The morning call., 1891-03-16
WITH THE REGULARS.
Laws for the Army Passed by
the Late Congress.

The first session of the Fifty-fiTst Con-
gress is responsible for the acts authorizing
the President to confer brevet rank on off
GERS of the army for gallant services in the
campaign; providing for an Assistant Sec
rotary of War; granting amnesty to desert
ers; to prevent assertions in the army"
an act giving the privilege of purchase of
discharge, and of discharge on application
at the end of three years service; estab-
lishing code of punishments; making war
service count as double time in computing
length of service; promoting the admins
tratlon OF justice, an act establishing sum-
mary courts for trial of OffenseS of enlisted
men in time OF peace; increasing the nun
Der Of officers for college duty to So; ia
creaSing the efficiency and reducing the ,eX-
penSes of the Signal Corps Of the army aud-
transferring the weather service to the De-
partment of Agriculture; amending revised
statutes relative to certificates OF merit to
enlisted men of the army. Two public acts
of greater Importance than any as above
summarized were the act transferring from
the limited to the unlimited retired list all
officers VINO have attained the age of Ga
years and the act " to provide for the exam
nation of cert lin officers of the army and TO
regulate promotions therein" These two
acts, the former approved February 10th
and the latter October 1st, have facilitated
promotion and placed the army on basis If
efficiency. The President vetoed only one
important bill affecting the service, that
providing for record and pension office in
the War Department.
Among the recent promotions in the army
NAV be named Lieutenant-COlonel Albert
p. Morrow, Sixth Calvary. 10 be Colonel;
Major Samuel S. Sumner, Eighth Cavalry,
TO be Lieutenant-ColOnel,a and Captain Al
bert B. kaufman of the same regiment to
be Major in the infantry; Lieutenant Colo
mel Joseph S. Conrad of the Twenty-second
to be Colonel; Major John H. Page of the
Eleventh to be Lieutenant-CO Colonel, and
Captain James IL. Bradford of the Nine
teenth to be Major.
Colonel Abraham K. Arnold. promoted
from the First, has been assigned to the
Eighth Cavalry, but will continue with the
First until further orders; Lieutenant Colo
mel John A. Wilcox, promoted from Major
of the Eighth and assigned to the First,
will be assigned to a station by the Com
manding General Of the Department Of
Dakota; likewise Major Camille c. G. Carr,
promoted from the First, and assigned to
the Eighth
Secretary Proctor has awarded medals OF
honor 70 the following enlisted men for gal
lantry in the action of Wounded Knee
Creek. S. Oak. in December: First Ser
geant Jacob 1rautman, Troop |, Seventh
Cavalry, and Corporal Paul III. Weiner and
Privates Joshua b. Hartzog, George Green
aud John Flood, all Of Light Battery L,
First Artillery.
BY order of the President the military
reservation of Fort Mcdowell. AriZ.. has
been transferred to the Secretary of the H.
terror for disposition, being no longer re-
quired for military purposes. The reserYa-
ton contains 25,62S acres.
The Secretary of War has directed the
Abandonment of the ordnance depot at Fort
Leayenworth, Kans., and the transfer of
the ordnance stores and enlisted men now
there to the Rock Island Arsenal before the
1St OF next month.
So many casualties and retirements have
occurred since the new year that Adjutant-
General Kelton has directed that the isSu-
ance of the Army Register for 1891 be de-
layed until the 1st of next month. All
changes up to and including March 1st will
be incorporated.
BY lie vacancy in the Fourth Cavalry
caused by Captain S. n. MaSOn'5 death
Lieutenant A. NJ. Patch will be promoted.
He will be retired at once for disability,
and First Lieutenant Fred Wheeler will
become a Captain. He graduated from
West Point In 1878.
Second Lieutenant Henry c. Cabell Jr..
Fourteenth Infantry, aide-de-camp to Gen-
eral Gibb0n, was nominated to be First
Lieutenant of Infantry on the I'd inst, and
his promotion was confirmed by the Senate
on the same day.
Assignments of additional second lieuten-
been ordered of Henry d. Todd Jr. Of the
Third to the Fifth, Battery 6, and Thomas
W. Winston of the Fourth to Battery II Of
the Fifth.
First Lieutenant Thomas Ridgway, pro-
NOTED from Second Lieutenant, Fifth Ar
tillery, to Light Battery b, Fourth Artillery.
will continue on duty with the Fifth until
further orders
The President has approved the resolu-
ton authorizing General Thomas L. Casey,
Chief of Engineers, to accept from the
President of the French Republic the dec
Grafton of the Legion OF Honor.
The reports from boards Of examination
for promotion show G general elevation of
the standard Of examination and satiSfac-
tory results.
Geurge Stoneman, Colonel of Infantry,
has been placed on the retired list of the
army, TO date from February oath, the date
OF his appointment.
Colonel Chauncey McKeever, A. A. G..
has been announced as Assistant Adjutant-
General at the headquarters of the Division
of Missouri.
The ordnance depot at Vancouver Bar
racks is being broken up, and the men have
been ordered to Benicia.