The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-18
PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY
Colonies BIRD, SNYDER, AUMAN
AND OTHERS HONORED.
officers Named Made Brigadier
GeneraIs-PensIon Bill Vetoed-Ac-
ton on the Exclusion Bill.

AIIIN-1OiOlGlS III DC DIlBdulCI BcDCIdiS.
Simon Snyder. Nineteenth Infantry; VIII
liam Amman, Twenty-ninth Infantry. Lieu
tenant colonel to be brigadier general.
Charles Bird, deputy quartermaster gen.
eral. Assistant adjutant general with rank
OF colonel: Lieut.. Col. William H. Carter.
Assistant adjutant general with rank of
lieutenant colonel: Maj. James T. Kerr.
Infantry-Lieutenant colonies to be colonies:
David J. Craigie, Eighth Regiment; Alpheus
II. Bowman, Fifth; Morris G. FoOte, First.
Majors to be lieutenant colonels: John d.
Van Orsdale, Seventh; James A. Buchanan,
Twenty-eighth Joseph II. Huston, Ninth.
Captain to be major: Arthur G. Ducat,
Twenty-fourth Artillery-Second lieuten-
ants to be first lieutenants. Charles f. Kill
bourne. jr. Jairus A. Moore.
Colonel Charles Bird entered the service
as a first lieutenant of the First claw
Infantry May 20. 1861. and emerged from
the civil war as colonel. He was brevetted
four times for gallant and meritorious serv-
ices and was severely wounded twice. He
participated in numerous battles. He en-
tered the regular service as a second lieu
tenant in May, 1866, and served on the from
tier. Since the outbreak of the war with
Spain Colonel Bird has had charge of the
transportation branch of the quartermas-
ter's department.
Colonel Simon Snyder entered the service
as a second lieutenant, Fffty-eighth In
fantry, April %, 1861, and became colonel In
September, 1892. During the war with spain
he commanded a brigade OF volunteers and
has been in the Philippines since July, 1899
Colonel William Amman enlisted as a pr1-
vate of the Twenty-ffth Indiana Volun-
teers in July, 1851. was mustered out as a
captain four years later and entered the
regular service in May. 1866. He was brew
cited a captain of volunteers for service be-
fore Petersburg, Va, and was
for distinguished gallantry at san Juan.
Colonel Auman's regiment had the greatest
percentage of loss in killed OF those which
went to Cuba. He has just returned from
the Philippines.
The Senate has confirmed the nominations
of James r. Garfield. of Ohio, to be United
States civil-service commissioner. and Will
liam Williams. of New York. to be commits
sioner of immigration at the port of New
York.
Mr.. George Washington Cromer, the live
Hest congressman, in a political way, from
Indiana, got a stern hustle on him the 9TH
err day. His fight for denomination lasted
about a year; in fact, it is never finished,
except for a day or two after each conven-
ton. His fight for a denomination begins
long before the election which followed the
last nomination. While he was making his
last canvass he met at a country village a
young man who asked that he have the
privilege of naming the next postmaster.
Cromer looked him over and finally said:
ITO be frank with you | cannot make
such promises. I know you are a friend of
illAt "a Il lGFtL "a 1V0 b1LCA anu Il
cannot grant such a request as much as /
would like to oblige you"
Il will do you a lot of good and I have a
fine man in mind for the misunderstanding"
''Well, Wen see later on"
"You mean for me TO go out and make a
record and then come to you"
YES, you ought TO do something first"
This was the last he heard from the am
bilious politician until this week when a
telegram came saying: Il have just been
nominated for the state Senate. Is that
ofrnn0 nnnnUh 70 name a nOCfnoa Cfpro -
The lively politician will get his post
Office.
AMI Smith, the superintendent Of the
Senate document room, has a wonderful
memory which is a mate to that marvellous
intellectual mechanism of Ainsworth Spot
ford. the assistant librarian Of Congress.
He is familiar by name and number Of all
the reports and measures which have
passed through his hands for a long time.
A few days ago Senator CulbersOn said to
him:
MIR. Smith, I have been searching in the
Senate library for three hours for a report
TO the Senate on the testimony given on
reconstruction by Gen. Robert E. Lee be-
fore a congressional committee shortly
after the close of the war. L have wanted
to read that testimony for years and have
never been able to find it,"
House document No. so, ~Thirty-ninth
session, first session." replied Mr.. Smith,
and a few moments later the senator had
the report.
The MEMBERS of the House who have
been chiefly interested in advancing the
Chinese exclusion bill, after informal con-
ferences to-day. decided to accept the Sen
ate substitute adopted yesterday continuing
in force the present laws and applying them
TO our insular possessions. Representative
Kahn. of California. who introduced the
drastic evolrcion hill in the House and
Representative Coombs, of California, who
aided in perfecting ii, both expressed the
view that the Senate measure should be
accepted as the best measure obtainable
within the few days remaining before the
Geary law expires by limitation. This view
was made known TO Representative Per-
kins, of New York, who reported the House
exclusion bill from the foreign affairs COM
mittee. and an informal understanding was
reached that If the California members
were willing TO accept the Senate substitute
this course undoubtedly would be taken
by the committee and the House
The Senate substitute, as finally amend
ed, really gives us all we want in emitting
the sailors clause said Mr.. Kahn. and
il is much more drastic than is generally
understood. Ii goes much further than the
original Plat substitute, and by r~e-enact-
ing the present law and the law of 1855,
extending them to our island possessions
and continuing these laws indefinitely. we
get almost. If not quite. as much as we did
by the original bill. But in any event, as
the present exclusion law runs out on May
5. IL would be desirable to accept the SEN
ate substitute, for if we were a single day
without exclusion law thousands of China
men would cross the border from Canada"
President Roosevelt to-day sent to the
House a veto OF the bill pensioning Thomas
f. Walter. a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania
volunteer regiment during the civil war, at
SIT a month. The veto message states
that the records OF the War Department
show that this soldier was cashiered by
sentence Of a general court-martia for dis
obedience of orders as 10 going on picket
duty, and that this disobedience was admit
ted. ITO inscribe his name on the pension
roll" the message says, would be 10 con-
done an inexcusable offense by a commits
stoned officer. TO detract from the high
esteem I'm which the pension roll ought ever
TO be held, and to do injustice to the SOL
diers now on that roll. especially those I'M
der the act OF June q. 1890. where an hon
orable discharge from the service is a
condition precedent TO obtaining a pension
The recent policy of the Postoffice De-
partment in excluding publications from the
second-class privileges under new rulings
designed to correct alleged abuses was the
cause OF seven injunction suits being filed
to-day against Postmaster General Payne
TO restore the seCond-class rate To the pub
locations OF the petitioners. The suits were
dlaH caparafalv In fha District Snproroa