The San Francisco call., 1898-05-05
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during the last forty-eight hours. Order | and system have been evolved out of what appeared for several days to be a mass of confusion. Mastering in Of the ] First Volunteer Regiment of Infantry went forward in good style yesterday. Simultaneously the work at headquarters | in bringing forward the Seventh Infantry Regiment from Southern California went along smoothly. The adjutant-general conducted the negotiations for the trans portation without delay. The troops Will l leave Los Angeles and other points to- morrow and arrive here Saturday morn 1 ing The train, consisting of thirty-six passenger coaches, one Pullman coach and l three freight cars, will be moved over the | road in four sections. The Southern Pa cific charges the regular price for trans porting Government troops. The State bears the expense but will be reimbursed for the outlay by the United States.
 Governor Budd has now a difficult task to deal with. Under the call of the Pres ident he cannot give all the guardsmen | who want to go to the front an opportu- | nifty to enter the service Of the United | States as volunteers from California. | Speaking on this topic yesterday he said: | .'I have taken from the Second Brigade | one regiment and preserved the regimen tai organization. l cannot well take any other troops from this briga1ei l have ave which constitutes the First Brigade, thus keeping that regiment intact as an organi- zation. The President will not authorize me to organize the remaining two battal- ions under the call into another regiment of infantry, therefore l can only order in volunteers. It seems fair to take these companies from the Second and Sixth Regiments of the Third Brigade. Two companies might be taken from the Fifth Infantry the organizations which are located at San Jose, Oakland, Peta- luna, Santa Rosa, San Rafael and Ala meda, but it must be considered that twelve. companies have already been taken from the brigade to which the Fifth Infantry belongs. In my judgment the Fifth should be kept as a compact regi- mental organization to meet another call for volunteers, and I believe that Colonel Fairbanks does not desire that the regi- mental organization should be broken by r taking rom 1t two companies and leav- ing the others out. I would like to take regiment from the Third Brigade and give all the organizations of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys an op- portunity to enter the United States sery- ice, but under the call I restricted to elght companies or two battalionS. Two companies of infantry may be taken from Sacramento, two from Stockton one com pany from Grass Valley, one company from Visalia, one from Bakersfield and one from Fresno. Sacramento will also supply one battery of heavy artillery
 Concerning the equipment of troops the Governor said: ''The uniforms now in the possession of the troops will be taken by the United States at the appraised value Of the clothing ana the money received will be expended in clothing the men re- cruited to fill the vacancies in the Nation al Guard caused by the transfer of regi- ments from the State to the United States service. The guard will then be in condi- tion to respond to another call from the Government"
 In exercising his prerogative of com missioning regimental officers Governor Budd said that he would commission 1 James F. Smith colonel of the First Cali | fornia Regiment of United States Volun- teer Infantry, and that John R. Berry would be commissioned colonel of the other infantry regiment of volunteers. It was further announced that Frank Rice, U. s. A, retired, would be commissioned major to command the four batteries of heavy artillery volunteers from this State Lieutenant Colonel Geary. N. c. C.. re- l tired, has been ordered to report to Major Rice for duty as battalion adjutant of 1 the artillery.
 Yesterday Captain Darlington received 1 the following telegram from the adjutant general of the United States army:
 'WASHINGTON, May 4, 1S9S
 Captain F. de l.. Darlington, U. S. A, San Francisco: Under the law regiments must have not less than ten nor more than twelve companies; maximum, s4 off,