Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-15
NATIONAL NOTES.
Nh EUNHL NU hSu
The Secretary Of War and Ajjutanl
General on Army Changes.
Alaskan Seas a Grave for Twenty
Two American Seamen.
General Washington Dispatches
Railroad News-Eastern Wash
outs-sportiDg Events.
ARMY CHANGES.

SENSIBLE ~UTTRRANoEs FROM SECRETARY ENDI-
coTr AND AD~JUTANT-GENRRAL DRUM.
NEw YoRK, August 1.-THE Army and
Navy Journal, in addition to the list of army
officers who will be ordered back to their regi.
ments, having been on detached service more
than four years, sent in these dispatches last
night, publishes the following list of officers
who will be exempted from the operation of
the order, having been put on detached SER
vice by the secretary of war: Col. John G.
Tribal, First artillery school, eleven years,
thre months; 1t. Col. Robt. N. Scott, Third ar
tillery, war record, seven years, eight months;
Major Richard Loder, artillery school, six
years; Capt. A. b. Blunt, military prison,
eight years, three months; Capt. +. V. Greene,
military academy, thirteen years, two months;
Capt. Richard III. Pratt, tenth cavalry, Indian
school, ten years. four mouths.
Tha same paper adds: The conclusions of
the secretary of war as to army administration
are further indicated by his reply to friends of
an officer who wrote asking that his assign
ment to q station might be changed. This
request tho secretary declined to grant, and
in answer to one of the letters he had re.
ceived, announced his determination to en-.
force the order, saying, "You will pardon me
1t L say u single word, l tiud it
VERY COMMON IN THE ARMY
when an officer is relieved for proper reasons,
indeed for necessary reasons, for him aud his
friendsto demonstrate rs if he had o peculiar
right to perform a particular duty, and his
friends are very apt TO think that because he
does not like removal, that some personal in.
jury is cast upon his character or his services.
Quite the contrary. Removals and appoint
ments SO far as L know anything about them
or have anything to do with them, are made
simply because the good ofthe 8 -rvics required
them and this is one of these cases, and in.
wolves no discredit to the officers"
The Journal also publishes 8 letter from
Adjutant General Drum to a congressman.
mans request that a young lieutenant, just
out from West Point, who had been assigned
to a command in q colored regiment, be
RELIEVED OF THAT COMMAND,
and sent to a white regiment, is denied. The
general says the war department knows nc
difference between the status of white and
colored soldiers; that they are on a perfect
equality before the law; that they are equally
entrusted with the keeping of the flag and
with the honor of the country, and it is as
important that the colored regiments should
be well Differed and well led on all occasions
as other regiments. While under the law
they are maintained as a part of the army of
the United States, the secretary of war can
know no inequality and it is his duty to assign
which govern assignments of all officers. The
good of the SO! vice, the provision of the law,
the discipline of the.almy, and the uuhesits-
ting obedience to orders, demand that officers
should acquiesce when assigned to such
regiment,