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Show PARTIAL AGREEMENT ON ARMY MEASURE WASHINGTON, March 26. A partial agreement on , the. army appropriation bill will be reported today. An agreement was reached to retain the provision for a military secretary's department de-partment with an amendment that hereafter no officer at the head of the department shall hold a rank higher than Brigadier-General. The most Important question on which the conferees failed to get together to-gether was the Senate provision for the retirement' at the next higher rank of field, line and staff officers, below the grade of Brigadier-General, who served during the Civil war and who have been, or hereafter may be, retired. |