The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-08
MILES CASE,
The General Will Probably Be Made
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.


WASHINGTON, April THE house
| committee on military affairs today
decided to report favorably on the res
olution to bestow the rank of lieutenant
general on General Nelson A Miles.
The resolution is as follows:
Resolved, etc, That the grade of
lieutenant general be and the same is
hereby revived in the army of the Uni
ted States in order that when in the
opinion of the president and senate it
shall be deemed proper to acknowl-
edge distinguished services of the ma
jor general commanding the army rem
dered in the volunteer army during
the late civil war and in command of
expeditions against hostile Indians in
the frontier states and territories, the
grade of lieutenant general may be spe-
cially conferred; provided, however,
that when the said grade Of lieutenant
general shall have once been filled and
become vacant this joint resolution
shall thereafter expire and become of
no effect, provided further. that nothing
in this resolution shall increase the
number of general officers in the
armv."
The vote was to in favor of the
resolution.
Those who voted for the resolution
WtIS nun VI Iva ~
tbs of New York, Marsh. of Illinois.
Woomer of Pennsylvania, Griffin OF
Wisconsin, Parker of New Jersey, Fen
ton of Ohio, Tracey of Missouri. Ca
tron of New Mexico Those who oppoS-
ed: Republicans, Bishop of Michigan;
Democrats, Tyler of Virginia, McC4el-
Ian and Lockhart of New York
In the beginning the committee de-
cided to settle the question without
outside advice and abandoned It's pre-
viously formed plan to give hearing
to the army officers who might be IN
terested. This decision was disap-
pointment to the group of officers VINO
were waiting in the corridor outside OF
the committee room. Although General
Miles had been invited to come before
the committee he did not put IN an
appearance. This decision was reached
because the committee feared that per
sonal grievances and army preJudlces
might be unpleasantly aired in the m
vestigation. In the committee discus
sion which followed, there was no re-
Elections on General Miles. It was con-
tended by the opponents of the resolu-
ton, however, that the lieutenant-gen-
erals rank had been conferred upon
Generals Scott Grant. Sherman, Sherl-
dan and Schofleld, those who have
held it in the past as a recognition
of their eminent services in command
ing the regular armies in important
actions. They would only approve the
resolution if the rank was to be per-
manently established for the heads of
the army. A substitute for the resolu-
ton was offered by Mr.. Parker TO
make the rank a permanent one, but
this proposition was lost by tie vote
of S to g. The argument was advanced
in it's support that the standing army
of the United States, although COM
paratively small, is large enough TO
demand a Northumberland as its
commander. Although little was said
about Secretary Lamcnt's report
against the resolution recently sent 70
the senate committee. the Democratic
members made their arguments along
the lines of that letter. Mr.. McClel-
land gave notice that he reserved the
right to make a minority report to the
house against the resolution. but the
members who voted against it have
not yet decided whether to make such
report.