“The scope of Secretary Garrison’s new departure becomes apparent when it is said that heretofore criminal and military offences have been regarded almost from the same point of view, and the offenders have been treated along the same lines of punishment. Men were sent to the army prisons, where they were worked hard and were made to feel their disgrace whenever possible, only to be finally dishonorably discharged, which included the forfeiting of all the rights of citizenship. Naturally, this kind of treatment was not exactly fair to all the prisoners, for many of the offenders had made serious mistakes through an ignorance of military matters, or through the yielding to some outside influence, such as deserting to visit a sick relative. Such men as these were not really bad, but nevertheless they were made to serve time with the ultimate disgrace of dishonorable dismissal hanging over them along with men who were convicted of acts of moral turpitude. “The military prisoners now are practically divided into two classes, a classification that the proposed law will maintain: 1. Soldiers convicted of offences against the discipline of the army; that is, purely military offenders; and 2. Those convicted of statutory and common law offences. “This new order of September 17 deals mainly with the first class. “All soldiers of the first class are separated from those of the second class, and are given a chance to make good and to ultimately return to their regiments and fulfil their term of enlistment. The time they have spent in confinement is not taken out of their period of enlistment. Most of these men are sent to the new detention barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Ks., while the remaining few go to the barracks at the Presidio, just outside of San Francisco. No men go to these barracks unless they have a term of three months or more to serve, as men with short sentences are placed in the post guard house.