Cost Of The Draft

Times makes the followiug estímate of whát the draft will cost : "It roquires about 30.000 men to hnake tho present draft all over the country - cnrolling offieers, assistants, boards of cxamination, &c, and so on. These cost the govern ment in salaries, about eight linies tVie araoiint paid to soldiers, MultipLy 30,000 by 8, and we havo 240,000- in oth er word the nteáris to pay 240 000 common soldiers, as long as tlio army of enrolling and drafting offieers, wit h thcir assistarits, are con'inued in oöico. In addition to this expense in earryini? o-h the draft, the Provost Marshals have 'guanls ' and more than fif'tj thousand 'invalid soldiers are distributed over the cnuntry to aid in enforcing thü draft.. - Most of theso artj able bodied soldiers, fit for duty in fche field. It is evident that the eost of the draft, with the IVovost Guarr), ïs equal to the pay of an army of 3&0 000 men through the present yoar at least."