The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-03-16
DRAFT Associations.

The section of the amended Enroll
ment Act which authorizes any number
of persons to club together to furnish re,
cruits previous to draft, aud to be ex-
empt therefrom is not as liberal as was
supposed. The following is the full tex
Of the section:
Ana be 1t further enacted, That any
person or persons enrolled in any sub
district may, after notice of the draft,
before the same shall have taken place,
cause to be mustered into the service OF
the United States such number of recruits
not subject to draft as they may deem ex.
pcdieut, which recruits shall stand to the
credit of the persons thus causing them
to be mustered in, and ahall be taken as
substitutes for such persons, or as many
Of them as may be drafted, to the extent
of the number of such recruits, and in
order designated by the principals at the
time such recruits are thus, as aforesaid,
mustered in
1t will be observed that the recruits
must be men not subject to draft-that
is, they must be either aliens, or veteran
soldiers, or men over forty Eve or under
twenty years. The amendment as drawn
By the Chicago Committee embraced all
classes of able bodied men, whether sub
jecs to draft or not. The Committees
amendment also provided that an associa.
ton should be cleared Of the pending
draft wheni it should have furnished a
number Of men equal to its porpor,iona.e
quota. For Instance, suppose the num-
Der of enrolled men in district to be
1000, and the quota 200; then, if an as
ISOLATION of 500 put in 100 men, they
were to be clear of that call, and the re-
naming 100 men required should be
drafted from the other 500 names on the
enrolment.
The Law as it stands provides that the
sxemIts put in by club or association
shall be credited to them as far as they
go. But nevertheless they must take
their chances Of being drafted for the de-
6cit of the district. Thus: suppose the
number Of men required from a ward
with an enrolment of 1000 is 800, and
a club of 500 men put in seventy five sub
stitutes not subject to the draft, and the
ward as a whole puts in fifty volunteers
who are subject to the draft. the ward will
still owe one hundred and Fifty men. a
draft is ordered, in the course Of which
seventy men belonging to the protective
club .re Sr.~ai shsy all ret clear, be cause
the seventy five substitutes more than
equals the lumber drawn from the As o,
citation. Suppose the number of men
due from township or ward is in the
proportion Of one to six. Ia such case
it would be pretty sure on a computation
Of chances, for ten mel to club together
and put in two substitutes, as the chances
are good that not to exceed two Of the
club will be Drafted: but it mi ghs happen
that all of the club would be elected"
or the half 0: them. To that case the sub
s.itutcs would be credited to the mem
bers Of the club sin the order designated
by the principals" OF course the larger
the club the less chance there would be
of an undue per cent Of the club being
drafted, 1t would be pretty safe, how
ever, for half dozen persons in any Ward
Of this city, to unite together aud put in
substitute. They could reckon with
reasonable certainty on being out of the
draft. Chicago Tribune.