The San Francisco call., 1898-04-26

NEW YORK, April 25.-A WdSnlHS- ton special to the Herald says: Ten major generals and forty brigadier- generals will be appointed by the Pres ident to command the brigades, div1s- ions and corps into which the volunteer army of 1000 men is to be organ ized. Applications and recommenda- tions for these positions have kept the War Department busy since the an nouncement of the call by the Presi- dents proclamation. President Nc Kinley will send to the Senate at an early date the appointments of brigade, division and corps officers to be as- signed to the volunteer forces. There will be, when the organization of regu- lars and militia is completed, four army corps of 40,000 men each and the ap- pointments to command these corps will be the most important at the Pres ident's disposal.
 General Greenville M. Dodge will re- ceive one of these appointments. The New York volunteers, probably under Ma ajor-G General Roe, will constitute one of the divisions of his command. Gen. eral Fitzhugh Lee will command cor responding organization, which will include the troops to be raised in the Southern States. The other corps com- manders will probably be selected from the senior brigader- generals from the regular army.
 It is presumed that Brigadier-G Gen erals Shafter, Wade and Coppinger are among those selected for the advance ment to the rank of major-general Of volunteers, as they have already com enc General Elwell S. Otis, whose tour of court-martial duty is completed to-day is the ranking brigadier general in the regular army, and is considered the most eligible for a corps commander.
 Officers Of the regular army whose names have been recommended by Sec retary Alger or the Governors of States for the rank of brigadier general in the militia are: Colonels Carpenter. Fifth Cavalry; Anderson, Fourteenth Infan- thry; Rogers, Fifth Artillery; Lawton and Chaffee, inspector generals de- partment; Ludlow, engineers; Davis, Fourteenth Infantry; Henry, Tenth Cavalry; Schwan, Gilmore and Mac arthur, adjutant- generals department; Sumner, Sixth Cavalry.
 The quotas of Arizona, Idaho, Wyom- ing, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ne vada, the DakotaS and Montana will be formed into two regiments of cow boy cavalry. One of these will be con- manded by the presidents physician, Dr. Leonard Wood, a captain in the medical corps of the army. Theodore Roosevelt will serve as the lieutenant colonel of this regiment. The com mand of the other regiment of rang ers," as they are to be called, is to be rendered to Colonel Torrey of Wyom- ing, at one time a captain in the reg ular army.
 ,0,-1ry o,, officer in the army, and better known as a novelist, was in consultation with Generals Miles and Corbin at the War Department this afternoon. It is un- derstood that Captain King will be the brigadier-g general of Wisconsin's quota of three regiments. Colonel Fred Grant has been frequently at the War De- partment in the last week. He will receive the first appointment as brig adler general of the New York volun- teerS.
 William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill" will serve on the staff of Major General Miles as chief of scouts and will have the rank of colonel of volunteers.
 Illinois and Texas have each been al- lotted full regiment of cavalry The Texas volunteers will be used to oc- cupy the posts left vacant by the reg ulars and will form the guard for the Rio Grande border. John A. Logan will by a recommendation of Governor Tanner command the regiment to be raised in Illinois.
 Colonel Garrason, a West Point grad uate and president of the First Ma tional Bank of Cleveland, will be the senior brigadier- general from Ohio.
 Mir. Wedd Hayes, son of former Pres ident Hayes, who has been connected with the Ohio National Guard and who represented that organization In Wash ington during the last two weeks, will be one of the ranking line officers of Ohios quota.
 J. Warren Keller, formerly major general in the Civil War and after ward Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, will com mand the division to be composed of Ohio and Indiana volunteers.
 General Joseph F Wheeler will be the first officer of the United States Representatives to hold a high com mand in the provisional service. He will command a division to be raised in the Southern States, with the rank of ma jorg general
 Colonel Adams of Lafayette Post of the Grand Army is strongly recom- mended to the President by Colonel J. Pierpont Morgan and other in1uen- tial business men in New York City and will be appointed as brigadier- general of one of the brigades of New York's