Evening star., 1893-10-30
NAVAL EN- LIS M ENTS
Annual Report of the Chief of the Navi.
cation Bureau.

Commodore F. NJ. Ramsay, chief Of the
bureau of navigation, Navy Department, in
his annual report estimates expenses for the
fiscal year 1886 as follows: Support OF bu-
reau. $2s.52o; for photographic office, S102 500;
for naval service, x73, S5l. The last item IN
ciudes expenses Of Naval Academy, Naval
War College and Naval training station
Enlistments Last Year.
During the past year 4S5O men and GAG ap-
prentices were enlisted or re-enlisted in the
navy. LII men and l.O04 boys, candidates
for enlistment. were rejected for physical
disqualifications. and 4.1S2 men and 173 boys
were rejected for other causes; 3,202 men and
~ apprentices were discharged s3s men
and go apprentices deserted during the wear
VI this number 776 men and 303 apprentices
deserted In home ports Forty-two men and
six boys died.
The number of enlisted men serving under
continuous service certificates June 80, 1883,
was 1.640.
To Protect American Interests.
Commodore Ramsay SAYS that the CON.
| slant demand for vessels to protect Ameri-
can interests makes it necessary that our
sQuadrons in foreign waters shall be in
creased as rapidly as the vessels now under
construction become available Twelve of
these vessels will be completed by the end
OF the present fiscal year. but it will be
impossible to commission them for service
unless the enlisted force of the navy Is
increased. AS
Attention is invited to the necessity of
law which will enable enlisted men of
Ihe navy to become citizens of the United
States without forfeiting their Continuous
| service in the navy
Under section 1913 Of the Revised Statutes
ana the regulations of the navy men must
re-enlist within three months after each dis.
cnarge In order to obtain the dement's of
honorable discharge and of continuous sery-
ice. II Is most desirable that all enlisted
men OF the navy shall be continuous sery-
Ice men, and II seems but lust that the
privileges granted to enlisted men OF the
army by section 216B of the Revised Statutes
sh shaii also be granted to the enlisted men of
As to Cfti.enship,
In 1880 a seaman gunner. educated by the
government, after seven years continuous
service was refused citizenship in New
YORK. In the same year a man who had
served more than twenty-one wears in the
marine corps was refused citizenship in
the District Of Columbia The commits
sioner OF pensions has, under the act of
march 1. 1885. suspended the payment of a
pension awarded under section 4756 of the
q, nesisea WISE statutes to man who has served
In the navy more than twenty-one years
II is found from the records of the Naval
Academy that the law passed March p
1883 increasing the age limit of candidates
Tor admission to that institution, has not
been beneficial
The efficiency Of the service requires
some legislative action in regard to its
personnel. 1t is most important that off,
GERS snail reach command rank while in
the prime of life The necessity which
now exists Of regularly ordering officers to
perform the sea duties of a higher grade
than the rank they hold, thereby increasing
their actual expenses without giving them
the increased rank and compensation of
the position in which they are serving,
has an injurious effect upon the navy.