The daily union., 1854-12-28

applies to hateful plague goes to the root We hes
ly wish Surgeon Davis success.
We also deny that the proposed bill, in any of its terms
legalizes modes of dsmissng officers by departmental
authority The section 10 retire faithful and unfortunate
officers who have been disabled out in service is
liberal and humane in ali its provisions Its purpose
to renygorate the energies of every corps by the promo
ton of younger and effective officers who in the per-
ormance of duties of higher grades OF rank, without the
pay and emouments of their responsibilities. There
necessity in this confessed for years through all
the grades Of the army. It is of humanity
reward the faithful officer it Furnishes the vicious in
habit and the prohgate vagranees of the few that have
brought reproach upon the profession of arms This the
provision Brown refers TO as egalizing dismssonN
There not in any Of its terms line that adds ot or t
to departmental" executive authority. In every in
stance board of from five to thirteen officers of the army
superior in rank to the officer to be surveyed is to examine
and report the the President His only power
carry into effect their recommendations and these never
go smisson of officer unless this board trace the
cause of incompetency to "vicious habits" No officer
who loves fidelity and virtue and hates yagrancy and vice
can fail to applaud this provision Of the proposed bill.
We confess that we see of the eps" that oyeba
lance the good things Of he bW' 1t appears to us that
Brown receives welcome of the recommendations
that do go directly to his personal benefit The in
crease of pay the additional regiments the retired bill he
alone appauds In all these he clearly his
advantage through promotion and expected mu
tipcaon of emoluments and pay We have idea who
Brown is will charge him with selhshncss and
lack of military tone yet compelled to confess
humiliation that there is in the army officer whose
military tone marks such deterioration and decay of manly
and elevated sentiment pervade every line OF his censo
| rous and il-timed article.
The proposed bill in all its parts has unmixed ap
probation 1t from high and responsible executive
and legislative ncopares 1t comes IN the properly
stued channels, with potential arguments To commend
itself to the favorable action of Congress 1t smites down
every kind of iavoritsm except that growing out Of
merit and service 1t substitutes roster and 'aer.f-detad
system in the place Of selections oftener ang on the syc
ophan caoer than the officer Of substance and ser
vice 1t thus equalizes the labor and hardshps Of every
department of the army and shares out TO oil In their
turn the places where service is pleasant and office easy
A proposition going to the cure of so many OF the
plaques the army and carrying its face substantial
showing of good for every change suggested will
suffer but little from the cers of the few subaerns and
inexperienced staff arores who assume the censorship Of
the War Department. and set in Judgment upon executive
recommendations and authority Congress has long been
controlled in its military legislation by staff cabal and in
trigue The evil has grown up to that formidable and
threatening height that pruning will not check s growth
The must be applied to the root and the tree hewn
| down and cast into the fire.