Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-02-05 | Page 2 | No Steps Will be Taken to Abolish Guard

No Steps Will BeTaken Be BeTaken I Taken to Abolish Guard I Th ThA Utah le legislature will nm take tako no I steps toward th the tho abolishment of or tho the i Utah national guard suard until further advices adLees advices ad ad- vices Lees have been r received b by Gov Simon Bamberger from froma Washington a The senate and house houRc committees on military affairs resolved themselves Into a n. Joint committee several days ago agoto agoto agoto to formulate a program for the future of ot the national guard In mt a special message e to the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture turo Governor Bamberger outlined the necessity ne of ot providing revenue for tho the guard or abolishing active organization tion The break bre c with Germany has temporarily tem tern upset any move toward the abolishment of ot the guard JUard A As a result Governor Bamberger has asked the tho Joint committee to do nothing until further advices are had hod from Wash Wash- ington Under tho the constitution of ot the state slate I every very man between the ages of ot 18 and amI 45 years ears Is subject to service Ice In the na national na- na lIonal guard In an opinion recently prepared by b Attorney General Dan B B. Shields for tar Governor Bamberger it was held that tho the constitutional de demands demands de- de mands could be met by the state maintaining main main- I de-I taming a record organization Until the tho German trouble arose it It w was waa thought that this procedure would bo be followed Guard rd officers would maintain a A. record of ot men subject to service in the guard under that plan but no active organization would bo be maintained Several guardsmen among them officers expressed exp sed tho the opinion today that tho the Utah militiamen would be called for railroad protection duty Th They y point out the tho Importance of or maintaining transcontinental railway lines in good condition for tor the rapid transportation of oC men and supplies should conditions demand such trans trans- Foreign n agents they say might plan to Interrupt railway communication and thus cripple for tor a a. time tho the transfer transfer trans trans- fer of ot equipment By posting guardsmen guards guards- particularly at men along alonS' the tho railways bridges and In the thc canyons possibilities tle ties tiei of such procedure would be mini mini-