The San Francisco call., 1898-06-04
NORTHERN TROOPS COMING
FORWARD MOVEMENT BEGUN
 AT MOBILE.
Regulars Under General Bates En- parked on Transports and Will Soon Begin the Invasion of
 Cuba.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House,

Washington June 3.
 BrigadierGeneral McArthur, recently stationed at St. Paul, Minn., has been ordered to proceed to San Francisco and report to Major-General Merritt commanding the Department of the Pacific. for assignment to duty with the expedition to the Philippines.
 Other officers also assigned to duty with the same expedition are Captain William A. Tucker, commissary of sub- sistence, who was assigned to the staff of Brigadier- General Anderson; Major H. w. Cardwell, who will be made chief surgeon of a division; acting Assistant Surgeon c. H. Penrose, who is assigned to duty with the Utah battery Captain G. Il. Ruhlin, assistant quartermaster, IS ordered to report to General Merritt for assignment to duty.
 PORTLAND, Or, June 3.-The Fourth United States Cavalry Band San Francisco. Troop E from Van couver Barracks will leave for San Francisco tomorrow.
 WALI4A WALLA Wash, June 3-A telegram was received at Fort Walla Walla to-day, notifying the command ing officer that orders have been issued for the departure of Troop G, Fourth SaNdlIy, HOW hefe, to proceed to San Francisco The fact that the order definitely states that horses are not to be taken seems to indicate that the company is intended for the Phil ippines.
 MOBILE, Ala, June 9.-The forward movement from Mobile began this afternoon. The first part of the Fourth Army Corps to leave camp was the Second Cavalry, and this was quickly hu he irI Inf at1-xy he Twentieth Infantry. These troops marched to and through the city to the water front, where the afternoon and part of the night were consumed in taking passage on the transports Mat tewa. Saltwater, Aransas, Morgan and Breakwater. General Bates is in com mand of the expedition.
 The men are jubilant over going to the front. The general impression among the men is that the expedition is bound for Porto Rico. The Eleventh and Nineteenth infantry were ordered to leave by rail for Tampa, but the or der was countermanded. They, with the Fifth Cavalry and one battalion of the Second Cavalry, will probably leave tomorrow
 TAMPA (Fla.), June 3.-The censor ship at Tampa, which relaxed enough to-day to permit of chronicling, with certain restrictions, the arrival of vol unteer troops at this point, has been again frightened to even a greater ex- treme than before. No comments will hereafter be allowed on the movements of the regular or volunteer troops, either to or from this point, nor will anything bearing on any phase of the situation here be permitted to go out.
 Correspondents are practically limit ed now to the veriest camp gossip. Nothing in the nature of confirmation or denial of the reports of authorization of troops at this point or any com- ment which might indicate a move ment, will be allowed. Not only is the telegraphic news censored, but secret service men are said to be watching very carefully the mails from Tampa, and any suspicious letter will probably be confscated. The orders for the tightening of censorship came direct from General Greedy at Washington.
 General Miles and General Shafter held a conference to-day of several hours duration. General Ludlow, chief of the engineer corps, took part in the discussion.