The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-04
COLONEL OF
THE SEVENTH
IS INDIGNANT
He Charges NeWberry
With Treachery.
MOTIVE A POLITICAL ONE
MASTERING OUT AsCRIBED TO
FRIENDS OF O1lS.
"Afraid colonel Berry Would Become
Too Influential in Politics."
Says the Leader of the
Regiment.
MOTIVE A POLITICAL ONE
MASTERING OUT ASCRIBED TO
FRIENDS OF O1lS.

The order to muster out the Sixth
and Seventh California regiments was
received at military headquarters yes
terday. and Brigadier General Miller,
in command of the remaining Philip
pine evolutionary forces, will take ac-
ton in the matter tomorrow. Under
this order these regiments will go to
their respective places of rendezvous
the Sixth to Stockton and the Seventh
to Los Angeles-where't men will be
furloughed for thirty days, at the end
of which time they will be discharged.
Lieutenant Sterrett of the Third Artil-
lery will muster out the Sixth and
some officer from the Twenty-third
United States Infantry, yet to be des-
ignated, will do the mastering out act
for the Seventh. The two regiments
will probably move from their present
station to their rendezvous tomorrow
or Tuesday.
The Eighth California, now at Camp
Barrett. has been ordered under in
structions, from Washington, to take
the place of these two regiments in do
ing guard duty and other work.
The dispatch from Washington stat
ing that Colonel Berry might be court
martialed for violating one Of the arti-
Giles of war in that he has criticised a
superior officer, the Secretary of War,
has created no excitement whatever at
the Preside, as Colonel Berry will
nrobablv be mustered out in few
DAYS and will then care nothing about
Secretary Alger or any other man con-
nected with the military affairs of the
country. Furthermore, the Secretary
of War has received no official notifica-
ton of the alleged breach of the arti-
cles of war by Colonel Berry, and even
if he had been notified he probably
would not pay much attention to the
matter. as it is at too long a range
and hardly of sufficient Importance to
engage the attention of the military
authorities at this time.
s'I want to repudiate all interviews
alleged to have been held by me after
was informed that the regiment
would be mustered out" said Colonel
Berry last evening. AS soon as ]
learned that the mastering out order
was a fact went to the city on bust
ness and did not see any one after that.
The poll of the companies of my regi-
ment as printed in the Examiner
showing the number of men that are
in favor of being mustered out is a
fake pure and simple, and / can prove
it. as the companies were not polled.
The facts in the case that have led to
the mastering out of the Seventh Reg
irnent have been so distorted that no
one knows the real truth, but I pro-
nose to tell 1t for the first time now,
so that those who have unwittingly
censured me and my officers may see
their mistake.
@About two months ago / was
warned by friends in Los Angeles that
an undetermined effort was being made
to work my undoing by some who
wished to further their selfish ends, I
paid no attention to the warning, but
simply went on trying to do my duty.
and finally wrote my friends that I
thought that they must be mistaken in
their warnings, as / had seen no evil
dences of any one wanting to do me
injury. To-day learned from thor
oughly reliable source that the friends
of Brigadier General Otis have been
making efforts to discredit me In every
possible way.
1.-THE motive is a political one, and
in stating this have to appear to be,