The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-20
ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS.
Mastering Out Of the lmmunes Will
Bring Out Some Facts.
SENATOR Chiffon IS TO SPEAK,
soldier Asks that the Registrar ne
Compelled 20 lssuc Him Ccr-
tisicatc--Fcdcral Court.

N'N''rfNA luihNutS 0iN itutiAN uVSttFVu
out There is much information IN the
possession OF the regiment. not only among
Nc Officers but also in the hands OF the
enlisted men. us VIII make Adjutant Gen.
eral Corhn sQuirm when II Is made public
This information includes so much matter
the secretary OF war and corbin since Il
lett Camp liowley July q under orders TO
sail for Santiago ic Cuba, that a detailed
review is impossible now, but IL viii all
come out In duo time. one OF the officers
IN talking OF ibis said ~ includes scan
dals involving the quartesmastcr's depart
men, at New orleans. throupa which de-
partment. il is alleged BY the officers.
The regiment was deliberately shclyed in
order TO make room for the Ninth immunes.
a negro organization, II includes open az
ticns on the part OF this New Orleans quar-
ierinAsier's department. such as playing
openly ana possibly under orders from
Washington TO dump the Texas ulmunes
~ any cost, and which actions we're car
rel 20 Tar as 10 snuh Riches officers WAC
werc sent 10 that office on official busincS IS
ana TO place and keep the Galveston regi-
fncht in camp IN swamp at the far
grounds Tor four weeks with the evident
intent OF causing sickness among the troops
ana 10 eet tue negro command, the Ninth.
ordered out on tho second trip OF the trans
port Berlin, The Information further IN
inc possession OF the regiment Ia that the
officers OF tho Ninth UnitGl States voun-
tcers. immunes, bots negro and white con-
snirod 10 wreck the Texas command, and TO
that end used an evening paper In New Or
leans TO incite popular feeling ngalnst
Rirhp'a ma ftnnil,s I.i Ia,
curing an or'ior from the war department
detailing regular army officer TO iuvcstl-
gate and report as TO the command This
officer WAS then acting rs mastering officer
for the negro regiment. and while possibly
Il was not detail whic, he oraved or
which filled him with satisfaction. he sue
cccd9d In assisting In the wrccking OF
Riches command These are two incidents
developed at Camp Hawlcy by The Post re-
porter.
or the two influences mentioned ms being
operated against the First immunee at New
Orleans that alleged TO have been per-
formed by the nuartormaslor' department
may be clasSed as nsidious and that by
the Investigating officer as malicious
The general talk in camp Is hat The
quartermaster's department at New Orloans
WIS directly rcsponsiblc for 1ie ordering
off of Riches regiment from thc transport
Berlin after many n desperate effort 10
force IL TO sail in quarters which wouli
have put TO blush those OF slave snip.
Seeing possible ocean transport horror
ami a great National scandal. aud upon the
protests Of both coloncIs, all the officers,
the hospital corps, and even the command
Ing officers OF the ship, and forcsceng tho
probability OF ,mharklng the Ninth I'M
munos. negroes, when the transport re-
turned, the First immunes. after seventy
hours OF suffering and horrors, wore dis
Embarked and placed in camp knee deep
| IN mud and water and kept there for a
| monte suffering and exposed TO colds ami
kinclcd sickness, all through the stupidity
or intent OF this quartermastor's depart
mont.
"But few hours had elapsed after pitch
ing camp whom up bobbel up regular
| army officer clothed with all uae pomp
and power OF an official order to investigate
The regiment or the officers with whom
/ talked yesterday at Camp Hawley not
one could be found who said that the m
vestigstion as conducted was anything but
iudicrous An average OF HSree questions
was put to each line officer and ahe time
consumed did not exceed one minute 10
each, Upon this investigation, occupying
possibly forty.five minutes, a report was
framed and sent on the wiDgA OF tho VIM
to the war department that Ire Texans
were without d discipline, sick and utterly
unfit for service, that the officers were
lrcompetcut, the men muttnouS ana the
command wholly bad. incidentally reports
were sent simultaneously from other
fourcos, perhaps In this conspiracy, that
the negro regiment. incluitng negro of
ncers white officers, enlisted men and
dogs, was In good health and perfectly dis
clplincd. while almost nj the very momcnt
these dispatches were wlnging toward
Warrington one OF these same negro SOL
diers was running amuck on the streets OF
New Orleans and was finally Killed by an
officer OF the law. after the soldier had
fired over fifty shots in ubc streets at IN
nocent people Notwithstanding all this,
tho report went on, Riches lmmiineB get
ting lho worst end OF n.
whether IL be that this niudh abused
conmaL'i has mad mistakes whether IL he
that these mi2tskes have been vital from
military standpoint, ne glaring fact re-
mains tht IL has been maligned and ira
dured by a regular army officer and ny a
quartermastcr' department which. by it's
vacillating course regarding the transport
Perkins capacity for bending 1000 troops
(two regimepts) has proven Itself an utter
ly incompetent department. and whether,
further tire official charges TO the war de-
parimcnt and the reply TO the FIRST I'M
muncs ever secs the light OF print. there
viii undoubtedly be a scandal which VIII
hardly place the adjuiant general OF tue
amy in an enviable light so far as this
regiment IL concerned and which Will go far
TO prove that General Miles has keener
i,1 ament In his selection OF troops tnhn ne
polgticians who are working for party ENDS
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