Evening star., 1898-12-22
Plans for mastering Out $4,000 Men
Not Defined.
REPLACING PHILIPPINE VOLUNTEERS
Arrangements for the Transports
Trip From New York.
SOLDIERS IN THE ANTILLES

| The War Department has not yet made
| definite plans for the muster-out of the
| J0,ODo volunteers which was decided on al
the cabinet meeting yesterday. 1t is un-
derstood that this work will be pretty well
| ma pped out by the first of the year. TIE
time required to complete the muster-out
will depend on whether the department
adopts the plan of two months furiough
or an immediate discharge, with two
months extra pay, as suggested by Repre-
sentative Hull. There are number of reg
iments which have already returned from
foreign service and are awaiting their dis
charge in this country. Among these are
the 1st Engineers at New York and the 9th
Massachusetts at Boston. These, it is un-
dcrstOod, are slated for early discharge.
Troops at daniIa.
1t has been decided also 80 muster out all
Of the volunteers in the Philippines. This
will be done fast as the volunteers can
be replaced with regulars. so as not to
hamper the military administration of the
island. The organizations on that station
at present are Company \. United States
Engineer Battalion; Troops f. c. G. |, X
and l., 4th United States Cavalry; Batter
les q. II, X and l. of the Sd and ID and G
OF the 9Th United States Artillery; the As
tor Battery (Which has already been order
ed homel; Batteries A and ID. California; A
and Is. Utah, and 1st Wyoming Artillery;
14th. 18th and I'D United States Infantry.
lst California. 1st Colorado. LIST Idaho 5lst
Iowa, 10Th Kansas. 18th Minnesota. 1st
Montana. lSt Nebraska. LIST North Dakota,
2d Oregon. 10Th Pennsylvania. 1st South
Dakota. 1st Tennessee, 1st Washington and
1st Wyoming Infantry.
Soldiers in the West Indies.
Following closely the discharge of the
regiments on the Philippine station it is
understood that the volunteer troops in the
West Indies will be mustered out. The vol
dnteer regiments on this station now are
the sth Illinois (Colored) Infantry, at San
tiago. Cuba; 2&d Kansas (colored), Sanu-
ago; Sd United States Engineers, Companies
r, l. l. and y. at Matanzas. Cuba; ID
United States Volunteer Infantry. Santiago,
Cuba; 9th United States Volunteer (colored)
Infantry. Santiago Cuba: 81 Company. Sig
nal Corps, Santiago; 18th Company. Signal
Corps, Porto Rico: 18th Company Signal
Corps, Havana. Cuba.
At Honolulu there are now stationed
Companies !, K, L and NJ, ID United States
Volunteer Engineers. while the 1st and 18th
Companies SignaI Corps, are on the Manila
station.
Troops to Leave New York.
Formal orders have been issued for the
dispatch of three regiments Of regular in
fantry from New York city to Manila by
way of the Mediterranean and Suez canal.
This action is in accordance with the policy
Of the department to replace the volunteer
troops in the Philippines with regulars
The first regiments to go by the eastern
route are the 4th Infantry al Fort Sheri-
dan. the Eth Infantry at Jefferson bar
racks and the nth Infantry at Columbus
barracks. They will embark al New York
about the middle of January and will reach
Manila about the end Of February The
transports definitely selected to carry the
soldiers, VINO will number nearly 3,5rb are
the Mobile and the Mohawk, which are the
largest and finest vessels owned by the
army. each Of them capable of carrying
200 men. These vessels have Eeen thor
oughly rebuilt for the TRANSPORT service.
The Mobile recently took 2.2DD men TO Ha-
Vana. demonstrating in a remarkable de-
gree her perfection in arrangements.
The Mohawk is exactly like the Mobile,
and is now at the Bath Iron Works Maine,
where her interior arrangements have been
completely reconstructed, with a view to
her use between San Francisco and Manila
IN the exchange of regiments. To each of
these vessels will be assigned about l 100
men and officers, with the members of off,
GERS families.
The ships will carry a sufficient quantity
of subsistence stores for the three regi-
the returning volunteers across the Pacific
SO that no food need be purchased outside
the United States.
1t is proposed that the 4th Regiment and
half of the 18th Regiment shall Re assigned
to the M0bi ., the other half OF the I1th
Regiment and the entire 18th Regiment -
ing accommodated on the Mohawk.