Show TH THE FORT DOUGLAS MATTER MATTERA A careful perusal or of rue rhe Heralds Washington report on the status of the Fort ort o ns and nd the tho dispatch or of Senator Smoot on the same shows that there should be no cessation b bf effort in behalf bohaJ ot of the Jm im nood needed d at the post Dost Sen Senator ator Smoot says the of war and quartermaster g general concur r in recommending the tho erection of f three at an estImated cost r f and they have no intention bOf f receding from this recommendation So far that is all rIght but the re a are e in a genral bin bill carrYing a bilge buge sum will probably bO be Curtailed when the O o of the house and the senate tt at it It Thore willbe be a alight fight by every sted member of both s 1 lri the specIfic sums in each member Is concern concerned d In Inthe Inthe the scramble Fort Douglas s just as apt to ti suffer as any other post unless th the delegation from Utah gets gels busy stays busy through the The clubs an anti organizations behind the mo movement ment to make Fort Douglas a great post should keep up and maintain thIs ac activity activity until the appropriation bill is passed Another thing The officers quarters at thIs are a dIsgrace to the gov as as every very officer who vho has it had d to occupy the them knows They were built have no modern re e to li Ji t and keep leep leepin keepIn in rep a It and are utterlY inadequate for the The modern barracks or of the prIvates are In some respects more comfortable and desirable than of antique architect architecture uro ure and construction In which the com coni commissioned officers have to live liveo No o matter fate of the pend ng appropriation Salt Lake should ke p up the agitation for the modernization modernization or of the whole post and its con into a full post at In time it ought to be built and eq q fer So a full brigade as Senator Warrens Fort Russell at Cheyene Is In climatic and sanitary surround surroundIngs Ings in Water supply convenience lor Cor pot supplies adequacy of transportation tion facilities and in Importance as a point Fort Douglas is better sitUated xit than almost any other military In the west It has been neg neglected by congress because the Utah has not been able to corn com cornand and as much Influence In army mat mater matters er as oth ts partIcularly Senator Warren and it is time timo for the senators nd congressman from this state to get action on this most Important matter |