The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-26
THE CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
NOT DUE 40 Any LATENT Or SERI-
GUS EMERGENCY.
Possibility of Foreign Complications
Not Factor-The idea is to Have u
Well Drilled and Seasoned Second Re-
serve-An Approximate Estimate of
the State Quotas -Connecticut's Placed
ut 965 Men.

at 965 Men.
Washington, May 25.-The event Of
day in the war situation was the is
suance of proclamation by the presi-
dent calling for $4,000 more volunteers.
1t added a new and stirring phase to
the lethargic conditions which have
prevailed of late and came with almost
startling unexpectedness even to many
of the high officers of the army The
proclamation means not only the as
sembling of a large force of troops, but
also the appointment of number of
major generals, brigadier generals COL
onels, major and staff and field officers
| for the organization of this additional
| force of $4,000 men into army corps, di-
visions, brigades and regiments The
reasons leading up to the call naturally
were sources of much conjecture, as it
was at first felt that the possibility of
foreign complications was factor in
bringing about this new move. 1t
| speedily developed, however, that the
call was not due to any latent or Sc
rious emergency, but was rather in the
line Of getting together a large body
of men, to be drilled and seasoned, and
to constitute a sort Of second reserve
to be drawn upon later when the cam
paigns are fully under way.
| Coming thus unexpectedly, the war
department had made no preparations
for executing the call and it will be
some days before the details are work.
ed out as to the quotas from each
state, the calls to the respective gov
| ernors of states, the mastering points
and the general points of concentration.
All that is settled this far Is that the
enlistments are to be thrown open,
much as they were at the outbreak of
| the civil war, and are not to be re-
| stricted to the militia and national
guard organizations of the several
| states, This will be an encouragement
to the organization Of independent vol
| unteer companies and regiments. These
| will retain their identity, to certain
extent, state troops, as the governors
| will have the appointment of all COM
pany and regimental officers, while only
the brigade, division corps and staff
officers will be appointed by the presi-
dent. While the adjutant generals Of
| flee has not yet undertaken to make UP
the quotas of the several states the fol-
lowing gives an approximate estimate
of the state quotas:
Alabama 1,500, Arkansas 1880, California
1890, Colorado 9s4, Connecticut 965, Della
ware 210, Florida 400. Georgia 1905, Idaho
1890. Illinois 1920, Indiana 25s1, Iowa
1894, Kansas 1,66S, Kentucky 2,045, Louis
iana 1164, Maine $40, Maryland 1,168, Mas
sachusetts 1882. Michigan 1922, Nfinne-
sofia 1,723 Mississippi 1895, Missouri 3,24e,
Montana 314, Nebraska 1,446, Nevada 142,
New Hampshire 451, New Jersey 1,779 New
York 1901, North Carolina 1,545, North
sylvania $3.50, Rhode Island 425, South Da-
Kota. lilo, South Carolina 445, Tennessee
1,036, Texas i,454 Utah 255, Vermont 397,
consin 1866, Wyoming 1873, Arizona 107,
District of Columbia 1913, New Mexico 269,
Oklahoma 5G