The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-12-20
THE ARMY AND THE NAVY.
ARMY NOTES.

has issued general order giving the names
of officers and enlisted men who distinguished
themselves by especially mertorieus conduct
in service'' during the year 1890, and in the
recent campaign in South Dakota. The list
includes the following names: First Leuten-
ant ii. T. Allen, Second Cavalry; Captain II.
p. Birmingham, assistant surgeon; Captain
William L. Kneedler, assistant surgeon; First
Lieutenants James w. Watson, Tenth Cav
airy, and 7. II. Clarke, Ninth Cavalry; Cap
tain E. p Ewers, Fifth Infantry; First Lieut.
enant II. G. Hale, Twentieth Infantry; Cap
tain j. II. Hurst, Twelfth Infantry; Captain
L. ). Bonus, Second Lieutenant p E. Traub,
and Second Lieutenant Samuel Burkhart, ir.,
Twenty-ti fifth Infantry; First Lieutenant j g.
Balance, Twenty second Infantry; First
Lieutenant T. W. Moore, Ninth Infantry;
Lieutenant Colonel Dallas Bache, surgeon;
Major j. Van h. Hoff, surgeon; Major G. "
Ian, Seventh Cavalry; Captain Allyn Capron,
First Artillery; Captain c. A. Varnum,
Seventh Cavalry; Captain e. A. Darlington,
Seventh Cavalry; First Lieutenant j. G.
H. L. Hawthorne, Fourth Artillery; First
Lieutenant H. G. Sickel, Seventh Cavalry;
First Lieutenant j. d. Mann, Seventh Cav
airy; Second Lieutenant Sedgwick Rice,
Seventh Cavalry; Second Lieutenant G: II.
Preston, Ninth Cavalry; Captain j. B. Kerr,
Sixth Cavalry; First Lieutenant B IL. Chez
yer, Sixth Cavalry; Second Lieutenant r. J..
Howe, Sixth Cavalry; Captain j. NJ. Lee,
Ninth Cavalry, and Second Lieutenant s. A.
'Cloman, First Infantry.
Senator Proctor introduced in the Senate
Monday q bill to amend the act to pro-
mote the administration of justice in the
Army so as to provide that commanding
officers shall be authorized to approve the
sentences of summary courts and shall have the
power to remit or mitigate the same.
The following transfers in the Nineteenth
Infantry have been ordered Second Lieu
tenant Arthur B. Foster, from Company d to
Company X; Second Lieutenant John Howard,
from Company to Company B; Major
Samuel b. NJ Young, Third Cavalry, is de-
tailed as member of the examining board
at st. Louis, Mo-, vice Major James r Roche,
paymaster, relieved.
The acting Secretary of War has amended
the Army regulations follows: "Oficers in
each arm of the service will be transferred
from one regiment to another therein as the
interests of the service require, by orders
from the War Department, without change of
rank commission. The transfer or ex-
change of company officers of a regiment will
be made by the general commanding the
Army"
The War Department has published series
of rules to govern the final examination of
non-commissioned candidates for appoint
ment as second lieutenants in the Army. One
provision is that candidates must be over
Il, ana unuer 10 years Oh age.
Second Lieutenant George G. Galley, Fifth
Artillery, has been detailed as recorder of the
examining board at Fort Candy, Wash, vice
Second Lieutenant Sidney s. Jordan, Fifth
Artillery, relieved,
The following transfers in the Ninete enth
Infantry are ordered. Second Lieutenant Ar
thur B. Foster from Company to Company
X, and Second Lieutenant ohm Howard fIom
Company X to Company B.
A
martial to convene at West Point, New York,
December %, for the trial of such prisoners as
may be brought before it. The detail is as fol-
lows: Captain William F. Spurein, Twenty
first Infantry; First Lieutenants Sedgwick
Pratt, Third Artillery; John A. Lundeen,
Fourth Artillery John D. c. Hoskins, Third
Artillery; Harry F: Hodges, Corps of EEngi-
George +. Barney, Second Artillery; Edmund
o. Smith, Nineteenth Infantry; Robert L.
Hirst, Eleventh Infantry; John b. Bellinger
Fifth Cavalry, and Robert A. Brown, Fourth
Intyre. Nineteenth Infantry, and 7. Bentley
Mott, First Artillery; First Lieutenant Ian
sing F. Beach, Corps of Engineers, judge
advocate.
Colonel Guy V. Henry, commander of Fort
Myer, who is member of the Throckmorton
court martial in New York, having returned
to Fort Myer as witness before general
,court-martial, is down with the grip
Leave of absence for six months with per-
mission to leave the United States has been
granted Captain James N. Whelan, Second
Cavalry.
A board of medical officers to consist of
Colonel Bernard j. D. Irwin, surgeon; Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles H. Alden, surgeon;
Major Alfred G. Grard, surgeon; First Lieu
tenant Alfred r. Bradley, assistant surgeon,
has been constituted to meet at Chicago, H.,
.on the first day of February for the examina-
tion of candidates for admission to the medi-
cal corps of the Army and for such other busi-
ness as the surgeon general may desire to
bring before it.
Second Lieutenant Richard p. Davis, Sec
ond Artillery, will report December 23 to Col
Elwell s. Otis, Twentieth Infantry, president
of the general court-martial at the Army build
ing in New York City, a witness before
said court, and upon being excused from
further attendance will return to his proper
station.
The leave of absence granted Captain Ohm
s. Loud, Ninth Cavalry, has been extended
one month.
The leave of absence granted First Lieuten-
ant Augustus 9. Macomb, Fifth Cavalry, has
been extended to include January /, 1892.
The extension of leave of absence granted
Second Lieutenant VIM. t. Litterbrant, Tenth
Cavalry, has been extended twenty days.
Major Guy V. Henry, Ninth Cavalry, has
been ordered to proceed from Now York City
to Fort Meyer, to appear as witness before
.court-martial at that post, and upon the COM
pletion of this duty will return to New York
CITY