Show army promotions will be made tor merit only the president saturday Satu iday declared to senator of no s that in making the promotions to the br agadier general sh ps soon to become vacant he would be governed entirely by the record that it was his intention to promote tl ose whose records showed them to be most deserving of promotion and that neither personal con s durations de rations nor influence would count senator cullom bad called on behalf of major ballance who went into the army from peona and major macler nand a son of general mcclarnand ernand the latter was general shatters adjutant during the santiago campaign |