The San Francisco call., 1898-02-07
NOTES OF THE NATIONAL GUARD The Reorganized Staff of Maior-General N. I.
 James.
Assistant Adjutant-General T M. Cuff in Charge of
 Headquarters.
An Effort to Be Made to Unravel the Tangle in the Rifle Practice
 The Naval Militia.

J. C. Watt has been appointed judge advocate on the staff of Division Com mander Major General N. T. James and that completes the reorganiZed stan which now is as follows: Colonel Thomas NJ Cuff assistant adjutant general; Col onel John Gallwey, division surgeon; Lieutenant-Colonel D. E. Miles. signal of fcer Lieutenant-Colonel William Ed wards, ordnance officer; Lieutenant-Col- onel Louis Barrere, inspector of rifle practice; Lieutenant-ColonelJ J. A. Watt, fudge advocate; Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. C. Dohrman, inspector; Lieutenant-Col- onel Charles E. Murphy, engineer officer Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T. Stanley, Quartermaster; Lieutenant-ColonelA Adolph Huber, commissary; Lieutenant-Colonel H. F. Emeric paymaster; Major J. titZ- gerald and Major L. s. Scnmitt. aids The non-commissioned officers are: Ser geant Majors Gottschalk, Honigsberger, Hawley and Graf.
 D. J. Foley, lieutenant of the fifth di- vision of the Naval Militia at Eureka, has been placed on the retired list.
 Upon his personal request Thomas $. Dozier, commanding Company H, Second Infantry, has been placed on the retired list with the rank of captain.
 The resignations of w. D. Johnson, first lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, A. F. Dre- sier, second lieutenant, same regiment,
 
 fourth division of the Naval Militia at Santa Cruz, have been accepted.
 Colonel Cuff, having received his com mission as assistant adjutant general on the staff of the division commander, Is now in full charge of the headquarters in the Baldwin Hotel. As he is one Of the most popular men in the guard at this time, he will no doubt, during his admin istration, do much toward re-establish- ing the good feeling that at one time pre- vailed in all sections of the State be- Nr,-f,r 1lNfar-T1 T1ITaar "a h. cers.
 Last Saturday night Colonel Cuff, to celebrate the event of his promotion as chief of the division staff. invited the major general, all the members of the staff, and special guests Colonel H. r. Bush and Lieutenant Thomas A. Nerny, executive officer of the Naval Militia, to a banquet in the Baldwin Hotel All the members of the staff except Lieutenant Colonels A. B. C. Dohrmann and Adolph Huber, who were confined to their homes by illness, were present, and after the substantialS had been disposed of there were a number of toasts and responses. In the responses that were made there came out the fact that, during the past two years, the major general had been instrumental in having many things done for the guard, for which he never received due credit. It was also made to appear that now the staff is complete, each mem- Der thereof will work to the end that there shall be no complaint that they are not doing their best to advance the guard and bring it to the standard that it should occupy. During the evening Lieuten- ant-Colonel Barrere was congratulated upon the determination he had reached of taking unto himself a wife, which event will take place to-day.
 Preparations are being made for muster and inspection within the next few weeks. The inspections will be by the brigade in- spectors and by the inspector and instruc- tor detailed for that purpose from the United States army
 There has been some talk of having a 6Q on "a 9 C one of the days of the year when the guard is required to parade. it Is not likely that it will be called out
 There is great deal of complaint In regard to the present shooting regulations and the matter is so badly muddled that those who are directly interested in the making of records are, in the language of the street gamin, exclaiming, Where are we at?" There is a section of the law which declares that the National Guard must parade for target practice at such times as may be designated by the com mander-in chief" January was designat- ed as time for target practice, but the guard did not parade for that purpose For instance, the members of the First Regiment of Infantry, or rather not a large proportion thereof struggled. with. out parade. either as regiment, battal- ion or company & to the sho9nng range Ing the majority of the men who are member: of the guard are men wno depend on theil daily labor for a livelihood and that they cannot aHOrQ to eHQdUStI lHSil pCSAllOlis by asking to be excused in order to enable them to go to the ranges, to which they are forced to pay their own transporta tion. Since the order issued prohibiting the members of the guard from engaging in shoots on Sundays, the target practice in the guard is turning into farce. No' only that, but the members of the flftf Infantry are so confused with regard tt the regulations that those in authority have suggested a meeting of all the regi. mental Inspectors of rifle practice witf of rifle practice. with a view to have the whole matter clearly explained or have new regulations, such as can be under stood by every one who reads, promui- gated.