Year: 1864

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The OvERsI.AuoHED NAVAL OFFUBRs-Of the
various measures proposed for the relief of the
naval officers deprived Of promotion by the &C
ton Of the secret and irresponsible tribunal
entitled the Naval Advisory Beard the bill in
troduced by Mr.. Rice, and which passed the
House Of Representatives last week, appears
to us the best adapted to meet the difficulties
of the case. There is no doubt that some of
the officers affected by the decisions of the
Beard ought to be removed from active service,
although they have good grounds Of remon-
STRANGE against decisions which were entirely
er pGrte in their character. Whilst admitting
chat injustice had been done in several instances
to deserving officers by the Board, the Navy De-
partment has steadily opposed any revision Of
its proceedings. on the ground that it might
afford an opportunity to those whom it was de-
sirable to exclude from promotion to regain
their positions Mr. Rice's bill meets this OBJ
lection. Whilst it provides that no line officer
Of the navy upon the active list below the
grade Of commodore shall be promoted to
higher grade until his mental, moral aud pro-
fessional fitness to perform all his professional
duties at sea shall be established to the salts
faction Of q board of examining officers ap-
pointed by the President, 1t gives to the officers
overslaughed by the action Of the Naval Advi-
sorry Board the right to present themselves for
examination in order that, if found duly quail
fed, and the finding is approved by the Presi
dent, they may be promoted as II they had been
recommended by the Board, and be thereby
entitled to the difference Of pay as waiting or
ders from the date of their rank to their pro-
motion. This is all that has been at any time
asked by the officers whose promotion has been
unjustly stopped. There is no doubt that the
Seuate will unanimously pass the bill, as they
did the measure of last session affording relief
to them, and which was SO unaccountably
"pocketed" by the President. II, In defiance Of
the unanimous wishes of both houses, the bill
should be vetoed by the Executive, the country
cannot fail 10 arrive at the conclusion that con-
siderations perscnA to some of his advisers
have Influenced his dec ision.


GREAT HOTEL ENTERPRISES Is not q
respectable hotel in the city but is at this time
crowded to excess. They may be said to have
been in q similar prosperous condition for a
long time past, and there appears to be, at the
present moment, no limit to their future sue
cess. This being the case, there is absolute
necessity for further hotel accommodations,
and such as will be likely to answer the pur-
poses Of great city destined, after its present
troubles are over, to be the metropolis of the
world The Legislature has passed two bills
chartering severally tho Grand and the Central
Park hotel companies. We understand that
these hotels will be conducted on scale Of
grandeur unexampled in the history of good
hotel keeping; and on that score the hotels Of
the United States stand at the head Of the
hotels Of the world. These new hotels will be
as immense in extent as they will be complete
In every respect conducive to the health,
comfort and happiness of their guests. We
hope they will be placed in the hands Of men
who literally know chow to keep q hotel"-
an American hotel at that. By the way, talking
Of hotels, how is it that there is no "New York
hotel stall" in the Metropolitan Fair? These
houses are acoumulating piles Of money from
the great influx of strangers in the city who
came to attend the Fair, and yet not hotel
in New York, that we have heard, has advanced
. dime in aid Of the Sanitary Commission.
How is this? Our hotel proprietors are not
growing greedy and mserly as they grow fat
and opulent are they?