The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-06
soUTHRoNS FOR SANTIAGO.
WAR DEPARTMENT URGED TO RE
Woke ITS ORDERS.

Friends of the Officers and Men EN-
hibiting q Great Zeal of Concern
About the Assfgnment-Wnr De-
partmenf Not Inclined to Make Any
Change in Its PInns-Tneory Adj
vanced That the So-Caiied Inn
munes Are BETTER Able to stand
snntingo Climate Than the Men
NOW There.
Washington, Aug. From The South
there have come many anxious inquiries
concerning the sending Of ,ho screamed IN
mune regiments GO Saniaso.
The friends Of the officers and men OF
these regiments are exhibiting "A good dea.
Of concern about This assignment, and
senators and representatives who are here
have received eCtcrs ana teiegrams urging
them 70 see If something cannot be done
10 prevent these regiments being sent to
Cuba at tins time
1t is not probable that protests viii have
any effect or that there vii De any change
in the orders already given; but the Of
dcials of tho war department VINO discuss
the conditions i'm Eastern CUBA express Inc
belief that the dangers 10 troops are not
great. and that there is no reason why
these regiments, recruited in the South
should fear to 80 TO Santiago.
AT the office of the Adjutant General of
the army, it was sand to-day that while
it was generally understood that the troops
in these regiments were not all yellow fe-
Yer immunes, and indeed that very small
portion of them came properly under that
head, they were recruited with the idea
that the men from the South would be bet
ter able TO stand the climatic conditions IN
Cuba than men from the North, was
explained at the Adjutant Generals office.
Technically there is nothing to warrant
the immune idea. The troops are known as
United States volunteers in contradiction
TO the state volunteers and the orders Civ
ing the officers appointed to recruit them
differ in no respect from those TO other
volunteer regiments. The only difference
was that in the allotment of territory
from which 10 recruit their regiment they
were given Southern states.
The officials here do not regard the ex-
petition upon which they are embarking
dis particularly dangerous. Iney explain
that the troops now down there are not
Frustrated by yellow fever. They have
been broken down by the terrible cond-
tons surronding their going there, and
their hard experience after they got there.
They We're cooped up in transports and
kept out there there in the tropical sea
sun until the life was almost taken out
of them. Then they were sent ashore
and were forced to the hardest kind of
fighting under the most adverse circum-
stances. This left them In the worst pos
sible condition physically, and it is from
this rather than from the yellow fever
they are suffering. Indeed, all the reports
show the yellow fever to be of an exceed
ingly mild type and there seems little
need to fear it.
An officer of the department, speaking
of the matter tonight, said: 1.-THE men in
these immune regiments were taken from
the South, and il is fair to presume that
they are more nearly acclimated and less
liable TO malarial feVers than those from
the North. They were recruited with that
idea and they knew it. They will not be
placed in contact with those who are now
there, but viii be landed at some other
point, and will be given the healthiest
possible quarters. There is no reason why
they should object to the service. 1t is GER
tainly not one-tenth as severe as that
which those who are now there expert
enced."
To congressman who called to see il
there We're any likelihood of changing the
orders, the information was given that
there was no such likelihood.