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Show ITIML ElilS PUN SUBMITTED Reorganization Proposal Contemplated in Bill Now Before Senate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. The plan of the National Guard Association of the United States for the reorganization of the state militia of the country, embody-I embody-I ing a proposal for a system of voluntary military and physical training functioning through the schools and colleges, wa3 1 submitted to the senate tonight in a bill by Senator Frellnghuysen, Republican, of New Jersey. It was referred . to the military committee. The measure provides pro-vides for an armed force of approximately approximate-ly 348,000 officers and men. augmented by a reserve force of former service men. The bill was drafted by a special committee com-mittee appointed at the association's convention In St. Louis last May. Owing to the pending army reorganization bill, the senate committee will give immediate imme-diate consideration to the measure. Under the bill's provisions the present militia bureau would be substituted by a national guard bureau, which would be under the direct supervision of the secretary sec-retary of war, with a major general, appointed ap-pointed by the president, as chief. The bill would also establish a national guard council, composed of one officer of the national guard from each state, who would have charge of reorganization and development of the national guard. Military and physical training for boys from 16 to IS years of age under national guard officers also is provided, with federal fed-eral financial aid for equipment and maintenance of high school cadet corps and similar organizations. Federal assistance assis-tance for maintaining officers' training corps in colleges also is proposed. The present basis of pay for national guard officers and men would be retained and the national guard units could be used both inside and outside of the United States. The attorney general, and not the judge advocate general, would be required to interpret provisions of the bill. |