Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-13 | Page 8 | Quarter Million is Asked for Guard

QUARTER MILLION IS i ASKED FOP, GUI1 i i j j Adjutant General Files Biennial Bi-ennial Report With Governor Bamberger. Appropriation npf,-'-. : i:tg $::!, DoO lor maintenance of riie X.-. t i r.;, iun.nl of Utah durum tin; :t ppt oinrliins: t'.vo yearn are ask'-d m Uk; bi.-nnial report j i ilccl with (iovt-rnor 1 .MiN'riKtr ye.-itt:r- 'J.ty by Major I-'r.ul .h.vf ucu, adjut.-i nt I general. The amount appropriated for1 . rhe blenniiim juut clf.iir-,' was ? I (12,700, and on account of tht; f.n-t that during j a great, part of the time there was prac- ! tioally no guard organization, the ex- ponditurc-s were -o light that J 1 15,200 : ! i t-nv.i inn with the slate treasurer as a , credit halanre. j K-ommend;i i ion is made that (he j armory nnMimnal h;il! b- rented on the stale eapitul grcundu wh hotit iinnecen-s; iinnecen-s; ry d-,iy. ( rgriit n ed of ;ni armory in called to tht- governor'; a ttnti rlon, as the organization U outgrowing the ea- J pacity or the present building on 1'icr-pont 1'icr-pont Mreet. JU'Vi.sion of t li military rode to meet dolails of the national code iw recommended. recom-mended. Jt is pointed out that in an attempt at-tempt of (he la.st legislature to amend the Utah code, with this end in view, some errors creot iti winch partly defeat ' tlit purpose. It. is asked that the legis-lature legis-lature remedy these mistakes. An increase to at least f--i a year is recommended for salary of the adjutant general. Attention id called to the fai-t that the adjutant Is required to furnish a bond of $Ju.0U to buy his own uni-,1 torniH and attend the governor on all tate occasions. A salary of not h'ss than $500 annually is asked for one officer of each com- pany, with the requirement that he give ;m much time as shall be necessary to military business. 11 is also reeom-mended reeom-mended that a .sufficient corps of clerks be main Lalued at the adjutant's office to carry on routine work.