Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-22
TROOPS AT TAMPA.
GEN. SKATER ASSUMES COMMAND
AND Announces HIS STAFF.
PROMPT ACTION EXPECTED
Movement on Cuba Expected 10 H"'
low Meeting between American
and Spanish FIeets-W. Astor o"""
Ter Attach I'D to Wheeiers STALL

TAMPA. FLA, May Ain gsheia'
order issued to-day. Major-Generh W. ~
shafter formally assumed command Oh
ths Fifth Army Corps. composed OF the
United States forces at Tampa ana IN
this vicinity. He also announced the iol-
lowing officers as members or MS stan
First-IIeutenant r. II. Noble, First III
fantry. aide; First Lieutenant J. u. Mliey'
Second Artillery, aide; Major S. j. eros
heck. tudge-advocate and acting ad)utaht-
general: Major ]. w. Jacobs. cher quar-
t.rmaster; Colonel ]. L. Weston. assistant
oommissary-general Of subsistence, CHEZ
commissary; Major 3. II. Pope, cniei
surgeon; First-Iieutenant j. thompson
ordnance department. ordnance orhcer'
Eirst. Lieutenant Il. Green, signal ofncer;
attached. Major w. G. Hayes. First ONO
Voluntary Cavalry.
Maior-General Wade, with his stan OF
ecers. left for Chickamauga to-day. Brl-
gadier-G Generals Poland and Bate also lett
for Chickamauga, where they Will re-
mort TO Major-Gensral Brooke. OF the
First Army Corps.
TRANSPORTS IN READINESS.
Renewed activity is noticeable at Port
TAMPA. where a fleet OF transports is be-
ing nut in readiness. The Plant Line
boat Ollvette, which Ii is understood VIII
be the flagship OF the transports wneh
the movement upon Cuba takes place, mas
been placed in the slip, and is in the hands
of carpenters undergoing alterations for
her work as a transport. Other Dig
steamers have arrived. including the
Ward-Line boats Seneca and Saratoga.
Important developments of highly inn
portant character are looked for in the
near future. That any orders looking
to a movement Of the troops toward Cuba
has been received is extremely doubtful.
Nevertheless, every one expects prompt
action here, following meeting between
the fleets OF Sampson and Schley and the
Spanish fiotllla, which again looms up as
more than a mere possibility. and news
from Cuban waters is eagerly looked for
TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP.
Under orders from General Greeley,
chief of the Signal Department at Wash
ington, w. A. c. Fellows, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. was to-day
sworn In as government censor OF all tele-
graphic business, except newspaper spe-
Gals. The latter will, for the present,
continue to go through the hands of Lieu
tenant Miley. OF General Skaters stan
Inc nOuES Quflub WHICH TIC cNHpdpcf
correspondents may have their matter
passed upon are limited, on account OF
the short time Lieutenant Miley has TO
devote TO his new duties, and for this
reason a vigorous protest has been made
1t is very probable that an official censor
will be appointed within a day or two
and the delays unavoidable under the
present arrangement done away with.
THE CHAMBERS.
VIII Aston Chanler, who was recently
appointed a major OF volunteers. was to-
day attached TO the staff OF Major Gene
raj Wheeler. He has turned over the
command Of his band Of volunteers TO his
brother. Winthrop CHAMBER. who has ar
rived in Tampa from New York
General o. o. Howard. who for the past
week has been conducting religious meet
ings among the troops at Tampa. will
leave tomorrow night for Mobile, and
will thence go TO Kentucky. He will be
accompanied by Major D. W. Whittle.