cient to cover his indebtedness to the Government, including the price of purchase as fixed by the authority ordering the discharge. 5. Applications of enlisted men of the Ordnance Department for discharge by purchase will be forwarded through military channels to the Adjutant General of the Army for the action of the Secretary of War. 6. Except under paragraph 4 discharges will not be granted under the provisions of this order to soldiers serving in Alaska or outside the continental limits of the United States, except when their organizations are ordered to return thereto, nor when serving within the States and Territories of the Union after their organizations are ordered to change stations. 7. Discharges by favor as distinguished from purchase being illegal will not be granted except under the provisions of section II of this order. II. Section 30 of the act of February 2, 1901, authorizes discharge by favor under the following conditions, viz: In the event of the enlistment of a soldier in the Army for the period required by law and after the expiration of one year of service, should either of his parents die leaving the other solely dependent upon the soldier for support, such soldier may, upon his own application, be honorably discharged from the service of the United States upon due proof being made of such condition to the Secretary of War. Applications for discharge under this section will be forwarded with the required proof for the action of the Secretary of War. III. Paragraphs 156, 157, 158 and 160, Army Regulations, are revoked. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, Acting Adjutant General. No. 49. WASHINGTON, March 16, 1904. I..The following Executive Order is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: EXECUTIVE ORDER. All officials of the Government, civil, military, and naval, are hereby directed not only to observe the President's proclamation of neutrality in the pending war between Russia and Japan, but also to abstain from either action or speech which can legitimately cause irritation to either of the combatants. The Government of the United States represents the people of the United States not only in the sincerity with which it is endeavoring to keep the scales of neutrality exact and even, but in the sincerity with which it deplores the breaking out of the present war, and hopes that it will end at the earliest possible moment and with the smallest possible loss to those engaged. Such a war inevitably increases and inflames the susceptibilities of the combatants to anything in the nature of an injury or slight by outsiders. Too often combatants make conflicting claims as to the duties and obligations of neutrals, so that even when discharging these duties and obligations with scrupulous care it is difficult to avoid giving offense to one or the other party. To such unavoidable causes of offense, due to the performance of national duty, there must not be added any avoidable cacses. It is always unfortunate to bring old-world antipathies and jealousies into our life, or by speech or conduct to excite anger and resentment toward our nation in friendly foreign lands; but in a Government employee, whose official position makes him in some sense the representative of the people, the mischief of such actions is greatly increased. A strong and self-confident nation should be peculiarly careful not only of the rights but of the susceptibilities of its neighbors; and nowadays all of the nations of the world are neighbors one to the other. Courtesy, moderation and self-restraint should mark international, no less than private, intercourse. All the officials of the Government, civil, military, and naval, are expected so to carry themselves both in act and in deed as to give no cause of just offense to the people of any foreign and friendly power-and with all mankind we are now in friendship. WHITE HOUSE, March 10, 1904. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. II..The following paragraph is added to the Army Regu lations: 965. Special inspections and investigations within the limits of a command (territorial or tactical) may be made under orders of the commander thereof; but in all cases involving travel his selection of officers to perform such duty shall be restricted to inspectors general, acting inspectors general, or officers of the General Staff Corps on duty as such, at his headquarters under War Department assignment. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, 28 Recd ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. Acting Adjutant General. No. 50. WASHINGTON, March 18, 1904. The following extracts of an act of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned: An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely: WAR DEPARTMENT. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the accounts of Captain H. M. Chittenden, Corps of Engineers, the sum of eleven dollars and forty-five cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Handbury, Corps of Engineers, the sum of thirteen dollars and one cent, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the accounts of Major John Millis, Corps of Engineers, the sum of one dollar and seventy-six cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the accounts of Captain Farrand Sayre, Eighth United States Cavalry, the sum of two hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen the accounts of Captain C H. Conrad, Third United States Cavalry, and to credit him with the amount of thirty two dollars and eighty five cents, expended by him on April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, in payment for extra duty services at Fort Clark, Texas, rendered after the passage of the Act approved April twentysixth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, abolishing extra 8 Read |