Show That Is not a good report which we have from Washington in regard to the Utah National Guard This State Is classed with other Western States as showing too t much absence from drills i and a lack of military methods That I Is the usual fault of Volunteer mllltary I organizations too loose methods and uncertainty of dependence upon tho i units composing them It will be ono I of the distinguished merits of the now militia law that these evils will be corrected cor-rected and the military forces organized I under Stale laws will be made more I nearly to conforn to the standard of tho regular army It was inevitable when tho regular officers were put to the I 1 work of clearing the ground for the operations of the new law that such defects I de-fects an existed in the old organizations I organiza-tions would be disclosed and it is well to have it no and to make the new I start on a substantial and exact military I mili-tary basis I I |