New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-25
.IRNY NOTES or INTEREST

Appointments 10 the West Point Academy are
limited to one for each Congress district ard ten
10 be- appointed by the President. The vacancies
in the Congress- districts are filed by selection by
the Representatives In Congress- approved by the
Secretary Of War. It being required that the ap-
polntee shall be- a resident of the district. For
the appointments 10y the President there is great
competition and. as a rule. he is expected to make
his scer lions among the sons or the grlndsOns az
fhos. who have been DISTINGUISHED IN the military
or naval service net alone as rewards FOR mertOri-
Gus service but also for the reason that oiiic rs
IN m. Army or Navy do not command the in
ru.nc, i'm the Congress districts 70 demand recog-
milton OF their claims. OF the seventeen cadet APP
fwo made bv the President. one George H. Dandy.
son OF Assistant Quartermasicr-Gensra Dandy.
who was retired two weeks ago. and the other the
grandson. OF General Hancock
The Supreme Court has handed down decision
Of considerable Importance to chapains OF the
Army inasmuch II settles long -mootel ques-
ton in regard TO their longevity pay; 1t was held
by the plaintiffs me heirs OF the iate 'hapial I'M
of 1888 held an office and rank In the Army and
,ma5 Sn'h or mS 90 pay the sTprem va Courts
decision is In accord with this construction.
II was recently reported that of the chap
lains Of the Army who had become active in
temperance reform had received instructions from
the War Department that their right of speech
had been curtailed one Of the chaplans writes
that he has labored zeaousy as temperance al
vocate constantly and successfully. and that he
has yet to learn that the War Department has
manifested the slightest tendency to call him off.
He says that. on the contrary. II is especially en-
Joined upon all chapains 10 make such sugges-
tons may conduce to the social happiness and
moral improv of the troops" and make
monthly reports the moral condition and
general history of the regiments or posts to which
they may be attached" The writer also says that
with the exception OF some who have left we'll
cgulated homes I'm order to enter the service. and
feel longer the restraining Influences which
heretofore strengthened their purposes of right
he have greater facility for wrong doing In
the Army than would be his lot In civil life.
a report has been circulated In Army circles that
there has been some trouble between Brevet
Brigader- General w. NJ. Graham. post commander
at the Preside. San Francisco and Lieutenant
Colonel 8. b. NJ Young. Of the 4th Cavalry. that
may result In court-martial. 1t appears that
Colonel Young. feeling aggrieved at some action
of General Graham. preferred charges against the
latter and In compliance with Army regulations
sent them to General Graham for transmission TO
General Kruger, the Department Commander Colo
mel Young was at once ordered under arrest by
General Graham but whether the latter Endorsed
the communication or the former, or what the In
dorsement was has not been made public
was brother OF Admiral Ammen. OF the Navy
early boyhood days. as was also Admiral Ammen
General Ammen was elghty-eght years old, and
was graduated from the Military Academy In 1885,
u professor Of mathematics In a college from that
time until 1885, when no became u civil eugiueer
In 1881 he was made. captain Of tho 18th Ohio Vol
untserA and served throughout the war. attaining