The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-06
ONLY TWO VACANCIES
FIFTEEN NEW MEN RECENTLY
ENLISTED.
SENATOR MARION BUTLER EXPECTS WAR
Congressman Don't Think after To day keed
Will be Able to Hold the Republicans IN
Line -.Site for a Camp not yet
Selected.

There is no company of soldiers III
this State in better condition anu more
nearly ready for orders than is the Gov
errors Guard, of this city.
..The Guard is in fine condition" said
Cant. A. J. Crawford yesterday. Three
weeks ago we had only 43 men; now we
have IS well drilled and equipped. We
arc only allowed 60 men, and there are
about a dozen applicants for the two
vacancies. They will %be filled by Mon
day night. We will draw for them,
there are so many applicants.
"Then if there is war and we have
to recruit to 100 men, l can i'll few
hours get them. My men are ready for
orders: they can be collected in camp
ready TO move within two hours
Many other companies IN the State
Guard have been for several days enlist
ing men and recruiting up to their full
strength. but they are doing so on
their own responsibility. No orders to
do so have been issued either from the
War Department at Washington or the
.Adjutant Generals office here.
Under the regulations of the State
Guard each company is allowed maxi
mum of sixty men. In case of wa,
however, this will, by order of the War
Department, through the Adjutant Cen
erals office. be increased to 100 men.
This would make the organized war
strength of the State about 5000 men.
AS the State Guard is now organized
there are regiments of infantry OF
. battahons each. In case of war the
10, lodi 10 =
lions each, making II companies of 100
men in each of the four regiments, or
"a total infantry force of 4,SO0 and one
6-gun battery of about 200 men.
This organization--the State Guard
will be subject to the first call for troops.
After that there may be a call for vol
unteers to fill up the States quota, asked
for by the President. This quota will
be based on the voting population COM
pared to the number called for by the
President
If troops are called out they will re-
ceive an entirely new equipment-arn
ammunition, uniforms, everything new
and complete and furnished by the gem
eral government They would be sent
here simultaneously with the call for the
men. 1t appears that the new summer
campaign uniform which is about to be
adopted for the army is what is known
as ''Kharki' cloth, which the British
troops have for some years worn IN
camlSaigns in warm countries. 1t is a
dirt colored linen, rather darker than
that worn by the German troops III
summer: is very light and yet fine and
strong.
Not only no orders to call out troops
have vet been received" said Major
Hayes, u. S. a.. acting Adjutant Gene
raj, yesterday, but as yet no inquiries
or communication whatever have been
received at this office from the War De-
partment.
'sIt is the intention of this office, ii
troops are called for 10, assemble them
here in Raleigh at once. We go out
tomorrow to select Il camp drill ground
in anticipation of such emergency.
SENATOR BUTLER FOR WAR.
Senator Butler thinks there will be
war. He does not see any way by which
it can be averted and Congressman
Strowd, Shuford and Fowler, all of
him in his views.
'Will there be war, Senatorw / asked
him yesterday.
he replied. ''Spain will have to get out
of Cuba and give the island complete III
dependence or there'll be war;"
Suppose, though, the President sends
in another non-committal MESSAGE?
Congress is tired of milk and cider
messages and members don't propose 10
have any more backing and filling. Ger
tainly that is true of the Senate. If
Mr.. Mckinley should tomorrow send in
such o message the Committee on For
cign Relations would promptly bring in
a resolution recognizing the indepen-
dence of Cuba and direct the President
10 use the full force of the army and
navy if necessary to enforce it. In other
words they would authorize him to
make Spain get off the island.
s'The sentiment in Congress is in brief
about as follows. and the sentiment i'll
the country is stronger even than in
Congress:
THAT the blowing up of the Name
and the murder of our sailors was alone
an act of war
THAT a nation or people that Wouhl
commit such deed should not be al
lowed by the American people to hoat
its flag on the western hemisphere.
Neither would we permit nation
that would perpetrate such outrages and
butchery of the Cubans as Spain has. to
remain longer upon the island. That
is sufficient cause for armed interven-
ton even if the Maine had not been
blown up.
''The conclusion that Congress has ar
rived at is that we should make Spain
atone for the blowing up Of the Maine
by getting off the western hemisphere.
and that Cuba should be freed as 4
monument to our dead sailors.
But we can't allow any settlement
of the Cuban matter with the Maine left
out. The way TO do that is to make
Cuba free. This country wants to see
every country Il republic and she has a
chance now to make Cuba a free coun-
try Oh a high ground
IF Spain goes to war she'll not oniy
lose Cuba but Porto Rico and every
other possession she has on the western
hemisphere"
Congressman Fowler thinks there vii
be declaration of war to-day
Certainly there will be- he said, I'll