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Show SECRETARY OF WAR WITHOUT AUTHORITY Washington. D. C, Nov. 12- The serretar of war has no authorn. :o dictate the number of officers and men of th militia to Institute a rifle camp of instruction whose officers aJD I men shall be paid under the mllltle act Comptroller of the Treasury Downey, final arbiter of such questions, ques-tions, decided so today. The question arose when the auditor au-ditor for the war department ruled that a recent encampment in Arizona at which 44 officers and men representing repre-senting the six companies of militia were present was not an encampment recognized by the w nr department He cited regulations of the secretan of war which declare that a legal en campment must include two officers and twenty men from each militia company. The comptroller announced that congress alone possessed authoritx to make such a limitation on the militia act. |