The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-08
is MADE TO
/ IMPROVE ARMY
n Of Posts Will Be Cut
|nown, While Garrisons
4 Are Enlarged.
|IuENT AND SECRETARY
|IAFT DISCUSS QUESTION
Is That Massing of Troops
| will Lead to Better
Results.

.-rR BAY. July Important
|'sIculated to materially develop
cSsncy OF the army were taken
~ President Roosevelt and Sec
4afr at Sycamore Hill. In his
NAL message to Congress the
4, said the number of posts
81 the army are kept In time OF
.Sould be materially diminished
oosts that are left made corre-
.ezly larger.
Recommendation Is to be carried
ence Seven brigade posts. to
landed by brigadier generals,
4 n established. Two others arc
4 hut the funds at the disposal
Secretary may not be sufficient
ss their equipment during the
ID 1scal year.
Some to Be Enlarged.
ros:s which the President and
- Taft tentatively decided to-
salarge to brigade posts are
q Fort Riley. Kan; Fort Leaven-
Kan; Fort Sam Houston, San
Tex; Fort Robinson, Neb.,
81 A Russell, Wyoming; Fort
Othhoma, and Fort Oglethorpe,
Il Il Is desired to have one IN
-l7ania and one on the Pacific
. Int these Will have to be taken
= later. Final action regarding
. -csts will be taken a week from
|Isnday, when Secretary Taft will
. 4 second visit to Oyster Bay. The
q. for the formulation of a COM
An st this time IN the develop
|Rthe new scheme is occasloned
4 rquIrement in the urgency de-
d Appropriation act of the last
which is that all appropria-
# hall be apportioned so as to last
-qut the year for the purposes
h!eh they were made without
i deficiency.
Vm ESpend Much Money.
army appropriation act carries
for the creation of army posts.
y carries s3,000,000 for barracks
|[arers and S12, ,000,0 900 for trans
.|o1 OF the army. Before this
an be expended a complete plan
+ uhat II shall be used for must
|A and the lump sum appropria-
" apportloned that no deficiency
L ueated. In attempting to carry
"a plan the President is simply
zg tie line he indicated to Con-
|1 bis message. It Is his firm be-
at the army should be trained
all else to act in a mass. To
"a be suggested that provision be
for maneuverS of q practical
In this plan he says the generals
1l0Gels would have opportunity
le regiments. brigades and d.
and the commlssary and med
-'Artmcnts would be tested In the
Not Local Question.
ne added regarding the estab-
OF larger army posts was that
interests should be allowed 70
z the way OF assembling the
part Of the troops which would,
form our field armies, In sta
q such size as Will permit the
alning to be given to the per-
q all grades, including the high
and staff officers.
aoompllsh this end" he said
5'a have not company and regi-
earrisons. but brigade and di-
pTisons."
resident follows this with COM
" ne weeding-out process the
rolnt Military academy does or
1--WE army officers. and says
Hould be some process In the
~ would achieve the same end
certain age has beer
ne says, "the average officer
20 40 good work below a GER
nor1slon for Promotion.
non ho maintains, Should b.
% the promotion OF exception
lIorious men over tho heads O.
pnrades and for retirement o
VINO have reached g. giveI
snout going beyond a giver
,oe plan now being worked ou
PRESIDENT and the Secretary o
70 intended, Will accomplish
st The President has Expressed
tor In the foregoing recomnen
70 Congress.
geAlon5 selected are all place
we government has large res
~ Shere troops may be mobil
aavantage for maneuyers o
aposes. At Oglethorpe. Ga, tn
,adlacent to the Chickamaugi
,tay Taft spent but two hour
NC PRESIDENT today. He arrive
IA ashineton at 1915 this morn
ett on the noon train. ThI
Bay. i'e' 'iS'
going over the army pos
mo Secretary discussed tn
s,a is TO deliver 40 the Reput
convention of North Caro-
esosseensooro Monday night.
sscretary has one more speak
sreement. an address before tn
klah association at Puton Bay. al
\ NJ nc is to take a two months
aurray Bay.