The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-12
MILES. S.ROOSEVELT FUED.
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tween the chief of staff and the presl,
 dent?"
 General Schofeld-"B Because he would
 remove him and get another. The per
 sonal relations between the president,
 the secretary of war and the command
 ing general are, after all more import
 ant than any law, and that is one of
 the reasons why this bill is absolutely
 indispensable, or something like it. You
 must give to the president discretion to
 select that man"
 Senator Barrows-"Why cannot the lieutenant general of the army and the president confer as it is?"
 General Schofeld-"They are not on
 speaking terms"
 l Senator Barrows-"Not on speaking 1 terms?"
 | General Schofield--"No sir. You will
 have to get rid of that intolerable code | by which this man close to the presl-
 dent. the only man who is available to do these things, is a man whom the 1 president does not talk to except to 1 criticise him. The result is bad; very l bad. The president feels the need of such man, as did the presidents
 whom I have known. They would say:
 I cannot do these things; I must have
 military man to help me- Then in
 that situation he perhaps sends for Col
 onel or Major so-andSo, and he finds
 that he is a bright young fellow and he
 knows about these things, and in few | days it gets to be known that Tom So- | and-So' is commanding the army" In reply to a question by Senator Scott paII att tp Miles tatement that the effect of the proposed legislation would be to Ger manize and Russianize the American army, General Schofeld said: T am not afraid of that I think we might Ger manize other things a little with ad- vantage, possibly Remarking upon the provision of the bill for four years term as chief-of staff, General Schofield opposed it as coming from that Fountain of error the congress of the United States, which provides for the retirement of the very best men just when they came to be of the age when Won Moltke won his greatest triumphs.
 General Schoield expressed the opin- ion that during the war of the rebel lion the southern system of selecting high officers was far better than that of the north. Speaking of the rank of lieutenant general, he said he would give the proposed chief of staff even higher rank, adding;
 T would make one general at the head of the army, and I would have three lieutenant generals and then the proper number of officers in the grades under that. The confederates, during the civil war, were a great deal wiser than we were In that respect. They were better soldiers and better educat ed, and knew more about it. They car ried of the greater proportion of the best blood that we had to tell the truth, | and they organized their army scien- tofically."
 He also expressed the opinion that l under the secretary of war, the chief of | staff should have charge of the depart | ments of supply and transportation and | the signal corps, which the command ing general does not now control He | also urged that under that existing law | the commanding general has no real au- thority that, except that he is president of the board of ordnance and fortifica tions, there has never been law defin ing what his position s He said that the United States and Great Britain are the only important countries which have not a general staff. Of the latter he said: They have not any system. What we have is what they had a hum dred years ago, and we have not inn proved on it, and they have not, either. They have had the same conflict be tween the horse guards and the war office in Great Britain as we have had 1ere, and that will continue until by some chance a king happens to be sol Her, and then he will straighten it all put quicker that lightning