The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-10
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$4,000. and that he would want beds
for rs per eeH~t-ek-the- American for
ces, or about $4,000.
Transportation costs give another
sidelight on the war problem. Gem
eral sharp. of the auartermaster
corps. had already received s1s,00o,oo0
In the army bill, and s22i,9s3,745 in
the June deficiency measure. He asked
for s450.490.305 In the new budget.
His CURES we're based on an average
transportation cost Of $3.50 per man.
in the total army strength of 2,o5S,ooo,
and we're to cover all transportation OF
all these men UP to June 80, 1918.
The quartermaster asked for sixty
machine shop trucks, costing $500
each. 20 be used only In cruising around
among all the other trucks and sup
plying them ~W3th-sparA- parts making
repairs, etc. These trucks are de-
signed to serve some 3l.3o3 other
trucks aAleA- are-te- cost Uncle sam
about $4,000. 600
Officers travel almost entirely by
motor nowadays, General Sharp told
the committee. and use horses for ex-
ereise. He asked the committee for
43to touring cars and 1910 ~runabouts.
General Sharp had about $1,000
animals but the army estimate will re-
quire no less than 102.b94 riding
horses. and 358.705 artillery horses.
The riding nags We're cstlnate1 at
$50, and the others at $l95 each. By
the time 2,os3,000 men are in the
field. Uncle sam will have spent
s125333,Tl6 for horses. II prices do
not rise in the meantime,
General Crowder. father. OF the con
script army of $4,000. appeared be-
fore the appropriations committee to
ask for s6.0o2.067 for the draft. In
thu report, Chairman Fitzgerald
called attention to the fac that the
draft was almost completed n that
he had already had S265s,413 Cen
eral Crowder pointed out that he still
had six appeal boards TO pay all owe
the United States. with expenses of
mobilization. etc.
General Crowder produced some in
terestirg figures on the relative cost
of raising armies. In the civil war,
with the states doing the work, II
cost shout s34 per volunteer tc raise
an army. 1t has been costing the
regular army about SIS per man to
get recruits, he said, whereas through
the draft the cost per man was only
1894. He hopes to get the cost per
man down to IS under the selecttFe
service system.
congressman in the newspaper
business and ali users Of white pa
per. will get an idea Of General Crow
der's part of the war job when they
find he used M 500 tons Of blank
forms. His bill at the government
printing office was fthe 600.
. Civil war veterans in congress &C
customed TO thinking of AZ Amy rs
made up Of infantry. cavalry, arttl-
lerv. etc. will be very much surprised
TO find infantry is no longer infantry
and cavalry is no longer cavalry. Both
are to he turned into walking artil-
lery. If dollar signs mean anything
General Crozier asked the commit.
tee for sf7o, 277.000 with which tc
buy machine guns. He had already
received $4,000. 900 for such guns
making the total amount for his par
: ticular death-dealing rife "s24o.2T7,
900.
The committee was surprised 4
find in the budget, this item: Sub
sistence for prisoners Of war-s21.
$4,000.
One member of the committee de
Glazed that this, as an instance o
being forearmed, beats any example
Of German efficiency he ever rea,
ahout, II had been estimated tn
amount would subsist 100000 pris
oners. Chairman Fitzgerald re
marked, in effect, that the army coul'
begin 10 worry about feeding pris
oners when II had caught them Tn,
item was Topped off the budget.