The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-18
AGAINST A LARGER ARMY.
senator Money Dcnounces the Re-
Organization Bill.


Debate on the Army Reorganization bill
was resumed in the Senate yesterday Mr..
Money attacked that portion of the meas
| ure conferring upon the President dis
| cretionary power to increase the strength
OF thefarny. Mr.. McComas favored the
bill. but thought it should be amended.
| Mr.. Proctor advocated its passage and
| MIR. Bate opposed it. A vote will be taken
at O'Clock this afternoon.
Mr.. Money was the first speaker and
talked against the bill for over an hour.
He said there would be no need of a large
army if the Filipinos were given their
freedom. He was against placing extra
ordinary powers in the hands of the Pres
ident, who. he said, was a good man, but
was sometimes influenced by his friends.
This recent extradition business to
Cuba has developed the fact that Mr..
Mckinley is the absolute sovereign of our
| possessions, said Mr.. Money. During
the campaign Imperialism was scoffed at
but want to ask today Rho is the sover-
| eign in Cuba? %
He referred to the voluminous code bill
prepared for Alaska and compared it with
the few words providing for the govern
ment of the Philippines.
He admitted that the people did vote
at the November elections in favor of
Republican policies, including, perhaps,
that for large standing army. But"
said he, ''is there to be no such faith
in human nature as will suppose that the
people will not after a while have a lucid
interval? Communities sometimes become
insane"
He declared, however, that the people.
after realizing the power placed in the
Ern tf.v% L.
izlng that they were to be saddled with
permanent standing army of 100. 600
men, would reverse the present conditions
OF things political
Mr.. Money adverted vigorously to the
practice of hazing at the West Point Mill.
tary Academy. declaring that it must he
stopped, or the institution must be abol-
ished. He said nobody could induce him
TO believe that the way to make good
soldier was to "set great big bully
upon small man to beat him. II was
not the way to make soldiers. and it was
not the way to make gentlemen. He cid
not refer, he said. to horse play and prac-
tical jokes, but to mob violence and cow
ardly brutality.
Mr.. McComas spoke in favor of the bill,
which. however, he thought should be
amended He preferred the bill as 1t
passed the House to that reported by the
Military Committee. He argued against
the age limitation in the appointment of
officers, saying that it would shut out
such men as General Ludington OF the
Quartermaster's Department.
Mr.. Proctor replied that there had al
ways been limitations as to age in the
army and in the navy, and that there were
good reasons for it. He imagined. however,
that in conference the age limit, forty
years would be raised.
Mr.. Bate, a member of the Military
Committee, opposed the bill. He argued
that if the army were raised to 100000
men it would be impossible to reduce it
afterward. as there would be great |
influences at work all over the country to
prevent its reduction. He characterized |
it as the strongest and longest stride yet |
made toward Capitalization and imperial |
ism.
The bill went over without action.
Mr. Lindsay asked leave to offer con- |
current resolution for the participation |
by Congress in the celebration on Febru- |
airy next OF the hundredth anniversary |
of the day when John Marshall became
Chief Justice of the United States. but Mr..
Hale objected. because, in the present
condition of affairs, he did not think that
Congress would have day to devote even
to SO great a purpose.
At o'clock the Senate proceeded to ex-
ecutive business. and al sos adjourned
until today.