Current engineering topics: Army reorganization bill

The Lenroot Amendment to strike out the section of the Army Reorganization Bill which provides a separate construction service was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 18 to 38. When the House was considering the Army Reorganization Bill it had first voted to maintain the Construction Division as a separate service and later reversed its vote by the very small margin of 168 to 158. This is the most vital thing in the Army Reorganization Bill from the civilian engineer´s standpoint; and it is distinctly a compliment to the manner in which civilian engineers handled the construction service during the last emergency.