Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-06
LARGER PAY FOR
HIS SUCCESSOR
Adjt. Gen. Burton Recommends
Three Times His Salary for
General Bowman.
FILES THE BIENNIAL REPORT.
Guard Has Many Needs--New Armory
Imperative officers Unfamiliar
With Military Papers.

| That the minimum salary to be paid
his successor in office be three times
what he received Is the recommends
tion made TO Governor Cutler by the
retiring adjutant general of the Ma
tional Guard The position has brought
to It's holder since statehood the nomi-
nal salary Of $500 year, with an
| amount Of work resultant upon changes
made since then IN the military organ
iSaton Of militlas that Is not surpassed
! In any department of state.
Since Adjutant General Burton took
the potion of head Of Governor Wells
military family IN 1898, the Spanish
war bringing with IL tremendous
amount Of paper work connected with
tho organization OF the Utah volunteers
ana turning them with their equip
ment over TO the nation, and new
militia Dill from Congress, making the
/ natlonal guard first reserve to the
army have created an evolution In
the nature of the adjutant general s
duty.
Before that II was largely matter
or dress uniforms and ceremony. Now
1t has responsibility to the war de-
parment and TO the state that calls for
all the work OF a brigade commanders
headquarters In the regular service.
A RELIC OF THE COLONIES.
An odd feature Of Americas military
baokWardness was the fact that until
the passage OF the new Militia bill in
January, 1908, the militia forces Of
America, by the laws OF the govern
ment, were supposed to wear buckskin
uniforms, carrying flint lock rifles a
specified number OF lead balls, and Il
measured amount Of loose powder. II
was meant to provide for frontier
army OF approved colonial fashion.
The terrible lessons Of incompetency
learned IN the Spanish war which came
from rushing undrilled troops I'm
charge OF sons Of their fathers" into
the field resulted In casting about for a
way 20 have troops ready, inspected,
drilled, and equipped for military SER
vice Ii resulted I'm a thorough over
hauling OF the militia laws by mill
tary experts.
The result was the extending Of tho
regulations Of the army over the state
mllitias, the agreeing 10 furnish them
with regular army equipment, and 10
require of militia officers the reports
required OF regular army officers SO
that when once In the field they would
not be lost In their effort 20 carry out
the regulations In addition 10 this,
target practise with regular army
pieces, and camps Of instruction in con-
junction with regular army soldiers
were provided for,
MUCH TO LEARN.
! This law has brought to Utah. as to
every other state, a new order OF things
Its provisions are still TO be carried out
In many particulars, and the new ad-
jutant inherits a task calling for all Of
his time, and an intimate acquaintance
ship with military red-tape and meth
DDS OF procedure So far the paper
work Of the guard is I'm perfect con-
dition, Captain b. H. Wells of the regu-
lar army, and Major Richard w, Young
with his experience in the Philippines,
having been accessible to Adiutant
General Burton I'm assisting him 10 get
the new method started In the manner
followed by the regulars, He turns over
10 his successor IN the office at the city
and county building cabinet files con-
tanning In ndexed form all papers con-
nected with the guard from its organ
izution I'm 1894 to the close OF 1904 an
in addition the priceless records fully
indeXed of the territorial militia organ
lied in the early fifties, and covering
the period Of the Indiap wars The
record includes the recruiting papers
Of the volunteers for the Spanish war
and likewise the records OF the
II Iii Ia
Industrial army trouble, and In Carbon
county during the coal strike.
STRENGTH OF GUARD Low.
The biennial report Is a document
covering eighty typewriter pages. 1t
shows that the present strength OF the
guard Is 1886 men, az compared with 445
men for the same period two years ago,
The cause for this falling on is attrlb-
uted by some members Of the guard to
the lack Of interest following the Car
bon county service because Of the fact
that members lost good positions and
had a hard time re-estabishing them
selves after returning 10 civil life.
Should the strength OF the guard be be-
low three hundred men on the occasion
OF the next inspection by the officers
detailed by the war department, Utah
VIII lose Inv HthA oHiil VI NptNNNt NlllNI
will otherwise be due her from the gem
eral government as an assistance 10 the
militia. While an urgent need with
the officers Is familiarity with army
methods, a more urgent need with the
guard Is recruits Experts figure that
Utah should support a guard Of 1900
men, composed OF full infantry regi-
ment and the other organizations nee
easary to make brigade OF troops
ARMORY NEEDED BADLY,
one Of the things Adiutant General
Burton urgently recommended Is the
appropriation Of money to build suit
able armOry where men can really
rendezvous and find something attracts
i've to come for. The present head
quarters isin bad state Of repair, Of
fers poor security from iire and is bad
ly arranged IN case Of attack by mob
wishing to secure the states arms
EVERY COMPANY NEEDS MEN.
The detailed report OF the condition
OF troops at outside stations shows that
none OF the companies have the re-
oulred strength and are all In urgent
need OF enlstments. The First infantry
band, which hourished for a day and
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