The Arizona copper camp., 1916-03-31

when the regiment returned from the
encampment. Harris, in fact, ordered
drills discontinued.
The Clifton strike trouble came up
early in October, when a number of
company commanders were on their
way to the national rifle shoot in
Florida. Orders were given that each
company supply a detail of four
picked men for strike duty The men
whose commanding officers were alb
sent, broke into the arlnories and
equipped themselves. No records of
the equipment they took were kept.
Later the other militiamen were called
upon to go to Clifton. They also took
what equipment they needed. Partly
shortage of property The cap
tains cannot be held responsible for
what happened while they were alb
sent from the state on state pay In
addition to all this, at least 80 per
cent of the equipment was unservic-
able after the troops were withdrawn
from Clifton
| No funds were available to pay the
militiamen for strike duty and after
they were withdrawn the militia was
in a more demoralized condition than
ever.
| On December 16 the governor wrote
| to Capt. Stacey asking him to take
charge of the guard once more. He
was commended for the excellent re-
suits" he had achieved before. The
governor write to the department De-
cember 21 urging that Stacey be in
structed to take charge of the guard.
A S ant Secretary Breckenridge
wrote to the governor that Capt.
Stacy was in no way responsible for
the condition of the organization, that
! it had deteriorated since last March
through no fault of the inspector-in-
| structor. 1t was manifestly impos-
sible, declared Breckenridge for any
one to make the guard efficient be-
fore the next inspection.
1t was in this letter that Brecken-
ridge described Harriss attitude tow
ard the department as one of poorly
yelled hostility" He predicted that
as long as Harris remained in charge
there would be no Improvement. This
same prediction had been made in
July 1914, by secretary of war Lindley
M. Garrison, who wrote the governor
that Harris was inefficient from a
| federal viewpoint
In the quarterly report referred to
above, Capt. Stacy informed the
chief of the division of militia affairs
that he had been systematically ig-
nored by the adjutant general The
condition of the guard was described
by him as deplorable, and he charged
Harris with the responsibility
| The prospect of federal aid for the
Arizona militia, which amounted to
approximately $4,000 last year, be-
AAA6 "ASAANA WI, was SdIHSSlly
cussed at the January meeting Of the
general staff, which is appointed by
Harris. The staff decided that in
the event of withdrawal of govern
ment support $4,000 would be drawn
from the state treasury for the sup
port of the militia organization. Under
Arizona's peculiar military code this
can be done.
Capt. Stacey has just concluded the
annual federal inspection of the COM
panies which make up the Arizona
guard. He found that only three
companies came anywhere near meet
ing federal requirements. These COM
panies are L of Yuma, E. of Tucson,
and M of Morenci.
On Saturday, March 18, the adju-
tant general, acting under the in
structions Of the governor and not of
the war department instructed all the
company commanders to recruit to
full war strength, 120 men, and to
hold nightly drills.
Friday, March "a, the adjutant gen.