The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-29
TAKE PLACE OF OLD ONES
WESTERN COMPANIES FULL TO
OVERLOOKING.
MORE EASTERN COMPANIES REFUSE
Much Confusion in the Public Mind as to Status
Of National Guard After il is Mustered
into the United States
Service.

Many persons are writing to the Gov
ernor Offering to raise new companies
to take the place of the companies in tho
State Guard that refuse to volunteer
Among those yesterday heard from are
w. II. Il. Bell. of Rutherfordton, VIII
saws he will have 81 men by Tuesday.
Percy Gray. of Greensboro, who thinks
he will get a company next week.
Joel l.. Gibson, of Nantahala, who al
ready has nearly the required number.
Thos III. Briggs, Jr., lieutenant OF
Elizabeth City, who is raising com
pany in three Eastern counties.
w. c. Rodham, of Washington, who
has secured about so men.
q. III. Carrie, of Clarkton, is raising &
company.
j. II. Holt. of Burlington, hopes tC
have q company in a few days.
Fred Woollcott of Raleigh, has abou'
80 men enlisted.
Chester Turner, of Hillsboro, has OF
ened n recruiting office.
The signal corps at Concord. not being
included in the call for troops have
abandoned their organization and gont
over and recruited in the Cabarrus Light
Infantry.
Those who had volunteered at Newton
have gone to Charlotte and volunteered
in body in the Hornets Nest Rifiemen
\ telegram from the Waynesville com
pany last night asked permission to come
TO Raleigh ut once.
The Ashevile company wired the AL.
jutant and General that they had 100
men. and asked if they must bring them
oil Ii,.A hat In. L. 4
The Goldsboro company issues IA cir
cular calling for troops and Captain
Balm says he will be ready Monday.
The Henderson company will probably
have its full quota of men by the middle
of the week. Captain j. Il. Jones was
here yesterday, and said: I'm response
to contradictory reports in the daily
papers / wish to say that my company
has neither volunteered nor refused 50
TO do. Responding TO General Order No.
/. all efforts are being made to recruit
the company to the number required.
from the section which it will represent.
and a positive answer will be given so
soon as that fails or is accomplished
Colonel Il. S. Royster, of Oxford, said
there were 3D. men out of the Al in the
Granville Grays who are willing to go
anywhere. He thinks though it will not
he possible to get up the 81 men required
by Monday.
The Plymouth, Hartford and Maxton
companies have notified the Adjutant
General that they will not volunteer.
1t seems that there is still much un-
certainty as to the status of the State
Guard when mustered into the United
States services, as will be seen from the
following letter. received yesterday by
the News and Observer from an officer
Of the State Guard at Tarboro:
10 the Editor: | notice in this morn
ings issue Of your valuable paper a
statement to the effect that the Edge
connie Guards were one of the four
companies i'll the State Guard refusing
to volunteer. Now. ] would like to see
the company have justice done them.
and | wish to say That there are thirty
four men ready TO enlist as soon as the
required number can be recruited: and |
believe ii we had proper official infor-
nation as to what will be required Of
us. what our standing will be in the
volunteer army, and whether we retain
our present officers and organization or
not, and whether we lose our identity
rs National. Guardsmen or no:. So
that we could act intelligently on such
official information. there would be no
trouble in having not only eighty-four
men willing and ready to go, but one
hundred and eighty-f0ur, if necessary.
As the matter stands now, the only Of
fetal communication we have had from
Colonel Rodman would lead one to be-
lieye, land over two-thirds of the com
pany do bclieve) that we would have to
enlist, each man for himself. in the
United States army, and that we are
liable to be a part Of some Massachu-
setss regiment or any other State or
GanHatI0n, and not only lose oul
identity as State guardsmen, but as
anybody, from anywhere, and become
nothing more nor less than United
states regulars. We have sent our cap
tam to Raleigh to State headquarters
In search Of definite information, and
he could not get it there.
Now If You or any one else will inform
us as to where we can get definite of.
NEAL information, the entire company
VIII be sincerely grateful. The men
even suppose they will have TO nay their
own fare to Raleigh or the mohil;zino
point, as our Governor has said recent.
ly. that neither he nor the State wonld
pay even for kilograms.
Yours truly.
w. b. HOWARD.
Private Co. A, LIST Reg. n G s r
All the above questions are settlad Ia
what is known as the Hull yoIuntnn,
act, which was passed by Congress M
approved last Friday, and is familiar
This act provides that the President
may call into the actual service Of th,
fut in, ~, ~