The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-11-29
THE ARMY AND NAVY.

Mr. John Tweedale, the chief clerk OF the War
Department, who was called to Philadelphia on
Tuesday by the death Of his brother has returned to
TO CITY, and was at his desk yesterday at the Depart
ment.
The following naval orders we're issued yesterday:
Lieut. George W. Mentz has been detached from
the Portsmouth, and ordered to the Yantic Sur
geon Hampton Aulick has been ordered to the ALI
ance. Surgeon George P. Bradley has been detached
AZ %a@ ne
Yantic, and placed on sick leave. Chief Engineer
Theodore Zeler, from duty at New York, and placed
on the retired list from December /.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company are building
barracks and quarters at Rock Springs, Wyoming,
the scene Of the recent troubles between the
white and Chinese miners, for two companies OF
infantry, and barracks for one company at Evanston.
Ses
maintain two companies OF the Seventh Infantry at
the former point during the winter, under the COM
Rogers company of the Ninth will occupy the
quarters at Evanston.
The action OF the War Department during the
past week In announcing the promotion of Adjutant
Steever to the vacant captancy In the Third Cavalry
has created no little surprise In military circles.
use every effort to defeat Stevens confirmation,
senate: At the War Department the fact is recog-
nized that grave mistake was made In not having
sent In Steever's nomination Immediately upon the
rejection Of Simpson, and thus have avoided the
unpleasant feature Of the matter appears to have
attorney Generals Once, which those oiicais ex-
ppontmcn as on X Ike same legal footing as c9
one. Capt. Stcevers record Ia a good one, and his
siantly In the field or on the frontier. lie has been
regtmenal adjutant since September, 1888. His
promotion carries him to Company, now at Camp
Pena Colorado, Texas.
NJ ,ho Nou, vovl T;n,oe ryr,,o.
as follows OF the projected naval man9uvres In the
Gulf: "For 10! these many years naval Oficers
have had the impression that it might be well to
gain definite idea Of the lighting value of the pres
ent personnel Of the service provided with Its pres
ent material. In view Of the facts that the Navy
isthmus Of Panama last spring, and that il may
soon be called upon to do the like again under
grayer conditions; II was not altogether unreason.
squadron In hand bit and ind out what 1t could
do. ACCORDINGLY he proposed 70 take the shlps TO
lions as nearly like those OF actual work
az possible, using guns and torpedoes against
moving targets. and thus developing the actual Ia.
tiresomey remote time when Congress viii give him
10 the eject Of the Are Of the squadron against shore
batteries the Admiral proposed to erect q target
representing fort on Egmont Key, IN Tampa Bay,
Of vessels, and 70 follow up This pfaciice BY an as.
sault by The landing parties from the shps, to
test the nobility and snariness OF that force.
Afterward the landing parties were to 70 into
place. TO give the men some idea OF their
duties under such conditions. Advantage
was TO be taken OF the men being
on shore 10 work them up In small arm target prac-
tice and gatng gun nre for which there are good
opportunities ahoat, and TO instruct them In the
principles OF open order and successive line fighting
which cannot be even llluAirated on the deck OF q
ship. Then, az Tampa Ia miles away from any town.
and as there would be no one about to be troubled
by the movements, 1t designed TO make advances
into the country, as II on hostile soil, TO test the
mobility OF the artillery and the worth Of the infantry
supports. The of the notla OF boats In landing
In the face OF an enemy and the size and power OF
force the squadron could throw ashore for an I'M
mediate move into the Interior were also to be de-
teTmined. Bat all this has been postponed indeh-
nitely, because-becauEe-well,n no one seems to
know the because.