Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-02
OUR SOLDIERS PAY.
THE BOYS WANT THE STATE TO
PAY THEM SOME SALARY.
MAJOR SHAHKS GONE TO ROANOKE.
He VIII Examine Recruits There
no Site Yet Selected for the Camp
of MobfIiznt fon--A Company of I'm
munes Being Raised Here.

The Virginia volunteers who are now
encamped at Camps Cuba Hbre, near
Jacksonville, and Alger, near Washing
OF Virginia TO pay them for the time they
spent In this city prior to being mus
tered into the Federal service.
1t Is contended by the soldiers that they
were called from their homes by the
State OF Virginia. and that during the
time they remained In this city awaiting
the muster officer they were acting under
orders from the Governor. and hence are
entitled to pay from the State. There
seems to be some ground for their con-
tention, too. inasmuch as the States OF
New York and Pennsylvania have paid
their soldiers for the time thus put in
by them. The Governor does not, how
ever, believe that the men are entitled to
pay from Virginia, taking the ground
that they simply came here TO be muster
ed into the Federal service under the call
from President Mckinley, and that II
they are to be paid for their service the
money with which TO pay them should
come from the United States Treasury.
He has referred the question 10 Attorney
General Montague, and this official will
render an opinion concerning 1t to-day or
Monday. In event that the Attorney
General decides that Virginia is not la
bic TO the men. the Governor Will take
the matter up with the War Department
and endeavor to have our soldiers paid
by the Federal Government for the entire
time they have been away from their
hC, LaFa of hAxr
were mustered into the service
NO SITE CHOSEN YET.
Major Price and Colonel Coullng have
returned from High Bridge, near Farm
vile whittier they went TO inspect the
site offered for the mobilization Of the
coiored troops, but they were not very
much. pleased with this site, and 1t is
hardly likely that It will be given any
further consideration. The chances are
that either Poplar Grove or Mt. Pleasant, |
on the Chesapeake and Ohio, will be de- |
cided upon in the next day or so, though |
the officers look with some favor upon |
the offer made them to rendezvous the |
troops at Clayville. on the Southern rail- |
way, about twenty-three miles from Rich |
mond.
GOES AWAY FOR RECRUITS.
Major Shanks completed the work OF |
examining the negroes Of Major John |
sons Battalion yesterday and left last !
night for Roanoke to examine and pass
upon the recruits waiting there for en-
listment in the First Battalion The |
in this battalion are far from
being filled, and Major Johnson, who
went to Roanoke yesterday morning to !
get matters ready for Major Shanks
wired him last night that the prospects
for securing many recruits there were
not very bright
II is understood, however, that there are
3 great number of darkies in Lynchburg
and Alexandria who are anxious to enlist,
and these will be utilized TO fill out the
battalion. AS soon as he gets sufficien-
" OF recruits TO make up the battalions
full quota Major Shanks will return
here and muster the organization into
he Federal service.
ENL1STING IMMUNES HERE
Captain Crandal Mackey, of the Tenth
Infantry Regiment of Immunes, is In the
,ity, and has established headquarters
next door to the corner of Sixth and
Broad streets, where he is enlisting re-
,roes for his company. He is here by d.
ection of the War Department, and
wants altogether, eighty-two men. He
,nly opened his headquarters yesterday
morning. but thus far has met with great
success, having enlisted during the day
wenty-four men. He expects. TO get his
ull complement within the next few days,
when he will move his company to Au-
,usta. Ga, where the regiment under
Command of Colonel Jesse III. Lee is being
nobiliZed.
The men enlisted by Captain Mackey
re being fed by him, and. beginning with
donday, he will quarter them in the
building which he has selected as mis-
The Tenth Regiment will u
e sent to Cuba, it is thought, to garri-
on the cities which are taken by the
egulars. and there is also some likeli-
God OF its being In the movement against
Captain Mackey is in the volunteer SER
ice, having recently been appointed by
ne President He is native of South |
,arolina but for some years has been a |
esident Of Alexandria county. in Vir-
inia.
MAY SEND RECRUITS TO-DAY.
No recruits were shipped yesterday 20
he Second or Fourth regiments, but
quad will probably be sent forward to-
ay The work of recruiting men for
hese regiments is progressing very slow
= now, many of the military-inclined
Dung men Of the city preferring to wait
Or awhile to see whether the President
,sues a call for more troops before en- ,
sting.