year beginning July 1, 1894, as submitted to the full Committee on Military Affairs by the Sub-Committee:Provided,That hereafter no appointment shall be made to the office of assistant surgeon-general with the rank of colonel until the number of such assistant surgeons-general shall be reduced below four, and thereafter the number of officers in that grade in the Medical Department shall be fixed at four; and no appointments shall be made to the office of assistant surgeon-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel until the number of such assistant Ralph Lauren Outlet Online surgeons-general shall be reduced below six, and thereafter the number of officers in that grade The North Face Outlet in the Medical Department shall be fixed at six; and no appointments shall be made to the office of surgeon with rank of major until the number of such surgeons shall be reduced below thirty, and thereafter the number of officers in that grade in the Medical Department shall be fixed at thirty; and no appointments shall be made to the office of assistant surgeon until the number of assistant surgeons shall be reduced below ninety, and thereafter the North Face Outlet number of officers in that grade in the Medical Department shall be fixed at ninety.Fortunately the House Military Committee has listened to Nike Shoes Australia The North Face Outlet Store reason, and admitted the weight of argument against this proposal, and has abandoned the idea of reducing the number in the upper ranks of the medical corps; but it still proposes to cut off thirty-five assistant surgeons, bringing these down to ninety. This is by no means so bad at least in its immediate action as the original bill submitted by Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, Chairman of the Committee, from which we have quoted above. That bill, had it become law would have reduced the medical department two colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, twenty majors, and thirty-five junior officers; would have stopped all promotions and appointments in the corps for about eight North Face Coupon years; and would have greatly injured Nike Australia the department. The present modified proposition, however, is bad enough, and is, from an economical point of view, unwise.There are now barely enough medical officers to supply Posts, and it is forbidden to employ acting assistant surgeons. Moreover, when a competent physician has served in the army thirty-two or thirty-three years, as the ten senior army surgeons ranking as majors have done, he ought not only to have the chance to be paid a lieutenant-colonel's salary, but he also ought to feel secure in his position.It is very desirable to have first-rate men iu the army medical corps, men who may be detailed for important and delicate services; but to such the corps is already none too attractive. It now has six vacancies. Under such circumstances that is poor economy which threatens to lower the standard.The idea of the promoter of this measure for we credit him with some other purpose than simply posing as a watch-dog of the treasury seems to be to retain merely a skeleton of an army medical corps in times of peace, and to supplement its deficiencies in Oakley Sunglasses time of war by surgeons drawn from civil life. This would be very poor economy. The civil surgeon may be available when wanted; he may know how to amputate a leg, dress a wound, or extract a bullet as well as the army surgeon, but he does not know the routine call it North Face Outlet Store red tape if you will of the army service and of government bureaus. He does not know and cannot be expected immediately to know, how to provide and care for those under him. He is summoned when the emergency is great and immediate action is required. The hopeless and costly confusion existing iu some of the government pension rolls to-day is partly due to this very thing. It has cost our taxpayers millions of dollars, which would have paid the salaries of many medical lieutenant-colonels, majors, etc., and still left much over to be appropriated in those forms Oakley Canada of North Face Coupons gross extravagance, such as river and harbor bills or sugar bounties, which are