The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-16
PROMISED AHEAD.
McKinley's Appointments to: Annap-
oils and West Point All Used Up.


New York Jan. ia 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 dis
trlctS of Illinois, the Tenth Iowa, the
Eleventh Michigan, the Ninth Wiscon-
sin, the First Oregon. The vacancies
belong to the class which will enter the
filled before the present congress ex-
pireS they will revert to members whose
term of Office begins March f. next
Without changing the law there will
be no further vacancies at West Point
until June, 1900, when, upon the gradu-
alton OF what is now the Second-claSS,
there will be 50 places to be filed, these
being distributed as follows: At large
2; Arkansas L; Connecticut 1; Idaho l;
Illinois 2; Indiana 8; Iowa 1; Kansas 4;
Kentucky 2; Maryland 2; Massachusetts
5; Michigan 1; Minnesota 1; Missouri 4;
Montana 1; Nebraska 2; Nevada 1; New
York 3; Ohio 4; Pennsylvania 6; South
Carolina 3; Tennessee L; Texas 2; Vir-
ginia I; Washington I; West Virginia I;
Wisconsin l.
The present class on account of the
urgent need for its men in service at
the present time, will be graduated Feb
ruary Is. The regulation examination of
all candidates to fill the vacancies would
ordinarily occur before boards of army
officers at the principal military posts
throughout the country on March / but
this year the exigencies of the service
precluding the appointment of such
boards on account of the practical
abandonment of posts due to the dis
patch of regiments to the West indies
and the Philippines, has caused the war
department to order all the accredited
candidates to report at West Point for
examination in June
Although two vacancies will occur
among the cadets at large next year, it
T1rTfl ha IFTn sill r.
Kinley to consider any applications for
them. as he has already made promises
for every appointment that he will be
entitled to throughout the remainder of
his term as president He has adhered
rigidly to precedent followed almost in
variably by his predecessors of restrict
ing his appointments at both academies
to the sons OF army and navy officers
and even with this restriction he has
not had available one-tenth of the ap-
pointments needed to crafty the con-
spiciously deserving cases among SOL
dierS' sons who under the law have no
preferential treatment if they wish to
follow the profession in which their an
cestors acquired distinction.
At the naval academy there will be
eighteen vacancies on March 5 and As
on June 80 Those that become avail
able in March already exist but can not
be filed by the mem berS of the present
house of representatives, by whom these
vacancies were permitted to lapse on
July 1 last. The existing vacancies be-
long to the following districts: First
and Eighth Alabama, Sixteenth Illinois.
Tenth and Eleventh Kentucky, Fourth
and Fifth Louisiana Fourth Mississippi
Third Nebraska, Sixth and Twentieth
Ohio, First Tennessee and Sixth Texas.
Secretary Long will notify the con-
gressmen from these districts on March
1 that they will have four months to
make the appointments from among
young men between the ages of Is and
90 who shall be actually residents of the
district from which they are nominated.
At the same time and under similar
conditions representatives in congress
of the following districts will be in
formed that they may make ap-
pOintments for the vacancies that
occur at the end of June namely:
Third and Seventh Alabama, Third Ar
kansas, Arizona, Third and Fifth Cali
fornia, Tenth and Eleventh Georgia.
Eighth and Ninth Illinois. Sixth and
Ninth Indiana, Third, Fifth, Seventh
and Eleventh Iowa. Seventh Kansas.
First, Sixth, Eighth and Eleventh
Michigan, Fourth Minnesota Second
Mississippi, Fourth and Sixth Nebraska,
North Dakota, Seventh. Tenth and
Twelfth Ohio. South Dakota. Eighth
Texas. Washington, Ninth and Tenth
Wisconsin and one from the District
of Columbia, the latter to be designated
nv the president