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Show (By XT. U.Tdograi-h.) SAVT MATTEUS. Washington, 3. The important question which has so long agitated navy officers in regard to the relative rank of officers appointed from the volunteers and the regular navy will be settled te-duy by the decision of '.he attorney general. In 1m5o a law was passed reorganizing the navy and placing it upon a peace footing. It was necessary to retain a large number of the officers of the volunteers and the law provided that a board should convene con-vene tor the purpose of deciding in regard re-gard to thoe who presented themselves them-selves for commissions in the regulars and to determine ho should lo ap pointed, subject to the deepens of the Pre.-idenr. and who wore to be rejected in the promotion of regular officers. Subsequently their eou:ir.i-.-i;i;s wore ante-dated to the time ot' the passage of the law. Some tim intervened before the volunteers were commissioned com-missioned in the navy and their commissions com-missions bfar the dve of their delivery. deliv-ery. To this the volunteers ordered, o-aiminir tint tber evmmis-inr.f shou:fi be ante -.fated and the que? tion bus ever since been on? '.f con-tant rontec-tion rontec-tion betwe n the iwo cia?-es. ;evera months ago the q'if-ti '0 was n ierred be the secretary of the navy :" the attorney at-torney general f"-r d-.ct!on The regulars regu-lars were repriced t.y Wiiiiam K Tarts, and rr.e vo urn. eta by t-x .-ecrt-tary Cox. The di'ci-it n wid fe in favor of t lie n'uunrs slihourfh the opinion i exprc?.-e i by the attori ty general that it Has irrtiU ar to snto-date snto-date the cooimiss ons of itie regulars but that it made no difference in the reauit. |