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Show ARMY COSTS STAGGER. Washington Members of the senate military affairs committee were staggered stag-gered when General March, the war department's de-partment's chief of staff, told them that the estimated cost of maintaining a standing arm) of 510,000 men, with the compulsory training system as an adjunct, would be $900,000,000 a year. He said the army would cost $798,600,-000 $798,600,-000 and the remainder would be used for compulsory' training expenses, which would total $1597 per man The witness stated that a special board of officers had recommended that military training for nine months be made complsory, but the general staff had reduced this to seven months. Later this was cut to three months, over his objection. The testimony of the witness would indicate that the three months' compulsory com-pulsory military training, which 13 now called for in the war department's bill is not satisfactory to army officials, who will endeavor to increase the training period of the principle of compulsion com-pulsion in peace times is accepted by the people. on |