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Show THE ARWY AS IT STANDS TODAY. . Organization of Our Fighting Forces in and Out of Action. PrfTloui to the outbreak or Jie Spanish war the permanent mllltirr .establishment of the United Slates wan .comprised In tep regiments of cavalry, fire regiments of artllter) and twenty-five twenty-five regiment of Infantry, with their neeetiary adjuncts of the ataff bursatie, altogether aggregating 2,114 officers and .5,000 enllaled men Hy taw Ha enlisted en-listed strength wit limited to 25 000 men, not Including aome hundred! of general aervlce clerks, hospital attend-anta, attend-anta, etc. Bo that, with slight fluetua-ttona fluetua-ttona In the official personnel and theit auhaldlary rorpa, lha aggregate atrength of the army had ranged for a number of yeara around "8 000 In 1I9S In the forty regiments of the line there were 23,310 enlisted men, or an aver-v aver-v age of 610 In the caralry regiments, 110 In the artillery regiments and S31 la ' the Infantry regiments. On April 22, 189J, Congress psssed an act to provide for temporarily In-creating In-creating the military establishments of , the country In time of war. Three days later an act declaring war against Spain was passed, reciting that war over It knew thst large bodies at troops would lie lequlrcd fo preserve rder In Cuba, Porto ltlco- and the Philippines, yet tbe law compelled a reduction uf the army. Subsequently the outbreak of the Flllplnoe added to the gravity of the situation The plan adopted was to mtialer out the volunteers volun-teers grsduslly, and depend In future solely upon 'he regular army, which the military authorities propotrd to Congress to hsve permanently Increased In-creased to 100 000 men To this there whs strong opposition, but whst was known as the Hull reorganisation re-organisation bill was passed by the house In the last days of January, Although It waa called the Hull reorganisation reor-ganisation bill It carried no changes of moment In the organisation of the army It simply provided for Its permanent per-manent Incrrase lo 98,763 officers and enlisted men, for an Increase of three major generate and six brigadiers, five regiments of Infantry and two of cavalry, cav-alry, and for "a rorpa of artillery," dropping the regimental organisation In that arm It also provided for a OKNEIIAI. OFFICEIIS OF Olllt It SO VUMl AND VOI.UNTEEIt AIUlY. had extated from April 21, 183!, and directing di-recting and empowering; the President to use the entire lend and naval forces of the United States In the prosecution prosecu-tion of the war, and to call out the militia of the several statea to the extent ex-tent necessary "to carry this act Into effect," and the following day a bill was paased "for the better organisation organisa-tion of the line of the army of the United States," which authorised an Increase of the regulsr army In time of war to about (2,000 offlcera and men, -- bit provided that when tbe war was over tbe permanent establishment should be reduced to a peace basis, and that "nothing contained In thla act shall he construed aa authorising a permanent Increase of the commissioned commis-sioned or enlisted forces of tbe regular army" beyond what It was before war was declared Wnen'peac with Spain waa restored the administration waa In something of a dilemma. Although the war waa large Increase In line and ataff oncers. on-cers. When the Hull bill reached the senate sen-ate It was strongly antagonised by tbe opposition on the old ground of dislike dis-like and fear of a large standing army. A compromise muasure waa forced upon up-on the administration In splls ot threats of cslllng an extra session. A bill known aa the Cockrell-Oorman aubstltute was adopted, and was subsequently sub-sequently paased by the bouse dud approved ap-proved by the President. Neither was this a reorganisation bill. It provldea for the muster out of the volunteer army. In accordance, with tbe original act of llll, and permit the President to retain In servii the present regular army at a strength not exceeding CSO00 men, and. In addition, to raise a new force ot 25,000 volunteers, volun-teers, to be recruited from the country at large or In the new colonies, as preferred pre-ferred by the military authorities. It authorlsea the President to appoint or retain In tbe service, Including the regular reg-ular army major generals, one major general for every 12,000 enllaled men, and, Including the regular brlgadlera, one brigadier for every 4.000 enlisted men No additional regular army staff officers are provided for, but there Is provlslos for volunteer staff officers It needed In short, what la by misnomer called the "reorganisation of the army" la merely an act to continue for two years longer the establishment raised for the Spanish war, namely, until July 1, 1901 As before, the regular army Is to consist ot three major generals and six brigadiers for Ihe field and eleven stslt brigadiers, at the head of the adjutant ad-jutant general's, the Inspector gen-eral'a, gen-eral'a, the Judge advocate general'a, the quartermaster genersl's, the surgeon sur-geon genersl's, the commissary general's, gen-eral's, the paymaster general's ant ordnance departments, the corps of engineers en-gineers and signal corpa respectively. The same number ot cavalry, artillery artil-lery and Infantry regiments are continued con-tinued In other words, the regular army provided for In Ihe Cockrell-Oorman Cockrell-Oorman compromise la exactly the regular reg-ular array of the Spanish war, which will continue until July 1, 1(01, when It will be superseded by the condition described In Ihe opening paragraph of this article, unless, mesnwblle. Congress Con-gress takes hold of the matter and actually ac-tually reorganises the entire concern. The staff department Is tbe only branch ot the service really needing reorganisation. re-organisation. The army aa It Is and a It will remain re-main until 1901 la set out In th following fol-lowing tabular statement, copied from the Army tleglster for HI): Ten cavalry regiments 11,119 Seven artillery regiments lt.Ml Twtntyflv Infantry regtmcnts..l2Jx( Unattached 23 Indian scouts, recruiting parties, etc m Quartermaster's department 1(4 Subsistence department N Engineer bureau 7IT Ordnanc bureau (H Signal corpa 2M Total enlisted strength (t.lM These figure give an average of enlisted en-listed strength to the several regiments of th different arms aa follows Ctv airy, 1,217; artillery, 2.2(3; Infantry, 1,181 |