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be authorized for use by all of the divi-
sion headquarters troops as we'll as the
general staff of the division, which
comprises the militia of this city and
of the States of Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
In view of the fact that the annual
inventories taken of Federal property
in the possession Of the local Guard
show large shortages as well as over-
ages, regimental and separate battalion
commanders have been instructed to
make necessary adjustments between
the units having shortages and those
having eXcesSeS, with view to a re-
inventory by field officers. The work
must be completed before January 20.
Plans are being formulated by local
Guard officials to convince the COM
mittees and members of Congress that
the time has arrived when they should
make some provision for an armory for
the local militia and give it opportunity
to receive its training under conditions
that will benefit the country In the
event they are ever again called into
the field The conferences so far have
been confined to officials in the Guard
who have been working out plans, but
1t is probable that conferences will be
of the War Department and the mem
berS of Congress having charge of such
legislation.
It is known that efforts will be CEN
tered on having Congress pass the bills
which are before each house which
would transfer to the Guard for its use
the Pension ONCE Building, in Judiciary
Square, as soon as it is vacated by the
general accounting Office, building for
which Is to be erected in the Avenue
triangle.
This building, it was pointed out, not
only will house the present units of the
local Guard, but will take care of a
large number of other units which have
been allotted to the Capital City, but
which have not been organized because
there is no available armory space in
which they can be quartered and train
ed and no place in which to store the
expensive War Department equipment
which is issued to such organizations
for use in the field.
The local Guard officials this year will
have the united support of the executive
committee and the legislative commit
tee of the National Guard Association
Of the United States. which, at its re-
cent annual convention, passed a reso-
luton directing these two committees
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an armory for the local militia, because
1t is at the seat of government 1t was
pointed out that as the Federal Gov
ernment expects the States to provide
adequate armories for its militia it
should at least set some sort of an eX-
ample by furnishing sufficient funds
with which to provide modern armory
facilities for the Federal militia at the
Nations Capital.
1t will be pointed out to Congress. If
the of1cialS are successful in getting the
measures to a hearing, that rlans are
being formulated for treating the
ground between the Capitol grounds
and the Union Station as large park
way and that in this treatment the old
Government Hotel buildings, which are
being used as armories, will have to 60.
But there will be no place, for the
Guard to go, as the officials looked in
vain when they moved out of their
former armory for a suitable building,
and when unable to find one appealed
to the Public, Buildings Commission,
which allocated them the Government
Hotel buildings which were then idle.