New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-17
COMING NAVAL CHANGES.
SPECULATION AS TO TRANSFERS AND
ASSIGNMENTS.

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| VACANCIES THAT WILL RESULT FROM RETIRE
MENrs AND COMPLETION OF TOURS OF
DUTY. AND HOW THEY MAY
BE FILLED
Washington, Aug ls (speciaD.-Many changes
among senior officers Of the Navy will soon come
about Some OF the officers will be transferred to the
retired list and others will be assigned 10 different
duty from that which they are now performing.
The tour of duty OF Rear-Admral George Brown.
commandment Of the Norfolk Navy Yard, expired
last month: under the general rule he ought to be
ordered elsewhere but there are good reasons Tor
believing that he will retain his present billet until
his retirement In June next. Rear Admiral Walker.
president Of the Lighthouse Board since December,
1894, Will remain on that duty until his retirement
next March. Rear-Admira Ramsay, who has re-
tanned his present office since November. 1889 IL
likely to serve Chief Of the Bureau OF Naviga-
ton until April. when he leaves the active list
under the age limit
Rear-Admiral Beardslee's two years tour OF sea
duty In command Of the Pacific Station will expire
on August a. He Will be relieved in the fall For
assignment TO the station there are four officers
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Joseph n. Miller, who has
been comnandant Of the Boston Navy Yard since
August g. 1894; Commodore Montgomery Sicard. the
present efficient head of the New-York Navy
Yard who has held the billet since November p,
1894; Commodore Rush X. Wallace, commandant or
the Newport Naval Station. who will have held
that position for two years on the 10Th inst, and
Commodore George Dewey. The chances are in
favor Of Commodore Dewey.
The most important assignment now held by an
officer OF the rank OF captain that will become
vacant this fall il that of president or the war
College. Captain Henry G. Taylor, at present
holding this office has occupied the billet since
November Is, 1898. 1t is reported that he may
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Texas in case that officer should be transferred TO
duty at the War College. There seems TO be a
movement on foot In naval circles to secure the
assignment of Captain A. T. Mahan as Captain
Taylor's successor. The probabilities are that It
will not be successful
The first sea command to become vacant will be that
Of the cruiser Raleigh. which will occur next month
Captain Colby NJ Chester may be assigned 10 sue
coed Captain Miller In command OF the Raleigh. The
command OF the battleship Indiana Will also become
this fall There is probability that this billet
may go 10 Captain Sias Casey. whose tour of duty
in command OF the receiving ship Vermont has just
expired Captain Charles j. Barclay. who will be
promoted on the retirement OF Captain James Okane
next month under the provisions OF the forty years
service law may be transferred TO the Vermont
Captain Casey's The tour Of duty OF Cap
tain +. NJ. Shepard. In command OF the san Fran
CISCO will not under the rule, expire before next
December, that the authorities are not giving
much thought to the question OF ms successor; IT,
OF commanders nave expired, and changes in most
of their will be ordered Commander William
H. Whiting has finished TWO years and a half duty
in command Of the Pensacola Navy Yard, and will
succeed Commander John c. Morong whose three
years of duty In this office expired last winter Com
the Mare Island Navy Yard Commander George A
Converse, In charge OF the Torpedo Station; Com
Lighthouse District; Commander William b. New
man. inspector OF the Seventh Lighthouse District;
Commander Samuel Beden commandant of the
station, Commander 4.
Gibson, equipment officer OF the Portsmouth Navy
the Bureau OF Equipment: Commander Asa Walker
on duty at the Naval Academy and Commander
William 7. Swinburne. also on duty at the Naval
Academy. have each completed their respective tours
and ready for sea The earliest commanders
ment are those of the three gunb6ats under consuc
ton at Newport News These will be completed 1t Is
expected. in December.
SOME REMARKABLE ECONOMIES.
Washington. Aug 1s-Unusull economies seem
10 be exercised now by Army and Naval officials.
Last week Assistant Secretary McAdoo Of the
Navy RENTED eleven months OF the years i'm
prisonment which imposed upon a machnist,
Dunphy, of the Katahdin dismissal to fol-
low, on the ground that II was TOO expensive to
issued by General Otis. in command of the De
same policy is to be followed in the Army. Two
soldiers sentenced TO dismissal follow
ing the report OF the court martial. General Otls
approves the sentence, after reducing the term OF
IMPRISONMENT six months. similar remission OF
punishment is also made by General Forsythe, De-
partment OF California. orders from the same
headquarters relating to the transfe, Of horses and
mules from post to another require the trans
fers 10 be made without cost for transportation
The following order has been issued by the Presi-
dent:
Executive Mansion Aug TO- 1896.
To the present schedule OF punishments for en-
listed men. established under act OF Congress, APP
proved September q. 1890. and announced in Ex-
ecutive order March 20 1895, as promulgated In
General orders No. l6 OF 1895 from the headquar
ters of the Army. is added: "First-class privates
Of Engineers and Ordnance may be reduced to
secondclass privates OF those corps respectively IN
all where for like offences on the part OF non
commissioned officers their reduction In grade Is
now authorized" GROVER CLEN ELAND.
Ma jor-Genera Miles has promulgated the fol-
lowing
By direction OF the Secretary Of War the issue
Of full-dress uniforms to hospital stewards acting
hospital stewards and priyates of the Hospital
Corps will be discontinued, and an equivalent
In money value of white cotton duck clothing will be
allowed instead.
The list Infantry has been concentrated in full
force the Preside OF San Francisco; and is now
marching 70 Santa Cruz. where II will arrive on
the 10Th inst for months instruction in evolu-
tons OF the regiment