Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-20

In its budget appropriation for the
coming two years the adjutant-gen-
erals department urged an appro-
prlation of $4,000 for the construc-
ton of permanent utilities on Camp
lEeyes
Inc budget committee eliminated
TINS Item entirely in it's report of
recommendations to the LEGISLATURE.
In addition it clipped $4,000 from the
already shorn fund for Armory
rentals, which in itself. according
10 authorities, was entirely made
quate.
This action of the now defunct
budget committee in relation 10 the
Camp keyes item will not kill its
introduction into the House. The
eill Is expected to be drawn up and
introduced shortly.
camp keyes has been designated
py the war department as the mo-
blllzation point for Maine troous.
winch would include the Headquar-
ters OF the S6th Brigade, the lU;rd
infantry, the ind Field Artillery
and several reserve units. In m
emergency the total personnel of
these troops would be approximately
UOOU men.
At present Camp keyes has no
sewerage system and its water sys-
tenn is inadequate Tor a large nun.
pet OF troops. Plans for u steady
building program from year to wear
nave already been sent to the War
department for approval. 1t the
present Legislature endorses tho re-
port OF the budget committee as if
stands in relation to the adiuiant-
generals department, not only vii,
material curtailment of the proposed
pulldlhg program result, but il may
mean the withdrawal of thousands
VI doiiars worth of Federal mate
"a from Maine armorles because
u inadequate armory facilities.
Inc plans call for permanent
sewerage system to connect with tho
"reeh street sewer: the building ar
perhanent atrines and enough
shower paths to care for at least a
teSllhent at first. Later aya,Iable
iunus would be to erect a subsistence
| -, oHouse, permanent mess houses
hails and Kitchens for officers and
men. Extension of the water sys-
TEN TO include hydrants to minimize
the hfe hazard is also on the mo-
gram. P-o
endorsement has been given for
the lo-day encampment of the en-.
TIRE ooth Brigade at Camp Keyes lar
CT TINS year. A field artillery en-
J campment will probably follow nat
10 include numerous school periods
| Tor officers and men in difrerent
branches. For the keep of these
men the government pays while in
CAMP the organization receiving a
SUBSISTENCE allowance, or daily ra-
tion allowance, per man. This alone
with an organization of $500 men in
an encampment for 1J-day period
would amount to about SO. 900. With
the additional encampments and
schools contemplated, the money
pald into the state by the Federal
government is computed at approx
1mately $4,000, an amount which
heretofore has been paid to other
states, notably Massachusetts and
vermont, where the last encamp-
ments of Maine troops were held. In
| addition to this is the supplies which
must be purchased for animals,
amounting in itself to a large sum.
With the formulation of additional
units of Maine troops, as outlined
in the National Defense Act, increas-
ing amounts will be paid into the
State from Federal funds.
Military authorities of the State
declare that the installation of per-
manent facilities on Camp Reyes is
in the nature of a sound financial in
veStment.