The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Is IT TO Be
COL, SMEDBERG
OR ANOTHER2
Adjutant Generalship
Is Discussed.
GOING TO LEAVE THE STATE
SIXTH AND SEVENTH REG1-
MENTS IN SERVICE.
Cutting Down the Staff of the Conn
mander in Chief One-Half.
Veteran Signal Corps
Reception.
GOING TO LEAVE THE STATE
SIXTH AND SEVENTH REGI-
MENTS IN SERVICE.

The exclusive announcement III AuS
Call to the effect that Colonel William r.
Smedberg is the possible winner Of the
adjutant generalshGp was the talk in Ma
ton Guard circles yesterday, and 1t came
in the nature of a surprise, for the colonel
while mentioned in some quarters as q
possibility. was not hooked upon as the
coming man. There are some of the wise
men of the guard who believe that the"
can see through the political wall as far
as the next man. and they say that the
next adjutant general, as well as the as
sistant general and the clerk in the Of
flee will all be men from the southern
part of the State. The clerk who is there
now is from the south, and was at one
time in the office of Governor Gage.
The Sixth and the Seventh regiments OK
infantry are now again a part of the Ma
tional Guard, and it is stated that the
majority of the men, who as volunteers
did guard duty for so many months and
were disappointed at not being sent to
Manila, have resumed their positions in
the several companies from which they
volunteered.
Lieutenant Colonel A. B. C. Dohrmann,
inspector on the staff of the division COM
mander, has applied for a leave of absence
the the st State Oial and the sN United States.
The bill introduced for the reorganiza-
ton of the guard reduces the staff of the
commander-in-chief one-half, and Is not
so top-heavy as it is at present. The
numerical force is twelve instead of twen-
ty-four, and there are not so many col
staff are the adjutant general with the
rank of brigadier, adjutant general with
the rank of colonel PM ten n a1des5de-caamIP, ca 6I
to be selected from the officers OF the
military and naval branches of the guard.
On the staff of the major general there
will be an assistant adjutant general, with
the rank of colonel; surgeon, with the
rank of colonel, to be the head of the
Sanitary Corps; inspector, with rank or
colonel, to be inspector general engineer,
with rank of colonel, to be engineer in
chief; Quartermaster, with rank Of lieu
tenant colonel, to be qLartermaster gen.
eral; paymaster, lieutenant colonel, to be
paymaster general; ConInisary of sub
sistence, lieutenant colonel, to be COM
missary general judge advocate, Heuten-
ant colonel to be judge advocate general;
two inspectors of small arms and ord
nance, one chief signal officer, two order
lies with the rank Of major; the senior
and two non-commissioned officers with,
the grade of sergeant major and the uni
form of such in the cavalry.
The change on the staff of the brigadier
generals gives three lieutenant colonies,
six majors and two aids with the rank of
captain. The new bill provides that Off
GERS of the Naval Militia must be selected
from those who have served in the United
States navy, in the volunteer navy, the
auxiliary navy Chat is, those who served
in the late war;, or the United States rev.
enue marine service. The idea of this
is to give those who served during the
late war in the auxiliary navy an oppor-
tunity to be promoted.
A secret in connection with the Naval
Militia of this State has just come out,
and that is that there was an order from
the Naval Department that the entire
Naval Militia was to be ordered to Mare
Island to be placed on the independence
or other suitable vessels there and mus
tered into the service as were the men Of
the military branch; but for some reason
the orders of the Navy Department were
never carried out, and instead Of having
nearly 500 men in the auxiliary navy the
State of California was represented by
only about eighty men. Now the naval
branch of the guard is anxious to know
who smothered the order.
Roscoe Howard, who served in the
auxiliary navy, has been elected to the
command of the third division of the
1ji3da Under at a decision Of the the Navy pepart-
ment officers of the engineer corps are
classed as line officers and entitled to all
the privileges of such.
Lieutenant Junior Grade A. A. Morgan,
navigation officer of the Pinta, has ten
dered his resignation.
In the preparing of the bill that has
been introduced at Sacramento the naval
militia is placed on exactly the same lines
as the United States navy, so far as it
with the laws of the State. There is d
provision that the ordnance officer and
the signal officers shall not be assigned
to any other duty. 1t also provides that
a marine band may be maintained and q
chaplain appointed.
At present the several companies are al
lowed fixed amount to pay armory rent,
but the new bill proposes. to take this
away from the companies and allow
armory rent to be paid from headquarters
at Sacramento This is raising a wave
of dissatisfaction in the several COM
panies, and there are many who will urge
that the State own it's own armories in
the large cities, where the troops could be
concentrated.
The reception given to Corporal William
J. Stock of the Signal Corps of the Sec
ond Brigade. recently returned from serv-
ice at Manila, and the, farewell to j. w;
Hobbs, adjutant of the Veteran Signal
Corps, was attended by about thirty five
of that corps, and a very pleasant even
ing was spent The company listened
with interest to the recital Of the man
from the front and then there was an
evening of music and song. congratula-
tions to the returned and the wishing OF
godspeed to the departing guest.
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In the Line of the Panhandle.
r. Nichols is the first property owner
In the line of the proposed panhandle TO