The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-15
CAPITAL CATCHES.
Not in Adirondack Streams
but in the Capitals
News Pools,
uDcles, Cousins and Aunts of
Army OFFICERS Receive
Some Good Advice.
A Mighty Had appointment re.
yoked After the Facts
are Found out.
ARMY REFORM.
Pungent Pointers For oaiccrs

Pungcnt Pointers For Officers
NEw York August 1.-THE Army
and Navy journal, in addition to the
list of army officers, who will be or
dered back to their regiments, having
been ON detached service more than
four ears, sent in the dispatches last
night, publishes the following list of
officers who will be exempted from
the operation of The order, having
been put on detached service by the
secretary of war: Colonel John G..
Tidball, First artillery school, IL years
and 3 months; Lieutenant Colon |
Robert Y. Scott. Third artillery, war
record, years and months; Major
Richard Lader, artillery school, 6
years: Captain A. b. Blunt, military
prison, 8 years and 3 months: Cap
tain +. V, Greene, military academy,
Is years and months; Captain Il. II.
Pratt, Tenth cavalry, Indian school,
10 wears and months.
The same paper adds: The
conclusions of the secretary of war as
to army administration, are further
indicated by his reply to the, friends
of an officer who wrote asking that
his assignment to a station might be
changed. This request the recretary
declined to grant and in answer to
one of the letters he had received,
announced his determination to en-
force the order, saying: "Iou will
pardon me If ! say II single word.
lind ii very common in the army,
when an officer is relieved for proper
reasons, for him and his friends TO re
monstrate, as,it he had peculiar right
TO perform particular duty, aud
his friends are very ant
to think that because he
does not like the removal, some per-
sonal injury is cast upon him, or some
reflection is made upon his character
or his services. Quite the contrary
Removals and appointments, so far us
| know anything about them, or have
anything to do with them. are made
as the good of the service requires
them This is one of these cases, aud
involves no discredit TO the officer.
The journal also publishes Il letter
from Adjutant General Drum TO
II congressman, supprcssing the
name, in which the congress-
mans request, that young
lieutenant, Just out of West Point
who had been assigned TO command
in negro regiment, be relieved OF
that command and sent to white
regiment is denied. The adiu,ant-
general says that the war department
knows no difference between the
status of white and colorcd soldiers:
that they are on perfect equality be-
fore the law; that they are equally
entrusted with the keeping of the flag
and with the honor of the country.
and IT is important that colored rcgi-
ments should be rs well oiliccred and
well led, on all occasions as other
regiments while, under the law, they
are maintained rs part of the army
OF the United States. The secretary
of war can know no inequalities. and
il Is his duty to assign officers to them
upon the same principles which gov
crn the assignments of all officers.
The good of the service, the provi-
sions OF the law, the discipline of the
army and the unhesitating obedience
to orders, demands that officers should
acquicsce when assigned 10 such rcgi-
ments."