized
" this act for the regular army. The F
PRESIDENT is further authorized in his
discretion to form companies, organized
s are companies Of the regular army,
n squadrons or battalions, with officers
nd on-commissioned officers CORE a,
to similar organizations in the n
avalry and infantry arms. The total NJ
lumber Of enlisted men in said native II
EXAMINATIONS shall not exceed twelve e,
thousand and the total enlisted force of "
he line of the army, together with such
n five fOrpa shall NOT exceed at 1nV |