Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-08
ARMY TO Be
MOB|L|zEO
|NFEWP POSTS
Seven Brigade GarrisORs
10 Be Established
SMALLER FORTS TO Be
RAPIDLY DONE AWAY WITH
President and Secretary Taft Decide
That Troops Should Be
Trained in Large Bodies

steps calculated to materially develop
the efficiency of the army were taken
today by President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Taft at Sycamore Hill. In his
last message to congress the president
said that the number of posts in when
the army Is kept in time of peace
should be materially diminished. and
the posts that are left should be made
correspondingly larger.
This recommendation Is to be car
ried out. Seven brigade posts, to he
commanded by brigadiers- general, are
to be established. Two others are de-
sired, but funds at the disposal of the
secretary may not be sufficient to al
low of their equipment during tho
present fiscal year. The posts which
me president and Secretary Taft tent
atlvely decided today to enlarge to
brigade posts are those at Fort Riley,
Kan, Fort Leavenworth, Kan, Fort
sam Houston, Texas, Fort Robinson,
Nebraska, Fort ID. A. Russell. Wyo.,
Fort Sill, Okla, and Fort Oglethorpe.
Ga.
1t is desired to have one in Penn.
sylVania and one on the Pacific coas.,
but these will have to be taken cars
of later.
Final action regarding these posts
VIII be taken a week from next Mon
day, when Secretary Taft will make a
second visit to Oyster Bay
The necessity for the formulation OF
a complete plan at this time In the
development of the new scheme Is oc-
casioned by the requirement in the
urgency deficiency appropriation act of
the last session. which is that all ap-
preparations shall be apportioned so
as to last throughout the year, for
the purposes for which they we %
made without causing a deficiency
The army appropriation act carries
$SOO,0O0 for the creation Of army
posts. 1t also carries $4,000. 900 for
barracks and quarters aud $4,000
900 for transportation of the army
Before this money can he expended
complete plan rs to what Il shall
be used for must be made and tho
lump sum appropriations so appor-
toned That no deficiency will be GREAT
ed In attempting to carry out his
plan the president Is simply following
the lines he indicated to congress IN
his message. 1t is his firm belief that
the army should be trained above all
else to act in a mass To this end
he suggested that provision he made
for maneuvers of q practical kind.
ITO accomplish this end we must
not have company and rcglmental
garrisons but brigade and division
garrisons" said the president.
The president follows this with some
comment on the good the weeding-out
process In the West Point military
academy does on the prospective army
officers and says there should he
some such process I'm the army which
would achieve the same ends.
After a certain age has been reach
ed" he says, the average officer Is
unfit to do good work below a certain
grade"
Provision" he maintains, SHOULD
be made for the promotion Of excep-
tionally meritorious men over the
heads Of their comrades. and for the
retirement Of all men who have
reached given age without going ho-
yond given rank" The plan now
being worked out by the president and
the secretary of war It Is hoped will
accomplish much that the president
has expressed a desire for in the fore
going recommendation to congress.
The locations selected for the brig
aide posts are all places whore the gov-
has large reservations and
where troops may he mohilized to adj
vantage for maneuvers or olher pu!-
poses.
At Oglethorpe, Ga. the post is adja-
cent to the Chicamauga national park.
Secretary Taft spent two hours with
the president today. He arrived from
Washington at 1880 this morning and
left on tho noon train. This is Secre-
tary Taft's first visit to oyster Bay
Besides going over the army post
matter, the secretary discussed the
speech he is to deliver to the republi-
can state convention at Greenboro, n
G.. Monday night. The secretary has
one more speaking engagement, an adj
dress before the Ohio bar association
at Put-in-Bay, after which he Is to
take a two-months rest at Murray
Bay, eighty miles below Quebec on the
st, Lawrence river. Canada.
Mr.. Taft viii accompany the pres
ident to Panama, and said the stat
for the isthmus would be made i'm
mediately after the November eiec-
tions. that the president might be IN
Washington before the opening Of
congress.
Curb Brokers Migrate 90 Jersey.
New York, July THE group nf
outside brokers who make a specially
of low priced mining stocks In the
Broad street market will be depleted
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