The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-01
THE ARMY AND THE NAVY.
ARMY NOTES.

The President yesterday issued a general or
der to the Army fixing a maximum limit for
the punishment of enlisted men in time OF peace
for all crimes and offenses within the iurisdic-
ton of courts martial. The regulations con-
template uniform degree of punishment
throughout the service and the inhibition of
excessive sentences by courts-martial. The
severest penalty prescribed is ten years i'm
prlsonment, and this can be imposed only in
cases of manslaughter and assault with intent
to kill. The greatest punishment for desertion
is imprisonment for five years, which, however,
may be imposed only for desertion in the pres
ence of an Indian outbreak or other trouble, or
when the act is Joined in by two or more
soldiers in the execution of con-
spiracy. The maximum punishment for ordi-
nary cases of desertion is two and a half years
imprisonment, with one year added for each
previous conviction of the same offense. De-
serters who surrender cannot be imprisoned for
q longer period than ten months. The order
was issued at the instance of Secretary Proctor,
and is intended as an act of justice to the
soldiers who have repeatedly complained of un-
due discrimination in the matter OF punishment
under the present system.
Secretary Proctor has sent to the House let
ter in answer to n resolution of that body re-
questing of him a list of retired Army officers
now in the civil service of the Government, etc.
He says that as far as is known those retired Of
ficers holding civil service appointments under
the Executive Departments are Gen. Rose
Grams, Register of the Treasury; Col. John p.
Lewis, postmaster at Atlanta, Ga; Maj. VIII
liam +. Smith, civil engineer; Capt. w. L. HuX-
ford, clerk Committee on Military Affairs of the
Senate; Capt. Herman Schreiner, Census Bu-
reau; Capt. G. Mallery, Bureau of Ethnology;
Capt. Charles e. Morse, disbursing clerk, De
partment of Labor; Capt Il. w. Lord, chief Of
a division, Patent Offices Capt W. 7. Atwell,
consular agent in France; Capt: r. G; @ Parker,
Gross, Bureau of the Mint; Lieut. f. e.
BrownelI, clerk Pension Office.
A board of officers is appointed to meet at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, for the examination for
promotion of such officers as may be ordered
before it, The detail for the board: Lieut.. Col.
surgeon; Lieut.. Col. George B. Sanford, Ninth
Cavalry; Maj John Brooke, surgeon; Maj.
Jacob Kline, Twenty-fourth Infantry; First
Lieut.. Edgar s. Dudley, Second Artillery, re-
corder. Capt. Carl A. Woodruff, Second Ar
tillery, is detailed as member Of the board for
service Herewith during the examination of ar
tilery officers only, vice Lieut.. Col Sanford,
will for all other purposes. The following
named officers will report to the examining board
for examination: Capt. Charles s: llsley, Sew
enth Cavalry; Capt. Myles Moylan, Seventh Cav
airy: First Leuts. .Thos.F. Davis Fifteenth Infan-
try; Mitchell f. lamar, Thirteenth Infantry; Geo.
B. Walker, Sixth infantry; Arthur L. Wagner,
Sixth Infantry; Second Lieuts. George w.
Read, Fifty Cavalry; John Conklin, Jr., Second
Artillery; Wendell l.. Simpson, Twentyfourth
Infantry; James A. Cole, Sixth Cavalry; DeRos
G. Cabell, Sixth Cavalry; Ferrand sayre
Eighth Cavalry; George o. Cress, Eighth Cav
airy; Waldo Z. E. Aver, Twelfth Infantry;
Harry l.. Hawthorne Second Artillery; Willard
A. Holbrooke, First Cavalry.
Second Lieut.. John c. Walshe, Tenth Cav
airy, is by direction of the President retired
from active service first lieutenant OF cav
airy.
By direction of the President Second Lieut.
Thomas j. Watkins, Eleventh Infantry, having
1,,t,, t1,,oo Witt
out leave, is dropped from the rolls of the Army
for desertion.
Maj. Henry M. Cronkhite, surgeon, will re-
port to the commanding officer Fort Adams,
Il. L.. for temporary duty at that post
Capt F. w. Elbrey, assistant surgeon, is by
direction of the President retired from active
service with rank OF major.
Second Lieut.. Henry Jervey, Corps of Engi-
neer, will report to Col. Henry l.. Abbott,
Corps of Engineers, president of the engineer
examining board in New York City, for exami-
nation for promotion.
general court-martial is appointed to meet
at David's Island, New York Harbor, on Tues
day, March 8, for the trial of such prisoners as
may be brought before it. The detail for the
Twenty-fourth Infantry; Capt. John McE.
Hyde, assistant quartermaster; First Lieut.
William Paulding Tenth Inffintry; First Lieut.
T. T. Patterson, Fourteenth Infantry;. First
1IeuU. CDdIlS5 u. L. Sldlhc, lCuGi lulahlIy ,
First Lieut. Charles L. Steele, Eighteenth In
fantry; First Lieut.. Harry A. I.eonhaeuser,
Twenty fifth Infantry; Second Lieut.. James 7.
Anderson, Sixteenth Infantry; First Lieut..
William G. Mcfarland, Sixteenth Infantry.
First Lieut.. George X. Spencer, Nineteenth
Infantry, is, by direction of the President, re-
tired from active service as a captain of In
fantry.
The following named officers, having been
found by Army retiring boards incapacitated
for active service on account of disability in
cident to the service, are, by direction Of the
President retired from active service: Maj.
William s. 1remaine, Mai. Leonard Y Lorng,
surgeon.
By direction of the President the order of Jan
uary % detailing Second Lieut.. Samuel Seay,
Twenty first Infantry, as professor of military
science and tactics at the Florida Agricultural
College, Lake City, Fla, is revoked and Second
Lieut.. c. Ballou, Sixteenth Infantry, is detailed
to that duty.
Capt Charles S. Smith, Ordnance Department,
will proceed from this city to the Watervliet
Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y, on public business.
Capt. o. w. Owen, DR., assistant surgeon, has
been ordered to duty at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Capt William Conway has been transferred
from Company ID to Company l, Twenty-second
Infantry, and Capt. B. Q. Lockwood from Com
pany to Company ID.
First Lieut. E. s. Farrow, Twenty-nrst Infan-
try, has been ordered to examination for retire
ment
Capt. e. u. Steever, Third Cavalry, has been
transferred from Troop q to Troop X, and Capt.
f. H. Hardie from Troop X to Troop q. Capt.