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Show MILES' ARMY BILL. increases tho Regular Organization to 100,000 Men. Washington, Dec. 3. General Miles, commanding the army, has prepared the draft of a bill providing for a regular reg-ular standing army of 100,000 men. The bill, it is said, will provide for an organization of twelve companies to the regiment, with an arrangement for a third lieutenant for each company in case of need for that office. It will contain provision for a staff corps largely in accordance with the re-comendations re-comendations of the heads of the various vari-ous bureaus, as recoiuended to them in their annual reports. Chairman Hull of the house committee on military affairs af-fairs intends to present the measure in congress at the first opportunity. |