The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-09
MILITARY AFFAIRS.
Proposed Restoration Of the Features of
BreYet Rank.

Proposed Restoration OF the Features OF
BreYet Rank.
Military men are much interested in the
bill introduced by Chairman Cultivate of
the House Military Committee and already
presented in the Senate By Hawley and
favorably reported Oh to rereal section 16,
chapter 2g4 Of tile act approved July 10.
1870, making appropriations for support OF
the army and providing that thereafter no
officer shall be entitled to wear, while on
duty. any uniform other than that of his
actual rank on account of his hayinz been
brevetted, nor shall he be addressed in or
ders or official communications by any other
title than that of his official rank" In sup
port there was laid before the House a letter
from Secretary Flkins, transmitting COM
munication from Major General SchOfeld,
together with a memorial to Congress,
signed by many prominent officers Of tn g
army, urging the repeal.
In his letter to the Secretary, urging
favorable action on the memorial, General
Schofield SAYS its purpose is TO restore
brevet officers to the honorary features OF
their breyet rank and to place them upon
the same footing as officers OF volunteers
who served during the rebellion, so that
they may wear the uniform and bear the
titles conferred upon them for gallant and
meritorIOuS services.
The number Of brevets soon after the
Civil War was so great IN many instances as
TO cause confusion in the army by the fact
that officers occupying lower lineal posi-
lions held brevetS senior to their command
ing officers, and Congress passed the law
referred TO in the memorial as remedy Tor
the evil. The necessity for il at this time,
General Schofeld argues, has passed away.
1t is now a great hardship, he says, and
sometimes serious humiliation, for a n Off
Ger who acted a very distinguished part in
the command Of troops in the field in the
late war, and yet, because OF accidents OF
the service, did not reach high lineal rank,
TO be deprived entirely OF the honor con-
ferred upon him By his brevet rank.
The international boundary survey under
Colonel Barlow is yet at II Paso and may
remain there for two months TO come,
though IL has received all the old survey
maps from the acting Chief Engineer of the
Department of Arizona. The defect with
the Old survey is that the astrOnomica bear
ings at the point Of start were not correct
and hence the whole subsequent survey was
erroneous. The greatest care is being taken
ty the commission 10 secure accuracy In this
particular.
Colonel ". II. Jordan, Nineteenth Infan-
try, and at present at Astoria, Or, has been
placed On the retired list for 30 years SER
vice. Among the consequent promotions
are LieutenaDt-COlOnel q. NJ. BTayton OF
the Nineteenth to be colonel Of the Nine
teenth, Major Kline of the Twenty-fourth
TO be Northumberland of the Ninth, and
Captain f. Z. Trotter of the Fourteenth to
be major of the Twenty-fourth.
A general order Is forthcoming from
headquarters Of the army that recruits for
the hospital corps, before being sent to the
companies OF instruction at Forts Riley and
Russell, be examined by an army medical
officer at the post nearest to the point OF en-
lsment with view Of determining physi-
cal fitness.
First Lieutenant Joseph S. Oyster, First
Artillery, the regiment that was out here
about year ago, has received the detail as
professor Of military science and tactics at
the Leland Stanford Jr. University.
Officers and men OF the Seventh Cavalry
arc raising fund for the erection of mon
ument which will be placed over the remains
Of the enlisted men which will be brought
from Pine Ridge for permanent interment.
There are at this time in the army 50 va
eancies among the second lieutenants-2G in
the infantry, 9 in the cavalry and 3 in the
artillery.
So much of the general orders as relates
TO the granting Of Burroughs TO soldiers who
re-enlist at any military post has been re-
voked.
Chouteau LorIng, appointed from this
State, has passed the examination for ad-
mission tn the spadpmy