| Show STANDING ARMY OF that 14 the number of men needed to do duty new york nov 29 A to the herald from washington says one of the first results of the termination of the peace negotiations at paris will be an order for mustering out aa many as men of the volunteer army the orders thus tar cover about men budnot more than have actually been mustered out the present army consists of about men exclusive 0 all ordered mustered out of whom are regulars the forces contemplated for the islands are for alie philippines tor porto rico about tor cuba not more than this on the basis of men for the regular establishment which is the number now reckoned on by competent military forecasters here will leave men for frontier and station work in this country secretary alger recommends men there are now volunteers who are entirely useless in view of the technical cessation of hostilities orders tor the mustering out of these will bo issued without delay which will leave in the army it was retailed hy army officers that the regular army of men had never been up to its limit of enlisted strength and that the army of men under the hull bill lacked ten thousand of complete enlistment secretary alger refused to say whether he would ask tor more pay tor enlisted men but it is asserted that it will be impossible to secure the enlistment of men unless there bo a greater pay than 13 a month for each man an increase of pay for privates in the service will be one of the almost certain developments of legislation for army reorganization the argument being based upon the dangerous climates to be endured in the new possessions washington nov 29 there la renewed talk of the reorganization of the regular army by the present session of congress the opinion seems to be that the regular army should consist of and that number will no doubt be recommended in the draft of the bill being prepared by the war department however there has been advanced a suggestion which meets with some favor in military circles which Is to make a regular hg army of men and to have a provisional array of men the latter made up largely of of the islands where the united states must do garrison duty these troops could be officered from the united states army and provision made to give the officers increased rank and pay while on such duty it has been suggested that lieutenants could become captains majors and BO on to the highest office of a regiment it Is proposed that the cost of maintaining this provisional army should come out of the revenues of the islands garrisoned it Is not intended that the whole garrison should be made up of such organizations of natives but that a sum chent number of regulars should be at each important place to maintain order in any emergency |
