Abstract

The Week

The article provides information about various social and political issues and developments from around the world. The Army Appropriation Bill contains a number of sections providing for a gradual reduction of the number of officers on liberal terms without deciding upon any final maximum establishment, that being left for a future Congress. The most, and indeed only, serious objection to the plan of the bill is that it departs from the uniform horizontal reduction in all grades and arms as was first announced to be the draft which was presented to the Committee. It now discriminates in favor of the Corps of Engineers by excepting it alone from the stoppage of promotions, and thereby reawakens all the jealousies and contests which had virtually been allayed by the published simple scheme of equal and common hardship to all individuals and classes.