Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-11

AZ nas practically been decided that
Major General j. Franklin Bell will sue
coed Major General w. p. Duvall In COM
mand Of the Philippine division, when the
latter officer retires under operation OF law
in January Of next year. Major General
Leonard Wood. who comes to Washington
in April as chief Of staff, will be succeeded
in the command OF the Department Of
the East by Major General f. ID. Grant,
who, in turn, will be relieved at Chicago
In Of the Department of the
Lakes, by Major General w. II. Carter,
now in command Of the Department Of
Luzon. General Bell expects to avail him
self OF extended leave OF absence in April
and will probably visit Europe.
An examination OF the records of the
adjutant general of the army dlscloses the
interesting fact that of the 400 commits
stoned officers on the active list Of the
military establishment only twelve served
in the army, navy or marine corps during
the civil war, otherwise than as cadets
prior to April Q, 1865. The following Is the
lisi of those officers:
General Offlcers-Brigadier General Earl
d. Thomas, Brigadier General Charles Nor
ton, Brigadier General Charles l.. Hodges
and Brigadier General Daniel H. Brush.
Judge Advocate Generals Department
Brigadier General George B. Davis, judge
adv ocate general.
Quartermaster's Department - Colonel
John L: Glenn, Lieutenant Colonel william
w. Robinson, jr.; Lieutenant Colonel j.
Estcourt Sawyer and Captain Daniel w.
Arnold.
Subsistence Department-Coione James
Corps Of HnEineers-Brigadier General
William L. Marshall, chief Of engineers.
Signal Corps-MRjor Eugene .. Feohet.
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tires March IA, General Morton on March
IS, Colonel Robinson on April 81, General
Marshall on June II end Colonel Sawyer on
July 8 Of the present year.
1t looks as If the bill introduced by Rep
resentatlve f. w. Roberts to provide a
means for registering communication by
wireless telegraphy would receive congress
sional approval, as 1t should. That cause
has been materially fortified by reports
made by the Navy department AMI lie
Treasury department OF glarlng instances
Of interference with official messages OF
an important character sent from naval
ships and revenue cutters. These quota
tions from the logs of vessels should have
much influence at the capitol. An instance,
which has occurred too recently to DC in
corporated in the Treasury department re-
port, concerns a trip Of the revenue cutter
Gresham, which left Boston on an urgent
wireless appeal, which seemed 20 indicate
a collision between two big steamers off
Lynn, Mass, during the late heavy storm,
The Gresham started out from Boston,
with the promptness which is characteristic
Of revenue cutters under such circum-
stances, and later got into communication
by wireless with the Boston navy yard,
only to find that the call was evidently a
prank by some inland amateur wireless
operator. This form of amusement cost the
government some expense, to say nothing
Of the trouble and risk involved. IT Is nigh
time that congress adopts measures which
win prevent such reckless pastime.
It was a grave mistake for those respon'
sible for the erection of the statue OF Rob
ert e. Lee in Statuary hall at the capitol
to have accepted a design which shows
that hero In the grab of a confederate
officer. 1t gives the critics an opportunity
to proclaim against what under other con-
dTttons, need have excited no adverse com
ment, for the career of Lee t~ustifies Vir-
ginians in regarding him as entitled to a
place with the other distinguished Ameri-
cans who have been represented in stone
or metal IN Statuary HAL. II Is mucn
more agreeable to record an incident which
occurred recently in Memphis, Tenn, and
for the knowledge of which we are in
debted to Captain William N. Hughes,
U. s. A., retired, who is on duty with the
organized militia of Kentucky. There is,
in Court square in Memphis, a statue of
Jackson, the base OF which originally, at
the time Of its erection, long before the
civil war, bore the inscription: "The union
must and shall be preserved" At the time
OF the wal OF the rebellion this quotation
was removed. When the name of Jeffer-
son Davis was restored to the tablet on
Cabin Johns bridge, near Washington,
prominent citizens OF Memphis, led by
Colonel Robert Galloway, who was a gal
liant officer in the confederate army, took
prompt steps to ave the inscription re-
placed on the Jackson monument. This
shows a spirit OF loyalty which it is agree
able to record.
Now thai the time Is approaching for
recommendations of regimcntal officers for
detail at the army school of the line, the
War department is prepared to receive the
usual number of requests for Interpretation
Of what officers shall be so detailed, and
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