Show SEW NEW ARMI BIL BILL L IS AGREED UPON REGULAR ARMY TO BE OP OF MEN 2000 MORE THAN ASKED FOR president Preal dent will be able to recruit force up to the feder aliz atlan of the militia as proposed was wai adopted washington the army reorganization bill to provide increased land defense was agreed upon saturday by the alie house military committee after a session of strenuous voting the committee included inthe int he bill tin an increase in the regular army to men 2000 more than tho the war department recommendations called tor for tile tho regular army provision also provides for a 2 per cent leeway in fit enlist enlistments mei 1 t 8 which would allow the file president to re cruit the army up to about men the committee included I 1 in n the bill practically all of the proposals incorporated in the original draft fro framed a week ago the federalization of tile militia as originally proposed was adopted in toto and without opposition it was agreed however to provide for tile the enlistment of militiamen icum of for each congressional for each congressional district with an additional to at largo in hi each state for each united states soldier the militia bill gives tho the president authority to draft tile militia into tho the federal service in war time and also gives tile the secretary of 0 war authority over the organization training and discipline of the state troops |