Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-12
eARRisoN's DEPARTURE.

GARRiSoWS DEPARTURE.
 The resignation Secretary not attended with feeling that his departure will ieopardize national affairs deprive the country administrator whose place cannot be filled acceptaby. Bryans resignation blessing indeed, and few will con slider the loss of MT. Garrison irreparable
 Secretary Garrison is either preudced against tho na. tina guard has lot to learn about it At recent heafiig before the house military affairs h Stated his preferrng contennta army plan using the guard the auxiliary the regular army With the rest he said:
 In the first place the very conception of the eonsttu- tion two separate forcesone for national purposes scs the other primarily for the purposes only limited extent for national purposes Since the state troops could be federal purposes the constitution provides that the national government may prescribe the discipline by which they might trained The constitution government of the state militia nhe states and provides the appoint the off cers and train the troops.v~ s,
 What is contemplated and all that contemplated to provide is army for defense The constitution gives congress power he militia to execute the laws of the Uno suppress nsurrectons and repel n ons This certainly sufficient for defense while
 
 enforce federal laws.
 Congress also has power ito provide fnr organizing arming and disciplining the militia for governing such part of them may employed in the service of the United States reserng the respectively the appointment of the officers the authority of training the militia according the discipline presented by gress"
 The present national guard not the militia of the con stitution The old militia went out of existence The national guard is its It was created organized and controlled wholly by the states The federal ment had nothing to do with bringing io into existence Nor did it assume any material responsibility for the guard authority unti the enactment of the Dick law few years ago
 Congress then entirely disergard the guard as now constituted if it will withdraw from it all support It can into the chooses and of it's own a- thorty organize militia in each State The word militia simply means military force outside regular army The continental army will itself be a militia
 The to organize is a broad one So is the power to discipline Taken together they are pretty near all inclusive Of such force. organized and disciplined and paid by the federal government present guard would be the basis The states would merely appoint the off cers according to the rules for discipline down by Congress. They would train them under these rules.
 The authority to train without that to discipline is mighty small word The authorities now virtually train the guard The power of the states to govern broader it includes helpless against the fed era purse In fact congress should decide that it contrary to discipline to have the guard used as state police force. which is fact quite surely has the power to do
 MT. Harrison is merely trying find excuses for no making the guard of the first line of defense He i. irving to substitute for it national force one that oud be wholly an experiment is using his effort t justify his plan for osmehng that has been instea, or adapting to present conditions and needs a presen -oce fully organized and capable of great expansion