The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-26
SIGNAL CORPS FIRST
WILL PROBABLY BE DISCHARGED
FROM CAMP MOUNT TO-DAY.
Adjutant General COrbin Sends Order
from Washin lonesome Rumors
in Circulation Yesterday.

The soldiers at Camp Mount will receive
their travel pay. Late last night Colonel
May received telegram authorizing him
to make any necessary changes in the mus
ter-out rolls 1t changes decisively yester-
day mornings telegram, requiring lists of
all names to be sent to Washington, this
necessitating delay The latest telegram is
as follows: Decision of secretary of war
contained in telegram of Oct. "A as to place
and date and enrolment is annulled and the
following is substituted therefore viz: In
all cases where the facts warrant change
in the place and date of enrolment as set
forth in the muster-out roll, the correct
place and date of enrolment may be au-
thorized on the muster-out roll, where the
mastering officer after requiring from the
company or other commanding officers
list of names showing changes opposite each
with said commanding officers certificate
attached thereto as to the correctness of
same This list will be signed by the mus
tering officer and forwarded Immediately
direct to the rolls division of the adjutant
generals office. Under the act approved
July Z, 1898, published in General Order SO,
the date of enrolment must in no instance
be prior to either the Presidents first call
or the Governors first call. The first call
call was May 25."
The changes which are now to be made
will only necessitate a delay of one day,
while the orders received yesterday morn
ing would probably have held the regi-
ment several days later. The following is
the first telegram, received yesterday morn
ing from Adjutant General Corbin:
The place of enrolment for every man of
company is the place where the company
assembled, irrespective of individual resi-
p psree places COMPANY ASSEMBLY Reeynenta
commanders should make duplicate
lists Of all members, field, staff
pany commanders Of their companies show
ing name and correct place of their enroll
ment in each case. Attach affidavits 10 each
list setting forth their correctness and for
authority to make the change"
The members Of the signal corps were as
no travel pay. If Mai. Cleland. who is now
examining the accounts, finds no errors, the
corps Will receive. it's discharge to-day.
mined the Twenty-seventh Battery will be
discharged tomorrow, the One-hundred-
d-fifty-seventh Regiment about Nov. 2,
ment about Nov. s.
About o'clock yesterday morning, when
the order was, issued to stop all work on
the muster rolls, numerous rumors without
any foundation began to circulate through
the mems quarters. The first Whisper was
that the peace commissioners had disagreed,
and orders had come direct from the War
Department to stop all mastering out. Next
somebody said that Major Feaser had been
requested to furnish the department with
list of the number of men in the different
companies of the Northumberland fifty
seventh Regiment in order that Kra.-
Jorgensen rifles might be given them. We
are not going to stop for Cuba or Porto
Rico this time" said Lieutenant Glaze
brook, of Company A, well take a fleet
and go straight to spain.'' The boys
cheered. They seemed somewhat disap-
pointed when they learned that it was the
granting of their requests for travel pay
instead of a little fighting which had caused
the run,or.
The rain prevented any very manifest out
break of spirits yesterday. A game of foot
ball between teams of the two regiments
had to be declared off. An order was issued
from the headquarters of the One-hundred-
and-ffty-eighth Regiment that the officer
of the guard shall inspect the kitchens
thrce-quarters of an hour before each meal
and if there is anything wrong with the
preparations 1t shall be promptly rectified.
The surgeons yesterday examined 191 men
from the Observation-Disclosures Reg
iment, and will be given rest to-day. some
OF the men on guard yesterday showed
themselves so faithful to their duties that
they deserve mention. They were taking
care of a patch Of turnips near the camp,