The National tribune., 1893-06-22
ARMY AND NAVY

The President has acted upon the findings
of the court-martiRi which tried First Lieut.
William N. Williams. 18th Inf, recently, at
Muskegon, Mich. on the charge OF refusing to
pay his debts and also Of failing to reply to in
quiries from the Department Lieut. Williams
was tried and suspended in 1891 for period OF
five years for like ofense. and this court
again con victed him and imposed a sentence of
suspension with loss of all pay for one year
after the expiration OF the original five years
sentence President Cleveland mitigated the
sentence TO suspension for one year with for
fixture of one-qusrter pay.
The new Surseon-Generai of the Navy, DR.
Tryon, is taking vigorous steps to bring the
Medical Corps up to the highest standard of
efficiency and ont Of the. lethargy into which
il has fallen in recent years. An order has
been issued by him which contemplates the es-
Enlistment of what will be practically post
graduate course for the young doctors who
enter the service from civil life to familiarize
them witch duties aboard shin. For years the
Naval Laboratory at New York has been of
little benefit to the service and little or no use
has been made Of il by the Navy doctors. Surg
Gen. Tryou proposes TO revive it and make it
school of instruction OF medical science for the
Navy.
The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau Commo-
dore Sampson. has returned from Newport,
X. J., where he went 10 witness tho tests of
American-made torpedoes. The trial resulted
in the superiority of the Whitehead torpedo
and large supply OF these has been ordered
for the station. The Commodore has under
consideration the ACCESSIBILITY Of reopening the
torpedo-school in the vicinity of Newport. for
the reason that few Naval officers are able to
use the torpedoes, owing TO ineI pericnce.
The Secretary of War has decided to send
the entire corps OF West Point Cadets to the
Chicago Exposition, so that the Regular Army
may have a creditabie, if small, representation
notwithstanding the failure Of the effort TO
secure grand military encampment there
The new Cadets will be given time TO familiar
Ze themselves with drill and tactics before
they appear in public, so the boys will not 90
until some time in August. The STAY contem-
plated will be about 10 days IN length.
The Navy Department is advised that the
French naval architects have embodied in
their latest plans for battIe-ships q system of
protected tops that will afford position of
superior accommodation to the commandfne
| officers, and connections which have been made
will enable him TO direct the ships movements.
| Great strategic advantages are supposed to be
made available from this arrangements.
The name of Commander Wood, who for
many years has been stationed at the Norfolk
| Nayy-yRrd. was brought before the Naval
] Board for promotion last week and met with
considerable objection from TWO of the mem-
| bers Commander Wood has not been at sea
since 1875, when he was Lieatcnant-Co Com
mander, and while OIL shore WAS advanced one
/ grade TO the rank of Commander being the
| only officer who was ever promoted while on
| shore duty. The objection made to his adj
| yancement in rank due entirely to his
long shore service; but it is stated that it WAS