The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-09
MANY MEN ARE ADVANCED Roosevelt Sends in List
 i to Senate. MILLS MADE A BRlGADIER
MILLS MADE A BRIGADTER
The Captain is Jumped Over
 40) Brother officers.
Leader Charles r. Murphy Said to Have veered Around to Judge Parker for President Since
 His Statement.
Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building,

Washington, Jan. 8.
 The announcement today by President Roosevelt of wholesale retirements of Generals in the army and the promotion of several men way down in the list to be brigadier generals caused more excitement In military circles than anything that has happened since the phenomenal jump Of General Wood. Five Brigadier Generals were promoted to be Major Generals and retired, among them being several com paratively young men.
 General Randolph. chief military officer of the army. goes out as major general, and Is succeeded by Colonel John F. Story, now on duty at Governors Island. General Gillespie, Chief of Engineers. Is retired with the rank of Major General. and Colonel Alexander Mckenzie, who Is made a Brigadier General, succeeds him.
 Paymaster General Bates goes on the retired list as Major General and Col onel F. 1T. Dodge goes to the head of the corps. It wa sthought that this place would fall to Colonel Sniffen, who was General Grants private secretary.
 The promotion that occasioned the most gossip was that of Captain Albert L.. Mills to be Brigadier General. He is jumped over some 400 officers. Captain Mills is the Superintendent of the Military Academy and. as such has the pay and rank of colonel. He was badly wounded at Santiago Lieutenant Colonel Theo- dore A.. True Of the Quartermaster Gen. erals Department. is also made Briga- dier Gsneral, being Jumped over many of his seniors.
 The President today sent to the Senate the following nominations of officers to be promoted In the army.
 General officers to be Lieutenant Gen. eral--Adna R. ChafIee, vice Young to be retired from active service.
 To be Major Generals -Brigadier Gen. eral W. A. Kobbe, vice Chaffee, to be ap- pointed Lieutenant General; Joseph A. Sanger. vice Kobbe to be retired; Alfred E: RsAsg, Payplaeter 0enefal yiee San. Chief oE Artillery, vice Bates. to be fe- tired, and George Gillespie, Chief of En. glneers, vice Randolph, to be retired.
 To be Brigadier' Generals--C Colonels AL fred Morde cai, Ordnance Department. vice Kobbe; Harry Maskell, srd Infantry, vice Sanger; Forest H. Hathaway. Assistant QuartermAster General vice Mordecai to be retired Asher c. Taylor, Artillery Corps, vice Haskell. to be retired; and John c. Butler. Ordnance Department, vice Hathaway, to be retired; Frank M. Coxe. Assistant Paymaster General vice Allen. 70 be retired; Jacob Kline, Fist In-
  Kougherly sth Infantry, vice Coxe, to be retired; William 6. McCaskey, 2Oth Infan- try, vice Kline. to be retired, and Albert l.. Mills, Superintendent Military Acad- emy, vice McDougherty, to be retired.
 Lieutenant Colonels-Charies B. Allen, Corps of Engineers. vice Taylor. to be re- tired: Theodore h. True. Deputy Quarter. master General, vice Butler, to be re. tired : .4t Stan Ccrps--colonel Francis S. Dodge, Assistant Psymaster General (promoted from lieutenant Colonel and Deputy Pay master General, vice Coxe. appointed Brigadier GeneraI, to be Paymaster Gen. eral for the period of four years, vice Bates; Col. Alexander Mackenzie, corps of Engineers, to be Chief of Engineers, with rank of Brigadier General.
 Chief of General Artillery-General John B. Story. Artillery Corps. to be Chief of Atillery with rank of Brigadier General, vice General Randolph.
 The local newspapers are to-day re- marking two things they set down as notable in Democratic circles. They arc the rerival of the talk of Parker for President, and the fact that Congress- man William R. Hearst was not includ- ed at the Mcclellan harmony dinner last Monday.
 Much interest has been excited by re- ports in New York papers the last two days concerning the attitude of Charles F. Murphy, who until MT. Cleveland's letter to Editor McKelway of The Brooklyn Eagle, strongly favored the former for the nomination.
 The Tammany leader, 1t is said. is coming to Washington as the members of the National Democratic committee gather. and to advise the individual members that the choice of The New York Democrats for President will be Judge Alton B. Parker. Incidentally. 1t is stated Leader Murphy will advocate New York for the convention, and Pat rick McCarren for the chairmanship Neither of the latter propositions is re- ceived with much favor among South ern and Western Democrats. They in- cline to Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis for the chairmanship, and Chicago for the convention city, but Murphy's re- ported leaning toward Judge Parker Is regarded with general qualification.