Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-07-11
LARGER ARMY POSTS
PLAN OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
AND SECRETARY TAFT.
Seven Brigade Posts, to Be Com.
manded by erlgadIsr Generals, Are
to BE abIished-smalIer Posts TO
30 Abandoned-Taft viii Go with
Precedent to Panama.

President to Panama.
Important steps calculated to mate
rally develop the efficiency Of the
army have been taken by President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft at Sag
amore Hill. In his last annual mes
sage to congress the president said
the number Of posts in which the reg.
ulars are kept in time Of peace should
be materially diminished and the posts
that are left made correspondingly
larger.
This recommendation is to be car
ried out at once. Seven brigade posts
to be commanded by brigadier gener-
ais are to be established now. Two
others are desired. but the funds at
the disposal of the secretary may not
be sufficient to allow Of their equip
ment during the present fiscal year.
The posts which the president and
Secretary Taft tentatively decided to
enlarge to brigade posts are those at
Fort Riley. Kansas; Fort Leaven-
worth. Kansas; Fort Sam Houston,
Texas; Fort Robinson, Nebraska;
Fort d. A. Russell, Wyoming; Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Oglethorpe.
Georgia.
1t is desired to have one in Pennsyl-
vania and one on the Pacific coast,
but these will have to be taken care
of later.
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 that all appropria.
tions shall be apportloned so as to last
throughout the year for the purposes
for which they were made without
causing a deficiency. The army ap-
preparation act carries $500, 900 for the
creation Of army posts. 1t also carries
$4,000 for army barracks and quarters
and $4,000 for transportation of the
army. Before this money can be ex-
pended a complete plan as to what 1t
SHdil ue uSeu LOT WubI DC mduo anu
the lump sum appropriations so ap.
portioned that no deficiency will be
created.
In attempting to carry out his plan
the president is simply following the
me he ihoicatea 10 congress IN MS
message. 1t is his firm belief that the
army shouio De trained ABOVE all else
10 act IN mass 10 THIS END ne sug'
ses'ea that provision De maze ior
raaheuVers OF practicai KIND. IN THIS
plan ne says the generals and colonies
~ouio nave opportunity 10 handie regi
menus, prigades ana DIVISIONS ana the
commissary ana medlcai departments
YOU'D pe tested IN the neld. what ne
auueu regarding 'he reimbursement OF
larger army posts was tnat no local
in'eres's snouid nc aiiowed 10 stand IN
'ne way Oh assembling tne greater
par. VI Tue 'roops' wnicn would al
neeu lorn our heiu arHies' III stations
VI sucn SIZE as Will permit tne Dest
training W oe gwen 10 tne personnel
VI oil sraues, ihciuolns the nlgn ON
GERS anu stans OF eacn.
~ accohpiisn tnis end' ne salo'
we M"st nave no company ana regi-
inentai sarrisons, Out brigade ana
u''i'ion sarrisons.
wedding Out Officers.
The president follows this with
comment on the wedding out process
the West Point military academy does
on prospective army officers and says
there should be some processes in the
army that would achieve the same
end.
alter a certain age has been at.
tained," he says, "the average officer
is unfit to do good work below a GER
tain grade"