Show viii 1111 hiLt New York Post U By the close vote ole of St 34 to U 32 the Son ate agreed to another amendment to the Ihl arm bill Is III solely In the In Interest terest of the Congressional Under this clau chance n a volunteer without experience before beCore litiS mil amy be appoInted to n a cu In the line over lv r the heads lOt first and second lieu lieutenants tenants of years 0 of many of whom Are gra graduates of West Wil Point It ItIs Iii Is true that title this provision la is to some extent nullified by time requirement that volunteers so 0 promoted shall first be hut even It If only I a few fel are fitted for the du duDo II of a company tom corn the gt gl loll se nn and InJustice tire tice ot of their to the detri Ot of the calls for protest Sun It IL Is significant l that sonic of the most ardent supporters of DC our colonial lion and deplore the demoralIzing Izing conditions which have re resulted from the occupation Ot of this Philippines Senator Lodge of oC Masse In the debAte on the canteen said ht he was all convinced 1 that thai the hAd done harm ham to the I Recently the civIlized nations Ot of the world entered upon an agreement the Sale lall tiC of to 10 the savage of Af tics Mr Lodge Is 18 of the opinion that the prohIbItion should hould be extended to 10 the and has Introduced on an amendment to the army bIll Jill forbIdding the tatton of at dis distilled distilled tilled lIquors Into the archipelago ex cx for tor m purposes It It a well known tad fact that thal before beCore American troops were erf cent nt to the PhIlippines the were exceptionally temperate It is II gratIfying to observe that Can Cun gress Is 18 ut waking up to 10 n a of the nation duty to the people ot of OUr de dependencIes n Worcester Wonter SP Spy The rhe of the army lumy canteen Is s a surprise even to the tV C CT CF T F tf t the anti the less men Inen and women or of the States who have hon been mak lag an effort to keell keei the United Statis SIales out of the rum business There art are man many In the gov 0 eminent and especIally In the army who belIeve bellev that the business was 11 regulated more satisfactorIly by the saloon controlled by the directly through the can call canteen teen ln than to the soldIers to oh ob obtain tain tam liquor thE a ay th the ordinary vate ate citizens have to obtain theirs Ne New York Sun Let Lt us III take from froni the evil Uon ot of th the arm army for tor drunkenness It hat has been paid Ald that 90 Per eat of the and ot of the Including bad mark sod and all ai dl a to 10 It If A t hall been man of Sober habit the f woUld hot have killed and so 10 man many or f Mm him ThIs view I Is gainIng ground in where the lIol soldier t Is un on parade At AI thE lIttle town ot of a great feat mIlItary camp for forthe the reinIng of soldiers there arc thIrty sIx lx public houses houses hoult to sell beer anti twenty five other lIcensed of entertaIn In meat nt Aldershot bf A camp there were only bartl In the Itla place EvenIng WIsconsin One or of the extreme temperance seen tore ally this had bad absorbed more Inon of the Itte attention ot of th Ihl Senate than lh time In Increase crease ot of the arm army to 10 mn men This S t farcical but bUI It goes fat to pros pro the axiom that thI minor matters more than major matters are likely to be bemore more morl carefully tully consIdered b by the mom bore of 01 I c 11 the he arm army om rl the m meet tt thorough temper r nn an e mo n I the abolItion of Ih the nth anlon an Unwise When In ib t committee a agreed uI U beir UM t of few that thon U a Iv of th the senators would woold V 1 t and so 0 corn com cornn n n Herald fI nut ft ff ordinary purposes to Ir 1 III r ri t our greater I I r n 0 lh I or thirty y If rr 1 t I maat the II v ho T 91 1 hn hero n ben of 1111 i I 11 yet It there thre ba bat has I beia t I 1 JJr tt tl pUblic leg Ing In enre of this absence nr of milItary It Ste arE to hA hAt hAve hAveIt t It War var with wilh n a great foreign lower such as al France Frane Germany or nn an army of oC men if IC or of them are aue on the other oilier side Ide ot of the I Is altogether too mall Fur For defensive e would be a modest estImate and It be almost as to 10 make an efficient of this size out 0 of raw materials Boston Doston Transcript Another poInt made b by Sentor Senator Sewel WIS sas this We cannot recruit the arm army It you ou abolish the post ox ex exchange change J It Is to the soldIers Ide Idea of liberty to b be tie tied down In that 3 and he will net have I It Hee here are tl two weighty reasons why h the shoUld continue to exIst It rEalY really Is n a potent tutor factor In iii the cause of oC plent alice and amid its abolition ml might hl make I It difficult to secure lie the right kind of man 1 t for Cor the recruitment ot of the arm |