Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-06-22
MORTON
DECLINES
To Accept the Position Of Secre.
tsry Of War rendered Him
by President Roosevelt.
THE USE OF
COAL AS FUEL
FavorabIy Reported by o Board Of Naval
Officers After Comprehensive
Study Of the Subject,

From Washington comes the news
that President Roosevelt invited Paul
Morton, second vice president of the
Santa Fe Railway. to accept a position
in the cabinet as secretary of war and
that Mr.. Morton refused the honor.
Paul Morton is personal friend OF the
President who has a high regard for
his ability and has been looking for an
opportunity to make him member of
the cabinet for some time Upon the
appointment of Attorney General
Knox as Senator from Pennsylvania,
it was decided to transfer Secretary
Moody to the department of justice
thus causing vacancy in the cabinet
and it was then that the President
wired Mr.. Morton asking him to come
TO the Capital at once. On his arrival
the President rendered him the posi-
ton of secretary of the navy, for which
the latter expressed his gratitude and
said that he would like to accept but
that he knew nothing whatsoever
about naval matters and that he pre-
ferred to stick to the railroad business
of which he had fair knowledge and
for which he was fitted.
Five Assistants Appointed.
Five assistant superintendents of the
railway mail service at large have
been appointed as follows: William S.
McGinniss. Olney, Illinois; J. M. Mas
ten. Indiana; Walter S. Hickman. ST..
Joseph, Missouri; Frank Vail, former
director OF posts in the Philippines,
and George Carr of Honolulu. These
men are to be personal representatives
of the second assistant postmaster in
the United States and its possessions.
Coal and Oil as Fuel.
A report of conclusions reached
from comparative study OF the use
of coal and oil for running steam YES
sells has been submitted by board of
naval officers. These conclusions were
reached after tests consuming 2o
months. The board speaks in most
favorable terms of the use OF Oil as
fuel, though there are some attendant
dangers and difficulties. 1t also re-
ports that oil should not be used as
auxiliary or supplementary to coal. 1t
holds that all furnaces should depend
alone upon oil as fuel.
System of Military Education.
An order has been issued by the
general staff of the army prescribing
a general system of military education
at all the schools in the service. in
cluding post schools, for the instruc-
ton of enlisted men, garrison schools
for the instruction of officers at posts,
special service schools, the military
academy, the general service and stan
college at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
and the army war college in Washing
ton. The new order changes the
name of the post school for officers to
the garrison school,
The curriculum for the engineer
school is for the first time set forth IN
detail. The signal school is establish
ed at Fort Leavenworth. The general
service and staff college disappears
and in its place are two schools at
Fort Leavenworth, to be known as the
infantry and cavalry school and the
staff college.
The graduates of the infantry and
cavalry school are hereafter to consist
of officers especially selected because
of their proficiency in the garrison
school and their general military eftl
cheney. The course of instruction al
the school is more advanced than the
course of the general service and stat
college and it includes department il
Spanish.
A new regulation in regard to the in
fantry school, and the engineer schoo
nroyides for a change in the methods
of selecting honor graduates. Th'
honor graduates of each of thes
schools will consist of those officer
receiving 81 per cent in their final eS
animation. The order provides tina
there shall be no examinations in tn
staff college at Fort Leavenwortf
Graduates of this college will be born
on the army register with the initial
&c. s. c. before their names.
The personnel of the war colleg
consists Of a president, who shall b
general officer; two directors, VIII
shall be officers of the general staff
the senior of the rank of colonel an
the Junior not below the rank OF lle'
tenant colonel; a secretary. who sha
be an officer of the general staff, an
officers of the general staff on duty
the third division thereof and sue
students as may be from time to tim
detailed in orders from the war d
partment. An important part OF tn
order is that relating to the attendant
of militia officers at garrison and Sc
vice schools.