Edward Douglass White

“ The incongruity, if any, which it is suggested must result from providing for extra compensation for an aid to a Rear Admiral and none for aids to the higher officer, the Admiral, if admitted, would be but the consequence of legislative omission, and would not justify the exertion of judicial power for the purpose of recreating a provision of law concerning aids to the General of the Army, which has long since ceased to exist, in order to afford a subject upon which the assimilating provision of the naval personnel act of 1899 might operate. ”

“ Stat., was a regulation concerning the office of General of the Army, and it is not disputed that that section was repealed prospectively by the proviso to § 1094, above quoted,-a repeal which became operative when the event provided for the cessation of the office of General occurred. ”