Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-08

Preliminary Arrangements Completed
by Adjutant General COrbin.

Adjutant General Corbin today comple.-
ed preliminary arrangements for the exc
cGtion of that section of the Military Acad-
envy appropriation bill which provides Tor
the appointment of 100 additional cadets.
A circular letter was addressed to each
member of the United States Senate by the
Secretary of War. inviting him to nominate
legally qualified candidate for appoint
ment cadet to the Military Academy
from his state at large and an alternate.
These appointces are to report at west
Point for examination on the 18th of July.
All successful candidates will go into sum
mer camp Immediately after that date.
The Secretary gives notice that IN case a
senator fails to nominate a cadet and an
alternate before July 10 1t will be assumed
that he does not desire to make such nomi-
nations. and The appointments will be made
without further delay. Although the Secre-
tary does not say so specifically, all such
lapsed appointments will be mace by the
President.
The provisions of the bill are construed
by the War Department authorities as
veSting the TWO cadet appointments from
each state in the senators from that state.
and increasing by ten the number Of
cadets at large to be appointed directly by
the President.
A misunderstanding as to the presidential
appointments has swamped the White
House with applications for appointment
to these cade:ships. The appropriation bill
fixed the number of appointments at large
at thirty. but as the President appointed
twenty cadets at large the actual increase
is only ten. 1t is stated that the President
has determined to reserve these places for
the sons of the officers who have distin-
guished themselves in the civil war, the
Spanish war and the existing war In the
Philippines This decision has been reached
because these officers. IN most cases have
no specific legal residences in any state.
and so their sons may not secure appoint
mentS through congressional influence or
designation. as do the othcI. cadets.
The Secretary of War was at first dis
posed to defer these new appointments I'M
til next fall. The accommodations at the
Military Academy will be severely taxed by
the appointments. and il will be necessary
to put three cadets in n room. Neverthe-
less. 1t was felt to be better to make the
appointments now and allow the boys adj
vantage of the summer drills than to have
the congestion occur at the beginning of
the next term in September.
The Navy Department has not yet de-
termined finally what 1t shall do with the
additional naval cadets provided for in the
naval appropriation bill. With their eX-
perience with the civil war hump in mind
the officials are above all things desirous
to avoid an Unfortunately large class of ca
diets in any one year. and their effort Is di-
rected to distributing the increase among
the classes. Secretary Long IS supposed
to be discussing this matter with the su-
perintendcnt Of the Naval Academy, and a
decision is expected upon his return to
Washington. Meantime the officials are
proceeding upon the theory that 100 addi-
classes at least. forty cadets being appoint
ed Immediately and sixty rext winter. Ia
bles are now being prepared to show where
the vacancies will occur.