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Should the proposition fail in the House, as I think it has, or will (Congress adjourns tomorrow, till Jan'y 4th)- then the Sec'y of War will make up the transfers to the supernumerary list of such as he proposes to get rid of and they will go out under the law. There will be over 100 officers. | Should the proposition fail in the House, as I think it has, or will (Congress adjourns tomorrow, till Jan'y 4th)- then the Sec'y of War will make up the transfers to the supernumerary list of such as he proposes to get rid of and they will go out under the law. There will be over 100 officers. | ||
The Secretary will not be likely to publish his list of supernumeraries till the last minute, as he would be bothered to death by the friends of those he put on it. He says now that the Congressmen who did most to pass the reductive law have each a dozen unassigned frineds whom they now insist the law was not intended to touch, and the generally them put into the | The Secretary will not be likely to publish his list of supernumeraries till the last minute, as he would be bothered to death by the friends of those he put on it. He says now that the Congressmen who did most to pass the reductive law have each a dozen unassigned frineds whom they now insist the law was not intended to touch, and the generally them put into the Cavalry or Artillery. The pressure of unassigned officers and their frineds for the vacancies, | ||
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Should the proposition fail in the House, as I think it has, or will (Congress adjourns tomorrow, till Jan'y 4th)- then the Sec'y of War will make up the transfers to the supernumerary list of such as he proposes to get rid of and they will go out under the law. There will be over 100 officers.
The Secretary will not be likely to publish his list of supernumeraries till the last minute, as he would be bothered to death by the friends of those he put on it. He says now that the Congressmen who did most to pass the reductive law have each a dozen unassigned frineds whom they now insist the law was not intended to touch, and the generally them put into the Cavalry or Artillery. The pressure of unassigned officers and their frineds for the vacancies,