New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-16
General Staff Plans
for 100000 Army

publication of the report Of the ARM
General staff of the military needs Of
the country, differing materially from
tht administration continental army
scheme, will be urged on President
Wilson by Secretary Garrison.
The Secretary, who has described the
plan 70 be recommended to Congress
as only a step in the right direction.
said to-day that he believed the public
was entitled to all available informa-
ton relating to the national defence.
The General Stats report. it is un-
derstood, recommends increasing the
regular army to 100000 men perma-
nently with the colors. with reserves
of 100000 fully traind men. Behind
this line it is proposed to have force
Of 900 900 men with a least years
training, giving the country an army
of about 100000 men fully equipped
and easily modified. The first years
expenditures under the staff plan, II IS
said. would approach s400,00O.OOO, and
the continuing expense would De pro-
portonately heavy.
Before pledging himself to support
the defence programme Senator henry
l.. Myers, of Montana, member OF the
Military Affairs Committee, insists on
knowing how the revenue TO pay foT
the increases is going to be raised
~ know that the sugar duty IS GO
ing to be kept" said Senator Myers
"and that the administration IL gong
70 favor the reenactment OF the war
revenue tax bill. would be much more
inclined to vote for liberal approprla-
tions for the army and navy II the
money were to be raised by increasing
the income tax receipts, or from a tax
on war munitions. | am opposed TO
the bond issue, and to changing tue
tariff
The idea of the pacifsts that the
present war In Europe would so ex,
/ haust the military nations Of the worlo
/ that the United States would have
nothing 10 fear when peace came, was
/ characterized as dream to-day by
/ Senator George f. Chamberlain, chair
man OF the Military Affairs Commit
/ tee. 80
at Is all a dream that the bellig-
erents Of Europe will be so crippled by
| the war that even the victors cannot
match u.s." said Senator Chamberlain.
"The United States was never so strong
militarily as it was right after the
| Civil War. when its army was per-
feet machine. Even with our crippled
resources we then could have licked the
world. And the European belligerents
will find themselves with armies
stronger than ever before.
"The best thing that can happen Tor
us in Europe will be a draw. That VIII
leave the hostile parties more or less
balanced, and any one would have an
/ enemy at home if IL tried TO carry
things with a strong hand against the
/ United States. But even then enmitles
would Oc forgotten and new alliances
formed IL the United States grew too
strong. -,
/ 81 don't trust Great Britain. She
has worsted US in every controversy
We ever had. She has always taken an
unfair advantage of US. and she is do
/ ing that very thing now. holding up
two hundred, believe, OF our mer-
chant ships.
"The British-Japanese alliance was
| formed. | think, with view OF i'm
rressing the United States in case of
anv dispute over commercial or other
questions. When we were debating
With Great Britain over the tolls
through the Panama Canal IT seemed
that the British were setting the Jap
anese 70 oppose our policy in Mexico.
and the signs of Japanese activities
were plentiful.
'It will be the same thing over
again IL our present controversy with
I the British comes 10 serious pass.
Great Britain will strongly resist
4 American representations, and the jap
aneso question will be revived in such
p way as 10 remind the United States
! thnt Great Britain. handicapped by her
EUROPEAN activities, does not have TO
yely on her own efforts TO resist the
American contentious. The British
government foresaw clash with Ger
many lorg ago and courted Japan to
/ take care Of her American rear.
"It is reported now that the Japan
ose troopg are to keep order in British
I,dia. But IL they are not, or when
that is finished, they will be stand
mo denomination against the United
I States. Fer what other purpose could
,bere be an alliance between England
and n people not admitted to British
Jominions7 The Canadian Pacific
Railway was built as a military road.
and II trouble comes japanese troops
oiIl PASS over II TO attack US from the
North. while otheIs ATTACK from the