Increase of the Efficiency of the Army: Hearing Before the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives on the Bill (S. 4300) Entitled "An Act to Increase the Efficiency of the Military Establishment of the United States." May 14, 1900U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - 268 pages |
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ACTING CHAIRMAN Adjutant-General Adjutant-General's AINSWORTH appointed artillery BATES believe branch BRECKINRIDGE brigadier-general BUFFINGTON bureau CAPRON captain cavalry chiefs of staff Colonel CARTER Colonel HUIDEKOPER Commissary committee Congress CORBIN course detail system efficiency Engineers ESCH establishment experience four give go back grade GREELY guns horse increase infantry inspection inspector Inspector-General's Department JETT LENTZ lieutenant-colonel line officers LUDINGTON Major BIRD Major DUTTON Major STORY major-general MARSH matter ment MERRIAM military MONDELL Navy opinion Ordnance Department ordnance officer organization PARKER pass prescribed President promotion quartermaster Quartermaster's Department question rank regiment Regular Army retired second lieutenant Secretary of War Secretary ROOT selection Senator PROCTOR served Signal Corps SLAYDEN staff corps staff departments staff duty staff officers suppose thing tion troops understand United States Army vacancy veterinary corps veterinary surgeons volunteer War Department West Point
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Page 150 - ... of this Act, they shall be promoted according to seniority in the several grades, as now provided by law, and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to apply to vacancies which can be filled by such promotions or to the periods for which the officers so promoted shall hold their appointments...
Page 10 - That so long as there remain any officers holding permanent appointments in the Adjutant-General's Department, the Inspector-General's Department, the Quartermaster's Department, the Subsistence Department, the Pay Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Signal Corps, including those appointed...
Page 150 - And any officer now holding office in any corps or department who shall hereafter serve as chief of a staff corps or department and shall subsequently be retired, shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances authorized by law for the retirement of such corps or department chief : Provided, That so long as there remain in service officers of any staff corps or department holding permanent appointments, the chief of such staff corps or department shall be selected from the officers so remaining...
Page 250 - Such details shall be made from the grade in which the vacancies exist, under such system of examination as the President may from time to time prescribe. All officers so detailed shall serve for a period of four years, at the expiration of which time they shall return to duty with the line, and officers below the rank of lieutenant-colonel shall not again be eligible for selection in any staff department until they shall have served two years with the line.
Page 184 - Administration who has served under (d) or (f) and is retired while so serving or is retired after the completion of such service while serving in a lower rank or grade, shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances authorized by law for the highest grade...
Page 106 - Department by detail from the line of the Army for a period of four years each, and that no more permanent appointments shall be made.
Page 150 - ... filled by promotion as provided in this section, it shall be filled by detail from the line of the Army, and no more permanent appointments shall be made in those departments or corps after the original vacancies created by this Act shall have been filled.
Page 172 - Of the veterinarians provided for in this act, one shall have the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant of cavalry, and one shall have the pay of seventy-five dollars per month and the allowances of a sergeant-major...
Page 21 - ... should be performed by men who are under his orders, reporting to him, and not by members of a corps reporting separately to the Secretary of War. The bill is distinctly a step in the wrong direction, and I hope it will not receive favorable consideration. Due provision is made for veterinary service in the bill referred by the Adjutant-General in the first indorsement hereon, to which I beg to invite the attention of the committee.
Page 28 - That the President of the United States, as Commander in Chief of the Army, is authorized to make such regulations, governing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near military camps and to the officers and enlisted men of the Army as he may from time to time deem necessary or advisable...