Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-04-27
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
THE CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Thousand Men to Serve for Two
Years Unless Sooner Discharged
German Hatred Increases.

Washington. April %. - The president
today issued the following proclamation,
calling for $4,000 troops to serve two
years:
BY the President of the United States
Proclamation:
Whereas, by an act of congress, entitled
An act to provide for the increasing of
the military establishment of the United
States in time of war and for other pur-
poses, approved April %, 1898, the presi-
dent was authorized. in order to raise n
volunteer army, to issue his proclamation
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 consti.
tuition and by the law, and deemng suffi-
cient occasion to exist, have thought fit
to call for, and hereby do call for, volun-
teers to the aggregate number of $4,000,
to carry into effect the purpose of said
resolution, the same to be apportioned as
far as practicable among the several states
and territories and the District of Column
bia, according to the population, and to
serve for two years, unless sooner dis
charged.
The details for this object will be i'm
mediately communicated to the proper
authorities 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 Washington this 23d day of
April, 1893, and of the independence of
the United States the l22d
(SignedD WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
By the President:
John Sherman, Secretary of State.
Money for War.
Washington, April 23.-Chairman Ding
ley made the following statement regard.
ing the revenue to be raised:
The ways and means committee esti-
mate the increased revenue that would
be derived from the taxes proposed would
be from $90.000,00O to 100000 900, dis
tributed as follows Fermented liquors,
$35,OO0,OOO; tobacco, $4,000, 600; cigars,
$l5,OOO,OOO; dealers in cigars and tobacco,
$5,OOO,OOO; stamp taxes on documents
and kilograms, $30O00,0O0; stamp tax on
wines, minerals, etc, undetermined; ton
mage tax on vessels engaged in foreign
trade, $2,O00,000. Tea and coffee are not
touched, as all measures proposed for
war revenues are internal revenue taxes
A $50O,OOO,000 loan is provided for in
the new war tariff bill in the form of 3
per cent bonds; $l00,0OO,OO0 in certifi-
Gates, indebtedness to bear 8 per cent in
terest, is also provided. 1t is learned the
bill provide that the bonds be redeemable
in not less than 10 and not more than 20
years, at the pleasure of the government,
instead of and 20 as first proposed. The
change is made in difference to the wishes
of the treasury officials.
German Hatred.
New York. April 23-The belief that
Spain will not give up her original plans
in regard to privateering is gaining
ground in official circles in Germany, says
the Berlin correspondent of the World.
The admiralty is considering the advisa-
bility of sending warship to West In
dian waters to safeguard German inter-
ests.
The most foolish attempts are being
made by newspapers actively hostile TO
America to point out the alleged danger
threatening the United States from the
attitude of the Latin-American republics.
According to Bismarck's chief organ in
Berlin, it would appear that Mexico and
the South and Central American states
are getting ready to fly at the throat of
the United States. These same papers
are also making violent efforts to prove
that the Spanish sea force is quite equal
TO that of the United States and that