The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-06
Whole Regiment May Be Sent to
the Philippines.
HORSES WILL BE SENT
TROOPERS AT CAMP MERRITT
ARE DISCOURAGED.
Fourth Expedition Will Probably Be
Delayed-Large Quantity of Bacon
Condemned and Shoddy Uniforms
Will Be Rejected By the Board of
survey-Second Expedition Due.

San Francisco, July 5.-A consider
able quantity of bacon supplied to tn
regular regiments at Camp Merritt wa
today condemned by a special board O
survey appointed by Major Genera
Otis. The meat was inspected at thu
commissary tent by the board and i'm
mediately adjudged unfit to be eaten
| Today a board of survey Will be ap
pointed for the Third brigade by Brig
adler General H C. Otis at the request
of Colonel Lopez, to inquire into ano
report upon the quality OF uniforms
issued to the Fifty-first Iowa regiment
AS the shoddy character of the uni
forms is apparent at glance, the
work of the board will be perfunctory
Measles is spreading in the Tennes-
see and Kansas regiments, which are
especially harassed by the disease, al
though none of the regiments at the
camp has escaped. Surgeons say that
measles break out in most new levles
of troops, runs a more or less extended
course and dies out. Today there are
about sc patients quarantined in the
measles ward.
Although the government is still in
possession of only the steamers Peru
and City of Puebla for the next ex-
petition, there are several other YES
sells in sight, and it is expected that
they will be secured in a few days, and
the expedition organized. Major Ruiz
len, chief quartermaster of the expedl-
tionary forces, inspected the Pennsyl-
vania today.
That there will be long delay before
the departure of the Fourth Manila eX-
petition is evident from the fact that
the collier Titania, which is to be
~ he
make another trip to Puget Sound,
load coal there and return to this city
before she is turned over to the war
department The Titania cannot make
a round trip, load and discharge, in
less than two weeks. There may, now
ever, be fifth expedition to which the
collier will be assigned.
In the meantime, although the selec-
ton of troops depends mainly on the
transports, Major General E. S. Otis,
commanding the troops. of the Eighth
army corps, has begun TO consider
what troops would be of most value in
Manila The expedition to the Philip
pines is, of course, dependent on the
war department The situation in San
tiago, the probability of peace, the at
titude of Germany. all enter into the
plans to be carried out by the troops
in this city now waiting for transpor-
tation across the Pacific.
General Anderson'S call for horses at
Manila has been a source of hope to the
cavalry, who have been threatened all
along with the miserable little Manila
horses or an insufficient number OF
their own animals. 1t is now thought
that whole regiment may be sent to
the Philippines.
The second Manila expedition will
probably reach there about next We'd
nesday or Thursday, presuming that
the vessels viii travel at an average
speed of ten knots, which is the speed
that they will be likely to maintain,
the Colon being somewhat slower.
The United States steamship Phila-
ielphia, which has been having an
overhauling at Mare Island. will be
ready for sea in about two weeks. 1t
s expected that the work done on her
s of the best description, and that
nothing has been left undone to make
Ter perfect.
Captain L. H. Turner left for Mare
Island today to take charge of the Iro-
luois, formerly the tug Fearless. 1t is
limited that the IrOquoiS may be sent |
o Manila as a dispatch beat, as she is |
veil adapted for that purpose.