Show Sleeping on Post The extraordinarily large number ot courts martial for the offenle of aleep Inx on poll during war with Spain hat attracted the attention of military authorities aa also hart the light pun lihmenta Inflicted for this Cray dereliction dere-liction Th fact that stoppling while on guard duty In llmt of war may bo punlntml by death Seems ta hut had no terror for hundreds of enlllted men during the Past few month The practice seems la hart been la treat iuch rerlout Infraction of tht article ticle of war llghly andla lei 1 offenderi off In I ridiculously email sentence In practically every Inilance Vlndlnga of court martial received by Iht war department de-partment Indicate that Sleeping when on duty had ben proportionately more prevalent than In the cMI war and pun lihmenti much less mere Commanding Command-ing omreri ot reglmenti divisions real brigade have all endeavored to reduce the number of offenses and ta Imrreii upon junior officers In direct control of rcntrtea the Importance of Close Inipec I lion In making pounds at night I The number of trial for abaence without leave has been numeroua but a considerable reduction li I flown mine aotdlerat > egan lo ap reclalt the aeverl ty ot penalllea for not observing rrguU tlont lloon after mustering ties vol unlearn regimental Commanders found that hundred of men more Inclined to regard army dleclpllnt In much the pome light that they looked upon national na-tional guard rule punlihmenli to for their Infringement the remit being that In a majority of cam tht offender were1 Ignorant of Ihi delay rut as aa ap plied In wartime row desertions are recorded and where they have Occurred little effort was mad la apprehend the offender The death sentence has not teen Im pined on a ilnglt Meddler during the war for ileiertlon Sleeping on post or for any other orfenit aa 1 unt liable Cloy eral have been sentenced to period ot Imprlionment for falling to observe the regulation but runt for any serious offense The nay was kept too busy moving around Awl I looking for Vpanlih vessels to gel Into much trouble Thorn team Thor-n but ont court martial of an omcer during the war that of an Resistant surgeon accused of lack ot proper treat men of nick alien and the records ot tht judge Advocate general olllct allow that summary Courts hynee command eta for trials I of stillors have been rt mirkably few OIT entire navy from officers down la the lampllghteri Palms lo have been on an exceptionally goad behavior plant during the whole war ptilod 1 I |