Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-01
RETIRING OFFICERS.
A List Of Those Who Will Be A.
ftcted BY New Army Bill.
PRESIDENT Will NOT INTERVENE,


Washington. Feb. GA statemen
has been prepared by the war depart
ment showing the number and grad,
of army officers who will retire fol
age up to the year 1914 who are af
fected by the proposed war depart
ment bill for increasing the efiicienc,
of the army, under the section which
provides for the retirement witt
higher grade Of all officers who served
in the civil and Spanish wars. The
list includes three ma or generals
Miles, Merritt and Brooke, who would
retire within the next four years, with
the grade of lieutenant general
There are 16 brigadier generals who
would retire within the next ten
years. with the rank of major general
including six officers of the line and
ten staff officers. The list also in
cIudes rs colonies, % lieutenant col
onels. 1903 majors, 30 captains and six
chaplains, who would retire in the
next higher grade, making 800 officers
in all. One of the majors would be
retired in 1914 and his retirement
would complete the retirement of all
officers affected by the proposed bill.
The approximate cost of this plan of
retirement is $lSl,965.
President Mckinley viii Not Intervene.
Washington, Feb. 22.-ln view of
the persistent circulation of the ru-
NOR that the government of the Uni
ted States has reached an agreement
with the German government, through
its representative here, Baron Won
Holleben, to intervene between the
combatants in South Africa, the AS
sociated press has secured from the
highest authority a statement Of the
present position Of the government in
this matter This is to the effect
that there has been absolutely no
agreement reached between Secretary
Hay and Baron Won Holleben on the
subject, nor has there been any dis
cussion Of the propriety OF joint me-
diatlon between the British and the
Beers. Nor has the United States
government undertaken or contem-
plated any intervention on its own
account. There has been no time be.
fore or since the outbreak of the
present war that the president would
not have, with the greatest readiness,
exercised his good offices in favor of
peace II that could have been accom-.
plished without what he regarded as
an understandable breach of interna-
tlonal law and the proprieties. His
present position is said to be precise.
" as stated in his annual message
w toiiS iNSo,
Porter VIII Arrange the Fiscal system,
Washington, Feb. 22.-lt is under
stood that when Hon. Robert II.
Porter, who recently returned from an
official trip to Cuba, was in Washing
ton the other day the president spoke
TO him in reference to becoming a
member OF the Philippine commission.
Mr.. Porter's private affairs and his
work in connection with Cuban tariff
matters make it impossible to be alb
sent from the United States for a
couple of years, but he has been re-
iuested by the president and >secre-
airy of war as soon as a stable gov
'rnment has been formed in the Phil
pplnes, to do the same work in con
lection with the customs and internal
'eyenue taxation in those islands that
he has done in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
rs soon as the governments is estab-
'shed IN the Philippines II WIN be
ecessary to arrange for revenue and
workable fiscal system, and this
uty will largely be devoved on Mr., |
'orter.