ing, nor are its imperial requirements-whether for peace or for war -to stop increasing at a marvelous rate; what looms gigantic to us of to-day, will inevitably look commonplace to those of even half a generation hence.

ARTILLERY CORPS U. S. ARMY, LIEUT. GENL.

51. Port Princesa, Paragua, P. I. 58. San Juan, Porto Rico.

52. Davao, Mindanao, P. I.
53. Sungua, Mindanao, P. I.
54. Isabela, Basalin, P. I.
55. Guam Island, P. I.

56. Pearl Harbor, Oahu, H. I.
57. Hilo, H. I.

59. Culebra Islands, P. R.
60. Guantanamo, Cuba.
61. Bahia Honda, Cuba.
62. Panama Bay, Panama.
63. Colon, Panama.

NOTE. There will not be either in the Army or the Navy any officer of like grade who will hold commands that in anywise equal in importance and responsibility those enumerated above, when reasonable provision has been made for their defense in armament and personnel.

A BILL.

To perfect the policy of the Endicott Board by providing the personnel for one relief of regular artillery, and one of militia artillery for the service of the armament of the coast defenses in the United States proper, and two reliefs of regular artillery for the service of the armament in territorial parts, and to organize the field artillery of the United States Army; within a period of sixteen years:

BE IT ENACTED, ETC., That the Artillery Corps shall hereafter consist of one Lieutenant General commanding, four Major Generals, eleven Brigadier Generals, cach with the usual staff of artillery officers herein provided for, forty-two Colonels, seventy-three Lieutenant Colonels, one hundred and sixty-seven Majors, five hundred and eighty-four Captains, six hundred and forty-six First, and six hundred and thirty Second Lieutenants, forty-two Chaplains, fifty-two Master Electricians, one hundred and sixty-two Electrician Sergeants, one hundred and fifty-six Sergeants Major, four hundred and seventy First Sergeants, four hundred and seventy Company Quartermaster Sergeants, four thousand and twenty Sergeants, four thousand one hundred and eighty-eight Corporals, nine hundred and forty Mechanics, nine hundred and forty Musicians, nine hundred and forty Cooks, eighteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven First-class. Privates, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-two Privates, to be organized as the President may direct; and forty-two Bands as now provided by law for a band in the Artillery Corps;

PROVIDED, that there shall be organized in the Militia of each State having Sea-coast Defenses therein an Artillery Corps which shall provide a Chief of Artillery and the necessary staff, and a personnel for one relief for the service of the armament, which shall be a duplicate of that for the Regular Artillery as prescribed by the President for the respective States;

PROVIDED FURTHER, That the Militia organized for Coast Defense shall encamp for a period of not less than fifteen days in each year for drills and practice with the guns at the fortifications to which they are respectively assigned by their duly approved manning tables, and they shall proceed to the same places for such purposes not less than twenty-two, nor more than forty-five other days during the year, and when on such duty said militia shall receive the same pay, rations and transportation authorized by law for like grades in the Artillery Corps of the United States Army.

PROVIDED FURTHER, That the personnel of the Coast Artillery Defenses of the country shall be in excess of the limitation of the strength of the Army to one hundred thousand men ;

AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That upon the passage of this Act the number of Officers and men transferred from the Artillery Corps to the Field Artillery shall be replaced in said Corps, the enlisted men in such grades as the President may direct, and that the members of the grades of Generals and Colonels herein provided for in the Artillery Corps shall be filled from that corps at once to the end that the necessary Artillery Divisions, Departments and Districts may be designated and organized at once;

AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That of the increase in the Artillery Corps below the grade of Colonel herein provided for onefifteenth as nearly as may be in each grade shall be made on the first day of July in each of the succeeding fifteen years after that of the passage of this Act; And that the President in his declaration in the event of probable war may complete this organization, and that the pay and allowance of the officers and enlisted men of the Artillery Corps shall hereafter be the same as now provided by law for like grades in the Corps of Engineers.

Sec. 2. That hereafter the Field Artillery of the Army shall consist of one Lieutenant-General, Chief of Artillery, three Major Generals, seven Brigadier Generals, and twenty regiments of Field Artiljery, namely, three regiments of Horse Artillery, six regiments of Light, and six regiments of Heavy Field Artillery, two regiments of Mountain Artillery, and three regiments of Siege Artillery; that the thirty batteries of Field Artillery now auhorized by law for the Artillery Corps are hereby detached therefrom and with six new batteries to be organized, shall be by the President organized into four of the regiments hereinbefore authorized;

PROVIDED, That he shall on the first day of July, in each of the next succeeding sixteen years after that of the passage of this.

Act cause to be organized an additional regiment of the Field Artillery, as herein provided for;

PROVIDED FURTHER, That the President in his discretion in the event of probable war may complete the organization.

Sec. 3. That the President may select the General Officers for the Field Artillery at once from the field officers of the Artillery Corps and promote them to these grades as herein provided for, and he may select the field officers of the four regiments first to be organized and promote them to the Field Artillery from the same or the next lower grades in the Artillery Corps, and he shall select the Captains and Lieutenants for these four regiments from like grades in that Corps and transfer and assign them to the Field Artillery. As the additional regiments or personnel herein provided for are organized, promotion to them, or in the Artillery Corps, shall be made by seniority in the Field Artillery or in the Corps as now provided by law for promotion in the line of the Army.

Sec. 4. That a regiment of Field Artillery shall consist of one Colonel, one Adjutant, one Ordnance Officer, one Quartermaster, one Commissary, one Chaplain, one Veterinarian with the rank, pay, and allowance of a Captain, mounted; one Sergeant Major, one Ordnance Sergeant, one Quartermaster Sergeant, one Commissary Sergeant, one Farrier Sergeant, one Saddler Sergeant, two Color Sergeants, one Chief Trumpeter, a Band as now provided by law for a regiment of Cavalry and three Battalions. The regimental Adjutants, Ordnance Officers, Quartermasters and Commissaries shall be extra Captains selected from the Captains of their respective regiments. A Battalion of Field Artillery shall consist of one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, cne Battalion Adjutant, one Battalion Ordnance Officer, one Battalion Quartermaster and Commissary, one Battalion Veterinarian, one Battalion Sergeant Major, one Battalion Ordnance Sergeant, one Battalion Quartermaster Sergeant, one Battalion Commissary Sergeant, one Battalion Farrier Sergeant, one Battalion Saddler Sergeant, one Battalion Standard Bearer (Corporal), two Trumpeters and three Field Batteries organized as now provided by law. The Battalion Adjutants, Ordnance Officers and Quartermasters and Commissaries shall be extra First Lieutenants, selected from the First Lieutenants of their respective battalions. Of the Battalion Veterinarians the senior half shall have the rank, pay and allowance of a first lieutenant mounted, and the junior half the rank, pay, and allowances of a second lieutenant mounted; PROVIDED, That all of the enlisted men of the mounted service shall receive one dollar and thirty-two cents additonal clothing allowance, and one set of cloth chev

rons and stripes per annum, and one set of gold chevrons and stripes per enlistment shall be added to the allowance of non-commissioned officers, and that in the Field Artillery drivers shall receive three dollars additional pay per month, and the pay of Corporals shall be twenty dollars, of Sergeants twenty-five, of battery staff Sergeants thirty, of battalion staff Sergeants thirty-five, and of regimental staff Sergeants forty dollars per month, together with the allowances now provided by law; PROVIDED FURTHER, That the President, when he may deem it necessary, may add to each or any of the battalions of Field Artillery one battery which shall be equipped for service as Field Artillery, and one battery which shall be equipped for service as a field. artillery ammunition train; and he may also add to the Field Artillery ten Veterinarians of the senior and ten of the junior grades of Lieutenants for service with the ammunition trains, and the artillery depots or otherwise as he may direct; AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That all officers of the Artillery Corps or of the Field Artillery regularly detailed for special duty which detaches them from duty with their respective arms of the service, shall be extra officers of their several grades in these arms.

Sec. 5. To provide barracks and quarters, stables and bun sheds concurrent with the increase of the artillery herein provided for, the following sums are hereby appropriated annually from any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: for the Artillery Corps two million nine hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars each year for the years 1904 to 1920 inclusive, and for the Field Artillery the sum of one million three hundred thousand dollars annually for the same period; PROVIDED, That the sums above named, respectively, for the current fiscal year shall immediately become available.

Sec. That the number of Cadets now authorized by law to be appointed to the United States Military Academy is hereby doubled. Sec. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

PENSION REDUCTION TO 1921.

The number of Civil War Soldier Pensions reported for 1904 is 704,360, and the average pension for all pensions as $138.45. The average pension for soldiers is not less than $144 per year, and probably about $153. To be on the safe side, it is taken as $144 in this table, and no account taken of the reduction incident to the deaths of veterans of other wars; of deceased widows, minors passing the pension age, etc., which will affect those incident to pensions for other widows added to the roll. Age of entrance of soldiers in Civil War,