The morning news., 1899-04-13
GENERALS WHO WILL GO OUT.
MANY OF THEM SOON TO DE MUS
TERED our OF SERVICE.


Some Are to Retain Their Present
stations With Their Regular
Army Rnnk-Others VIII Return to
Their Former COmmnnds-Wheei-
er ana Grant May Go to MHniIas
Four Volunteer Major Generals
Retained.
Washington. April 12.-An order issued by
the war department to-day musters out the
following general officers:
Major Generals-James II. Wilson, Fitz-
hugh Lee Joseph Wheeler, John p. Batess
Samuel NJ. b. Young, Adna r. Chaffees
William Ludlow, Leonard Wood.
Brlgadier Generals-George w. Davis.
Theodore Schwan, Lloyd Wheaton, Charles
King, Frederick d. Grant. Robert p.
Hughes. Samuel Ovenshine, Irving s. Hale.
The above named officers are mustered
out to enable them to accept commissions
as general officers of volunteers under tho
act of March 2, 1899 1t is expected they
viii soon be re-appolnted as brigadier gen-
erals under that act.
The following officers are mustered out
and will resume their former commands:
Maj, Gems. James f. Wade, Thomas M.
Anderson. Guy " Henry.
Brig. Gems Royal 7. Frank. Edward Il.
wrlliston, Louis II. Carpenter, Joseph p.
Sanger. Henry c. Hasbrouck, John c. Gill
more, Oswald II. Ernst Harrison c.. Otis,
Charles l.. Humphrey.
VIII Retain Their stations.
The officers who are to be Teappolnted
as brlgadler generals under the reorganI-
| zatlon act for duty as volunteers until
July 1901, are TO go out Immediately. soms
of them to-day, and all on or before tha
nth of this month. They will not be tiiss
turbed In their present commands.
Others are to be mustered out June 13,
| with the exception of Gen. Frank who
goes out May 12, and Gen. Otis. on Julv 2.
The order Of those officers. who are not
| to be reappointed, directs those who are
general officers TO retain their present
| commands, and the others of the line ara
| to return to their regiments Their posi-.
| tions In the regular army are as follows:
Gen. Wade brigadier, now president of
| the beef inquiry Gen. Anderson, brigadier,
| on his way home to assume command OF
| the department of the Coumbia Gen.
| Henry, brigader. commanding the depart
| ment OF Porto Rico; Gen. Frank, colonel
! First Artillery; Gen. Willlston, colonel
| sixth Artillery; Gen. Carpenter, colonel
| Fifth Cavalry; Gen. Sanger lieutenanr
| colonel inspector generals department,
| Gen. HaBbrouck, lieutenant colonel
| Fourth Artillery; Gen. Gilmore lieuten-
ant colonel. adiutant generals department;
Gen. Ernest, Lieutenant colonel. engineer
| corps; Gen. Otis, appointed from civil lfey
| now returning to the United States from
| Manila; Gen. Humphrey, lieutenant col
| onel, quartermaster's department. on duty
| as chief quartermaster of Cuba.
shnfter May Leave Service.
| -Four volunteer major generals are res
| tained in service. These are Gen. Otis,
| In command OF the United States forces
| In the Philippines, Lawton and MacAr-
thur, bis chief generals IN command Of di-
visions, and Gen. Shafter, who remains In
| command of the department of California.
| He will retire IN October as a brlgadier
general and may leave the service.
The present stations of those mustered
| out by the order of to-day will be re-
tained as brigadier generals under the law
| of March 2, are: Gen Wilson, commands
| ing the department OF Cienfuegos; Gen.
Lee, commanding the department of Ha-
vana: Gen. Wheeler, now In Washington,
| but probably going to the Philipplness
| Gen. Bates. commanding the departments
| of Matanzas, and Gen. Young, In COM
| mana OF tne tOOpS DtlHB mustered OUT
| with headquarters at Augusta, Ca. Gen.
| Chaffee, now Ia Washington, but at
| tached to Gen. Brooke's headquarters
| Gen. Ludlow, commanding the city
| OF Havana Gen. Wood, CONS
| mandlng the department. OF San-
| tiago; Cen Davis, member of the
beef inquiry board Gen. Schwan, assist
| ant adiutant general; Gen. Fred d. Grant.
| IN Porto Rico but under orders to go to
| Manila; Gems. Hail. Wheaton, King,
| Hughes, Ovenshine and Hale, In the Phil
| ippnes.