The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-20
OUR TWO WAR ACADEMIES
Congressman, in Many Cases, Have
Been Tardy in Making Nom
nations for Cadets.
THE WEST POINT VACANCIES FOR 1900.
The Presidential Appointments are All be-
spoken for the Remainder of Ills Term
The Vacancies Present and Prospective
at the Naval AcAdemJ-E Eighteen Have
Been Permitted to LNPse.

The Vacancies Present and Prospective
at the Naval Eighteen Have
Been Permitted to Lapse.
New York, Jan. 16.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington saws:
There are a number of vacancies at
the military academy which. members
Of the present congress are entitled
20 fill. Among these are the second,
third. tenth. eleventh and twenty
first districts of Illinois, the tenth
Iowa, the eleventh Michigan, the ninth
Wisconsin, the first Oregon. These
vacancies belong to the class which
WI enter the academy next June, and
if they are not filled before the pres
ent congress expires they will revert
TO members whose terms of Office be
gin March { next.
40 FURTHER VACANCIES.
Without changing the law there will
bC no further vacancies at West Point
until June. 1900, when upon the gradu-
alton of what is now the second class
there will be y places to be filed,
these being distributed as follows: At
large ,; Arkansas. 1; Connecticut. l;
/; Kansas, :: kentucky. >; Maryland,
.; Massachusetts. ;: Michigan. 1; Min
nesota, /; Missouri, :; Montana, /;
Nebraska. =: Nevada. L: New York. >;
Ohio, 4: Pennsylvania 6; South Caro-
lima. 3; Tennessee. !; Texas. .; NiT-
Einia, J.; Washington, /; West Nir-
ginia. I: Wisconsin. I.
TO BE GRADUATED FEBRUARY Il.
The present class. on account of the
urgent need for its men in service at
the present time. Will he graduated
February Is. The regulation eNamina-
tion of all candidates to fill the vacan-
Cies would ordinarily occur before
boards Of army officers at the princi-
pal military posts throughout the
country on March /. but this year the
exigencies of the service precIuding
the appointment of such boards. on
account of the practical abandonment
of posts due to the dispatch of regi-
ments To the West Indies and the
Philippines. has caused the war dc
partment to order all the accredited
candidates TO report at West Point for
examination carly in June.
CADETSHIPS-AT-LARGE ALL BE
SPOKEN.
Although two vacancies will occur
among the cadets-at-large at West
Point next year it will be impossible
for President Mckinley to consider
ny applications for them, as he has
already made promises for every ap-
pointment that he will be entitled to
throughout the remainder of his term
as president. He has adhered rigidly
TO the precedent followed almost in
variably by lis predecessors of re-
strictinE his appointments at both
academies to the sons of army and
navy officers. and even with this re-
strictiou he has not had available one
tenth of the appointments needed to
CRAFTY the conSpicUOusly deserving
eases among soldiers sons who, under
the law, have no preferential treat
ment if they wish 10 follow the pro-
fcssion in which their ancestors ac-
guired distinction.
At THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
At the naval academy there will be
is vacancies on March ;. and 45 on
June 30. Those that become availa-
bic in March already exist. but can
not be filled by the members of the
present house of representatives, by
whom these vacancies were permitted
TO lapse on July 1 last. The existing
vacancies belong to the following dis
triCts:
First and eighth Alabama, sixteenth
Illinois. tenth and eleventh kentucky.
fourth and fifth Louisiana, fourth Mis-
SissipPi, third Nebraska, sixth and
twentieth Ohio. first Tennessee and
sixth Texas. Secretary Long will no
tify the congressman from these dis
tricts on March /. that they will have
four months to make the appoint
ments from among young men be-
tween the ages of Is and 20, who shall
he actually residents of the districts
from which they are nominated.
THE JUNE VACANCIES.
At the same time and under similar
conditions, representatives in congress
of the following districts will be in
formed that they may make appoint
mentS for the vacancies that occur at
the end of June, namely: Third and
seventh Alabama, third Arkansas.
third Arizona. fifth California, tenth
and eleventh Georgia. eighth and ninth
Illinois. sixth and ninth Indiana. third,
fifth. seventh and eleventh Iowa, sew
enth Kansas, first. sixth, eighth and
eleventh Michigan, fourth Minnesota,
second Mississippi, fourth and sixth
Nebraska, seventh North Dakota.
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 by the president.