The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-24
CIVILIAN WILL
RULE THE ARMY
General Staff Eliminates the
Lieutenant General.
PRINCE HENRY COMING OVER
EASTERN REPUBLICANS ARE
AGAINST CUMMINs IN IOWA.
PRINCE HENRY COMING OVER

Especial to The Herald-)
Washington, May 23-The United
States army is in a curious state of
Reorganization at the present moment.
This is due to the radical change in
its management brought about by the
adoption OF the general staff idea. The
general staff is composed of some
twenty officers Of more or less expert
ence. who viii exercise the functions
heretofore employed by the various
heads of the army-the quarternaster
general, the inspector general, commits
sary general etc. The general STAFF
viii still further nullify the influence
Of the lieutenant general when that
officer happens to be as obnoxious to
the secretary Of war as the present one
In fact, the general staff viii be the
whole thing, and, with a secretary Of
war who wants his own way, as does
the present one. it viii prove but a
method by which the secretary will be
the actual head Of the army. The gen
eral staff viii be combatted by the
several heads OF the army departments,
but this opposition will be without
avail. for the staff is now organized
In accordance with the law of which
Secretary Root was the author and
cnler advocate The members are
manly young men, energetic and am
bilious, and they viii leave very little
but routine duties for the old gray
boards, who after many years Of serv-
ice get into comfortable berths in the
department. Secretary Root signaIized
the general staff organization with a
dinner party to all of the members Of
the STAFF and a number of the higher
ranking officers of the service on Fri
day night Of this week. The notice
able absentee was Lieutenant General
Miles, who is persona non grata in
higher army circles at the present time
and will be until he leaves the service
next [au.
White House Repairs.
The continued criticism of White
House so-caIled improvements is be-
ginning to have effect It was appar-
emily a little thing to have sight-seers
and visitors turned away from the
front door and be compelled to walk
back to the street and down a side
street to the new entrance, but the
multitude Of complaints had an effect.
Mrs. Roosevelt has taken a hand in
arrangements, and under her direction
the architect Of the White House i'm
provements VIII have a fight Of steps
built so that visitors may. reach the
side entrance without taking the long
walk as at present. Mrs. Roosevelt
VIII have the asphalt driveway leading
to the pOrtico in front of the White
House torn up and replaced by a mar
row stone driveway. Ine wide asphalt
drive is excessively hot in the summer,
and is not needed now that the general
carriage approach is to the side en-
trance.
Penrose For Chairman.
Senator PenrOse is being talked Of as
a possible chairman of the Republi-
can national committee for the next
presidential campaign. His. colleague,
Senator Quay. is DESTROYS that Pennsyl-
vania take the leading position to
which her Republican majOrities en-
title her and this may be done with
Senator PenTOse in the leading place in
the national committee. PenrOse has
grown rapidly during the past two
years in the politics Of his own state,
and is an apt pupil of that king Of po-
Htical craft, Senator Quay.
Prince Henry Coming.
It is announced that Prince Henry OF
Prussia will make another tour Of the
United States. more extended, in fact,
than the first. He is to present the
statue Of Frederick the Great TO the
United States government in Washing
ton on the occasion of his next visit
which will be timed so that ne may
attend the St. Louis exposition in 1904.
Prince Henry gave evidence that he
was possessed Of many democratic
characteristics when he made his tour
in 1902 On the occasion Of his visit 20
the capitol he was given a, luncheon in
the committee room of the senate COM
mittee on military affairs. It vas a
stand-up affair, but those giving it had