El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
Changes in
the u. S. Army

The president has made the follow
Ing nominations for promotions in the
army under the new bill:
To be lieutenant general-Maior
General Nelson A. Miles.
To be major Observation-Disclosures
General Samuel B. M. Young. United
states army; Colonel Adna R. Chaffee.
Eighth cavalry, United States arn1y
tmaJor general United States yolun-
teers); Brigadier General Macarthur.
United States army (major general
United States volunteers).
Colonels to be brigadier generals
Jonn Z. Bates, Second infantry, United
states army (major general United
states volunteers); Colonel Lloyd
Wheaton, Seventh infantry. United
States army. (major general yoIun-
teers); Geo. w. Davis, Twenty-third
infantry (brigadier general United
states. volunteers); Theo. Schwan, as
slstant adJutant general, United States
army (brigadier general United States
VolunteerS); Samuel S. Sumner. Sixth
cavalry. United States army: Leonard
Wood, assistant surgeon United States
army tmaJor general United States
volunteers); Robert H. Hall. Fourth
infantry, United States army (briga-
der general United States volunteersl:
ROBERT +. Hughes. inspector general
united States army (brigadier general
united States volunteers): G.. NJ. Ran
dall' Eighth infantry, United States
army tDrlgadier general United States
voiunteers); Major VIM A. Kobbe.
Ihlrd artillery, United States army
(brigadier general United States vol
unteers); Brigadier General Fred D.
Grant, United States volunteers; Capt.
J. Franklin L. Bell, Seventh cavalry.
United States army (brigadier general
United States volunteers).
Generals Young and Macarthur
jumped over Brigadier Generals Wade
and Merriam, and General Chaffee ad-
vanced those two officers as we'll. as
over Generals Macarthur and Ludlow
and ffty-three colonies who had higher
relative rank than he in the regular
army.
The action in the case of General
Chaffee. is accepted in military circles
as an indication that he is to be placed
in supreme command of the military
forces in the Philippines and that Cen
erals Young and Macarthur who are
now in that country are 20 be relieved
shortly and assigned to duty in the
United States
The law provides for six major gen.
erals and the promotion of Major Cen
eral Miles leaves another vacancy in
that grade which it is generally I'M
derstood will be filled by the appoint
ment of Brigadier General J. F. Wade,
the senior officer of his grade.
There is still one vacancy in the list
of brigadier generals and another will
be made by the retirement of General
Schwan who is failing in health.
Colonel Daggett of the Fourteenth
infantry who has just returned to San
Francisco from service in China is
booked for appointment as a briga-
der general. 1t is said he will be re-
tired Immediately.
Junior officers in the regular service
have felt much anxiety over the pros
pect of being Jumped" by the flood
of new Corners into the regular SER
vice under the present reorganization
act. This announcement from the war
department will be of some comfort to
those officers.
promotions will be made in the
grade of first lieutenant in the regu-
lar army of all second lieutenantS in
the army whose commissions antedate
the war with Spain. These promotions
will carry up all officers in the regu-
lars who have had longer service than
volunteer second lieutenants'
attchliOu Is Cdllou the war de-
partment to the fact that the order of
seniority of the general officers ap-
pointment today is determined by the
dates in February stated in the nomi-
nations.
Thus, General Young being nominat-
ed February 2, General Chaffee, as
fourth. and Macarthur as of the fifth,
will take precedence in that order
wherever they may meet.
General Wood being named as
brigadier general as of the fourth, is
ranked by Bates, Wheaton, Davis and
Schwan and possibly by Sumner. the
latter being nominated as of the same
date.
But it is pointed out at the war de-
partment that one result of General
Woods nomination in this order would
be. in event that he follows the regu-
lar order of promotion hereafter to
make him a lieutenant general OF the
United States army for fourteen years.
General Wood now stands sixty in
the list of army captains.
Captain J. Franklin Bell who is No
So in the list of captains relative
rank, was nominated to be full briga-
der general
The Sixth cavalry. the famous civil
war organization, claims it carries off
Colonel Carter. in his book entitled
From Yorktown, to Santiago with the
Sixth Cavalry" says: THE regiment
has the unique distinction of having
furnished from among it's gallant SOL
diers the first officer ever promoted
from the ranks who subsequently rose
to the grade of brigadier general of
the regular army"
The appointment of General A. R.