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TO CREATE AN ARMY RESERVE
4 FORCE NOT TO EXCEED 10000
MEN rs PROPOSED.

| sey erai Hills Prepared ny the General
Stan Are Sent to Congress by secre'
tary Tart-One Provides for the
Sonar alton OF Coast and Field Artillery.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.--Secretary Of War
Taft to-day sent to Congress eleven bills
prepared by the General STAFF OF the Army
for increasing the efficiency OF the army.
Some of the measures are regarded as highly
important. They were prepared after
series of consultations with the heads oi
the Committee on Military Affairs In both
the Senate and the House.
One of the most important OF the bills
IL entitled "A bill to reorganze and in
crease the efficiency Of the artillery OF the
United States" This measure provides
for the separation of the coast and field
artillery and for an increase in the coast
artillery Of 1sl officers and 1929 enlisted
men over the present authorized strength
The bill provides also for the organiza-
ton of the field artillery into six regiments
Of six batteries each with an increase
over the present authorized numbers OF
ll5 officers and 1910 men.
Perhaps the most important measure Is
one which authorizes the organization oil
force not to exceed $4,000 men who have
served not less than one complete enlist
ment in the regular army. They must be
citizens of the United States and under
forty. The bill provides for their enlist
ment for period Of five years. to be paid
according to former service az non-oom-
missioned officers or qualification in marks
manship, The highest pay Is to be $32 per
h, nj nm
$2i per annum.
These men would be enlisted and carried
on the rolls of the military secretary's
office, to be allowed to live where they
pleased in the United States and to be sub
ject to the call Of the President for ten days
in one year or fifteen days in two years for
purposes Of instruction. or in case OF war
or other national emergency to be moblllaed
and sent to regular organizations. Inc
object of the measure is to enable the Presi-
dent to mobilize promptly the regular
establishment at its maximum strength
under the present law, which has been
found impracticable to do in reasona ble
time by depending on the enlistment OF
raw recruits as would now be the case.
Another of the bills provides for an eqni-
table and regular flow Of promotion hy
the elimination from the field grades in
cavalry artillery and infantry OF the least
qualified officers, the eliminating to be
done by board of officers. One OF the
measures provides for the filling OF va.
cances caused by the detail Of officers OF
the army below the grade OF Brigadier-
General to the General staff to the Military
Academy, to recruiting duty and to the
Bureau Of Insuar Affairs,
A Bill to Organize Service Corps IN the
United States Army" is the title OF meas
ure which provides for an enlisted force
to be permanently attached to the quarter
masters subsistence department, not eS,
ceedng 5000 for the Quartermasters and
, 900 for the subsistence. The new corps
would displace the civilians and the enlisted
men of the regular branch OF the service
heretofore detailed TO extra and special
| duty away from their companies.
Another bill provides for the increase in
tho monthly pay of non-commissloned
officers as follows: First sergeants s3i;
sergeants, s2t and corporals, SIS, There
| are also bills for the increase OF the efficiency
of the veterinary service Of the army and
| of army bands. The bill concerning vet
! ernarians provides that they shall pass
| examinations and that after ten years
service they shall have pay and allowances
of First Lieutenants, The band bill pro-
vides for the increase of the enlisted strength
of bands from twenty-eight TO thlrty-slX
The House Committee on the Militia
to-day agreed to favorable report on the
| bill to appropriate $1,000 900 for the militia
of the several States for the ensuing year,
| The appropriation last year was 81 ,OOO,Oo0