Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1879 — The Indiana Legion. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Legion.

The military bill now in tbe hands of the military conimittee of the House, has been prepared with great care by Adjutant General Rum, Col. N. K- Ruckle and Capt. U. 0. Wood with a view of reorganizing all the militia of the state, adding thereto and creating and tuuititaining a state militia, to be called the Indiana Legion. It provide* for 92 companies, the maximum strength of a company being 100 men, the minimum 41; the companies to be distributed by the governor and massed into battalions, regiments and brigades. A staff for the commander in-chief, the governor, is provided for. The adjutant general is to he chief of staff and acting quartermaster-genera). Ihe bill provides that counties ealling for military services of the militia shall pay all expenses, including per diem, transportation, etc. Each man is to earn his uniform which is to be of the regular army fatigue pattern, the staid allowing each member of a company fifty cents for every attendance on drill, twenty drills annually being provideTfor, mehiKirs to be lne3"lweniy-twr’ cents for each non attendance. A state inspector to receive the pay of a captain in the regular army is also provided for. The officers of companies and regiments ate to be efficient, and an examining board is to be appointed by the governor, on whose recommendation commissions shall be issued. Enlisted men will receive $1.50 when called out by the governor, and officers op duty regular army pay. A general .encampment shall be held once a year, at the discretion of the commander-in-chief. As ftn inducement for good men to enroll themselves, it provides that the militia shall be exempt from jury duly and pull tax. An cnlistmentment ot five years is required. It arranges that immediately after the passage of the bill the governor shall detail three officers of the Indiana Legion to prepare a code of regulations spproximsteu to the code of the United State* army. County commissioners are to provide armories so» companies organised in their respective counties, the amount to be paid beimr regulated by the population. Conntieanades I sud 80,000, S2ooTover 30,000, SBOO. > Sb» ! stalo UspetUr and adjutant general are to be the only officer* on duty in lime of I' • -