The San Francisco call., 1898-07-21
SOUTH DAKOTA BOYS
 TO SAIL SATURDAY

"HE Seventh California Volun-
 teers have received direct assur-
 ances from President Mckinley
 that the regiment will sail TOT
 Manila on the transport Scandla.
 The facts were placed before the President by Governor Budd and Sen ator Perkins. hence the desire of the volunteers for active service at the front will soon be gratified
 At the Presidio there is talk that Major General Shafter will shortly re- turn to San Francisco and take com mand of the Department of California. Occasionally officers get hlnt through private telegrams from ln- f1uentiaI friends of contemplated changes. It was remarked yesterday bv an officer: T believe General Shafter will be here within three weeks. He has finished his work at Santiago and will not care to stay there any longer. Should he express a desire to return here the War De- partment would probably comply with his request"
 The clerical force in the adjutant generals office at Washington must be rattled Statements wired to the press of the country on the authority of that office give anything but a cor rect record of the number of men en- listed under the Presidents second call for volunteers. Day before yes terday The Call received a dispatch setting forth that California was slow in responding to the second call for troops, having supplied only 624 men" The dispatch was promptly thrown in the waste basket as rubbish, because the fact was well known to every one who cared to give the sub ject the slightest attention that a regi- ment numbering more than twelve hundred men, recruited under the sec ond call, was encamped at Sather sta ton in Alameda County.
 Adjutant General Barrett was noti- fled. however, that some of the stupid and incompetent clerks in General Cor bins office in Washington were giving out for publication misleading and blundering statements which were cal culated to bring discredit on the State of California. General Barrett at once telegraphed to the War Department that California had furnished 24S3 men under the second call. The Washing ton correspondent of this paper was also directed to investigate and ascer- tain why the adjutant generals office gave out such erroneous figures. In re-
  dispatch was received last night:
 WASHINGTON, July 2O.-Complaints have come in to-day from several States that the number of men en- listed under the Presidents second call, as given out on the authority of the adjutant generals office, is incorrect Figures from one official to-day give CalifOrnia's enlistment under the sec ond call as being near the quota, or a f,111 rpcir11anf hut 10 ha,- ic not Obtainable. The adjutant generals office says California cannot have fur nished 24S3 men under the second call, as that is far in excess of the number required. It is not explained how the number of enlisted was announced yes terday as being 624, and to-day con- ceded to be little less than 1900.
 California is not the only State that has been misrepresented by the Wash ington authorities. Oregon has been placed in a false light before the coun- try, as the following telegram ex- plains:
 PORTLAND, Or, July 20-Regard- ing the statement from Washington that Oregon is behind in furnishing her quota of troops under the second call. Adiutant General Futile of the Oregon National Guard to-day said: The statement that Oregon is behind in furnishing her quota of troops is unjust and is not correct. The troops were recruited and furnished promptly. The delay has been in mastering in the men, for which the State is not re- sponsible. Four hundred and nineteen men in the second call have been mus tered. The second battery has been ready for examination and muster for a long time awaiting the mastering of fcer. Oregon will furnish another reg iment in forty-eight hours if called upon"