The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-07-06
TO ENLIST ,vlUNTE{RS.
len thousand More Men viii Be
Necessary.
FOR A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.
A"es Conference at the White House, il
decided TO Increase Otis Forces TO
1900 by the End Of the Rainy Season.

"AsHISGToS. ID. c., Special-Secre.
tary Alger. Adjutant General Corbin
and Colonel Bird, assistant quarter.
master general, in charge of tran nsporta.
tion, had IN hours consultation with
the President relative to the question
OF fre-enforcements for General Otis. A
definite decision has been reached to
continue recruiting men at all the re
cruiting stations for service in the
PHILIPPINES and Secretary Alger said
when he left the White House, after
the conference, that General Otis would
have 10000 men when tho rainey sea.
son closed for Q resumption OF active
operations. There are seventy recruit
ing stations in the United States
and cnlistments are to be
taken at all of those sta
tions. The enlistments are to be
for service in the regular army and 70.
cruits arc to be organized into regi.
ments or assigned to regiments already
formed after enlistment. No organiza.
tions as such are to be accepted, If
sufficient recruits can be obtained by
regular enlistment. General Corbin
said the enlistments would be for three
years. although tho law for the crea-
tion OF the provisional army OF 35, 900
In excess OF the regular army of IS, 900
provides only for such a force until
1901. Arrangements are to be made ct
once for increasing the transportation
necessary to get these additional troops
to the Philippines.
The decision to re enforce Genera
Otis by the end of the rainy season is
interpreted to mean that aggressive
campaigning will cease until the bad
weather ends. Until that time our op.
erations will probably be confined to
occasional excursions to places in close
vicinity to our lines, where the insur-
gents may have congregated in force.
BY remaining quiescent under good
shelter during the rainy season it is
hoped the health of our troops will be
conserved and the danger from climatic
fevers reduced to minimum.
General Otis has cabled the War De-
partment that he has the skeleton or
CARNATIONS Of two or three regiments
which it is proposed to raise in the
Philippines. At the War Department
this is said to mean that General Otis
has the officers for these regiments Sc
lected and that they are ready to be
filled with enlisted men. How many
of these can be secured from the vol
unteer regiments now in the Philip
pines is not known. It is stated at the
War Department that the recruits now
being enlisted at the rate of 1000 g
week cannot be used for the volunteer
army provided for in the act of March
2, authorizing 25. 900 men, although il
would be an easy matter to transfer
these men with their own consent t.
the volunteer service, if it should be de
termined to raise additional troops
Later in the day it was definitely do.
| cided to begin the enlistment for tn
, first volunteer service under the act o
tho last Congress. The reports to tn
Adiutant General, based on the re
ports of the recruiting ofl'cers and OF
close estimates as to the number O
soldiers in the Philippines and in eacl
command in Cuba and Porto Rico sho,
that the regular army is up to its full
authorized strength.