The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-29

time. II is more than probable that the
Navy Department will exercise consider
able leniency in dealing with the cases of
men who are charged with having deserted
from the naval service and who remain abb
sent from fear Of punishment. In such
cases where the records of the men were
good previous to their desertion they will
in all probability upon surrendering them
selves at a receiving ship be officially re-
garded as simple stragglers ard not as de-
serters. According to the regulations
'straggler is an enlisted man who has
oVerstayed his leave and Is subject to minor
punishment. Deserters however are dis
charged from the service and are ineligible
many good men have left the Service with
out permission during the past few years
or peace who would willingly re-enter the
navy and render good service in the event
OF an outbreak Of hOStiIltles The probable
seeh i2en Sc ofs
reeruitfng ecers are having h in seeSring
men up to the naval requirements.
AdJutant General Corbin received a tee-
gram to-day from General Schofield, o. o.
Howard and Alexander McCook, a commit
lee representing the National Volunteer Re-
serve. as follows: Speak well of and sup
and southern veterans for forever putting
aside the shadow Of sectionalism, strength
ening the Presidents hands, and declaring
Nation Urge ali newspapers r p throughout e
the country to publish enrolment blanks
The National Volunteer Reserve movement
ing out volunteers. and this without
pense to the government or creating too
much feeling as an act of war"
NAMES FOR PURCHASED BOATS.
Secretary Long has issued an order
changing the names of vessels recently pur-
chased by the Navy Department as fol-
lows: Yachts-Alicia, to be called Hornet;
Almy, to be called Eagle; Hermione, to be
called Wasp. Tugs-Edgar F. Luckenback,
m ha Cd n
back, to be called Uncas; Winthrop, to be
called Osceola; p. H. Wise, to be called
Sioux; Electro, to be called Algonquin
The torpedo boat built for the German
navy and recently purchased for the United
States navy has been named Somers, aften
the famous brig of that name which rem
dered such valiant service in the early days
of the Republic. In choosing designations
for the tugs Indian names were given,
while for the yachts, which are to be trans
formed into torpedo boats, six names of
singing insects were assigned.
General Miles issued an order to-day
transferring the headquarters and six COM
PAM as of the Eleventh Infantry, now in the
department of Colorado, to Jefferson bar
racks, Mo-, and also directed the command
ing general of the Department of the Colo
RADIO to order the headquarters, staff and
band of the Fifteenth Infantry fron, Fort
Bayard, n. M, to Fort Huachuca, Arizona,
and one company of the Fifteenth Infantry
from Fort Bayard to Fort Apache, Ari-
IONA. OTQcTS were also pdSSeu ulSCOnIlnu-
ing the post at Whipple barracks. Although
they do not seem to do so, these orders
may have a bearing on the proposed re-
ported concentrations of troops for use in
a possible emergency Orders also have
issued directing that two companies and the
headquarters of the Eighteenth Infantry
be removed from Fort Bliss. Texas, to Foet
Sam Houston. and one company of the
Twenty-third Infantry from Fort Clark to
Fort Bliss.
General Flagler, the chief of ordnance of
the War Department awarded to a number
of companies. contracts for furnishing the
department with disappearing carriages for
the eight, ten and tweve-inch guns en-
placements for which are now being con-
structed at the seacoast Notifications.
Among the companies are the following:
The Bethlehem, Pa, iron works; the South
wark Company. of Philadelphia; the Walk
er Company, of Cleveland; the Morgan En-
cheering Company, of Alliance, o.; the
Pond Machine Tool Company, of Plainfield
N. j., and the Robert Pools & Sons Com
pany of Baltimore The proposals from
which these awards were made were sub
mitted in answer to advertisements issued
by the bureau under the prospective appro-
priation by the Notifications BILL but as the
money from the latter is not yet available
the carriages will be paid for out of the
emergency appropriation made by Congress.