The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-27
THE NATIONAL GUARD.
Proposed Abolition OF the Adiutsnt
Generals Staff-Other Notes.

Proposed Abolition OF the Adjutsnt
Generals Stan-Other Notes.
A military bill was introduced in the
legislature on Wednesday and another
will follow 1t tomorrow or next day.
Representative +. c. Washburn is father
to both. 1t is the intention of these meas
ures, among other things, to abolish
completely the adjutant generals staff
and give that officer the rank
of colonel. 1t will also be proposed that
no state camp be held this year. but that
some of the money which would go to tn at
purpose be expended in furnishing trans
portation to the troops to and from the
Worlds fair at Chicago. Subsistence dur
ing the trip will not be asked for, as the
men expect to nay this themselves. This
plan, il carried out, will save money to the
state and be much more satisfactory to
the soldiery than would be the state en-
campment.
On Wednesday. Washington's birthday,
the militia turned out according to Col.
Green's order. This turnout is an annual
one. According to law there must be
three annual parades, Memorial day.
Washington's birthday and Fourth of
July. The men assembled at the Armory
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Green and staff. consisting of Mai. and
Surgeon J.. r. Dawson and Lieut..
and Quartermaster Herman Chaplin
and Lieut.. and Adjt. Charles Esplin, jr.,
lead the battalion. None of the officers
were mounted. The parade went down
Union to Second. down Second to Cherry.
on Cherry to Front. and thence to Pioneer
square. Here the battalion counter
marched, going up Front to Pike, thence
to Second street. on Second to Union and
back to the Armory. Including band and
non-commissioned staff there were about
l5O men in line.
A piece of eccentricity in military Or
ders comes from North Corolina. 1t is as
follows: ''Adjt. Gen. Cameron. of North
Carolina, announces that permission is
granted to all military organizations
Of other states to enter and
pass through tho state of North
Carolina armed and equipped en-
route to and from the inaugural cere.
monies at Washington City in March,
1893, and also to and from the Columbian
exposition at Chicago during the present
year" One is tempted to wonder what
calamity would have resulted had some
military force from another state entered
North Carolina before this "permission"
had been granted.
The discovery that half the arms turned
out by the Russian imperial arms factory
were unfit for use is said to have caused
the late increase in friendiiness on the part
OF that country to Germany.
Sergt. Gormley won the marksman's
medal in Company shoot on Sunday.
Private Judkins was second
Armorer Casey" Moran has finished
his inspection" Of the California guard.
and returns home this week.
About fifty Of the boys in full uniform
attended DR.. Alison's lecture at the First
Presbyterian church on Wednesday night.
A fine picture of Col. f. w. Pike. of the
Second regiment, n. G. W.. occupies the
front page of the last Northwestern Guards.
men. That journal suggests the formation
of veteran corps in all the three states of
the Coast 1t points TO the strong veteran
corps OF the Seventh New York regiment.
and also quotes little bit of history in saw
ing that a certain Illinois regiment turned
out 100 men above its enrolment to SUM-
press the great riots Of 1877, the excess be-
ing veterans who volunteered for the
purpose.