The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-04
COMPANY IN READINESS
Captain Dillon Promptly Re-
spends to Orders.
MEN WILLING TO ENLIST
Company to Move at "a Hours Notice.
To Meet at the Armory This Even
ing Nothing Definite as
to Movements.

Capt. Thomas Dillon OF Company X,
First regiment. N. q. NJ, stationed in
this city, is in receipt of orders from
the %adjutant generals Office to be ready
TO move on "a hours notice. The or
ders are as follows:
State of Montana, Adjutant Generals
Office. Bozeman, April 2, 1895.
General orders No. 8.
'First-In view OF the probability of
immediate active service by the Ma
tional Guard, commanging officers Of
companies, troops n of the battery,
are hereby directed t. be ready to move
with their organizations. prepared for
field service, within "a hours after the
receipt of orders to that effect. Com
mandipg officers will take such steps
as will best enable them to comply with
this order.
Second such additional arms,
equipment and clothing as may be
necessary to fully supply the guard will
be furnished at the point of concentra-
ton. By order of Governor Smith.
INT w, brennan, Adjutant General.
Oficial: A. b. Wallace, First Lieuten-
ant, Second United States cavalry"
Yesterday Captain Dillon was en-
gagged in notifying his men to prepare
for action. He was in the full uniform
W liz lam alld pIcStIttu a IllllldIy
appearance, and his prompt response
to the order from headquarters was
generally commended.
Company X is composed of 40 men
only. and IL the present international
imbroglio had not been foreshadowed,
the militia of Anaconda would long
& a " been a thing of the past. The
men have stayed together in the belief
that urgent demands on their services
would possibly result in a more thor
ough equipment of their company. boil
as to arms and men. The limit of num-
bers of a company is 60 men, and since
Captain Dillon has received orders to
muster, there have been a number of
applicants for enlistment.
In this connection the captain desires
to say that applications for enlistment
Will be received this evening at the
armory. Yesterday 10 men volunteered
their services to the captain, and when
1t became known generally that re-
cruits will be received this evening, it
is thought that enough men can be re-
cruited to form two or more companies.
But in order to organize another COM
pany in this city II would require the
consent of the authorities at Helena.
Captain Dillon knows nothing fur
ther than is stipulated in the adju-
tant's orders in regard to the movement
of his company, but it is his belief that,
should orders be made to move. il
would be to &c to some of the state
forts from which regulars will be or
have been transferred. He does not be-
lieve that any Montana company Of
militia will be taken out of the state,
as this is a border state and necessarily
requires home protection in the absence
of United States troops.
Several inquiries have been made in
regard to the law concerning the au-
thority of the president to call the
militia into service The control of the
president over the militia is absolute
and in time of necessity, and
as he is the sole judge of hat neces-
sity. there is practically no limit upon
his discretion.
Section 1924 of the revised statutes Of
the United States says that whenever
the United States is invaded or i'm i'm
minent danger of invasion from any
foreign nation or Indian tribe or of re-
bellion against the authority of the
government of the United States, il
shall be lawful for the president of the
United States to call forth such num-
Der of the militia of the state or states
most convenient to that place of dan
ger or scene of action. as he may deem
necessary to repel such invasion, or to
suppress such rebellion and to issue
his orders for that purpose to such
officers of the militia as he may think
proper.
The militia may be called out either
by requisition upon or orders to the
state Executive or by orders direct to
any subordinate officer of the militia.
When the militia of more than one
state is called into actual service of the
United States by the president. he shall
apportion them among such states ac-
cording to representative population.
When the militia is called upon to
serve, 1t shall be subject to the same
articles of war as the regular United
States troops.
The order is believed to be a general
issue from the government to the mill
tias of every state in the union, and
merely a precautionary measure to put
the states militia in proper order and
equipment in case their services should
be required i'm emergency. There are
other companies, for instance, as poorly
equipped as that of this city, and this
order will have the desired effect of
placing them up to the standard.
Among the militia men in this city
are several who are in business. and
the order has set them to Strengthening
up their affairs, so that their removal
will not operate seriously against that
business. The boys are right up and
at IL. and anxious to respond to the
call to arms. The is com
posed entirely of young Irishmen. and
their one hope and desire is TO become
possessed of late pattern guns and de-
cent uniforms. If they be tun I'm
this. their Inc of passing first-class
muster among the finest in the country
will be excellent. for they are indeed