The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-02-08
MILES ATTAINS HIS
LIFE'S AMBITION.
SENIOR OFFICER l. PROMOTED r.,
hIEUrEN NJ GENER H.
Other Ofiicer8 Rntscd In Rank ~ c-idrnt'a p
Nomina'ious In Accordsnc. with tho
New Army Law and Th.ir
General sign,flcanCe
The State, Feb. 9th

dent today sent the following nomi
natious to the senate:
10 be Lieutenant Geueral, Mai
Gen. Nelson A Miles.
To be Major Gene,a's-Brigadier
General Samuel B NJ. Young, U.S.A {;
Col. A. II. Chatf'e. Eighth cavalry,
U.S.A. (major general U.S.V); Brig.
Gen. Arthur Macarthur, U.S.A. (ma
jor general U.S.V
ColoIels to be Briyadirr Generals
john @. Bates, Second infantry
U.S.f (major general U SV); Col.
Lloyd Wheaton, Seventh infantry
U.S.A. (maj'r general U SV.); Geo.
W. Davis, Twenty.third infantry
(brigadier general US W; Theo-
dore Schwan, assistant adjntunt gen
eral U.S.A. (brigadier general US W;
Samuel S. Sumner, Sixth cavalry,
U.S.A.; Leonard Wood, assistant sur
geon U.S.A. (major general U.SV.);
Robert H. Hall, Fourth infantry,
U.S.A. (brigadier general U.S.V j;
Robert p. Hughes, inspector general
U.S.A. (brigadier general U.S.V.);
Geo. NJ. Randall, Eighth infantry
U S.A. (brigadler general U,SV)
Also Maj. William A. Kobbe, Third
artillery U.S.A. (brigadier general
U.S.V); Brig Gen. Frederick D
Grant, U.S.V.; Capt j Franklin
Bell, Seventh cavalry, U.SA (brigu-
dier general U.SV
THE MEANING OF 1T.
Gems. Young aud Macarthur are
jumped over Brig Gems Wade and
Merriam Ind Gen. Chaffe" also is
advanced over those two officers a.,
we'll as over Gems Macarthur and
Ludlow, and 81 colonels who had
higher relative rank than he in the
regular army.
The law provides for six major
generals and thu promotinn of Mai
Gen. Miles leave another vacanc, in
that grade which, it is generally un
derstood, will be- filled by the ap
pointment OF Brig Gen. F. Wade,
the senior officer Of his grade There
is still one vacancy in the list of brig
adler generals and another will be
made by the retirement of Gen.
Schwan, who is said to be in failing
health. Col. Daggett of the Four.
teenth infantry, who had just re-
turned to San Francisco from gallant
service in China, is hooked for ap-
pointment az q hrigadirr general.
It is expected hat he will he retired
Immediately.
Secret ry Root said this afternoon
that the military appointment made
today did not i,.volv" necessarily an,
change of commands in the Phil
ippines and that there is no purpose
of relieving Gen. Macarthur of the
supreme command of that division in
the Immediate future. Gems. Wade
and Ludlow, who recently we're Or
dered to the Philippines will relieve
Gems. Young and Bates who have
served IN that country for over two
years.
The war department Announces:
Promotion will be made to the grade
of first lieutenant in the regular army
Of al second lieutenants in that army
whose commissions ante date the war
with Spain. These promotions will
carry up all officers in the regulars
who have had longer service than
volunteers, but will still leave vacan-
cies for volunteer second leutenants."
The war department calls attention
to the fact that the order of seniority
of the general officers appointed to-
day is determined by the dates in
February stated in tho nomination.
Thus, Gen. Young being nominated.
as of Feb. 2nd, Chaffee az Of the 4'h,
and Macarthur as of tho 9th, will
take precedence in the order wherev
or they meet Gen. Wood being
. named as a brigadier sne".l as of
the 4th is ranked by Bates, Wheaton,
Davis and schwan, and possibly by
Sumner, the latter being nominated
as OF the same date. But it is point.
ed out at the department that one
esult OF G N Wool's animation 10
this order would be, in the event