Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-04-28 | Page 6 | Army Legislation

ARMY LEGISLATION. rhe two House of L'oiigresi appear to be at loggerheads on the army appropriation ap-propriation bill. The House has injected in-jected into that bill ;i reorganization of the whole army, a radical change in the make up of the army itself and in its government. The Senate does not believe that a bill reorganizing the army should be forced through on an appropriation bill, and thus necessarily necessa-rily without the consideration that, should be devoted to the subject. Accordingly, Ac-cordingly, the Senate has struck out from the military appropriation bill all the provisions for the reorganization reorganiza-tion of the army which the House put into it. It is conceded that some of those reorganizing provisions are good, but others are sztremel objection able With respect bo 'the abandonment of various of the useless militarv posts, it is not cany to see whv that, proposition might not fairly be considered in an appropriation bill, but the Seuato has Struck it all out, and, :ls B whole, the Senate does fight iii BO doing It. is clearh the wrong way to get at the reorganisation of the army to make thai reorgaul ation depend upon the appropriations for the current year. We do not believe that the good sense of the House will be in anv way offended of-fended by the Senate's action ,n -1 r 1 1'. ing out the portion of the appropriation appropria-tion bill which provides for bhe reorganization reor-ganization of the militarv forcos ol the CUntry. But, at anv rate, there is not the least likelihood that the Senate would agree to that reorganisation iu such form. And so the Senate will doubtless have its way in Ihis, as clear, ly ii bughl to have; for when it comes bo the reorganization of the army, th;,-ougln th;,-ougln to be a matter standing upon 11-own 11-own basin aud to be considered on ti merits wholly apart from anv question of current appropriations.