Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-28
SADLER'S ORDERS
CREATE SITUATION
FOR GOV. TAYLOR
New COmmander=in=Chief of
Jersey Guard Failed in Of
ficers' Test.
STATE CONSTITUTION VESTS
POWER IN CHIEF EXECUTIVE
FieIder's Successor Faces Per-
picking Problem on TAX
ing Office.

A situation, probably unprece
dented, arises with the induction of
| House Speaker Leon r. Taylor into
the Office of acting governor of New
Jersey. an
The Constitution of the State vests
certain powers, among them COM
mander-in-chief of the military and
naval forces of the State, in the Of
/ flee of acting governor, and that.
means governor in effect, vet gem
eral orders No. 40, issued by Adju
tant-General Wilbur f. Sadler, jr.,
through the regular military chan
nels, which gives the standing of the
officers who took the various exami-
nations held by the National Guard
Service School during the last year.
| places the acting governor in the
deficient list, as a memoer of the
National Guard
To the surprise of military men
throughout the State the order
shows that many of the officers of
high rank failed to qualify and are
reported in the order as deficient"
Among those who are reported in
the order as being deficient" is Act
ing-Governor Taylor, who ranks as
second lieutenant of Company H.
Third Infantry. He is declared de-
ficient because of his failure to have
solved an outpost problem which was
part of the armory school course of
/ last year.
In view of the fact that a governor
or acting-governor of this State is
| also commander-in-c chief of the Ma
tional Guard. the question now being
asked by military men is, What is
TO be done about t2''
The acting governor has it in his
power to settle the question, 1t Is
admitted. by revoking the adjutant-
generals order. but it places him in
a delicate position.
The State constitution, article v
(executive), section may, however,
settle it all. Section 6. article 5, under
! the caption Executive reads:
He (the governor) shall be the
commander-in-ch of all the mill
! tary and naval forces of the State;
he shall have power to convene the
whenever in his opinion public neces-
! sity requires it; he shall communi-
cate by message to the Legislature at
/ the opening of each session, and at
7, such other times as he may deem
necessary, the condition of the State,
4 and recommend such measures as he
I.may deem e&pedient; he shall take
fcare that the laws be faithfully
executed, and grant, under the great
| seal of the State, commissions to all
l such officers as. shall be required to
! be commissioned
I To change the State constitution
would require more than general
order from the adjutant-general.
| In General orders No. 49, Adjutant
Generals office, bearing date of Sep
tember "a, 1912, and establishing the
Department of Service Schools" it
| is set forth that in the event of an
officer failing to pass the examination
! conducted by the school, the said Of
/ ficer will be requested to tender his
resignation and be disqualified from
| further promotion. The paragraph re-
! lating to this is as follows:
"Any officer who fails to pass his
| examination in any subject, or who
by reason of sickness or unavoidable
absence has been unable to take the
| examination, he will be given
special examination at a time and in
a manner to be prescribed by the
director of service schools or one of
! his assistants. Should an officer fail
| to pass his second examination he will
| be requested to tender his resignation
as a commissioned officer of the
guard. will be disqualified from fur
! ther promotion, and his name will be
borne on the next annual published
| list from the office of the adjutant-
general as having failed in his school
course"
The order further shows that of the
/ 17S officers who took the infantry
school examination 157 passed, at
! tanning a mark of 70 per cent. or bet
ter. Second Lieutenant Walter H.
| Leedom, of the Third Infantry, heads
the list with a record of 81 per cent.
The second officer on the list is First
| Lieutenant Edward j. Rehmann, OF
| Company G. First Regiment, OF this
city. who completed his examination
with record of SO per cent. Captain
i. Newton Davies, adjutant of the
First Regiment, passed with "a per
cent and Captain William II. Cam
field, commanding Company B, First
Regiment, passed the test with a
record of 93 per cent.
The First Regiment, of this city, is
| the only organization which came out
| of the test with a clean slate, every
one of it's officers having passed the
examination.
The officers of the other infantries
who were reported as deficient are as
| follows: Second Infantry-Captain
| Marcus S. Farr. Captain Albert e.
Chase, First Lieutenant William c.
Burroughs, First Lieutenant ]. Bay
ard Kirkpatrick, jr., First Lieutenant
| Dennis A. Dooley, Second Lieutenant
| Harry M. Disbrow. Second Lieutenant
! Harry w. Bailey, Second Lieutenant
| Kenneth L. Hickman. Third Infantry
Captain William X Cookson. Cap
! tain Frank ]. Toner First Lieutenant
| Tuttle C. Walker First Lieutenant A.
Ralston Green, First Lieutenant
| Harry w. Schneider, Second Lieuten-
ant Leon r. Taylor. Fourth Infantry
Captain Lewis e. Jackson, First
Lieutenant Isaac N. Quimby, Captain
| Alexander MacGlasham, Second Lieu
/ tenant Edward I. Edwards, jr., Second
Lieutenant Hugh A. Curtis. Fifth
Infantry-Second Lieutenant Charles
| r. Hid
All of the officers of the field ar
tillery qualified in the examinations.
Captain Claude E. Lanterman, COM
manding Battery A. of East Orange,
ranks high with a percentage of 90
The officers of the First Squadron
Cavalry. who are reported as def
cient include Major William A. Bry-
ant. Ransom Van r. III. Stout, COM
manding Troop B, of Red Bank; Cap
tain Wilbour Kyle. commanding
Troop C, and Fire Lieutenant Russell
lP. Freeman. commanding Troop
| A. both of this city. These
officers are reported deficient be-
cause the director of service had not
received a complete record of their
work. Major Bryant is in COM
mand of the cavalry squadron, hav-
! ing been APPOINTED by Governor
Fielder several months ago. 1t was
expected he would be formally elected
to command the squadron within the
next few weeks.
] For the same reason as the cavalry