New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-08

midshipmen. He says the time has passed for any
Scn l ne Sa Ks tast me az .P OF
missioned personnel in jeopardy under such
eves to Continue the iacSadaiscai policy Of for
giveness; There has evidently been too much OF
In the mean time, the midshipmen at Annapolis
he ar 81 fhsY sas b so ong
deferred and many times threatened and then
withheld. For most of them the outlook is gloomy,
and already many are hoping their friends win
designations. instead OF resorting to dismissal For
most of the midshipmen it is simply a question
to In the latter instance none OF them will
return to the Naval Academy and all will be re-
CURED to serve out the full midsn1pInan period Pc
fore being finally graduated II IS realized IN the
is one of the most serious and far reaching which
has confronted the authorities. It comes from a
pioTabie and ' entirely without precedent in the
history of the service
TROOPS FOR PHILIPPINEs.-Army officers
are greatly worked up over the prospect that add-
tionaI troops will be ordered to the Philippines
The sudden and entirely unexpected assignment
OF two regiments OF infantry. the 1st and I'd, and
two batteries Of field artillery to island stations
has served to stimulate gossip every hand
throughout the military service. Any such i'm
preston prevailiAs in the military service has the
effect OF stirring things up. and the spirit Of
rest IS probably the most exasperating and wear
Ing OF anything which army people encounter The
programme for sending troops to the Philippines
In the course Of which six troops of cavalry
and four regiments of infantry and the two bat
teries OF field artillery will start for Manila This
VIII give in the total extra force Of 2OO0 men.
as compared with tho troops already there. The
impression prevails that other troops will be de-
tailed in the coming year. At all events It is GER
tain there viii be additional designations for
mands in the Philippines to take the place OF
troops due to return It is the plan of the War
Department not to keep troops IN the islands be-
yond two years.
NAVY FUNDS INSUFFICIENT-The Navy De-
partnent finds that the fund for the maintenance
of efficiency in the machinery Of ships of war is
not sufficient to keep the engines and boilers in
proper condition and considerable apprehension is
entertained TO the result of a sudden call upon
the naval force, when the equipment will be found
so far defective to seriously cripple the vessels
and certainly interfere with the promptness of re-
Spouse to demands and mobility Of action It Will
be necessary, according to the engineer in chief,
to appropriate 100000 and Congress will be asked
to make this allotment, the ground OF meeting
an emergency. There at present also certain
restrictions in the disbursement Of government
funds that the disbursements divided into
monthly fractions This has the effect OF imped-
ing the work and is a great embarrassment when
such projects reftting the Massachusetts at
Brooklyn or the New-Yo at Boston, to say moth
ing of the smaller ships which will go to the New
York yard in the present year for thorough over
paratively few small ships to overhaul, it has
of late been the practice Of the department to put
small ships out Of commission in order that larger
ones might be kept In and this has obviously been
source OF increased expenditure, for the up
keep Of the machinery OF ship Of 10000 horse
HORSEPOWER I,ast Tune 4ha br,reau ~ sffaSr, 49,
cheering appropriation divided into monthly
allotTnents, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, among
" expenditure for labor The experience OF the last
four months has demonstrated that II will not be