The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-09
WAR REVENUE BILL.
Report Of the Conference
Committee Progress of
Army Work.


WASHINGTON, June ., 1895. Ths
conferees on the war revenue bill c3n
cluded their work at noon today but de
| cided not to report their agree1nent4 te
either House of Congress until all fhs
amendments can be printed This 1t Is be.
| lieved can be done by one or two o'clock
The programme is to present the report
first to the House and if possible secure
action upon it before adjournment TO
night. There will be a strong effort to get
| the Senate to act tomorrow.
Is The compromise for the coinage of the
| silver bullion and seignforage in the
Treasury, provides for coming s1500,00f
i per month instead of $4,000,O0 as provided
in the Senate bill.
4 The silver is to be coined under the Iex-
listing law, and it is estimated that the
| rate provided it will require about five
| years to coin the silver in the Treasury.
The amount of bonds was also COM
promised being placed at $4oo0o0.Ooo,
In the Senate, Mr.. Gallinger IN. H.) re-
ported from the Committee on Com
merce a bill providing American regis
try for the steamers Olympia, Victoria,
I
4 the Northern Pacific Steamship Co. He
expressed the hope the bill would be
| passed at once as the ships were needed
| by the Government to transport troops
to Manila Philippine Islands. The yes
| sells are all flying at present the British
flag.
| The bill to enable volunteer soldiers to
| participate in Congressional elections was
- -.
number Of amendments affecting the
method of voting and return of the votes
| with a view to prevent fraud were incor-
! porated.
The President gave assurance today
| that the appointment of General ]. p. S.
| Goblin, of Lebanon, Pa, as brigadier geI-
| eral of volunteers would be made and
! that his nomination would be among the
| next sent into the Senate for confirmation.
General Goblin is the COMMANDMENTS Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic ana
/ the Pennsylvania delegation have been
making strong fight for his appointment
as well as that of General Wiley, which
| was recently made
| Later, the President today sent these
nominations to The Senate:
Volunteer Army
| To be major general, j. Warren Keifer
| of Ohio
To be brigadier general, John P. S.
Goblin of Pennsylvania
| The War Department has issued in
| structons for the guidance Of the officers
of the Volunteer Army detailed to recruit
| for their own organizations to fill them
to the maximum under the second call
| of the President for IS. 900 men. Applicants
| for enlistment must be between IS and As
years, of good character and habit able
bodied, free from disease, and must be
able to speak the English language.
| Married men will be enlisted only upon
| the approval of the regimental command
| err Minors must not be enlisted without the
written consent of a parent or guardian.
The term of service is two years. For i1l-
fantry and artillery the weight must
not be less than 120 and no more than 100
pounds, and for cavalry the weight is not
to exceed 165 pounds. though recruiting
officers are authorized in their discretion
to accept desirable applicants, ten pounds
or less overweight or underwelght.
For a regiment the maximum of all
grades commissioned and enlisted, must
not exceed 1926 in infantry or 1886 in
cavalry.
For a company the maximum of all
grades is 1o6 in infantry, 100 in cavalry,
/ 173 in field artillery and 200 in heavy
artillery. Wherever practicable the
choice by an accepted applicant of
particular company of the regiment or
other organization for which the recruit
ing officer is making enlistments should
be respected.
The pay department Of the army Is
seriously embarrassed by the lack of a
sufficient number of paymasters This.
however, is no fault of the Adminstra-
ton, but is because the men appointed to
paymasters' positions have not respond
ed promptly to the department to assume
their duties. The President has appoints
ed about 65 paymasters, nearly all of
whom have been confirmed. Not many
more than a dozen have yet reported for
duty Notwithstanding their services are
badly needed Secretary Alger has no.
titled many Of the appontees that If they
do not soon report for darty he will co1-
slider the propriety Of vacating their COM
missions
1t is believed here that the first REIN
forcements for SIMPSONS fleet have ar
rived today off Santiago These are the
eight hundred marines under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Huntington
who sailed three days ago from Key West
ON the steamer Panther These marines
had been encamped on the beach at Key
West for several weeks, undergoing the
most severe drill and military trainingn.
They are intended for the Distribution
among the fleet, but tas landing force
pure and simple.
Naval officers are confident that with