The San Francisco call., 1898-09-23
THIRD DIVISION
 WILL ADVOCATE
 GENERAL MILLER Want Him Made a Major General. THEY WILL USE INFLUENCE CAPTAIN PRATT APPOINTED MUSTERING OFFICER. The Seventh California Regiment Will Leave for Los Angeles
 Probably on Tuesday of
 Next Week.
CAPTAIN PRATT APPOINTED
 WHISPERING OFFICER.

Major General Merriam yesterday re- ceived official confirmation of the fact that Brigadier General Miller will go to Manila in command of the contingent of the expeditionary forces, now at the Pre- sidio, that have been ordered to the Phil ippines. General Miles, acting under the instructions of the Assistant Secretary of War, caused Adjutant General Corbin to send the following official dispatch, which was received by General Merriam yesterday morning:
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept 22, 1seS
 Commanding General, Department of Califor- mia. San Francisco, Cal: Your telegram con >tary of War directs you give necessary orders for General Miller to go with contingent of ex peditionary forces now in San Francisco By command of Major General Miles.
 H. c. CORBIN Adjutant General.
 This means that General Miller will be the general officer of the division go with the last of the troops to leave, and, as he stated yesterday his depart ure will in all probability. mean that an from the East to take his place. Who this officer will be General Miller does not know.
 effort to have General Miller made a major general has taken definite shape, and as he Is to command division there does not appear any reasonable objection Colonel Funston, of the Twentieth Kan sas Regiment, and his officers. have quiet at Washington, and it is known that the officers of the Tennessee and Iowa regi- ments will also bring to bear their infiu- ence to secure the major generalship for General Miller. The troops to go consti- tute division and the officers and men alike are desirous of serving under Cen unturned to accomplish their ends. They are inclined to think that in view of the generals long and brilliant career as an officer In the regular army and his abil- ity, that little or no difficulty will be ex- perienced in having him made a major general. Although it Is not known, 1t is Influential of the Western Senators has been invoked. and it Is said that they will indorse General Miller.
 Captain Pratt, who is engaged on spec ial duty in mastering out the Seventh that he has been appointed chief muster quarters at Los Angeles. Captain Danes, who is mastering out the Sixth California Regiment, will hereafter have to report received no orders to cease mastering out the Seventh, and he does not think that any such orders will be issued. The regi- Angeles by next Tuesday.
 Private Thomas R. Davis, Company l., Thirteenth Minnesota Regiment, tried by 8, general court-martial and convicted of absence without leave, was sentenced to | be confined at hard labor under a post guard for thirty days The court found the acusecd not guilty of specifications al- ieging that he had appropriated money | belonging to another soldier. The judge advocate rested the prosecution on the plea of not guilty by the accused without calling other soldiers whose testimony would have been material in the investf- gation-. This Is equivalent to the judge advocate entering a nolle prosequi, which he IS not authorized to do and which the | court erred in permitting.
 Private George Graham, Company D, Fifty-first Iowa Regiment, died at the division hospital yesterday of pneumonia | following measles.