The age-herald., 1898-06-12
WAR FOR RECRUITS
 IS STILL WAGED WAGGEEDD
Gov Johnston Has No Call For
 Second Quota.
SEND TROOPS TOM MT. VERNON
Immune Leaders Claim Troops Can Be Mus tered at 0nce-The Governor Will Not Act Until Something
 Official is Known.

The military war is still on and an able
 bodied male is in as much demand as the voter on election day.
 Governor Johnston was in the city yes terday and in reply to query said that there was practically nothing new in the military situation. The official call for
 the second quota from Alabama has not
 been received and until it is at hand the governor cannot tell what course he will pursue. The effort to recruit the Alabama companies now in service up to 1O6 men, is
 being made as 1t seems directly by the fed eral government. If this Is done and the quota of Alabama under the second call is
 1,5O0 there will only be about seven addi-
 tional companies to be raised. It is also
 an open question as to whether the six
 companies of the immune regiment would
 not be counted as part of Alabama's quota.
 Quite a number of patriotic citizens have deluged the governor with requests to raise regiments, battalions and companies, but | he has persistently refused to give any such authority until he is officially informed state.
 The governor thinks that were he to au- thorlze any one to raise regiment and then 1t should turn out that only six or seven companies could be received that 1t would subject him to severe criticism He prefers to wait until informed fully and officially of what is desired of the state before he takes any action, and he intends to pursue this course in spite of any re- quests to the contrary. When the call is received the governor will at once issue a proclamation making known the quota called for, and how it is to be filed and | giving all citizens an absolutely fair and | equal chance to. serve their country 0uartering Troops at Mt. Vernon The governor was in telegraphic corre- spondence yesterday with General Miles in regard to quartering troops at Mount Yer non barracks. This property is now owned by and is in the possession of the state
 and is admirably suited and arranged for the location of troops It is on the Mobi' e and Birmingham railroad, about thirty miles northeast of Mobile, near the Ala bama river, where transports could embark the troops and is well supplied with wh oe- some water.
 The Governor has expressed to the gen- eral of the army his hearty consent to the | temporary of these barracks and the adjoining property by United States troops
 A Mistaken Impression The leaders who are raising the immunes | claim that the impression abroad that no other volunteers will be received from Ala pdihb uhii the hiSt anu SecoHu ltSllutHtS are filled is a mistaken one. They assert | that they are ready to receive volunteers at once, furnish them transportation to camp, where they will be enlisted and paid | from the date of enlistment. The other side allege that every indica- l ton shows that the government desires to | fill the First and Second regiments first. Members of the Magic City Guards and | all others who desire to enlist in Colonel | Sargent's regiment are requested to meet l at the armory in the Allen building Tues | day morning at o'clock for physical ex- animation. Those who so desire will be sent to camp at once.
 The recruiting officers of the First report | that they doing splendidly.