Show RAWLINS OPPOSES BATES CONFIRMATION BECAUSE OF O THE SOLO Sill TREATY i Washington Feb 13 l The rhe senate held two executive scions aio s iIo today at with the result re that the tl presidential nom nominations nomInations to the te office q of ef b ler gen general general genera eral era were led Dh nominations n which caused a d rc those of ot General Ge l Bates W and Bell Senator Pettigrew criticised cri General I Bates nomination because that officer had bad negotiated ne the the tc t ty which treaty he attacked attack sharply I Senator Senat r Teller mad and also joined fn fit inthe the criticism of oE the Sulu S lu I treaty They referred especially p to its I recognition of the institutions ns of slay slav slavery ery er and polygamy which they claimed was repugnant to the tastes of the pee peo people pl of this country as well as 88 to the constitution No one however made I objection to General Generl Bates B tes confirma confirmation J tion Uon when the time lime for tOry a vote was I Irea reached rea bed The criticism of Or Geneva Wood was I confined conn ned to the fact t t that b his military record was not extended Sen tee Bate Bilte I of Tennessee Tenne ee and Jones Joea o of f Arkansas objected to the nominations of General Genera Wood Grant and Bell BeD On n the ground that their nominations Dominations constitute a breach of the rule of ot seniority in the I army and exceptional emphasis was I laid upon General Woods nomination I Ion on that account It was held to w t be un unfair unfair i fair to other officer who had seen long service in the field Senator Pettigrew i contended that General Wood was without practical pra experience n the art artof artor artof of or war and as a leader of o men He said the general bad hind gone into the army as a contract contrat surgeon and had done very little If If he be said that sort of or favoritism was to be continued the Went w Point academy demy might as well be bc abolished aboH bed Among those e who spoke in ii support of the presidents pr right to appoint a as he had done were Senators Cockrell Cochrell and Pettus both Democrats who said that as the law conferred the discretion of selecting officers regardless of the rule of seniority and as the selections in inthis inthis Inthis this case appeared to have been wisely wis ly made they thy could not see ee th their lr way YBy clear to cast their vote against his nom nominations nomInation In this particular instance Senator Lodge upheld the nomina nominations nominations nominations He said that criticism of a man who had doneso much for tor the country J Jas as General Wood had done at a critical time is preposterous x Tha Th explanation was made on behalf of the president that he especially de di d sides to reward General Wood for his services in Cuba and that he thought hought his rank should be high in Incase case he should be called to discharge other high offices in the future No roll call can was vas demanded on the confirmation of the tIle nominations The nominations confirmed are as follows James H Wilson of Delaware ware anti and Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia now now briga brIm brigadier brigadier dier generals of volunteers to be brig brigadier adier adler generals in the regular army Colonel John C Bates United States army major general U S V to be brigadier general Lieutenant Colonel J T T JR R R Campbell Thirtieth infantry United States vol volunteers volunteers volunteers to be brigadier general United States volunteers Colonels to be brigadier generals Lloyd Wheaton George W Davis Theodore Theodores Schwan Samuel S Sumner Robert P Hughes George M Randall Also Captain Leonard Wood now major general U S V Major W A Kobbe now brigadier general of vol volunteers volunteers volunteers Brigadier General Frederick D Grant U S V and Captain J 3 i Franklin Bell now brigadier r general g ner l lof of volunteers The president pr today sent the Uie nomina nomination nomination tion Uon to the Hie senate of Charles A Boutelle of Maine I to be a captain on the retired list of the navy |