Appointments, Civil Service, 680 fixed policy in, 518 merit system in, 591, 644 negro, defended, 516 negro, in South, 516 negro, fewness of, 512 policy in making, 514, 518 whites and negroes in, 511-512 Appomattox, battle of, 486 Appropriation Act (Feb. 25, 1903), 660 Appropriations, Anti-Trust Law, 612, 660 economy in, 654 fraud, 660-662 Arbitration, growth of, 662 international, triumph of, 669 International, Union, 672, 673 international, union for, 672 labor troubles and, 308 peace and, 622-623 The Hague Court of, 669 Architecture of the White House, 644 Arctic Brotherhood, the, 421 Arid lands, reclamation of, 679, 682 reservoirs in, 561 surveys in, 682 Western, 438 Arizona, 158, 362, 369 irrigation in, 370 land-reclamation in, 682 Arlington, D. C., 40, 56 Cemetery, 40 soldiers’ monument at, 53 Armaments, object of, 266 Armies as fighting machines, 492 Army, United States, the, 312, 487, 505, 584-590, 629-631 attacks on the, 313 attention deserved by, 10 camp sites for, 689 capacity demanded in, 587 commands in the, 629 constructive force, a, 590 criticisms of the, 61 debt to, public, 588 details in, four-year, 588 efficiency of the, 584, 588, 689 efforts for efficiency in, 587 elimination in, grade, 586 favorite subject of attack, 9 general staff law in, 689 grade elimination in, 586 increase of, not needed, 584 legislation on the, 319, 589 limits of, maximum and minimum, 588 manœuvre work in the, 629, 689 marksmanship in, 630 material in the, good, 629 merit sole rule in the, 586 minimum of the, 629 officers in, senior, 629 pay in, increased, 588 peace, an instrument of, 590 political influence in, 689 preference and seniority in, 586 promotions in, suggestions on, 689-690 reforms in, three prime, 588 regular, the, 319, 320, 492 Reorganization Act, 588 reorganization, benefits of, 589 senior grades in, men for, 586 seniority promotions in, 689 small size of the, 631-632 source of pride, a, 10 staff divisions in the, 588 staff of the, general, 585 standard of, high, 584 traducers of the, 313 training in the, 584, 587, 629 units of the, 584 volunteer, the, 492 wrongdoers in the, 494 Y. M. C. A. in the, 228 (See also under Soldiers, War, Philippines, etc.) Army and Navy, the, 463 no politics in the, 209 pride in the, 492 value of the, 48-49 Arrogance, evils of, 472 Arthur, Chester A., President, 119 Artillery, chief of, 588 corps of, 588 Artificial powers, regulation of, 609 (See also under Trusts, Corporations, etc.) Asia, cable to, need of, 573 trade with, 563 Asiatic barbarism in Philippines, 238 peoples and the Filipinos, 410