, 1865-02-17
OUR ENROLMENT.
Meeting Last -EEening--Report of
the Committee Sent to Spring.
fleld--Hoble Governor Ogles-.
by Satisfied CT the Justice
of Our Claims.
4 Committee Of Distinguished Gentlemen
Going to Washington to Lay the Case
Eefo1c President Lincoln.
Cook County in Exees l,1o0 Mcn on
nN Former Ca1lE-Effry Per Cent
and 4 New Enrolment
EXpeefed.

COOK County In ExeeA l,4o0 E1cn OF
NIL Former CallEFtfry Per Cent
| and a New Enrolment
] Expected.
| lnrEeiy attended meeting OF representative,
| Of the different Ward Draft Associations in on,
city. and oihers interested In the nll 1mportan
question Of answering the cali recently made b1
the President Of the United Ssates for more men
was held in the Circuit Court room Last evening
for tic purpose OF hearing and netting on the re,
port OF the Committee Of sixteen cent to Spring
Geld for the purpose OF procurin: sone fnvesdea
don Of the severe sentence pronounced On 1hlz
comfy ~ the State authorities.
| Aid. Barrett took the chair. ..
In the temporary absence Of the committee. the
Chairman called for other business,
C. g. Wicker Moycd a call Of the ward roll car
1ensd dnd Il M eSR H. a FsRoFsa &C. g. IS s ssa g. @
1ath, 18th, 18th and 10th. -
Col. Hough. the chairman Of the committee,
submitted report Of which the following Ii q
The committee proceeded to Springfield accord
| ing to Instructions, and waited upon Governor
clear and forcble manner The Condition Of the im.
| pending draft In Cook comfy. The Governor, In
frply most positively stated that be was convinced
upou Its face that the enrolment WAS wrong, bnt
| had no power to postpone the draft for . single
day. Hc was. however, willing to lend hia official
| influence to correct1t-
within few daya Wontd rccsuft one half Of the
| quota assigned to It, provided the matter could
rett until the en-o1lmcnt could be corrected, and
pany committee to visit Wash1n stun c1ty and aek
the proper authorities for the correction OF the
enrolment throughout the State, to which the
ised 10 write to Provost Marshal General fry to
that effect.
The committee had every hope that these facts.
dnes he authorities in Washinston S: = correct the
serious and grteyons inequality Of the enrolimank
and order the proper and fair adjustment Of the
Col. Hough said that they went to Springfield,
called 9non the Goyt and laid before him the
Governor aa,nistad that the enrolment vas a
cnesas and fend % that cooR & 1e eoaaiy 5aa
IL d sens nss Ssose
the first o: january. They laid before his Excel
leney that Tic popnlatts2a Of The county IL the
1,f11,753; that the percentage whs one-twelfth
the quo.a :hen Of the county would be II, ,sS7; on
the vote of 1850 the quota would be but 14a5O, or
on the batis Ut the vote at Inst election the quota
would be l7497 up to the close Of last year. This
puts us ahead 400 men The Governor said that
white be vas Essdy to support The Goserament
and fu1nlEh al the men to which 1t was entitled,
more than WIS due due. " They 1 i ieit ts1 then t1sa
md aS 1oa see e Go,ezaho7 h5nf hat tast
did not want to shtrk any responsibility. They
were willing to ray over 600 men without daft
On condition that lie Governor would assce that
the A1jntant General 30 to Washington with q
committee from Cook County to procure a revision
Of tho enrolment lists, and II after that 1t was
found thSt nun Was oNln;;:, taey would agree to
snittee held that lnEtend Of owing s,5ou man the
county Wae ahead !, 400 men On alt calls hefora
This. The Governor md AdjQt4nt General see
luis he ough, TO be made to SEQ it. Captain James
| had gone to work and enrolled Everybody he
could ind. The STATE authorities wanted to Do US
they did NOT do us justice. nc would clio an in
enrollnaent in this county was conducted. Murray
% sPd ed he bounty, a. eM aas
aitczwnrds he vent 10 see how The case stood.
H. H. found t that ana he ,,,.s was enrolled e
that the man was no. only not credited to him 81 b.:
| not to my vnrd. When the committee goes to
Washington they must lay these tacts before Lin.
in somebody Who viii" Immense applause Gov.
ernos Yates. General naynie, jog Aedill, John L.
1rumbu}l and Hoa:-I. n. arnold would be ali In
Washtnsion, and they srould urge the point He
couldn1 tell them thata revision Of the enrolment
20 sare as they could keep the Proros. Marshal at
work there would be no draft Every ward must
then keep to work and resolve TO- put in fifty per
| have put in EGO men more than their real quota.
That WINS the report Of the Committee. they
were willing to pay every man they were entitled
more. Colonel Rough then care ] several ~ agurc;'
as already given in the YH1ruSE; the sum OF them
ia this: On the bass Of the vote OF last fal the
efors his it has pat il Whieh liz sres M fbs
anee IN our favor OF 4sa men.
The report was accepted. and the Committee was
discharged, q vote Of thanks being given TO tho
Col. Rough then said that the next thing to he
done was 10 appoint the Committee to GO to Wash
1t John R7ber said that whoever else went. ,hev
must not leave Col. 1!ough out
The Colonel positively refused. There were
many otheE parties who would do just az we'll and
nnittee must iii Father Abraham that thoss WERE were
the dcu1es; thaf u he was mt satisfied TO do them
justice, he nuet draft and see how mach the Gov
crEnent would make out OF it.
Jchn RabcE insisted that Col. Honeh should 70.
~. ~ o'snlliyan psta high compliment to the
were urged By Col. uough at Springfield. At first
the Governor wns not disposed to listen to them
bnt The Colonel had pressed The p9lnt III thsis
| just.
| The old Committee appointed to v1s1t Washing
were M lp appoin.ed: joseph Meiil, colonel M Monrh.
and Hon. S. S: Hayes, City Comptroller, to act In
conjunction with the gentlemen already In, and
Colonel Houc6 wished to impress upon those
their dfty per cent was full; the cessation Of re.
Hsnsoek % K moved t.at TT he e' cemues be
| authorized 10 procure Instructions from Washing
! ton for the prevention Of ekcdadd!tne from the
city 70 escape the drafs. great many were leav-
Colonel Housh admitted tha. great many were
going away, but thought that the best thing to do
was to get q lrevitioa Of the enrolment People
would not be Eo anxious to leave if the quotas
we're not 20 excessive. The motion WIS With
p.,,atoo. ..,a +hat ,,,.,, ..-.,... T.,
been rnsdc against the way in which the b1siucs1
| Of the Provost Marshal's oflce was conducted.
Recruits were be1n. turned away every day by the
ecoIe, bccausc there was no time TO examine them,
! within the hours devoted to that 1ahor He NOV
| cd the adcFtfon Of the following:
Ftsotred. That the Provost Marshal Of this dis
would result Il from sne tne m@edate Il '1as reelatns % r
1900 men, be requested to keep has ONCE open for
the examination OF parties presenting themselves
for enlistment, from O'Clock in tho morning TIL
Dr.. j. y. Frecr. said that If any one vas dissst-
isfed lie should 70 md gee the way in which buaf-
the work Of examination the doctor had to mike
out his reports, which took much time; besldes,
the doctorr. Of whom there were two, were gen
e.allJ ahead OF the clerks, who were now about
Col. Hoagh said that as one Of the committee
going to Washington, he vas very glad to hear
faster tlan the Proros. Marshal's force could ret
nd ol them lie wanted the Government to know
that they wanted more doctors and more clerks,
for at the preeent rate II Would t1ke at least
twerty.s! days to I'll the fity per cent While be
admitted that doctors get hungry, he knew also
TINT recruits get hungry too, and the duty OF filling
their quota was paramount to eycry other consld-
Grafton. II these gentlemen could not do their
duty. or dd not fkr the pnsftion, let them resign.
II they do not I'll the bill, let them 60 out Of the
way for some one who would. The city had got
to I'LL the Qno1a, and these men give them-ave
hours out OF every twcnty-four. They shut the
door on fifty men yesterday, and those men had to
be taken and fed elsewhere.
Or. Freer said that 70 hll the quota Of 1a1o men
would take two months: dld they expect that rhc
They did not turn men Away without telling them
when to come back. and all good men did 60
back. He confessed that he befteved the cnroll-
mCnt was too large; It Ind not been helped; It
ought to be helped. They could moi compel
aliens to come in and get out their exemption
papers. The price paid to enrolling officers was
three doI'ars per day, and they could not secure
talent for that su1l- But these officers were
obliged bylaw to take all mep unless obviously
exempt They had kept the doors open for months
and had exempted al applicants who were en-
titled to it He could youch for the head OF that
Beard; Captain James wns honest, ht was stub-
bo.uly true. Neither he nor Captain James wish
ed to hurt the city. they did not
want to do anything to tpjufe the cat-
xcDs. The reason why the enrolment
WIS SO large was that the city was
regular rendezvous for Southern men md Cans
dians who sncakcd here bccause this WAS place
at pence, where men got Hch On whisky. Look
whisky and ialsc kilograms sent between here md
Tunahfn0snn With IN the enYo1lrn mi <,f