Show I LINE AND STAff 1 r t I Lieutenant Commander Cone Will Be Chief of Bureau of Steam Engineering f Washington May il y 14 HA A protracted line line and arid staff ff controversy over the bu bureau bureau reau of steam engineering ring of the th navy department was Was as settled today loday by tt j t de detail d tall tail of Lieutenant Commander A tj i inson 1 I Cone as Una lins officer Lie ten ant Commander cones nomination to tobe tobe be he chief of or of steam st m engi engineering engineering with the th rank of rear admiral was later sent to the senate today I Commander Cone was formerly of the he engineers corps which was merged Into th the line of the navy naY years e rs the th operation of the personnel His Itis IIi ap appointment appointment Is gratifying to the line which looked with disfavor on the designation designation designation nation of Admiral Capps a staff stat officer as acting head h d of the bureau and which has viewed with dissatisfaction lon the in increased Increased Increased creased power given to staff taft officers particularly at the navy yards under the Newberry m HI plan Secretary Meyer selected elected Commander Cone as chief of the bureau shortly after March 4 when It became apparent eat ent that congress opposed the Newberry plan pinn of or merging the bureaus of steam engineering and construction and U it be became became became came desirable to appoint an officer at atthe atthe atthe the head he d of or the engineering engl bureau tureau After Commander Cones had been made it was ama tU held heldt ii Ia abeyance atH e but yesterdays of or the attorney general declaring the tM position of chief of the bureau of o 0 steam engineering e va vacant vacant vacant cant as ps a result of Afi Bartons retirement for disability di cleared th t tway the way for tOt the appointment apP Commande Cone commanded landed the t torpedo flotilla on the long lone 10 voyage around South America when tho At Atlantic Atlantic lantic battleship fleet was wu oi 01 o Its trip around the world When hIs hia hi flotilla reached San Francisco Commander Corn mender Cone Cane was made fleet Reet engineer Ineer ett nC tf C the Atlantic fleet fot t and it from San Francisco to Ham toads funds I |