The world: historical and actual . of the Treasury is forbidden bylaw, as are his subordinates, to be in any way inter- ItL 576 GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ested iii any branch of business which might comebefore them for official action. The Secretary of War became, under E. M. Stan-ton during the great Conflict, virtual commander-in-chief of the army, a position assigned by the con-stitution to the President. In time of peace thestanding army is so small that this department isless important than any one of the several bureausof the Treasury. Small as is the army, it might Pierce, and a s
The world: historical and actual . of the Treasury is forbidden bylaw, as are his subordinates, to be in any way inter- ItL 576 GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ested iii any branch of business which might comebefore them for official action. The Secretary of War became, under E. M. Stan-ton during the great Conflict, virtual commander-in-chief of the army, a position assigned by the con-stitution to the President. In time of peace thestanding army is so small that this department isless important than any one of the several bureausof the Treasury. Small as is the army, it might Pierce, and a son of President Lincoln was appoint-ed to the position by President Garfield, but the onegreat reputation made in the Department was thatof Edwin M. Stanton, who sustained that great bur-den from 1863 to 1868, doing as much to preservethe Union as any one man. The office was con-spicuously disgraced by Secretary Belknap, who heldit from 1860 to 1876. Besides strictly military mat-ters, the War Department has charge of public works. THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF STATE. be much smaller if it were not for troubles withthe Indians of the far west. The military officersare: general, lieutenant-general, major-general, brig-adier-general, colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major,captain, first lieutenant, second lieutenant. Theseare regularly and formally commissioned, and forthe most part are graduates of the military acade-my at West Point, New York, the only institutionfor instruction in the science of war maintained bythe government. The Secretary of War has a super-visory charge of that academy, also of depots ofwar material, arsenals, military hospitals and asy-lums. Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War under involving civil engineering. The erection and careof United States buildings belong to the TreasuryDepartment, but river and harbor improvementsare made through the Department of War. The least of all the Departments is the President sustains the same relation to the navythat he
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