Evening star., 1899-03-03
MANY. NAVAL NOMINATIONS
Secretary Long Trying Hard to Secure Con.
frmation.
Places in the Register Under the Per-
sonnel Act - Work of "a
Special Board.

| 1ne secretary OF the Navy has been max
| ing strenuous efforts to secure the nomina-
| tion and confirmation of all the officers OF
| the navy affected by the new navy person.
! mel bill To this end he has had a board
! working for the past twenty-four hours
ascertaininS the exact place that each Of
| ficer will have in the register under the
new act. and the clerks have been busly
engaged in preparing the nominations,
which number nearly 80 1t is the purpose
to submit them to the Senate today. and it
| is the expectation that they viii be con-
| firmsd en- masse. for it would be manifestly
! impossible 10 discuss them in fctall in the
| short time remaining of this session Of
| Congress.
As the nominations went to the White
House this morning from the Navy De-
partment they were based on the standing
| of the officers in the old register, and no
account was taken Of the effect of action
or non-action on the part Of the Senate en-
| the many naval nominations now PENDING
before that body.
Thus IN the list of rear admirals submit
| ted-eighteen in number-Schley stands two
numbers in advance of Sampson. This is
precisely his relative position On the exist
! ing register, though were the Senate to
confirm the nomination Of the two officers
| to be rear admiraiS us they We're specially
submitted by the President, Sampson would
| stand two numbers ahead of Schley, the
status being exactly reversed. Still both
officers would suffer materially were the
Senate to disregard the Presidents recon-
mendation for their advancement on ac-
count of services rendered at Santiago, for,
instead of standing almost at the head of
the list of rear admirals, they will number
10 and H. respectively, in that grade, max
ing il improbable that either should ever
he able to obtain the grade of full admiral
under any OF the ordinary conditions that
govern promotions.
OF course, Dewey's name heads all the
rest by virtue of the passage yesterday of
the special act making him admiral Of the
navy. The rear adnirals, of whom there
viii be eighteen-will rank with the major
generals, who are the highest officers at
present in the army.
The eighteen rear adynirals nominated to-
day were McNair, Howell, Howison, kautz
Remey, Farquhar, Watson. Philip, Robe
son. Schley, Casey, sampson, Cromwell,
Higginsou, Picking, Rodgers, Kempff and
Sumner The first effect of the merging of
the engineers IN the line is apparent in the
newly arranged list of captains. for third
on the line of captains stands the name OF
George w. Melville, now enSlneer-ln-chief
with the relative rank Of commodore. Other
weii-known engineers who figure on the
captains list are Rearick, Andrade, Low,
Buehler and Robinson
The list of captains is headed by Nc
Cormick with Barker, now of the oregon
second: Cotton, third. and Robley ID. Evans,
fourth There are seventy captains on this
list.
Commander tOOhe ncduS lht lISl III ms
grade and there are III names following
his in the list of commanders.
The lieutenant commanders list is headed
by Mics, and the lieutenants' list by Boush.
There are 40 lieutenant commanders and
3G0 lieutenants of the senior grade. and
these lists have perhaps shown the great
est increase on account of the addition or
the engineers. The junior lieutenants and
enSignS number 800, of whom ninety-fOur
are of the former grade.
Now RauI. nf tho ndicers
The first pages of the new Naval Regis
ter will hereafter show as follows:
Admiral George Dewey.
Rear admrals, eighteen in number, as fol-
lows: McNair. Howell, Sampson. Schley,
Howson, Kautz, Renley, Farquhar, Wat
son, Philip, Casey, Cromwell Higglnson,
Picking Rodgers. Kempff Sumner, Day.
The captains, seventy all told, are as fol-
lows: Mccormick, Barker. Cotton, Evans,
Terry. Miller, Read, Taylor, Johnson, Shep-
ard, Wiles, Glass, Cooper, Buehler (en-
gineer), Wadleigh, Crowninsheld, Sands,
Stirling, Cook, Clark, Wise, Coghian. Har-
ringtcn, Allen (engineer). Ludlow, Melville
(engineer), Sigsbee, Dyer, Chester, Trilley
(engineer), Barclay. Rearick (engineeD,
Chadwick Lamberton, Leary, Whiting,
O Neil, Goodrich, McCalla, Jewell, Folger,
Andrade engineer, Lowe tengineerl, En-
twistle (engineer), Schouler, Dickens, Wilde
Davis. Tram. White, Harris (engineer), As
ton (engineer), Pigman, McDowan, Green
Rockwell. Forsyth, Converse, Bradford
Craig. Thomas. Snow, Reiter, Brownson,
Nichols, Mead Houston, LongneCher, lde.
The H. commanders are as follows:
Book. Terry, Stockton Walker, Farenholt,
Strong Impey, Watson. Merry, Gibson.
Maynard, Lion. Dayton, Mackenzie, Sperry,
Hunker Courts, Reisnger, Burweil, Han
ford, Todd, Berry. Very, Manney. Swim
burne. Hemphill. Lille. Emory, Vicknell,
Hutchins, Ackley, Tilley, Knox, West,
Merrell Eaton, Wood, Moore, Belknap, Bill
more, Leutze. Sebree, Windsor (engineer),
Ford (engineerl. 'Couden, Pendleton, Swift,
Ross (engineer), Hannum (engineer), Mans
field Rocker (engineer, Symonds, Good
win Ross. Clover Miller, Wise, Bleecker,
Dunlap, Rush, Bates (engineer), Millidan
tengineer), Inch tengineer). Smith tengi-
neer) Gheen, Field Colby. Logan, Arnold,
Cowies, Aliibone, Taussig, Baird (engtneer),
PiIIsbury, Reeder, Rae (engineer), Delehan-
ty Cornwell. Webster (eugineerl, stevenson
(engineerl. Cowie. Kerry (engineer), Mark,
Rodgers, Ingersoll. Kennedy, Schroeder,
Kelly Wainwright, Moser. Jasper, Drake,
Mclean, Barnctte, Delano, Forse, Moore,
Wadhans Rodgers. J. A. Rodgers. j. ID.
Adams Selfridge, Cogswen, Everett Sim
ger Hawley, Carlin, Blockfnger, Garst,
Speyers Prime Potter Mullan.
COL. uECkER'S WORK DONE.