The record-union., 1898-08-22
TO REORGANIzE THE GUARD.
WORK 70 BE COMMENCED I.
A FEW WEEKS.
The Governor, Adjutant General
and Other Officials Hold
ing Consultations.

There is considerable speculation
going on in military circles as to what
will be done about the reorganization
OF the National Guard, now that the
war is virtually ended.
The Bulletin" states that consulta-
tions have taken place between Gov
! eTnor Budd, Adjutant General Bar
rett, Major General Dickinson and
| Rrigadier General Warfield upon the
| subject Although the National Guard
! is to all intents and purposes disor-
| ganized and its members merged in the
ranks of the United States Volun-
| teers, there are still a number of Ma
tional Guardsmen whose services have
never been called into requisition. In
addition to those of the First Regiment,
| who We're excused from service through
| one cause or another, there are yet
eighteen companies untouched. There
are six companies of the naval militia,
four troops of cavalry, five companies
| of infantry and three of the signal corps
that have not been even ordered into
camp. SO there is yet something left
of the National Guard, if but a frag
ment
| 1t is proposed now to reorganize the
National Guard with. as a nucleus
What has been left behind Of the First
| Regiment. The consulting powers have
decided that while there are other reg
! imentS equally entitled to considera-
tion, the uncertainty of the future bars
them for the time being. For should
any regiment be ordered off to Manila
or elsewhere, to return at no fixed date,
it could hardly form part of the reor-
ganized National Guard to be of any
service in it's proper capacity as such.
So, in order that reorganization may
take place, and that guardsmen who
have never been officially mustered out
may have their chance to complete
their service, receive their medals there
for and earn exemption, Generals Dick
inson and Warfield will be permitted to
enroll six companies, at least, possibly
twelve, as a nucleus for a fresh organi-
Zation, from what is left of the First
Regiment. 1t will be a mere beginning
for the organization will be necessarily
small, as volunteers returning from the
war will expect to find places in the
| guard awaiting them on their return
! There are enough left behind to form
| these companies. These are not men,
who in the opinion of the powers that
be, should be passed over. They were
| left behind through no lack of sense of
duty, but for reasons deemed sufficient
All were properly excused some be-
| ing family men, some over age, some
| unable to pass the stringent physical
examination. They would not do as ac-
tive soldiers, while as active or inactive
guardsmen they may prove very SER
vicea BILE.
The minimum limit in numbers will
be imposed upon each company, 80 men,
The maximum Isl 103 men per company,
so that by this means room will be left
for large number of returning volun-
teers at the close of the war OF the
First Regiment, 1926 rank and file
went to Manila, but then all were not
original guardsmen. A number con-
sisted of volunteers who enlisted from
the outside. These, on their return, will
have to give way to men originally en-
rolled in the regiment, First, N. G. c.
That is, according to the plans already
formed by the Governor and his Adju-
tant General
No other regiment will be dealt with,
for the reasons of uncertainty already
stated. Then when all is over an thl =
remaining regiments are disposed or by
mastering out, the reorganization will
wv pIoNceueu WIFI uIltil every regiment
is as complete as it was before Many
changes will be made of course, but it
is expected that a most complete Sys-
tenn of State militia will be the result
These plans We're detailed by Adju-
tanJ General Barrett in an interview
on Saturday. General Barrett spoke
enthusiastically of the idea of reorgani-
zation and paid many compliments to
California ac fof hoY
represented in the volunteer troops at
present engaged in upholding the honor
of the Stars and Stripes.
California has done more than any
State in the Union," said General Bar
rett. 1T has supplied no less than
5000 troops TO this war In regular SER
vice, too, for 1t has supplied four regi-
ments of regulars, part of a regiment
of cavalry and part of a regiment of
heavy artillery.
THE Eastern regiments have all had
to draw heavily upon California to fill
up their ranks. The State should be
proud of her boys, and the reorganiza-
ton of the National Guard is a certain
ty within a short time. By September |
1st, probably, it will all be arranged
for, so far as the First Regiment goes,
at any rate"
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