Show I TTctti J dIr i TOO ltNlfNT WTH lOVIRING F MKINLEY A5TD ALGER DISSATISFIED DISSAT-ISFIED WIT p CIS 9N Secretary of War Determined to Ee vivo the Segulationsof Old General Gen-eral Winfield Scott r Washington DeeZThe judge advocate advo-cate general of the armyj General Llc I her now has the Levering case in hand and is preparing the reprimand which I will be administered to the captain in conformity with the sentence of the I court martial I is said at the war department that the president and I I Secretary Alger are dissatisfied with I I the leniency shown by the court in this case and the reprimand will be so j sweeping in terms as to amount to a I severe condemnation of those officers I of the army who have shown by words or actions their approval of Captain Loverings actions Secretary Alger has been looking into the whole subject of I the relations between the officers and I enlisted men and found a regulation laid down by Major General Scott which while not new in the regulations I regula-tions expresses so clearly Secretary Al gers idea of proper regulations that i iB likely that i will be revived into an active regulation This regulation is j aa follows I I General regulations for the army 1S25 revised by Major General Scott I I Article 2Base of discipline or subordination I sub-ordination I I ordInaton 3I is the intention of the govern ment that there b established in every regiment and corps and throughout the army as one corps a gradual and universal subordination or authority which without loss or force shall be even mild and paternal and which founded on justice and firmness shall maintain all subordinates in the strictest strict-est observance of duty I requires that enlisted soldiers be treated with particular par-ticular kindness and humanity that punishments sometimes unavoidable be strictly conformable to martial law I and that all in commission conduct direct I di-rect and protect inferiors of every rank with the cares due to men from whose I patriotism valor and obedience they are to expect a part of their own reputation I repu-tation and glory oesto I |