The record-union., 1898-04-19
Representative Hull TO Introduce an
Administration Bill.
Authorizes the President 10 Issue a Call fol
Volunteers.
WALL Street to Organize and Equip
a Regiment of Thousand Men
to Take the Field in Case OF an
Outbreak of Hostilities With
Spain.

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-Represen-
tative Hull of Iowa, Chairman of the
House Committee on Military Affairs
will tomorrow introduce an Admins
tration BILL authorizing the President
TO issue a call for volunteers to the
number of 10000 or 10000 men. 1t
will be considered Immediately by the
committee, its passage expedited as
rapidly as possible, and will take ef-
feet Immediately upon the Presidents
approval.
Its terms will authorize the President
TO call on the various States for quotas
in making up the aggregate. BY read
ing in this way, instead of specifically
looking to calling out the various state
militia, it will avoid several embar-
Tassing technicalities, a main one being
the Constitutional inhibition of sending
State militia out of the country, while
volunteers so called for can be ordered
anywhere.
1t is likely that if the situation. devel-
ops into such grave proportions as is
now expected, a second call for 100000
volunteers will be issued by the Presl-
dent The necessity for this immense
number, however, is not clear to the
military authorities at this time. The
draft of the present war measure has
just been framed by the War Depart
ment officials, and the leading members
of the Military Committee have already
conferred with the War Department au-
thorities on the necessity of this line
the latter having announced that
maximum of $4,000 volunteers would
be sufficient at this time.
A WALL STREET REGIMENT.
NEW YORK, April Washington
f. ConnOr said yesterday that pledges
enough had been already secured to
make it certain that there would be no
difficulty in obtaining, in case of an
outbreak of hOstiiities with Spain, the
required sum of S1D000 for the equip
ment Of a Wall street regiment of L.
co men. No officers had been select
ed for the projected regiment, he add
ed, but well-llnown military man had
consented to become its Colonel if it
should be desired.
From other sources it was learned
that the project originated with either
Mr.. Connor or Theodore w. Myers, and
on being preached on the floor of the
Stock Exchange last Friday or Satur-
day was received with enthusiasm by
the brokers. who Immediately pledged
ii their support. The regiment will
comprise men now affiliated with the
Stock Exchange. as well as Exchange
members and their employees. Many
priVates and not few officers of the
regiments of the National Guard who
are engaged both in and near the
street are among those who. have al
ready sent to Mr. Connor or Mr.. My
ers their application for enlistment. AS
they are to enter the service of the
-oi,, Nox- Goal
that they can consult their own prefer
ences as to the organization with
which they shall affiliate as such vol
unteers.
Many of the banks have in their en-
ploy from one to half dozen members
each of the National Guard, and sew
eral bank Presidents said that if nose
employees or others should join the reg
iment their places would be kept for
them, and their salaries would continue
during their absence in the field.
MILITIA PREPARING FOR SER
VICE.
SAN FRANCISCO. ADril 19.-The
Naval Militia of the National Guard OF
California is preparing for service. Fif--
ty thousand rounds of rifle cartridges
have been taken aboard the Marion ard
naval battalion includes seven divisions,
has forty-one commissioned officers and
$50 petty officers and enlisted men. The
<essels assigned to the Naval Pattal-
ion on this coast and now manned by
them are the Marion and the Pinta. The
Marion is third-rate cruiser of 800
tons and l, 100 horsepower. She has
rapid-fire guns and a sixty pound
breechloading rifle on her forecastle,
and has been put in good condition for
her purposes.
The Pinta. now at San Diego, was
built in 1860, and is a steam Schooner
131 feet long and 26 feet broad. Her
displacement is $50 tons and her indi-
Gated horsepower 80. She has a
strong battery for a vessel of her size.
ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES
JUSTIFIED.
LONDON, April 19.-The Daily
Chronicle" publishes a letter this morn
ing from Sir Frederick Pollock. corpus
professor of Jurisprudence of the Uni
versity of Oxford justifying the at
titude of the United States in the con-
troversy with Spain.
Sir Frederick Pollock in part SAYS: