Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-06-01
SECOND CALL FOR MEN
PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT
Seventy-Ffve Thousand Additional
Volunteers to Serve for Three
Years Unless Sooner Discharged
The Enlistments VIII he Open
to the People at Large.

Washington, May 27.-The president
today issued the following proclamation:
BY the President of the United States
A Proclamation:
Whereas, An act of congress was ap-
proved on the 25th day of April, 1898,
entitled, can act declaring that war ex-
listed between the United States of Amer
lea and the kingdom of Spain; and
Whereas, An act of congress entitled,
Gan act to provide for temporarily in
creasing the military establishment in the
United States in time Of war, and for
cher purposes" approved April %, 1898
the president is authorized, in order to
raise volunteer army, to issue his proc
lamation calling for volunteers to serve
in the army of the United States;
Now, therefore, l, William Mckinley
president of the United States, by virtue
Of the power vested in me by the constitu'
ton and laws, and deeming sufficient oc.
casion to exist, have thought fit to call
forth, and hereby do call forth, volunteers
to the aggregate number of $4,000, in ad'
dition to the volunteers called forth by
my proclamation of the 23rd of April in
the present year; the same to be appor-
toned, as far as practicable, among the
several states and directories and the Dis.
trict of Columbia, according to popula-
ton, and to serve for three years, unless
sooner discharged. The proportion Of each
arm of service and details of enlistment
and organization will be made known
through the war department.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the Unit
ed States to be affixed. Done at the
city of Washington, this 25th day OF
May, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and, eight hundred and ninety eight, and
of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and twenty-second.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY, President.
By WILLIAM r. DAY, Secretary Of
State.
No Occasion for Hurry.
Washington, May 25-Secretary Alger
said this afternoon that the additional re-
cruits will be not recruited from the ma.
tional guard, as were the first l25, 1000, but
the enlistments will be open.
The regulations referred to in the proc.
lamation under which enlistments will
be conducted have not yet been prepared
and it is thought there is no occasion
for hurry in this matter until the full
draft called for in the first proclamation
has been secured.
1t is further stated that the decision
to issue the additional call for volunteers
was not reached until the cabinet meet
ing yesterday. The call, it is supposed,
here, indicates determination to press
the campaign actively and vigorously
from now on.
First Call Nearly Filled.
Washington, May 25.-One hundred
and twelve thousand men have now been
mustered into the volunteer army and Of
fetal reports show the greater number
of these are ready to move to the front.
Two-thirds of the states have entirely
completed their muster.
The failure of some of the states, notab.
ly four or five in the south, to furnish
the men called for up to this time, is a
surprise to army officers here, but is as
cribed not to lack of patriotism, but to
the belief probably shared by many ma
tional guardsmen who had home ties and
business connections which they could not
well afford to give up, that plenty of
other persons not so encountered would
readily be found to take their places.