Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — GEORGE DEWEY AS AN ADMIRAL. [ARTICLE]

GEORGE DEWEY AS AN ADMIRAL.

Nomination Confirmed by tbe Senate — General Otia Promoted. President McKinley Friday nominated George Dewey to be admiral, and the nomination was promptly confirmed by the Senate. Admiral Dewey is now the highest ranking officer of the Government, either in the army or the navy. His rank is equal to that of general of the army and bis pay, with allowances, wiU amount to $14,000 a year. Saturday morning jn Manila bay, he hoisted his flag as admiral over the Olympia, which is the vessel used as his flagship. A part of Admiral Dewey’s duties will be to prescribe when the sun rises and when it sets. This means that not a ship, including the foreign war vessels in Manila bay, will sound colors for sunrise or sunset until the colors have been raised or hauled down, as the case may be, on the Olympia. The President also nominated Brig. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, U. S. A., to be major general by brevet to rank from Feb. 4, 1899, for military skill and most distinguished service in the Philippine Islands. This nomination was also confirmed by the Senate.