The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-05
CHIEF FEATURES OF ARMY REPORT
 BY GENERAL STAFF
Present Plan of Scattering Troops in Small Garrisons Censured and "P'ork Bar
 rel'' Method of Military
 Appropriations Arraigned
Especial from United Press.)


 Washington, Feb. 5-The United Press is able today to give the prin- cipal features of the forthcoming spec ial report of the General Staff recom- mending a reorganization of the army and the establishment of a definite military policy, having for it's object, ''the perfection of a properly propor- iency."
 The report will censure the present plan of scattering the army in small garrisons throughout the country and will arraign pork barreP' method of military appropriations, which is held by the General Staff to De one of the main causes of the alleged present in- efficiency of the army.
 Only the, explicit orders of President Taft. it was learned by the United Press, today, prevent the report from going in as a part of the annual re- port of the secretay of war. The President desired that all cabinet of- ficers cut down their estimates and before the army estimates were pre- pared, Secretary Dickinson made a blanket reduction of four millions in the interests of economy. The army appropriation bill went to conference yesterday afternoon and it is approx imately as estimated for by the Gen. eral Staff.
 The changes desired by the General Staff will be presented to Congress later in a separate bill which will be accompanied by a Presidential mes sage. Here is what the General Staff wants:
 Five new resiments a year for six years; the doing away with various small departments, and the concen- f,-of nf ho iYofn nf defense.
 The training of the National Guard in these four zones stogether with the regular army, so that a higher degree of discipline can be brought about in case it is necessary to mobilize large army quickly at any one point on our frontiers.
 The elimination of the 76 garrisons caustica1ly termed "hitching posts'' by the General Staff.
 A special service corps under the command of a regimental quartermas- ter officer. to care for the large posts so as to permit the regular soldiers to be always with the cOlors and re- ceive' rigid training.
 The new plan is to be completed within six years, according to the pres ent intention of the General Staff, when the Panama Canal shall have been completed and it will be neces- SdIy LO pTOFlU0 1OT US uoI0uS0.
 A special board, headed by Major General Leonard Wood and General Anthony Murray. chief of the cost de- fense corps. will leave for Panama next week and when they have worked out a plan for the defense of the canal zone this will be incorporated in the general army reorganization plan.
 It is estimated that aside from the two ternnfni of the canal, there are only 21 miles of frontier on each side of the zone, that call for protection and that two regiments can properly handle the fortification planned.
 "At present we have 30 regiments of infantry of about 26O00 men," said a high army officer who assisted in pre- pairing the report on the general army to the Limited Press. today. ''and of these about 12,000 seasoned troops are on the mainland. We have six regi- ments of field artillery, with IA guns