The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-22
MASTERING OUT.
List Of Regiments Not Yet
Ready, But Orders
Already Issued as
to Method.
GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACCOUNT
officers Responsible Must
Get Releases Before Draw
ing Their Final
ray.
SPAIN STILL CAUTIOUS
Conservative" Newspapers
Look for More Serious
Trouble over Cuba
and Porto Rico.
NILES TO SAIL FOR HOME
Ponce Quiet and the People
Pleased Over the Conclusion
Of the Fighting.
Ponce Quiet and the People
Pleased Over the Conclusion
of the Fighting.

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. 1sss--Adjutant
General Corbin has issued an order gov
ernfng the mastering out of volunteers.
1t goes into the duties of officers in detail.
The following are the more important
features OF the order
Only officers of the regular army viii
be detailed by the War Department to
muster out troops.
To avoid expense to the Government
and hardsllips and annoyances to indi-
viduals concerned by unavoidable delays
that will occur in the final payment of
!. .sficers and enlisted men absent from their
commands on muster out commanding
officers win make every effort to effect
the return of all absentees and detach-
ments prior to muster out of the organi-
zation.
Officers who at any time were respon-
sibe for public property of any descrip-
debtedness before their final payment can
be made
Officers who have not at any time been
responsible for public property will be
required to furnish the mastering officer
with their afIidavits to that effect.
All officers viii be held to a strict ac-
countability for the discipline of their
commands and the preservation of pub
lie property.
Mastering officers are empowered to
prefer charges against officers who ne
glect in any manner to take the proper
measures to insure the government
against loss of property or to keep their
commands together and under proper dis
cipline
The supply departments of the army
will continue to furnish organizations
with needful supplies until date of final
payment and discharge.
All persons borne on the muster in and
on all other muster rolls, and all who
-asssayep5oined or belonged to the organiza-
tion at any time since its muster in, must
be accounted for on the muster-out roll,
which is required to be a complete record
of all the officers and men who ever be-
longed to the organization.
The War Department has not yet made
out its list of regiments to be mustered
out of the service, but has been in con-
stant correspondence with various sec
ST
first it was thought that the demand to
remain in the service would prove en-
barrassing to the department as so many
troops desired to continue in service.
It is now believed that there has been
chance of sentiment and the officers
and men of the regiments that see no
possibility of urther fightings are willing
TO go back to their advocations Some
want to go to the new possessions but
others. 1t is said, see no glory in policing
Santiago and other captured points where
there is nothing to do. Some of the troops
are also becoming weary of camp life.
The First Alabama, it is understood. has
been selected for mastering out at its
own request.
Ordnance officers are really relieved
that they will not have the care of the
small arms cslpLuTeu at Mania, winch by
the terms of surrender are to be returned
to the Spanish soldiers wheny they
evacuate the city. 1t is stated by Off
GERS of experience that 1t would not be
profitable for the United States to secure
ammunition supplies for a different kind
Of gun, where there were only a small
number such as those captured at Santi-
ago. or which might have been captured
at Manila
fifty or one hundred thousand stands
q were taken, then the United
s. s might work proftably in the mat
f supplying them with ammunition.
f1i rent from the regular army which
has been adopted for the troops and
which are now in use. The Ordnance
Etreau had an opportunity to select the
Mauser when the Krag-Jorgensen arm
was chosen
The officers who made the examination
found defects tn the Mauser which gave
The other gun the preference. They be-