The Delta independent., 1902-08-01
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
GOVERNMENTAL PROCEEDINGS

| the Fort LeaVenworth school Into q
general service and stan college at
Washington with suitable buildings
and the rebuilding of the engineer
school; and has made ample appro-
prations for these purposes. Every
effort will be made by the war college
board, which has general supervision
and charge OF the whole system, to
bring Its advantages to the new officers
Of the army as speedily as possible and
to organize officers schools at all the
considerable posts without delay. l
ask for hearty cooperation with them
on the part Of every officer Of the
! army"
In connection with the Investigation
now going on at the Navy Department
relative to the duties of officers on
shore duty with view to determining
what. IL any, officers can be spared for
sea duty, a significant table has been
prepared at the department which
shows that the increase in the sea-
going officers in the last decade has
not kept pace with the increased tom
mage Of the navy. In 1898 there We're
965 officers and 244,S tons displace-
ment Of ships in the navy. In 1902
the number Of officers has increased
only to 1923, while the tonnage had
increased to S27 ,O22. In 1893 there
NSie OihSCIS ou Seh uuty anu 1oO
on shore duty, against 72O on sea duty
and 3O3 on shore duty, against TO on
sea duty and 3O3 on shore duty in 1902.
The President has returned to the
War Department the cases Of Major
Edwin s. Glenn, Fifth infantry; First
Lieut.. Julian p. Gaujot, Tenth cav
| airy, and Lieut.. Norman G. Cook, Pril-
| ippine scouts. Glenn was found guilty
by the courts and sentenced to be sus-
pended for one month and to forfeit
$50 Of his pay; Gaujot was found
guilty and sentenced to suspension for
three months and to forfeit $50 per
month during that period; Cook was
acquitted. The President approves
the findings in the cases of Major
Glenn and Lieutenant Gaujot and dis
approves the action Of the court in the
case Of Lieutenant Cook. He makes
no comment on the case whatever be-
yond the approval In the two cases and
disapproval in the one. Glenn was
tried by court martial for administer
ing the water cure to the presidente Of
lgbares. and GaujOt for administering
the cure to three natives. Lieutenant
Cook was tried on the charge of order
ing three natives to be shot by the
Macabebe scouts.
Certain notifications which the State
Department desires In the protocol
governing the construction of the pro-
posed Panama canal before 1t assumes
the shape of treaty have been trans
mitted by Secretary Hay to Mr.. Con-
cha, the Colombian minister Mt WASH
ington. These relate generally to ques-
tions Of control and of sovereignty
over the strip Of land through which
the canal, IL the Panama route be
finally determined upon, will be con-
structed. They are destined to bring
the protocol more in harmony with
the provisions of the SpoOner amend
ment and to facilitate ratification by
the Senate when the instrument
reaches that body in the form of a
treaty. The Colombian legation officials
DO not feel that the instructions they
now have are broad enough to author
ize them to accept the notifications
proposed by Secretary Hay without
further consultation with the home
government. Consequently the matter
hns been submitted by them to their
government for further Instructions.
The aim Of Minister Concha Is to have
the instrument In such shape that
when 1t comes before the two houses
of Congress OF Colombia for action 1t
will receive favorable consideration by
them
A general order has been issued by
General Miles, commanding the army.
announcing tie award of medals OF
honor and certificates Of merit to Of
ficers and enlisted men for specially
meritorious service. The awards cover
n period beginning with the civil war
and extending TO last winter. and are
in addition to list published two
years ago. when the first awards were
announced. In the present list are the
names OF Gen. Horace Porter and Col.
Albert L. Mills, superintendent OF the
Military Academy, both of whom are
given medals for acts Of bravery. the
former at Atlanta, and the latter ut
Santiago. The medal of honor list. in
part, is as follows: William f. Berk-
heimer, major, artillery corps; william
c. Bryan, hospital steward; Bernard
A. Byrne, major, Thirteenth infantry;
Robert G. Carter, first lieutenant, u.
8. A. (retired); Robert Temple Emmett,
first lieutenant. Ninth cavalry; Freder-
lex Funston, brigadler general; james
Kephart, private, Company G. First
battalion, Thirteenth infantry; John A.
Logan, major, Thirty-third infantry,
u. s. v. deceased; William II. Sage,
captain, Twenty-thIrd infantry; George
T.. Stewart. first lieutenant. Fifteenth
infantry; George w. Wallace, first
lieutenant, Ninth infantry.
Governor Taft has acquainted Secre-
tary Root with the fact reported In the
news dispatches from Rome that the
Pope had rendered several pretty and
appropriate gifts to himself and the
members of his party, and he has asked
whether they can lawfully be accepted.
1t was at once recognized thnt the
question thus presented involved some
ielicote md interesting points prInci.
principal among them being possible
decision, expressly to be avoided nt
this stage, In the opinion Of the off,
cials, as to the temporal powers Of the
Pope. II these were decorations or
gifts of large value, then under the
constitutional inhibition they might not
be received without authority from