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Show Against the Cowboy- Militia. Washington, February 24. Six members of the Hou3e Committee on Military Affairs have submitted a minority report against the formation of two regiments of cowboys to take the field in Arizona and New Mexico against the Apaches. The bill reported by the committee proposes to give the members of these regiments $30 per month and equipments, equip-ments, enlists them for a year, and authorizes author-izes them when in .pursuit of hostiles and their ponies become exhausted to take them wherever they can be found on. the march. It is believed that these privileges would be abused, and that there would be too great a demand for ponie3. ' " |