The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-06

| Washington. Feb. 5.-The president
to-day sent to the Senate the following
nominations:
| To be lieutenant general of the army
Major General Nelson A. Miles.
| To be major generals-Brigadier Cen
eral Samuel B. M. Young, Colonel Adna
r. Chaffee, Eighth cavalry; Brigadier-
General arthur Macarthur.
| To be brigadier-ge nerals-Colone
John c. Bates Second infantry; Colonel
Lloyd Wheaton, Seventh infantry; Col
onel George w. Davis, Twenty-third in
fantry; Colonel Theodore Schwan, as
sistant adjutant- general Colonel Sam
uel S. Sumner, Sixth cavalry; Captain
Leonard Wood, assistant surgeon; Colo
| mel Robert H. Hall. Fourth infantry;
| Colonel Robert p Hughes, inspector
general Colonel George M. Randall,
Eighth infantry; Major William A.
Kohbe. Third artillery; Brigadier Cen
eral Frederick D. Grant, United States
Volunteers; Captain ]. Franklin Bell,
Seventh cavalry.
Generals Young and Macarthur are
jumped over acknowledgements Wade
and Merriam, and General Chaffee also
is advanced over those two officers as
well as over Generals Macarthur and
Ludlow and fifty-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 to be relieved
shortly and assigned to duty in the
United States.
The law provides for six lnajor-g gen.
erals, and the promotion of Major-Gen-
eral Miles leaves another vacancy in
that grade, which, it. is generally I'M
derstood, will be filed by the appoint
ment of Brigadier-G General j. F. Wade,
the senior officer of his grade.
There is still one xacancy in the list
of brigadier- generals and another will
be made by the retirement of General
Schwan, who is said to be in falling
health. Colonel Daggett, of the Four
teenth infantry, who has just returned
to San Francisco from gallant service
in China, is booked for appointment as
a brigadier-g general. 1t is expected that
he will be Immediately retired.
Junior officers in the regular service
have felt much anxiety over the pros
pect of being Jumped" by the flood of
newcomers into the regular service I'M
der the present reorganization act This
announcement from the war depart
nent will be Of some comfort to these
officers:
Promotions will be made to the grade
of first lieutenant in the regular army
of all second lieutenants in that army
whose commissions antedate the war
with Spain. These promotions will car
ry up all officers in the regulars who
have had longer service than volun-
teers, but will still leave vacancies for
volunteer second lieutenants.
Attention is called at the war depart
ment to the fact that the order of SEN
iority 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 February 2, Chaffee as of the 4th
and Macarthur as Of the 9Th, will take
precedence In that order where they
meet. General Wood, being named as
brigad der general as of the fourth, is
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 depart
ment that one result of General Woods
in this order would be, in
the event that he follows the regular or
der of promotion, hereafter to make him
acknowledgement of the United States
for fourteen years. General
Wood now stands No. so In the list Of
army captains. Captain J. Franklin
Bell, who is No. 5S5 in the list of cap
tains, relative rank, was nominated to
be a full brigadier- general.
The Sixth cavalry, a famous civil war
claims that it carries off !
the honors of the nominations made to-
day.
Colonel Carter, in his book entitled |
From Yorktown to Santiago With the |
Sixth Cavalry" says:
"The regiment has the unique distinc-
ton of having furnished from among !
It's gallant soldiers the first officer ever |
promoted from the ranks who subse-
1uently rose to the grade of brigadier-
Of the regular army"
Up to the present time there have
been only two such promotions, and |
neither of these officers exercised COM
nand under the rank to which they
we're promoted, as they were retired
Plans for the new army are now well
lnder way, and 70 battalions of the
irst new regiment, to be known as the
twenty sixth infantry, are already or
,anized. These two battalions were
ormed of recruits on hand at San Fran
isco, and will be Differed temporarily
~ officers under orders for Philippine
ervice. The first battalion will sail
rom San Francisco for Manila about
he middle of the present month, and
wo weeks. The Eleventh infantry will
e detained in the United States until
new regiment is formed to take it's
lace.
The final orders for the departure of
light troops of the Fifth cavalry were
repaired to-day. The two squadrons
elected consist of the troops now sta
toned at Fort Myer and in Arizona.
he squadron at Jefferson Barracks will {
emain in this country as the home
quadron. The troops of this regiment
ding to the Philippines are not expect J
d to get away until some time in {
Iarch. Meanwhile the Tenth infantry
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