| Show REORGANIZING THE ARMY Secretary Root Explains Advantages of tho Senate Bill Washington May 11 Secretary Root today explained to the House Military committee the advantages that would accrue from the passage of the Senate army reorganization bill He dwelt especially es-pecially on the proposed Increase of the artillery arm and the Increased rank given to Gens Miles and Corbin He said the effect of the bill was to Increase In-crease the army entirely In the artillery artil-lery thin Increase extending over a period of years While differing from the provision originally recommended Mr Root approved ap-proved the Senate amendment as it would permit the War department togo to-go to work and put the artillery In sh a leThe le-The situation now In caring for the scacocst fortifications was Just as foolish fool-ish and impracticable the Secretary said as that would be of a man who built a fine house equipped it In the most perfect manner and then went away and left it to take care of Itself There arc millions and millions invested in Iortlllcatlons he said with no one to lake care of them involving depreciation depre-ciation from lack of attention As to giving Gen Miles rank as a LIeutcnanlGencral l he said that a Ma jorGeneral commanded a division and he did not know of another country 4n the world with a large army that gave the commanding officer of the whole army a rank below LieutenantGeneral or that did not recognize that he should outrank a division commander As fo tho AdjutantGeneral he said thai fill European armies recognized the importance Im-portance of the position as the center of military administration and gave I rank accordingly lie thought the provision pro-vision for this Increased rank should be general and not apply only I to Gen I Corbln though the hitters services during dur-ing the past two years merited the especIal es-pecial recognition |
