The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-06
SOME SURPRISES CROPPED UP
YOUNG, CHAFFEE AND M'ARTHUR
ARE THE THREE MAJOR GEN.
ERALS NAMED
CHAFFEE TO GO TO MANILA
1t Is Expected He Will Succeed Mac
Arthur in Command in the Phil
ippine ArchipeIagO-Sixth
Cavalry Is Happy.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The president
today sent the following army nomina-
tions to the senate:
To be lieutenant general, Mai. Gen.
Nelson A Miles
9 To be major generals, Brig. Gen.
(major general, U. S. W; Brig. Gen.
Arthur Macarthur, U. S. A. major gen
eral, U. S. W.
Bates. Second infantry, U. S. \. (major
general, U. S. W, Col Lloyd Wheaton
Seventh infantry, U. S. A. major general
U. S. VI; George Davis, Twenty-third
1nfantry ThantCy (brjgsder general, u S H9
general U. S.. A. (brigadier general, U.
S. W; Samuel S. Sumner, Sixth cavalry.
.. S. A; Leonard Wood, assistant sur
W; Robert H Hall. Fourth infantry.
U. S. A. Gbrigadier general u. s. W;
Robert P. Hughes, inspector general, u.
S. A. Obrigadier general, U: s. VI;
George M. Randall, Eighth infantry. U.
S. A. Cbrigadier general, U. S, VI; Maj.
William A Kobbe, Third artillery, y. s..
A. Cbrigadier general, U. S. w; Brig.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. "; Capt
j. Franklin Bell, Seventh cavalry, U.
S. A. Obrigadier general, Z. S. Al
Gems. Young and Macarthur are jumped
over Brig. Gems. Wade and Merriam and
Gen. Chaffee also is advanced over those
two officers, as we'll as over Gems. Nc
Arthur and Ludlow and Fifty-three col
onels who had higher relative rank than
he in the regular army.
CHAFFEE TO COMMAND.
The action in the case of Gen. Chaffee
is accepted in military circles as an in
dication that he is to be placed in su-
preme command of the forces in the
Philippines and that Gems. Young and
Macarthur, who are now in that couu-
try, are to be relieved shortly and as
signed to duty in the United States.
The promotion of Maj. Gen. Miles
leaves another vacancy in the grade of
major general which it is generally un-
derstood, will be filled by the appoint
ment of Brig. Gen. J. T. 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 Gen. Schwan,
who is said to be in failing health. Col.
,Daggett, of the Fourteenth infantry,
who has just returned to San francisco
from gallant service in China is booked
for appointment as brigadier general
1t is expected that he will be retired i'm
mediately. :
Junior officers in the regular service
have eelt much anxiety over the prospect
of being Jumped by the food of new
comers into the regular service, under
the present reorganization. This an
nouncement from the war department
will be Of some comfort to those Of
-ficers:
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 carry
up all officers in the regulars who have
had longer service than volunteers, but
will still leave vacancies for volunteer
second lieutenants."
ORDER OF SENIORITY.
Attention is called at the war depart
ment to the fact that the order OF
seniority of the general officers appoint
ed today is determined by the dates in
February stated in the nomination.
Thus, Gen. Young being nominated as
of Feb. 2, Chaffee as of the 4th, and
Macarthur of the 5th, will take pre-
cedence in that order wherever they
meet. Gen. Wood being named as a
brigadier- general as of the 4th, is ranked
by Bates, Wheaton, Davis and SchWan,
and possibly by Sumner, the latter be-
ing nominated as of the same date. But
it is pointed out at the department that
one result of Gen Woods nomina tion
in this order would be, in the event that
he follows the regular order of promo ion
hereafter, to make him lieutenant-gen-
eral of the United States army for four
teen years. Gen. Mood now stands No
so in the list. Capt. J. Franklin Bell,
who is No 5S5 in the list, relative rank,
was nominated to be a full brigadier-
general
The Sixth cavalry, a famous civil war
organiz alton, claims that it carries off
the honors of the nominations today.
Col Carter, in his book emitted From
Yorktown to Santiago With the Sixth
Cavalry" says:
1.-THE regiment has the unique dis
tinction of having furnished from among
its gallant soldiers the first officer ever
promoted from the ranks who subse
quently rose to 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 promoted as they were
retired Immediately.
The appointment of Gen. Adna r.
Chaffee to be major general of the reg
ular army is the first instance of it's
kind in the history of the army. He be-
gan his career as a private in the Sixth
cavalry and will be the first officer pro-
noted from the ranks to exercise com.
mand in the regular army as a general
officer.