The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-26
PASSES
The ARMY BILL
Measure Carries an Appropria'
ton of $4,000. 900.
AMENDMENTS ARE ADOPTED
PORTO RIcAN SOLDIERS A Po-
LITICAL NECESSITY.

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/ Washington. Jan. 25.-The house 10.
day passed the army appropriation bin
carrying approximately s75.00o. 000. after
adopting a number OF amendments.
The provision for the consolidation Of
the adjutant generals department and
/ the record and pension office OF the wal
department into one bureau, to be
known as the military, secretary Office
was stricken from the bill on a point
! Of order raised By Mr.. GrosYenor OF
Ohio.
The item of 100000 for the construc-
ton Of an army general hospital Of
Washington also went out on a point
Of order, as did the paragraph provid-
ing for the construction Of a submarine
cable from Sitka TO Fort Liscum.
A resolution calling on the secretary
Of state for information IS to the nUm-
Der of carriages maintained by the gov
ernment for the state department wSs
adopted.
When the house resumed considera-
ton of the army appropriation BILL il
went into committee of the whole.
On motion of Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa
the paragraph providing for the pay Of
retired officers of the army was amend
ed so as to provide that no part of the
money appropriated under the act shah
be expended in payments to any re-
tired army officer who received payment
for services as clerk or other civil em-
ployment in any Of the departments OF
the government.
An amendment by Mr.. Park of New
Jersey was adopted, giving a contract
surgeon in charge Of a hospital the
same authority as d commissioned mec-
icaI officer.
Mr.. Slayden of Texas made an unsuc-
cessful effort to eliminate from the bill
IAN appropriation of S95,14S for the main-
.tenance Of the two battaliOns cOnstitut-
ing the Porto Rico provisional regiment
of Industry.
He had Secretary Roots statement
before the committee read. in which
he advocated the appropriation as a
political but not a military necessity.
Mr.. Hull said the word 'politicaF'
was not used in a party sense. Mr.
Slayden assented, but patriotism could
be developed in the Porto Ricans
through civic advantages rather than
military services
Mr.. Hay (Va0 said that the Porto
Ricans enlisted in the regiment had
done so for "a term Of years and TO cut
of the appropriation would be a Tlo-
lation Of the contract with them on
the part Of this government.
Mr.. Patterson CTenn.). in making in
quiries of Mr.. HUI concerning the
paragraph providing for barracks in
the Philippines, asked: docs the
gentleman think there win always be
a necessity for troops in the Philip
pines, and FOR these expenses TO
go On?"
L should think" Mr. Hull replied.
that the time never viii come when
the United States would not have
troops in the Philippines, any more
than the TINT had never come when
we have noV had troops in the state
of New York and the state Of Illi-
u0is"
The proviso fixing the limit Of the
cost Of construction of any hospital at
$4,000 went out on a point of order
raised by Mr.. Hemenway, the present
legal limit being 0,000.
The parag-a phs appropriating S400,-
GOO for an army general hospital in
the District Of Columbia and creating
a fund from the sale OF ordnance and
ordnance stores and making it avail
able for replacing such stores, went
out on points of order as new legisla-
ton. and Ike fate met the provision
for the consolidation of the adjutant
generals department and the records
and pensions Office into a bureau TO be
known as the military secretary's Of
fee Mr. Hull announced that he
would offer this last proposition as
departmental measure The army ap-
preparation then, as amended in COM
mitiee of the whole, vas passed.
At 4.05 p. IN. the house adjourned
until tOrnOrTnyv