Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1901 — MILES NOW OPPOSES CANTEEN. [ARTICLE]

MILES NOW OPPOSES CANTEEN.

Lieutenant General Ha* Reversed Hia View* on the Hut Ject. Lieut. Qen. Miles has reversed hii Views, and in his annual report will discuss the anti-canteen law and oppose any effort to repeal that law. Gen. Miles has been in the past one of the strongest advocates of the canteen system, and he was largely responsible for its adoption. He has changed ground since the anticanteen law was adopted, and now argues that the army is better off without the canteen. The War Department opposed the anticanteen law, but when It was adopted proceeded to enforce it. The only reference to the anti-canteen law made by Adjt. Gen. Corbin in his report is that “the provisions of the act of Congress which prohibits the sale of beer, etc., have been carried into effect.” Secretary Hoot will, it is said, make no more extensive discussion of the question. The Secretary of War regards his office as an executive one, and having carried into effect the law of Congress abolishing tha canteen, he will leave the question of results to Congress.