Show u RUSH fOR JOBS UNDER THE NEW EW ARMY Bill IS OF VAST PROPORTIONS Special Correspondence Washington Dec 29 In anticipation tion of o othe the early y i e of an au army arny lion hundreds ds of volunteer officers mrs cers are applications with the war department for transfer to the perma permanent rma neat nent branch Practically Pr every volunteer officer hoW hotd bu a R staff ef commission iw 1 for ap in the regular army and has begun began to Ia lay plans and exercise exer ite political and aDd other Influences to further furtner his hs in interest terest The patronage trona from this source i will exceed that at the presidents dis disposal disposal during durin the early IJ months of the theS Spanish S nish war With til an n increase aae in the standing army arm from to K it would seem eem that the president pre would have hae it in his power DOwer to make hundreds of appointments especially to the lower grades from civil life but the bill is so gO drawn that thet volunteers v are to be given glyen preference From the Philippines where the largest number humber is in service ence applications come every day Especially true is this of the staff taff departments where the th pros Deet for tor the volunteers are particularly bright bri and where under the terms of the tile bill volunteers transferred to the regular establishment will receive the same une rank they he now noy hold Beady Ready to Take Lower Rank RankIn In the line there Is small prospect of any men being appointed who hold hokl a rank un under under der dr that of captain The army bill limits the appointments from the t e volunteer to the regular army to those officers who are aro not over 27 1 years yearn of age and they are arete areto te to be commissioned lond not above the grade of second lieutenant This provision would seem to discourage volunteers holding higher bi hel rank from applying for regular appointments but it has had ut lit tJ effect eff t and many first lieutenants and ann and an captains of volunteers are making known their desire to toe he transferred trans even with considerable less legs l rank titan than they now bold hoW Officers of the rank of or colonel lieutenant colonel and major of the vol volunteer volunteer service and nd coming from civil life Ufe at the beginning of the tile Spanish war will have havo little or no prospect under the army arm bill of f beine retained in the service They would not apply for appointments with wit lower Jowel rank and would probably be barred also under the age limit There are however few In this class as en the ma maJOrity of colonels of volunteer regiments regiment have bave come from the regular army arm in which they hold rank of or captains or even as low as second lieutenants I In the staff corps however there will be practically of the number now In the volunteers retained in the ser service serS S vice Cl and it in Is from this thin class cI that the greater number of or applications is 18 being received and for tor which the greater pres pressure presure sure ure is il exerted i J It Is estimated that probably TOO j officers will l be e appointed to the army from the I volunteer service There Thero Iw is I little JitU in the theline I line for the volunteers except IB In the lower I I grades but there Is no dearth de rth now of us as aspirants for these the places pieces It is I expected I that before congress centres adjourns adjourn the entire I I new list U t of army AnnY officers will have ha Yf been bi completed and the names sent to the tile sen son senate senI ate for confirmation President Pr Ascends Monument I President t McKinley ascended the Wash Vash Washington Washinton ington inton monument a few fen days das ago for the th first time He lie was accompanied by See Sec Secretary Cortelyou Cortelyon and the appearance of the chief hiet magistrate caused quite a fist flut flutter ut ter about the ham of oC the great shaLL shaft The tourists guides Ide and others who fre fcc freQuent Quent the monument clustered clu about the president nt and hi his hili secretary and evidenced their interest In the proceedings by b hand clapping and otter other demonstrations I The president walked Into the elevator eleva tor torand and signified his hl wish to be bf conveyed to the too tOD as quickly as possible The cia ele elevator vator is one of the slow but sure kind and takes ten ton minutes to run from the bot hot bottom bottom tom torn to the top too It was accompanied In Its Us ascent bv by b 8 a number of vis visitors vl kors who nimbly climbed the stairs ar arrived arrived arrived rived at the top as soon as the presidents dents car Hears Bears Attendants Tale President McKInley y took a keen Interest In the he t view from mm the top of the momi monument monument ment and listened with appreciation to the explanations vouchsafed by the blue coated guardian of the top of the oscil oscillations oscillations lations deflections and other peculiarities peculiarities ties of or the tallest stone monument in the world Descending De he expressed d his grat gratification n over el his So trip It i is not generally en ra f y known but the Washington monument deflects de to a con considerable considerable considerable extent from the perpendicular and that it stands at t all aU has been a scientific wonder The aluminum point which surmounts the monument swings around in a circle of six or seven inches fuches in diameter and surely the great mass massof massof of or stone and mortar swings with it St The windows from which wn fin outlook is ob oh obtained obtained are feet from the ground and andas andas as the day was clear the president gazed of the the noon n the finest nest view city District of Columbia and adjacent Vir Virginia ginia and Maryland territory he had bad over obtained |