Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
THE NEW ARMY BILL PASSES
Measure Which RevoIutio1izes
Present Staff Arrangements.
SENATE DEBATE QUITE BRIEF.
Progress on sundry Civil Bnl-Prcsident
Mckinley Names Several New Onicers-
Dole as Governor of HawsIi-BelIows
to Go to Japan.

washington, May THE session or
the senate was rendered especially
notable by the passage, after a debate
lasting only three hours, of the army
reorganization bill. In military cir
cles the measure is regarded as one of
the most important of the present ses-
sion. 1t practically revolutionizes the
present staff arrangements OF the
army. 1t proposes to change the pres
ent system of permanent appointments
in certain staff corps to one of detail
by a gradual process, as the officers
now in those corps go out OF active
service AS vacancies occur in the
departments of the adjutant-general,
the inspector quartermaster-
general and commissary-gen they
are to be filled by details from the line.
the details to be temporary and not
10 exceed four years. The new system
is not applied to the corps ofengineers,
medical department, pay department
or judge-advoCate generals depart
ment. The bill discontinues the reg
mental organization of the artillery
and establishes an artillery corps OF
two branches-viZ., 126 batteries OF
coast artillery and eighteen batteries
of field artillery, with a total of 17,44S
men. 1t provides for an increase or
100 in the corps of cadets at West
Point, two at large from each state
and ten more to the present number or
twenty from the United States at
large The rank of the commanding
general of the army is raised to that OF
acknowledgement and that of the
acknowledgement to major-general. the
latter being during the inCumbency of
the present adjutant-general, Gen.
Corbin. The president is empowered
TO place on the retired list any officer
who has been suspended from duty by
sentence of court-martial or by legls-
lative order in mitigation Of such SEN
tence, for a period extending to or
within one year of the time of his COM
pulsory retirement for age. This is
well understood to apply to Commits
General Eagan. An amendment
creating a veterinary corps for the
army, consisting of a colonel and thir-
was attached to the bill after a spirited
debate, the amendment being adopted
by a vote of % to %. The Notifications
appropriation bill, carrying about ST.
100000, was passed.
The resolutions offered by Mr.. Tel
Ter (Col.) expressing sympathy for the
Beers, was taken up Saturday.
Progress OF Sundry Civil BILL
Washington, May THE house
made fair progress with the sundry
civil appropriation BILL completing 70
of the 1872 pages of the measure. Much
of the time was consumed in an effort
of the members Of the naval commit
tee to cripple the coast and geodetic
survey in retaliation for the refusal
of the house to agree with their rec
omendation, when the naval bill was
before the house, to place the survey
of the waters of our insular possessions
in the hands Of the navy.
New Consult General for Japan.
Washington, May THE president
has sent the following nominations to
the senate: E. C. Bellows of Washing
ton, to be consul-general at Yokohama,
Japan; Lieutenant-C Commander Sam
uel c. Lemly, U. S. NJ, of North Caro-
lima, to be judge-advocate general Of
the navy, with rank of captain for the
term of four years from June 4, 1900.
Sanford B. Dole of Hawaii, to be gov
ernor of Hawaii; Henry e. Cooper Of
Hawaii, to be secretary of Hawaii.
Advocate Revenue Tax Report
Washington, May 7.-President
Charles G. Wilson and other represen-
tatives of the consolidated stock ex-
change of New York appeared before
the house ways and means committee
in advocacy of the repeal of the war
revenue act, and particularly the tax
on transactions in stocks and on ex-
change.