New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-01-13
FAVOR TRIP TO ST. LOUIS
Militia Officers Vote to Visit Expo
sition-
They Would Have Appropriation
Increased.
Colonel c. A. Van Duzee Regards
Dick Bill as Menace.

Dick Bill as Menace.
A profitable meeting of the Mime
sofa National Guard association was
held Saturday in ST. Paul. New Ulm
was represented by Brigadier General
Joseph Bobleter, Major L. G. Vogel,
Capts. John Bushers, Andrew j. Eek
stein, Einar Hoidale and E. w. Bay
ley, and Lieuts. Albert Ffaender and
Fred Stolz. General Bobleter was
called upon for a speech as the morn
ing session and the officers listened to
number of excellent discourses.
In an address to the convention Col.
G. A. Van Duzee of the Third regi-
ment. criticised the Dick bill, which
makes the national guard an adjunct
to the regular army. He said: 81 be-
lieve that the greatest danger to the
national guard to the war department.
when it tries to govern the militia as
it does the regulars. The system for
the regular army is not practicable
for the national guard. We do not
drill more than forty days in the whole
year, while the regulars drill every
day, and we cannot be expected to
have the same discipline that they
have. Our officers, while they study
questions of interest to military men,
are in no sense able to cope with the
trained West Point men when it comes
to affairs of purely military science.
It something is not done to stop the
war department, in a few years the
national guard will be entangled in a
maize of trouble from which it cannot
extricate ITSELF
These remarks caused a spirited dis
cussion among the officers. Maj. Will
liam Gerlach, U. S. A., retired, who
was recently appointed inspecting and
instructing officer for the Minnesota
guard, did not agree with Col. Van
DuZee.
On the recommend alton of the exec
utive4 committee, whose report was
read by Maj. George G. Lambert, the
chairman, the Minnesota association
asks congress that the appropriation
for the national guard of the states
made by the national government, be
increased. The present appropriation
ISL, 600, 900, distributed among guards
men aggregating 1852 men, which
allows about $3.50 every yearfor every
enlisted member of the national guard.
The Minnesota association recon-
mends that this appropriation be in
creased to S2,OOO,00O, which will dou-
BILE the amount to be spent on each
soldier.
The association also went on record
as desiring a national camp ground
and field for military maneuvers es-
tablished at Camp Douglas, Wis.
Maj. Lambert, chairman of the execu-
tive committee, in reading the resolu-
ton explained that if it named Camp
Douglas specifically other states
would be desiring nearby locations,
and that might precipitate contro.
-versy. The resolution was made tc
read, therefore, that it be the sense O!
the association that ground for big
encampments be placed nearer some o:
the far away states which are unable
to attend the encampments at Wes
Point, KY, or Fort Riley, Kan.
Plans for the fall encampment at ST
Louis next year were discussed. The
officers seemed enthusiastic over the
trip and thought it should be taken
The plan as outlined was that tht
guard spend ten days on the trip
counting from the time of leaving thu
state to the time of the return home
A few of the officers spoke against th'
trip, declaring that since the state ha.
made no provision for transportation
and the guard will not have suitable
equipment, the guard should take th
regular encampment at Lake City
These officers were in the minority
however, and it was resolved that
| was the sense of the meeting thatrth
st. Louis trip be made.
The men will probably be requisite,
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