Show t I f IS AN N EXPERIMENT L Stok Stokes s to Ha Have e Charge of Hos- Hos jr f. f pita pital Ship for Only fc f Six Months IrV tr i ON THE BROWNSON AFFAIR President President Expressed No Rei Regrets Re URe- i grets at Retirement of Rear Admiral t t I Washington D Dec c. c 27 diving on o e 1 llie Uie command of or the Use hospital ship H.- H. Ilef let to Surgeon St Stokes on 1 the tze m or of Burgeon General Generl I In It to ua 10 only 1 an experiment to be le U out hr Cor mix sk i months This Is I. one on of oC the not to lo extraordinary dc- dc ia ea ay ee- ee or of fO today B in the war among tho tile the n naval Jual bureaus the revelations In which eo ao fur tUI point to a 0 thorough In- In r ton 1 by congress or a 0 S tl tIa l of oC Surgeon General l or both Ua L I Another development Is tIL the Issuing of or nil au al order detaching Hear Admiral J Drown on from active duties luUs and dl- dl el- el S r r- reeling him hi to retire to his home ant T Tt I t 6 L L' L B By fly Ul thin act he will wi no longer longcr be Ic en- en r 5 5 tilled Ulel to lo serve nerve on th the general naval navalL na al lj L t S S board of wh vl which Id Ich Admiral Dewey Is ts L I 4 chairman and on which hr ho hr helped to toS S w plan for the departure of or the tho fleet fee for or ft S S t. t S tIe the tle Pacific So S far fur as us l known now Hear HearT Hor T 5 Admiral Brownson will vl be he retired as 5 rear admiral admiral He lie will wi get Ket 75 Th per cent t of oC n a 1 rear a admirals admiral's IU pay which Is 18 7 OO S 'S 11 It 1 lt Is estimated that this reduction and ane his Ills lo Ios 10 of ot quarters cool coal etc elc to which ho JI was WIS vas entitled when whon in active i duty S will wH bo ho nearl nearly He Ho now nou pay pay as he hc goes SOBS goes out outS S of or his retired rank pa pay It I was wa learned lOlla today that thit th the President S dent ent in accepting Admiral J Brownson's S resignation performed that function In tn Ina Ina a very tow low minutes and wor words a The S admiral sent his rell resignation nuton to the Ule White House about 1 o'clock I p. p m. m and 31 S I the liC reporters stationed In the tl White hIte WhiteHouse House knew he le fact of at the acceptance r almost Imme Immediately latel after ter the receipt of ot f c r the Us letter leter The resignation was announced an an- anS announced S formally at once once S o I 0 I ret IN S. S While hILe Admiral Brownson still mainc maintains main maln- c his melancholy silence perhaps prudently avol avoiding u a r nt HOlf If tho th t t l nn n r S J iii phrases ric i In a accepting It 1 th the sig flu nulon nation lion The letter runs runK most mostly to r the lie effect your your our resignation is accepted u Ver Very ofen often perhaps nl cr lJ- lJ when S an officer Is la relieved by l letter Jt it J is J customary to refer tol r to the th valuable set ser services er- er vices fees of or uch sieh er cr and to 1 say someS some some- lum- lum S nice to him hll iv 1611 ni when titi Mi of- of 0 10 or or tret a n cloud JC If lie lie- had 1111 hen H 11 a valuable cOI leac J ure ur x- x Lf n U ote etc etc onu of at that was WAB val c done no ml In Inn ll r I. I lw I I L e l eL J C 5 th that make ulal ot of ael to U e H a t 0 R surgeon TUI m ot of u. u 1 i ship I fOl for only onty six I months month It I he did hl Know now it I Is apparent that thai 11 he would woul not corn com promise enl c even n for tor sl six months If H he ho I not Ot know 1 It It then t n Surgeon G I IS S lUxey U UR and hut 1118 hit held hel something up UI their heir sleeves I The lie rul r tolu today is that there I f U u a resentment Kome- Kome where un and tutu this has been caused causel by bythe b bythe the tempest which has h been Ien raised ee In Iii Inthe the na navy y department and the desire to S soften tho the resentment of or congress That S d bo-d 0 boily Is t. now no certain to th take taIt action acton 5 looking to the enforcement of the publication pub pub- S of ot the clr correspondence which led leti to the l resignation o of lel I The rite question has so many angles n les S. S f that f there I Is Iw no doubt 4 th there will wUl be hp a i flood o 1 of r s. resolutions u oci of all J kinds es especially es- es b by repress repress' s who are arc areS S opposed d to the extension of or the navaS nava'S naval nava CI 1 S establishment Th lb will wil nave something some some- which to Lo base their Ob o. Objections S. S thing now OW op or which this I to tho tim nava naua budget bulet it In Involves Involves In- In year yar 1 Is of groat gloat Importance as a S new W construction to the thc extent 1 clon S of of four tour J un and seven sven cruisers I Didn't lIdit Sign SignS II S 'S It is reported that Dr Rixey had hal made 1 out his application to have StirS Surgeon Stir Sur S geon goon Stokes designated for ros' command cornS com corn sur-I sur S mand inand of ot the hospital ship fler Relief but 5 the order was not KI signed nel h by Secretary Secretor 5 S 3 Jt was I 8 said th there Ie was vas wal really no hurry bun In In this affair The ship mo may S Si not flat sail sul for tor a u month yet ct The he navigation tion Uon bureau bure also allo thinks that there need neet S be no hurry in appointing Stokes B to toS S command It certain however howe I that ho he will wl eventually be designated as the commanding officer r Ono of the th tb highest officials of the S 5 nay navy kno knocked hicl Into a I cocked hat the theS S contentious of or DI Dr that the liesS lies hos- 1101 S shin was un it an nn ii independent LitIn thing all al y e by Itself and nf that sat the e surgeon surgeon In com com- com comI I t mand m should have supreme command S of ne the floating lave hospital The Tho na navy nary deS dc- dc I f S J J 5 says that the moment tin tin- tl ii ship shiV gets In touch with wih the fleet feet and ami und t f it mn may 1 be Dr nr luxey's Uleys Uley's surgeon would ou It b bi b. b commanded COlma l by Admiral I ra I Evans This Thil so IO it 1 is lI regarded as us I 0 ludicrously u strong that the tle noal naval ul hui bu- bu eau und r s tir Ri-tir Admiral i- i could not 1 tin tin- ship I |