New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-09
GENERAL YOUNG RETIRES
CH4FFEE HEAD OF ARMY.
Long Last of Promotions and Re
tirements announced.
[FRoa THE TRIBUNE BUREAU J

Washington. Jan S.-The President to-day sent to
the Senate the following nominations OF officers pro-
NOTED in the army:
TO BE LIEUTENANT GENERAL
Major General ADNA p CHAFFEE. vice Young. to be
retired from active service.
TO BE MAJOR GENERALS
Brigadier General WILLIAM A KoBBE vice Charee
to hs appointed lieutenant general
Brigadier General JOSEPH p SANGER. vice Kobbe 20
be retired.
nrisadier General ALFRED F RATES. paymas,or gen.
eral. vice Sanger, TO be retired.
Brigadier General WALLACE + RANDOLPH eh.ef OF
artillery, vice Bates 10 be retired.
nrEaals5 Gsns5s GEORGE sEonGR L GILLESPIE !s ehot of
TO BE BRIGADIER GENERALS.
Colonel ALFRED MoRDEcAI Ordnance Department.,
Colonel HARRY l. HASKELL "a Infantry. vice Sanger
cooHs roEET II n. M3-si =, "a s',siqni 3s quarter
o'''s Eei 20 Be- rs,rai o''p'
Colonel JOHN q BUTLER, Ordnance Department,
Hathaway. 10 be retired
Colonel FRANK Nj. COKE, asss,an, paymaser general.
c0os 9s,lr1d 54coH KLINE 2'' Infantry vice True to S'
cOlone, WILLIAM Z, DoUcHERTY. s,h Infantry. vice
ColonA WILLIAM 5 McAsKBY. 2oth Infantry. vice
Klize to bc retired
cooss 2saa5%y HFR8 H36 j Nils to s Military
1eq,saa@: ;5.s1 C2one4 . ,yd1 2A M IS r. 5ci AE Corps OF En-
Lieutenant Colonel THEODORE E. True. deputy guar
termas,er general. vice Butler. 10 be retired
STAFF CORPS
Colonel FRANCIS 5. DODGE. assistant paymaster sen
pnymas;er geheTai vice Goso appointed brisaGior
EEfnSldis Ersadsr general % t5T ss
Bates
Colonel ALEXANDER MACKENZIE. Corps Of Engineers.
to be engineers. with the rank Of brisadieF
general 7ice Gillespie.
Gftiliery with tho RANK OF 6rlgader general. vice
Randolph
ARMY COMMENT ON PROMOTIONS
lob
Ing over list OF promotions criticised the pro-
motion and retirement of General A L. Bates. pay
master general. not justified by military prece-
dent If the action was 10 be construed as reward
of that officer, who was graduated from west Point
after the Civil Was The promotion. however Waa
commended for the opportunity il gavc for the ad-
vancement Of Colonel +. s. Dodge, an officer OF
great distinction and military activity. Ihere was
also some criticism Of General q. l.. Gillespie
whose promotion to major general caused the ap-
pointrnent as chief engineers OF Colonel Alexander
Mackenzie. one of the ablest officers Of the army
1t is a notable feature OF these nominations that
Colonel Mackenzie not Il candidate for promo
tion having replied to the tempting proposition OF
advancement over tho heads OF three colOnels that
he would not seek the place. The decision to make
him chief Of engineers was reached while Mackenzie
was on an official trip 10 Hawaii Line oiicefs think
that the place Of major general and the billet or
assistant chief OF staff should have been reserved
for n line colonel a general officer, and not nlIed
nv transfer OF the chief OF a staff corps.
The appointment of Colonel j. p. 3tory 10 be
chief of artillery gives pleasure 10 tat officers
friends because he really takes his old place In
relation 10 the two coIonels he jumps. When
story was graduated from West Point his class
mates were Colonels Charles Morris and s. NJ
Mills, who have been senior to him In the artll-
Iery CORPS At the time OF the graduation, in 1861
they stood relatively Story, Mills ana Morris. In
the days OF regimental promotion the order was
changed SO that the consolidation of the artil-
lerv arm, into corps these class associates stood
with Norris first Mills second and Story third.
His appointment TO be brigadier general and to the
as an instance where officer injured by the in
aoraut,es OF regimentaI promotion into his
some criticism was also made of the appoint
rhot officer is colonel only by virtue or being su-
perintendent of the Military Academy, 10 whlcI
duty he assigned while a hrSt lieutenant OF
cavalry on account of exceptionally prlilaht ser
vice in Cuba. Some digent statistician IN the Nal
Department has discovered that Mills pIactcaiy
takes precedence $50 offlcers whose names are
ahead OF his on the relative rank list Much specu-
iation was heard to-day regarding the future duty
of Colonel Mills. The impression prevails that ne
viii continue as Superintendent OF the Military
Academy, where he has been a most useluI ohIcla!.
Under his administration the institution mas Deeh
the West Point SUPPLEMENTARY was considered q
proper billet for a lieutenant colonel or colonel IS
not now considered to prevent continuing Co1ohei
Mills there as a brigadier general
expected that one or the appointments 10
the place Of bIigadier general wouia DC ina, & o.
Colonel f. H. CrOwder. Judge advocate; who was
on original list in anticipation OF tn9 promo
ton and retirement major general OF Bflgadler
General q. NJ Randall. The latter mas however,
refused 10 go on the retired list. and Crowder was
not promoted. The secret OF TINS chshge IN the
programme lies in the fact that Randall has re-
ceiyed the promise Of major generalship on the
retirsment Of General Gillespie. and he has days
margin to get the higher rar<|-