The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
PRESIDENT HAS
BEEN KEPT BUSY
With Applications and Appoint
mentS for Provisional Army,
HIS PAST EXPERIENCE
Has Been of Benefit to Him-Newspa-
per Men Will Visit the Principal
Cities OF Alabama, In
Guiding Birmingham

Washington, July 15.-(Special) 1.-The APP
pications and appointments of army Off
cors for the provisional army has pretty
well consumed the week at Washington, as
far as the chief executive is concerned. The
president has had to call on his past eX-
perience for the best method of giving
commissions in the provisional army.
When 1t was decided TO raise additional
troops for the Philippines the president
made up his mind that the commissions
must be given according to merit as far as
possible. As soon as it became known,
however, that other regiments were 10 be
raised the politicians began to flock 10
u dshington and demand that this or that
man be appointed. The president, anxious
10 avoid the mistakes that were made in
the enrolment of the volunteer army, de-
termined that he would make the appoint
ments according to the record of the Off
GERS in the last war. Accordingly ne asked
each senator to submit the names of those
whom he would recommend, and in eacn
case had every oftlcerS record looked up IN
the war department. General Corbin was
opposed to allowing the political recon-
mendatlons to have any weight at all, but
the political pressure was SO great that the
president yielded SO far to obige the
members OF congress and senators when he
could do so without subordinating the Off
cial records of the men recommended to
their political influences. The president,
therefore, feels that while some mistake
might have been made the provisional
army is Differed by men efficient as may
possibly be secured
The Kentucky Situa on
The Kentucky situation is absorbing
much attention in Washington. The re-
publicans are greatly pleased at the unani-
nifty which prevailed at the convention of
their party in Lexington, and believe that
the sectional rows in the democratic party
will result in the election of republican
senator or else in gold democrat in
| which case the hope is expressed that Sen
| ator Lindsay may succeed himself. The
| democrats are at a loss to comprehend the
situation or to draw any conclusions there
| from. The fact that Joe Blackburn ac-
cepts Goebel inclnes the silver democrats
| outside of the state to accept the conclusion
| as all right, but the high priests of silver
! here and Mr. Bryans personal friends, who
| are jealous of anything that seems foreign
! to him, see in the situation in Kentucky
possible embarrassment for next year.
| They are at a loss to comprehend how the
| Hardemans and Mr.. Watson, who bolted
| Bryan three years ago, and who are stlil
! welded to the gold standard can possibly
| harmonic with the free silver Bryantes
| of 1900 Moreover, some of the Bryan men
| in Kentucky have written letters to the
| national committee warning 1t that MT
| Goebel is himself a gold bug, and that MS
| nomination was a trick to deceive the ma
| tional democracy and finally to euchre MT.
blackburn out of the senatorship. Certain
| members of the national committee are
known to favor calling another democratic
| convention in Kentucky for the purpose OF
| nominating gubernatorial candidate VINO
| can he trusted to carry out the spirit as
| we'll as the letter of the platform AT the
| meeting of the national committee this Will
| probably be discussed, but as is generaliy
| believed that the members Will faVor let
! ting the Kentucky situation work itselI out
| without interference on their part. 1nete
;s no doubt however. that Mr.. Goebel is
regarded with deep suspicion by the oeih-
ocratic leaders here
Ten New Regiments
| The belief is expressed here that the ad-
ministration is considering the advisabiity
| of creating ten regiments of volunteers IN
| addition to the ten regiments OF the pro-
yisional army already called for. Inc ldea
| is not to use these additional forces as
| reinforcement to the forces in the Phlnp-
| mines. The depleted condition of the garri-
| sons in this country, owing to the excess
siye drafts for foreign service, makes some
| such movement as the enrolling Oh THESE
| additional regiments necessary. Ihese resl-
| ments will doubtless relieve the regular
| regiments now on duty in the islands OF
| Cuba and Puerto Rico, enabling them to
| return to duty in the garrisons OF thelr
| native country. 1t is well understood In
| the war department that some steps must
| be taken to increase the standing army
when the provisional army authorized
| ceases to exist in July, 1901. Plans for such
| an increase are already being discussed by
| the republican leaders here and the most
| probable solution is the retention as regu-
| lars of the regiments of the provisional
| army, both those regiments already called
| and those which may be formed in the
| future.
| Newspaper Men VIII Visit
A party of newspaper correspondents
| will leave here next Saturday to visit the
| leading cities of Alabama and to write up
| the industries of the state. The party VIII
| be in charge of Mr.. Buford Lynch an old
| Alabama boy, who is energetic and whose
enterprise is usually expended in behalf of
his old love. The party will visit Montgom-
| ery, Mobile and Birmingham.
| A. w. B.
| Arrested for whipping Two Women
| Fayette, July 15.-(Special)-Some arrests
| have just been made by the sheriff of Fay