Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-25
After a conference with the Presi-

After q conference with the PreS1-
dent, Secretary Moody announced the
following appointments, all being from
New York: Captain Charles w. Rae, TO
be chief Of the Bureau Of Steam Engi-
neering upon the retirement Of George
w. Melville in August next; Pay Di-
rector Henry T. b. Harris, to be pay
master general, upon the retirement of
Rear Admiral A. S. Kenny this month;
Lieutenant Colonel George F. Elliott, to
be commandant of the Marine Corps
when Major General Charles Haywood
retires next fall.
Captain Charles Whiteside Rae is the
first graduate of the Naval Academy
to become head of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering He is a native of Connect
cut and was appointed to the Acade-
my from New York in 1866. He is re-
garded as an officer of marked ability.
Pay Director Henry Turdor Brownell
Harris is also a native of Connecticut
and an appointee to the service from
New York entering in 1864 He is now
on duty at the League Island Navy
Yard.
Bravery in Cuba in the war with
Spain and later in the Philippines. to-
sether with an all-round good record,
won Lieutenant Colonel George +.
Elliott his appointment as commandant
Of the Marine Corps. He is a native OF
Alabama. but was appointed to the
service from New York in 1870. He
now commands the marine barracks at
Norfolk.
General Bates has notified the War
Department that he has found and
arrested in Chicago Lieutenant
Thomas T. Murtaugh, United States
Coast Artillery, who deserted his
troops at Cienfucgos, Cuba, about three
weeks ago, leaving the exchange &C
counts mixed up. He will be sent to
Governors Island for trial by court
martial.
A military court of inquiry was con-
vened yesterday at Cayey P. r.. to in
vestigate charges Of Islander brought
against Captain Hamilton of the Porto
Rican Regiment. The complainant is
Chief Hammill Of the insular police.
The court, which is composed Of Major
Reed, Captain Carmichael and DR..
Ashford, is expected to forward its re-
port to Washington June %. Governor
Hunt has refused to suspend Captain
Hamilton from duty pending decision
in his case. All the testimony, so far
as known, has been unfaVorable to
Captain Hamilton. Captain Hammill
is now chief of the insular police, and
it has been asserted that Captain
Hamilton was anxious to obtain this
Office, and that enmity existed between
the two officers 1t is also alleged that
Captain Hamilton in order to further
his own ends, attempted to bride
soldiers to make affidavits as to Cap
tain Hammil's immortality.
Lieutenant Hamilton Foley has been
ordered to appear before court
martial in Manila to answer charges of
having embeZzled soldiers money and
with other financial irregularities.
Lieutenant Foley was aboard the
transport Thomas, which was about to
sail for San Francisco, when the
charges were made. Major General
Davis ordered the lieutenant to be de-
tanned pending an investigation.
Lieutenant Hamilton Foley, Fifth
Cavalry, is son of John P. Foley of
New York and a nephew of the late
John Russell Young. In 1893 he en-
tered the West Point Military Academy
from New York, but failed in his ex-
aminations two years later. During
the war with Spain he served as second
lieutenant of the Fourteenth New York
Infantry. He was commissioned
second lieutenant in the regular amy
in 1899 and was assigned to the Fifth
Cavalry. In 1901 he was promoted to
first lieutenant. Several times his con-
duet with regard to financial matters
has come to the attention of War
Department officers. 1t was known
that he was deeply in debt and that his
creditors were pressing him closely for
q settlement.