Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-16
APPOINTMENTS
OF NEW CADETS
SEVERAL VACANCIES IN BOTH THE
MILITARY AND NAVAL ACADE-
MES EXIST.

New York, Jan. 1 Ga dispatch to the
Tribune from Washington says: There
are a number of vacancies at the military
academy which members of the present
congress are entitled to fill. Among these
are the second, third, tenth, eleventh and
twenty-first districts of Illinois; the tenth
Iowa, the eleventh Mississippi, the first
Oregon. These vacancies belong to the
class which will enter the academy next
June and if they are not filled before the
present congress expires they will revert
to members whose terms of office begin
March 4 next. Without changing the law
there will be no further vacancies at West
Point until June, 1900, when upon the
graduation of what is now the second
class there will be So places to be filled,
these beng distributed as follows: At
large, two; Arkansas, 1; Connecticut /;
Idaho, /; Illinois, Q: Indiana, 8; Iowa, 1;
Kansas, 4; Kentucky, q; Maryland, s.;
Massachusetts,. 5; Michigan. /; Minnesota.
l; Missouri, 4; Montana, I; Nebraska, 2:
Nevada, 3; New York. 3; Ohio. 4: Pennsyl-
vania. 6; South Carolina, 8; Texas, @;
Virginia, 4; Tennessee, 1: Washington, l;
West Virginia, 1; Wisconsin,. 5.
The present class IN account of the ur-
gent need for It's men IN service at the
presena time, will be graduated Feb. 10.
The regular examination of all candi-
dates to fill the vacancies would ordinar-
lily occur before boards of army officers
at the principal military posts through
out the country on March /. but this year
the eXigencies of the service precluding
the appointments of such boards on ac-
count of the practical abandonment of
posts due to the dispatch of regiments to
the West Indies and the Philippines, has
caused the war department to order all
the accredited candidates to report to
West POINT for examination early in
June
Although two vacancies VIII occur
among the cadets at large at West Point
next year. it will be impossible for Presi-
dent Mckinley to consider any applca-
tons for IN, as he has already made
promises Tor every appointment that he
will be entitled to throughout the re-
mainder of his term as president. He has
adhered rlgidly to the precedent follow
ed almost invariably by his predecessors
of restricting his appointments at both
academies to the sons of army and navy
officers and wen with these restrictions
he has not had available one-tenth of the
appointments to crafty the conspicuous
ly deserving cases among soldiers sons
who under the law have no preferential
treatment, if they wish to follow the pro-
fcssion in which their fathers acquired
distinction.
At the naval academy there will be IS
vacancies on March 5, and 45 on June 80.
Those that become available in March al
ready exist, but cannot be filled by the
members of the present house of repre-
sentatives. by whom these vacancies were
permitted to lapse on July 1 last. The eX-
istinE vacancies belong to the following
district: First and eighth Alabama; SIX
teenth Illinois; tenth and eleventh Ken
lucky: fourth and fifth louisiana; fourth
Mississippi: third Nebraska; sixth and
twentieth ohio; first Tennessee and sixth
Texas. Secretary Long Will notice any
changes from these districts by March /,
so that they will have a chance to make
appointments of young men between Is
and 20 years of age. who shall be actual
residents Of the district from which they
are appointed. Representatives from the
following districts will be Informed that
they may make appointments for the va
cancieS hat occur at the end of June,
namely: Third and seventh Alabama;
third Arkansas; third and sixth CaIifor-
MIA; tenth and eleventh Georgia; eighth
and ninth Illinois: sixth and ninth In
diana; third, fifth, seventh, eleventh
Iowa; seventh Kansas: first, seventh and
eleventh Michigan; fourth Minnesota;
braska; seventh, tenth and twelfth Ohio;
South Dakota, North Dakota; eighth
Texas; Washington, ninth and tenth
Wisconsin: Arizona and one from the
District of Columbia, the latter to be des-
ignated by the president.
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