New-York tribune., 1905-11-18
6O=02 West 23d Street.
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau. ]

Washington. November H.
| UNDESIRABLE NAVY PUBLICITY.-Secretar
Bonaparte has ordered that the annual reports of
| the navy bureau chiefs which have not yet been
| made public shall be withheld until he has an
| opportunity TO read them, and possibly until the
! appearance of his report This is the result
of the publicity attending the remarks and recon-
mendat tons of Rear Admiral c. w. Rae. engineer
in chief of the navy, the subject of naval per-
sonnel. The bureau chief went pretty thoroughly
into the question of the need of navy engineers
and in the course of his comments remarked that
the navy in position to win battles owing
to the lack of trained engineers and the failure of
the Navy Department to provide engineer officers
for ships of This assertion has attracted
much attention. especially abroad. and is consid-
cred to have been injudiciOus statement to make
admitting 1t to be true There is no subject which
Is approached more gingerly on every hand by
those in authority than anything which has do
with the naval personnel and in that general sub
ject comment upon naval engineering is regarded
be1iara re, tba ornnaI rarorts Of bitreon nbiefs
should not be edited, and that the opinions ex-
by hgher AUTHORITY unless il Is a desired that h the
great trouble has been that the head of the de-
partmen has little time to read annual reports and
hand Hereafter there Viii be greater care exer,
in the perusal of these reports lest there be
which viii embarrass the Navy Department in its
lans for obtaining 9 legislation n 1t It is desired s also
will attract much attention abroad
ORDERS IssUED-The following army navy
and marine corps orders have been issued
ARMY.
First Lieutenant ROBERT X SPILLER, 26th Infantry.
an iRGTf p69 59 s 70 Phadepn for
duty at Philadelphia +. .
CAPTAIN LEvERT COLEMAN. from 3sth Company. Coast,
Arssy to aTsFg dsT rs district f s sar 6e. with
3sth Company. Coast Artillery
Colonel 1oN IL CHEF HN Of + for da
Major JoN ToTR At ady Sfs:s
Second Lieutenant FREDERICK H syENsoN. Sd IN IN
fantry from hospital. Vancouver Barracks to Fort
..-istar+ Surgeon z A vICKERY, detached
ing ship FRANKLIN. yard. Norfolk. granted leave
u"''' MARINE CORPS.
Captain + f K appats sa
Idsts az gRe eout + MARTIAL M on the Boston
Captain ARTHUR 7. NARY detached at headquarte1s
tqainI6g tqsf1h9 station San Francisco
caDtain HENRY G. DAVIS detached marine barracks
Captain F. H DELANo to the cincinnati charge of re
cruiting district, relieving First Leutenant d w
RF4Kh f6r tsnpoTafy Th9 PF2Sss'' dnfy 70 '
Captain FRANK E EVANS retired upo9 completion Of
and report to brgadier general. commsndsnt
rne barracSs navy Washington marine bar
racks, pensacola
First Lieutenant HARVEY c. EGAN detached naval hos
pai Mare Island; to home
Second Lieutenant FREDERIC KENSEL. marine bar
racks, navy yard. Washington
cantafn ARTHUR E HARDING to office OF Judge advo-
general OF the navy
First Lieutenant b H PURCELL. detached naval hospi
taI Mare Island. 10 marine barracks; for duty
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.-The fol-
lowing movements Of naval vessels have been re-
ported: 1,,,1-r,
,ro.e-rber 16T71e Bakeiy the Stewart
T5royincetov-n: the worden and the MacDonough at
BOSTON. the Tacoma Tompknsvile; the Princeton
at san Francisco: Paul Jones at San Francisco;
the SandovaI a Annapolis.
November 1.-THE Minneapolis at Cherbours
SAILED.
November 1s-The Blakely from Norfolk for Yorktown
the stewart from Boston for Proyincetown; tne
Worden and the MacDonough. from Provincetown Tor
t9og+or- Tacoma New-York yard for ToHp-
kInsye; the Chattanooga. from Nevy-York yard for
Cleveland, from Sanchez Tor san
1nsn. the SCORPION from Juan for Sano Domingo
S'ity. the Uncas. Boston for Rocklano' lne
S,ai|fo from san Francisco for Valparaiso the Pau
49, froTn Mare Island for San Francisco