The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
RUSHING ITS PREPARATIONS
WAR DEPARTMENT CARRYING
OUT PLANS WITH ENERGY

Officers Assigned by Secretary A1ger
to Command the Various Camps
ty Million Dollars for the First
Six Months of the Next Fiscal
Year--Secretary Long Kept Busy.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-The war
department. is rushing it's preparations
for the mobilization and thorough
equipment of-the volunteer army and
the progress which is being made is
most gratifying. The important de-
yelopment Of the day was the definite
selection Of the corps commanders The
announcement, however, does not con-
tain any surprises.
Reports received by Adjt. Gen. Cor
bin UP to 10 o'clock tonight, indicate
that $1,000 volunteers have been mus
tered into the United States service.
Several Of the larger states, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin among
the number, have mustered in their en-
tire quota Of troops, and many Of them
have either already arrived at or are
which they have been assigned. The
last orders were sent to the Ohio troops
tonight
Gen. Corbin said tonight that the fol-
lowing named regiments were on trains
en- route to the camps to which they
were assigned by the orders issued yes
terday: 1.-THE First and Third Penn
sylvania, the Twelfth Minnesota, the
Eighth Massachusetts, the Missouri
light battery, the Second Ohio, the
First Nebraska, the One Hundred and
Fifty-seventh and One Hundred and
Fifty eighth Indiana.
1t is expected now that unless
something unforeseen occurs. all Of the
125. 600 volunteers will have been mus
tered into the service and be in their
permanent camps or en- route there by
the end Of the present week.
SOLACE FOR REJECTED.
All day inquiries have been pouring
into the war department from the gov
ernors of states as to whether the de-
partment would pay the expenses Of
and allow per diem compensation to
the men who responded to the COVER
nor's call and were subsequently re-
jected by the examining officers Of the
United States army.
A decision has been reached that the
government will bear all of the trans
portation and subsistence expenses of
rejected applicants from the date Of
their enrolment to that Of their re-
lection, including their transportation
and subsistence from the state camp
to their homes.
No per diem pay will, however, be
allowed as the men were not in the
United States army. The various states
will have to bear the per diem expense
themselves.
AS a result of a conference between
the president, Secretary Alger and Adjt.
Gen. Corbin this afternoon, the selec-
tons of officers to command the seven
corps into which the army is to be di-
'vided was made The First corps, which
is to be -nobilized near Falls Church,
Va, will be commanded by Maj Gen.
William Graham, now commanding the
department of, the Gulf, with headquar-
tiers at Atlanta, Ca; Maj Gen. James
III. Wilson will have command of the
Sixth corps, at Chickamauga,,' Tenn,
and Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will com
mand the Seventh corps, also at Chick
amauga. The other corps assignments
have been Professionally made, but will
not be announced until tomorrow. The
vacancy in, the department of
the East, caused by the ap-
pointment Of Maj. Gen. Merritt as gov
ernor general Of the Philippines, will
be temporarily filled by Gen. R. T.
Frank.
NAVAL ESTIMATE.
Secretary of the Navy Long sent to
the house today an estimate for the
appropriation Of $33,OOO,0O0 in round
numbers to cover the war expenses Of
the navy for the first six months Of the
next fiscal year. This is supplemental
to the estimates heretofore received
and is expected to cover one-half Of
all expenditures the war will impose
on the navy service next year.
Secretary Long had busy morning
with his bureau chiefs and number
of congressional callers, including SEN
ators Lodge, Pettigrew, Plat, Of New
York, and Proctor.
Public men are experiencing the same
difficulty as the press in securing in
formation Of strategic movements.
COMMANDERS ASSIGNED.