The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-25
GOVERNOR TELLS THEM THEY WILL
REPORT EARLY THIS WEEK.
Medical staff for the New Regiment
The COIOred Companies-Engine
Recruiting Completed.

Sary for you to take immediate action.
Your company will be called upon to re-
port early next week. The United States
mastering officer insists that rigid physi-
cal examination be made at the home sta
ton, and that the number of enlisted men
must be fully up to the maximum; that is to
say, LOG men, exclusive of officers. 1t is of
the utmost Importance that the highest
standard of physical excellence should be
maintained In the preliminary examination.
Men rejected after arriving at the place of
mobilization will not be provided with re-
turn transportation, nor remunerated for
maintenance or other expense to which they
may have been subjected.
In those places where there are two COM
panies conflicting, the Governor will not at
tempt to adjust their difference, but will
pass by all contending factions and accept
company from some locality where har-
mony prevails After volunteers have ar
rived at the rendezvous at Camp Mount,
indianapolis, all officers and enlisted men
animation by regimental surgeons, and it
Will be rigid.
There must be no delay
Lieutenant Waterman, United States
mastering officer, is now here, and his in
structions from the War Department are to
hurry the organization with all possible ex
petition.
''As soon as you report your company
to be in an acceptable condition you will
be furnished further instructions, as to
transportation, etc. Do not take action
on any order coming from any other source
than this office.
Surgeons of recognized ability will be
nary examination. Instructions as to these
examinations will follow Please telegraph
on receipt of the above letter."
The first of next week, the Governor
says, he will name a civilian physician in
each town to make the preliminary exam
nations. While the government will not
pay the expenses of transporting and
furnishing rations to men who do not pass
the final examination to be made by the
al Tot mill hot
men who pass the preliminary physical ex-
aminations at home and come here, but are
afterwards rejected for any reason, are
furnished transportation home. The State
will be at scarcely any expense in the
formation of the new regiment. Governor
Mount has fixed things so that the cost of
transportation will be borne by the gov
eminent. The War Department suggested
that the State pay the expense of mobiliza-
ton, so far as transportation was con-
cerned, on the theory that better railroad
rates could be secured by the State. Gov
ernor Mount replied that while the State
might possibly get little cheaper rates,
it would be better for the government to
look after this. Thereby the State will
avoid having to make an outlay of consid-
cradle money and wait long time to be
reimbursed.
In talk with Lieutenant Waterman, the
designated recruiting officer, the Governor
yesterday agreed to turn over all the
blankets the State has on hands for the
use of the new regiment. Blankets used
before will be taken back after they are no
longer needed, but the government will be
required to receipt and pay for all new
blankets, of which the State has two hun
dred or three hundred on hands. In addi-
ton to the secondhand blankets two hun
bred more will have to be purchased by
the State. These will be delivered to the
government and the State reimbursed after
wards
When replies have been received to the
letter quoted above, indicating that COM
panies have been formed, physicians to
make the preliminary examinations will be
given necessary instructions and furnished
with blanks. In some instances examina-
tons have been made, but these will not
suffice. Manuals will be sent out and new
examinations ordered. Everything possible
will be done to get the first company here
by the middle of next week in accordance
with the plan outlined in the Journal yes
terday. The regimental appointments with
the exception of the quartermaster and
adjutant, have all been made. The Gov
ernor said that Colonel Durbin would name
the adjutant. The Governor said he did not
know who that officer will be. No one has
been considered by the Governor so far for
quartermaster. There does not seem much
likelihood of Lieutenant Bundy being made
the major of one of the battalions, and in
all probability the appointment will be to-
day offered to Lieutenant Peterson, as
heretofore indicated. The state officials are
about convinced that Lieutenant Bundy
could not get home from Cuba in time to
help organize the regiment and in addition
it is doubted whether he would leave his
command to come to Indiana, even for
higher rank. There are suggestions that
when the next call comes, when Indiana
will be called on for three regiments, that
a place will be found for Lieutenant Bundy
DR.. Franklin w. Hays, having declined
to be the surgeon for the Northumberland
rendered to and accepted by DIR. w. Smith.
of Delphi. The assistant surgeons selected
by the Governor are Drs. M. F. Gerrish, of
Seymour, and James Wilson, OF wabash;
When the adjutant and quartermaster shall
have been selected the regimental roster
will be completed, with the exception of the
noncommisSiOned officers, who the Gov
ernor understands, will be detailed from the
regiment after it is organized.
Dr. Wyckiffe Smith, of Delphi, who is TO
be the surgeon of the ne-hundred-and-six-
ty-frst Regiment of Indiana volunteers, in
place of DR.. Franklin w. Hays, who de-
clines the appointment, is about forty-five
years of age, and of long and varied ex-
perience as a medical practitioner. Physi-
clans who know him say he will leave one
of the largest practices held by any physt-
clan in northern Indiana to go to war. The
assistant surgeon, DIR. Gerrish. of Seymour
is well known in the southern part of the
State. His experience has been largely in
railroad work. which is of character cal
cuIated to fit him for army work. He, too,
is between forty and forty-five years of age.
DIR. James Wilson, of Wabash. the other
surgeon of the regiment, is a young practi-
toner of this town who has been highly
recommended to the Governor His expert
ence has however, necessarily, been less
valuable than his brother appointees. Dr.
HAYS who was first offered the place, was
prevented from accepting by reason of the
condition. of his affairs. both his family and
professional interests being in anything but
a favorable condition for such a move. He
saws it is with great regret he was COM
PEELED to refuse the offer of the Governor
as he sincerely desires to go to the front
but in declining. the facts in the case were
set before the Governor in manner that
set him right with the executive and left
no room for a misunderstanding on either
side.
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