The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-04
SCHLEY AHEAD OF SAMPSON
THE NOMIN1TIONS rs MADE BY
SECRETARY LONG.
They Number Five Hundred ana Were
Submitted to Senate Yesterday-Are
Based Upon the Standing of Officers in
Old Register Which Places Schley Two
Numbers Ahead of Sampson.

Washington, March 3.-The secretary
of the navy is making strenuous efforts
to secure the confirmation of all the Of
ficers of the navy affected by the new
navy personnel bill. He has had a board
working for the past twentyfour hours
ascertaining the exact place that each
officer will have on the roster under the
new act and the clerks have been bus!ly
engaged in preparing the nominations,
which number nearly 500. They We're
submitted to the senate to-day and it is
expected that they will be confirmed en-
masse because of the short time remain
ing of this session of congress- AS the
nominations went to the White house
from the navy department they We're
based upon the standing Of the officers
in the old register and no account was
taken of the effect of action or monaco
| tion on the part of the senate on the
many naval nominations now pending
before that body. Thus in the list of
rear adnrals submitted, eighteen in
number, which list includes men who
held the rank of commodore, which was
abolished by the bill, Schlsy stands two
number in advance of Sampson. This
is precisely his relative position on the
existing register though were the sem
ate to confirm the nominations of the
two officers to be rear admirals, as they
were specially submitted by the presi4
dent, Sampson would stand two num-
bers ahead of Schley. Still both officers
would suffer materially We're the senate
to adopt the presidents recommended
ton for their advancement on account
of services rendered at Santiago, for in
stance, standing almost at the head of
the list Of rear admirals, they would
number ten and twelve respectively in
that grade, making it improbable that
either would ever reach the grade of
full admiral under any of the ordinary
conditions that govern promotions. The
recommendation of the president, how
ever, is not likely to be followed and
then both will be rear admirals, Schley
two numbers in advance.
OF course Deweys name heads all the
rest by virtue of the passage yesterday
of the special act making him admiral
of the navy and increasing his emou-
ments from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum.
1t is said that he will outrank any Off
Ger in the United States army, the fact
being the rear admirals, of whom there
will be eighteen, will rank with the
major generals, who are the highest Of
ficers at present in the army. While
this fact would carry with it the out
ranking of General Otis by Dewey. 1t is
not likely to interfere in the least with
the status al Manila, General Otis du-
ties as military governor having been
specially prescribed by the president.
The list of captains Is headed by McCor-
mack with Barker, now of the Oregon,
second, Cotton third, and Robley ID.
Evans fourth. There are seventy cap
tans on the list Commander Book
heads the list in his grade and there
are III names following his in the list
of commanders. The lieutenant com
manders list is headed by Niles and the
lieutenants' list by Bouche. There are
ITO lieutenant commanders and 300 leu
tenants of the senior grades and these
lists have perhaps shown the greatest
increase on account of the addition of
the engineers.