Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-01
SUBSISTENCE OF ARMY.
Total Expenditure During Fiscal Year
 Was Sl5. .622.. ..22S.


 yyashinoton Nov 1.-The report of General John F. Weston, colnInlssaIy general of subsistence, shows that the total expenditures for the subsistence of the army during the fiscal year were S15 622. .22S The receipts from fife sales of subsistence stores during the same period were $3, ,290, ,a34. An interesting feature of the report is statement from Colonel Woodruff, chief commissary of the army in the Philippines, in which he says:
 During the first three months of the period covered by this report, stores here had, for various causes, become greatly reduced, but owing to the grand response made by the commits sary general to every call from this office and the energetic action of the purchasing commissarieS in San Fran cisco and New York. this was speedily corrected and this division was soon supplied as no other army of it's size has ever been supplied ill the worlds history
 During the period covered by this report the command to be supplied eX- tended from the great wall of China on the north to the island of Borneo on the south and the island of Guam on the east. There were 4SO stations in this archipela:S,. besides the troops in China and the prisoners in Guam.
 In addition to the 68,000 troops and 5000 officers in this division, the sub sistence department supplied the deli cacies for the sick, rations for 1000 prisoners of war, 1,S00 marines, many of the stores for the navy, rationS for 1000 civilian employees and sales stores for the army. navy and marine -,I attaches, and Americans employed by Ihe army and by the government i'll | it's treasury, postoffice. interior and educational departments, metropolitan police. native police and scouts, trans ports. etc. h other words. nearly 100.- | GOO persons occupying ! country al most destitute of meat and vegetables and other food supplies suitable for Americans, were supplied largely from q single base, 1000 miles distant. After the Stores reached Manila | they had to be landed ig cascoes and | then. distributed by steam vessels, one short railroad, by cascoeS and bancoS l poled up narrow rivers, by wagon and carabao carts along almost bot tomless roads, by pack mules and coolies over mountain trails. often | through hostile country, and some oI the posts supplied were nt0fe dis tant, in point Of time from Manila. | than is the capital of our country.
 Colonel Woodruff says that during the period covered by the report. 35.- GOO men have been returned to the United States and about 1S,0O0 have arrived in the Philippines, and that | not single serious complaint has been received concerning the food SUD- | ply. There has been some deteriora tion of stores due to the poor storage and climatic conditions. Colonel l Woodruff refers to the charges against the subsistence department and takes occasion to say that such charges were greatly exaggerated, and he reviews what has already been published con cerning the losses by dishonest off, cers and cOmmissary sergeants, to- l gether with the trials and conviction of those convicted. He denies any it. legal purchases of champagne, and says the purchases that were made were necessary for sick and debili- tated troops, S2 cents pint being paid l for it.
 General Weston's report deals quite ! extensively with the Chinese campaign and quotes from officers who were in that expedition to Show that the troops were we'll supplied.