The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-06
Chaffee's Advancement Remarkable,
Taking MacArthur's Command.
ARMY BILLETs IN DEMAND
INDIANIANS ANXIOUS TO WEAR
UNCLE SANS UNIFORMS.
More Applicants Than Places to Be
Filled, and disappointment in
Store for Many Persons.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-The President
to-day sent the following army nominations
to the Senate:
TO be Lieutenant General
MAI. GEN. NELSON A. MILES.
TO be Major Generals
BRIG. GEN SAMUEL b. YOUNG,
COL. ADNA r. CHAFFEE, Eighth Cav
airy, United States army (major general
BRIG. GEN. ARTHUR MACARTHUR,
United States army (major general United
States volunteers.)
-Colonels to be Brigadier. Generals
JOHN c. BATES. Second Infantry.
United States army (major general United
LLOYD WHEATON. Seventh Infantry,
United States army (Major general United
geo GEORGE sSiS'ss ". DAVIS. Twenty-third In
fantry (brigadier general United states
volunteers)
jutant general United States army (briga-
dier general United States volunteers.)
SAMUEL S. SUMNER, Sixth Cavalry.
LEONARD WOoD, assistant surgeon
| United States army (major general United
States volunteers.)
ROBERT H. HALL. Fourth Infantry;
United States army (brigadier general
ROBERT P. HUGHES, inspector general
| United States army (brigadier general
GEORGE NJ. RANDALL Eighth IN
eral United States volunteers)
Also to be Brigadier Generals
MAJOR WILLIAM A. KOBBE, Third
| Artillery, United States army (brigadier
general United States yoIunteers)
BRIG. GEN. FREDERICK d. GRANT,
United States volunteers, .,,
| United States army (brigadier general
| United States volunteers)
| Generals Young and Macarthur are
| jumped over Brigadier Generals Wade and
| Merriam, and General Chaffee also is ad-
| vanced over those two officers as well as
| over Generals Macarthur and Ludlow and
| fifty-three colonels 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 indica-
| ton that he is to be placed in supreme
command of the military forces in the
Philippines and that General Young and
| Macarthur, who are now in that country,
are to be relieved shortly and be assigned
| to duty in the United States.
TWO VACANCIES.
The law provides for six major generals.
leaves another vacancy in that grade,
which II Is generally understood win be
| filled by the appointment of Brig. Gen. j.
| +. 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 said to be in failing health. Colonel
Daggett, of the Fourteenth Infantry who
has just returned to San Francisco from
| gallant service in China is booked for ap-
pointment as brigadier general. 1t is ex-
pected that he will be retired Immediately.
| Junior officers in the regular service have
| felt much anxiety over the prospect of
being Jumped by the flood Of newcomers
| into the regular service under the present
reorganization act. This announcement
| from the War Department will be of some
| comfort to those officers: Promotions
will be made to the grade of first ieuten-
/ ant in the regular army of all second
| lieutenants in that army whose commits
! sions ante-date the war with Spain. These
| promotions will carry up all officers in the
regulars who have longer service than
volunteers, but will still leave vacancies
| tor volunteer second lieutenants."
| Attention is called al the War Depart
| ment to the fact that the order of seniority
| of the general officers appointed to-day is
! determined by the dates in February stated
| in the nomination. Thus, General Young
being nominated as of Feb. 2. Chaffee as
| OF the 4th and Macarthur OF the 5In, will
| take precedence in that order wherever
| they meet. General Wood, being named
| as brigadier general Of the 4th. is
ranked by Bates, Wheaton, Davis and
| Schwan, and possibly by Sumner the lat
| ter being nominated as of the same date
| But it is pointed out at the War Depart
| ment that one result of General Wood s
| nomination in this order would be, in the
| event that he follows the regular order of
| promotion hereafter, to make him lieuten-
| ant general of the United States army for
| fourteen years. General Wood now stands
| No 60 in the list OF army captains. Capt.
| j. Franklin Bell. who is No. S5 In the list
| OF captains was nominated TO be a full
| brigader general.
| The Sixth Cavalry. a famous civil war
organization. claims that 1t carries of the
| honors OF the nominations to-day. Colonel
| Carter, In his book entitled From York
town to Santiago with the Sixth Cavalry.
| says: 'The regiment has the unique dis
tinction of having furnished from among
| it's gallant soldiers the first officer ever
| promoted from the ranks who subsequently
! rose 10 the grade of brigadier general of
| the regular army" Up to the present time
! there have been only two such promotions
| and neither of these officers exercised
| command under the rank TO which pro-
| NOTED as they were retired Immediately.
The promotion of Gen. Adna r. Chaffee
| TO be major general OF the regular army Is
| the first instance of its kind in the history
| OF the army. He began his career as n
private in the Sixth Cavalry and will be