New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Michigan ..... 10,149Wsshington -. 51S
Minnesota so. 4,7l4jWest Virginia. 4.1yI
Mississippi -. 3649i isconsin -. 10,007
Missouri .. 7J57lWyomiug ... 16!

Mississippi 80. 3649lWisconsin -. 10,007
s1antsna s1ns9a1i -. 553issaaIwy0mns isa ....- lSs
In preparation for this tremendous
increase in the army the House Mill
tary Committee was told to-day that
every existing cantonment in the
country will be enlarged and every
I National Guard camp utilized to its
full capacity. 1t is regarded as prob
able that some new cantonments must
be built, but in the interests of speed
and economy of effort and material
pressure Will be placed upon expanding
existing facilities. Ground has already
been obtained in the vicinity of sew
eral cantonments for the expansion,
and details Of the new construction are
being worked out by the General Staff,
which also is studying the necessity
OF and proper location for additional
cantonments
In connection with the exclusion of
three. states and the District of Column
bia from the May call officials ex-
planned that an effort is being made
states preparatory to the application
OF the new quota basis when Congress
has approved that measure The May
dfatt allotments were made on the
population basis heretofore used, but
subsequent distribution of quotas will
be much altered wtcn the number Of
men furnished by any state is com
putod from the number available it
has in Clas l..
90 New York is required to furnish 32,-
$50 men. They viii be assigned as fol-
lor5s: Six thousand eight hundred
to Camp Dix, n. j., 6,85o to Camp
HANCOCK, Ga; 1900 to Camp Upton,
N. T.; 0,700 to Camp Wadsworth, S.
c., and 1880 to Camp SEWER, S. C.
The men called out this month will
be modified generally at the canton
mentS to which men from the same
states have previously been sent. In
originally created at these camps gone.
Some OF the camps will have been con-
verted into replacement divisions, and
the new men will be redistributed in
accordance with their qualifications
after being inspected, rendered immune
as possible from disease and furnished
with the initial equipment.
Onder the increased army plan q
great number OF new divisions may be
created. With authority now asked for
unlimited power to create fighting
units, some of the men OF the May
draft may be assigned to these new
organizations.
1t is regarded as likely. however, that
the April and May drafts will be used
largely to fill up divisions at home,
while the seasoned personnel from
those divisions is sent overseas to fill
the gaps. Since the number of divi-
sions on the other side is rapidly and
steadily increasing. the flow of replace
ment troops must increase proportion
ately
A new draft of the annual army an
preparation bill providing for the needs
of 5000, 900 men under the $15 900 ,0OO,-
GOO programme will be laid before the
House Military Committee when it re-
assemblies next Monday.
While some of the House Admins
tration leaders voiced support of the
War Departments programme, the SEN
tlment expressed was not altogether
unanimous regarding the request for
unlimited power to determine the size of
the army. Senator Sherman, IN an ad-
dress to the Senate, said he could not
support such plan and that Congress
should fix the number of men.
Representative Dent, of Alabama,
chairman of the House committee, in
tends to press his bill which would au-
thorize an army Of four million in ad-
ditlon to the one million volunteers
already in the service. On the other
hand, Representative Kahn, of Calf
fornla, the ranking Republican mcin-
Der, has declared himself thoroughly
in favor of the War DEPARTMENTS BRO,
gramme.
While Secretary Baker was dis
cussing army expansion Secretary
Daniels and his chief aids were outlin-
ing the navy's needs to the Senate
Naval Committee in connection with
the $1358. 100000 naval appropriation
bill passed by the House.