Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-20

ceeded to sanction new rules which
forever will prevent the admission TO
the press galleries of any newspaper
man who engages in the furnishing of
tips to stockbrokerage houses any
where.
Every correspondent in Washington
desiring TO be admitted to the press
galleries now must fill out an appii-
cation for admission and must sign a
statement which reads In part as fol-
lows:
II am not engaged in the prosecu-
ton of any claim pending before the
congress or any department; | am not
employed In any legislative or execu-
tive department of the government, or
by any foreign government or any
ployed directly or indirectly by any
stock exchange board of trade, or 9TH
er organization or member thereof, or
brokerage house, or broker engaged In
the buying and selling of any security
or commodity, or by any person or
corporation having legislation before
the congress; and | will not become
engaged in any of these capacities
while retaining membership In the gal
leries."
Officers Have Moving Day.
The first day of May this year
will be moving day, not only for
civilians, As always has been the case,
but for some of the ranking Off
GERS of the United States army. Gen.
Leonard Wood will leave Governors
island, New York, where he has for
some years been in command of the
most important army department, TO
go to Charleston, S. c., to take com
mand of and to organize more thor
oughly the Southeastern department.
Mai. Gen. ]. Franklin Bell will move
to Governors island to take command,
relinquished by General Wood under
order. Brig. Gen. Clarence Ransom
Edwards will report at Boston, Mass
to take command of the Northeastern
department of the army's activities.
be long one, as he will come aW y
from the 1sthmus of Panama, where
he has been in military command OF
the Canal zone, to the New England
coast
Promotion Not Roosevet's Act.
General Woods career is well known
to the American people. He was a sur
geon in the army and when he became
colonel of volunteers in the Spanish
war President Mckinley made him
Brigadier General. Curiously enough,
seemingly 90 out of every 100 Ameri-
can citizens think that Theodore
Roosevelt gave Wood his then almost
unparalleled promotion from colonel
of volunteers and captain of regu-
lars to the rank of brigadier general
of the United States army. General
Wood has n medal of honor for con-
spicuousA personal gallantry in the face
of the enemy.
Gen. Clarence r. Edwards, who takes
the high command in the New England
states, is less known to the American
people than General Wood. General
Edwards for years was bureau chief,
and while his field was large one. 1t
was removed in a general sense from
the area of military supervision, al
though it was directly under the war
department.
This soldier who has suddenly come
into the limelight of military opera
years ago. He graduated from the
United States Military academy in
the class of 1883. Instead of en-
tering the academy in June, as most
of his class did. he took advan-
tage of a provision of the law which
enabled him to enter in September.
Therefore he had something more than
two months less military training at
the academy than did his classmates.
The nickname Sep" short for Sep
TENDER, has stuck to him through the
years of his army life. He is popular
personally, and tall, handsome man.
Served Under General Lawton.
When Henry w. Lawton was killed
in the Philippines at the head of his
troops, Edwards, then a captain of in
fantry, was a member of his staff. He
came to America with the body of
his commanding officer and immediate
~ thereafter he was made chief of the
bureau of insular affairs with head
quarterssin the city of Washington. Al
that time William FL. Taft was secre-
tary of war; He was from Ohio, as
was Edwards, and he knew the Qualifi-
cations of the soldier. 1t was at Taft's
recommendation that Theodore Roose-
Welt put Edwards at the head of the bu-
reau which looked after affairs con-
nected with the ''noncontiguous pos
sessions of the United States"
For a good many years Edwards
served in the position of bureau chief
He was given the rank of brigadier
general, but the rank was to last only
so long as he kept his place as head
of the bureau. If Edwards had been
or lred back to duty with his troops
he would have been compelled to take
the rank which would have been his ii
he had continued in service with the
army in field or barracks. When the
time came for a change in the head
ship of the bureau President Taft
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