The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-08

/ passage of The Army Reorganization hill
VIII probably cost The United States near
" %I5Co.0co- War Department officials
sald that this amount probably uuderes-
Inmates the additional expense TO the Gov
/ erament caused by the failure of she Sen
ate 10 pass The bill. Each days delay
| Increases the cost TO the Government buJ
should the bill pass this weea the add
/ ji0uaI expense in returning the volunteers
/ ard replacing them in tie Philippines viii
nor b. under the amount stated. SeereCa-
| " Root says that it had been estimated
/ that Sl.eGO-CC0 could have been saved by
/ the Government. had the last Congress
/ provided for 35.C0e regular troops for a
/ three years service instead Of that num-
Der Of volunteers.
Il is figured at the var Department
that he delay already occasioned Will ne
cessI-ate the chaTterIEg Of additional
transports to bring home about L, coo vol
unteers- II costs about SII5 per man for
water transportation from Manila TO San
| Francisco, This includes the char-er
/ price Of the vessel. cooling. water, and
I alterations in the vessel. Estimating T.
/ GGy men at this price makes the additional
2
! extra expense Of rapid recruiting 10 send
/ regulars TO Manila 10 replace the VOlun-
! teers and il is declared a the War De
/ par,nenJ that had Congress passed the
/ Army bill before taking he holiday re
] cess This entire additional cost would nave
/ been saved because every arrangement had
ben made for the use OF the present
/ army transport service. in such was IS
/ to avoid the necessity Of chaTteTIGg ad-
I diTioaai vessels
( Var Department officials dsDy the re
port that it has abandoned all prePzra-
lions for bringing home the volunteers
( from the Philippines, and say that, on the
I contrary, every effort has been made 10
perfect a plan to return them TO this
country in time for the muster out next
/ June Owing to the failure Ct Congress
/ 70 provide for additional troops 10 take
! the place Of these TO be Withdrawn the
| department Is compelled 10 make the
( withdrawal as gradual as possible II
. had hoped TO adopt a plan b. which the
I transports Of the army could be used for
! this work. the intention being 10 have
each transport make TWO round trips be
tween san Francisco and Manila by the
middle OF Nay. The transports going 10
Manila could then have carried the troops
: provided by Congress for replacing the
volunteers to be Withdrawn By making
these double trips the transports would
be able to bring the volunteers home in
time, but as there are no troops to re
place the volunteers General Macarthur
/ cannot spare al this time more than one
regiment every TWO weeks and the de-
partment Will be compelled Iage IN the
spring 10 charter more vessels 10 get the
volunteers back to San Francisco TO be
mustered out IN the time prescribed By
Congress
The chartering OF these vessels viii en-
( tail , considerable additional expense up
( on the Government This was fOreseen
by Secretary Root who warned the Sen
ate Military Committee against delay.
He told the committee that ii would take
at least five months 70 get new men over
/ 10 The Philippines II The start had been
made the Ist Of January. saying
"Of course, the longer You wait IN
/ bringing back the volunteers the Ereat Ter
The expense. This is DecaU use We have a
certain number Of transports We own
/ eight transports On the Pacific We are
I running a regular line. the transports
| sailing on the iSt and 18th Of each month
| and in the regular trips of these trans
( ports We can bring these men home with
/ comparatively little additional expense
| but 4 we have to bring them home IA
! q lump We have to 90 gu- and hire trans
| ports dt an enormous expense The clar-
/ ter prices go up. and the ships have 10 be
( specially fiJted ont for the transportation
/ OF troops, and then afterwaGd We have to
| restore them and put hack the original
fittings Altogether Il is d very heavy
! expense. and we want. as far as pCss -bIe
/ 10 bring these troops back With the f5cilt-
| ties We have ana without going 10 such
an immense increase CT the expense. So.
! as q matter Of policy Of the highest iIa-
portaEce IN the Philippines. and as .
I matter Of money. reaching into very I-rge
figures. il Is exceedingly important that
/ we shall move these volunteers as early
| as possible"
! General Macarthur caDled some time
ago that he could spare S.gC0 Of the vol
! unteeTs- reducing h. force 10 5g,Igg men.
The regiments designated by him to leave
were the ThiTTy-siyJh. Thirty-sev4 nth In
fantry and Eleventh Cavalry. The sixth
Infantry left Manila some days ago and
was to have been followed by the Thirty
! seTeEth on the transport Sheridan the
first of January. 4 cabIegram has been
/ received at the War Department from
Manila, saying the SheTi5au would be IN
able 10 leave until January 10. and would
then bring $50 men Of The Thircy-seYeuth
Infantry and 20 couvaIesceuts General
Macarthur has also reported that he viii
be unable to send the Eleventh Cavalry.
/ as ii has been ordered 10 the interior on
active campaign work Beginning in the
order CT arrival & Manila he VIII send
the remaining regiments at the rate Of
two 4 month the next to sail under The
present arrangement being the Thirty
fourth Infantry. under Gel Lyman v W
/ Ke"ncn. which viii probably return on
4 either the Busord or Fitzpatrick, n0w at
Z Manila