The Washington times., 1895-07-03
FENcIBLES WIPED OUT
No Longer Exist as Company C,
Second Battalion.
GENERAL ORDWAY'S ORDER
Capt. Domer Read the. Paper to the
Men at the Regular Monthly Meet
tain a Reconsideration of the Case.
Men Feel the Generals Action.

The National Fencibles no longer ex-
ist as Company c, Second Battalion, Ma
tional Guard. Gen. Ordway issued an
order yesterday which has the effect Of
disintegrating Company c aud scattering
the members TO the four winds of the Guard.
His action was taken because OF the
failure OF the Fenciblcs to carry 75 per
cent of its men to the recent encampment
and because of his expressed determination
TO make an example of any company so
offending.
When the Fencibics returned from Mem
phis IT was decided by large number of
the men Individually that owing to the
time and money spent at the interstate
drill 1t would be impossible for them to
attend the District encaInpment.
As a result Capt Domer only took eigh-
teen men with him to Fort Washington,
and at once gossips in the Guard circu
lated the report that Gen. ordway had
his eye on the ex-champions and proposed
to teah them and the fest of the boys a
lesson in military discipline.
GEN. ORDWAY SILENT.
Whenever approached upon the subject
Gen. Ordway was politely dumb and
refused several times to affirm or deny
he proposed to dissolve the Fencibles'
company.
Capt. Domer also was never able to state
definitely what he thought would be done
in the matter by Geu. Ordway. II was the
generally ly-expressed opinion of the Fenci-
bles, however, that if such action was cou-
templated by Gen. Ordway it would be
most unjust to the company which has
done so much TO raise the prestige of the
/ StrI9t rI n nd y-h "a In
aud money in advancing its interests at
home and abroad
They claimed, too, that if Gen. Ordway
should act as rumor said he would there
were several other companies which were
in the same boat with them, and TO desolate
the Fenclhles and not the others would bt
unfair discrimination
The matter was brought to a head
last night at the regular monthly meeting
OF the Fencibles in the armory.
READ THE ORDER.
There was large attendance of the
members, as everybody felt ii in his bones
that something was going to drop. The
expected blow came when Capt. Domer
assembled the men and proceeded TO read
an order from Gen. Ordway
!. 1t conveyed the expected Intelligence
! that Company c, Second Battalion, is no
longer a part of the National Guard.
| The meeting was secret, ana capt g..
| Domer pledged each man not to divulge
| the doings to outsiders. / was with great
difficulty, therefore, that a Times re-
porter obtained any information.
After the meeting Capt Domer stated to
! the reporter thathe had read the order from
! Gen Ordway to the men and that COM
mittee had been appointed to take the
| matter in hand for investigation. He
refused to talk more.
The men. when seen, remained silent
and declined to say anything at all in
regard to what took place during the
meeting. 1t is thought, however, that
| Capt Domer viii call upon Gen Ordway
to-day and make every possible effort to
have the Fencibles reinstated to their
former position in the guard. Gen. Ord
ways order, it is believed, still retains
the Fencibles as individuals in the guard,
but they are subject to transfer into other
| companies of the battalion