The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-13
Proposed Solution of the Volunteer
Fund Problem.
UTAH BOYS OVERLOOKED
BELIEVE THEY sHoULD RE
CEIvE SOME RECOGNITION.
Many Utah Men Served With the
Regulars and Made Good Records
For MISUNDERSTANDING Regu-
lars Praise Major Young and De
nounce General Otis.


A new. solution of the question: as to
what shall be done with the $4,000 re-
naming in the battery celebration fund
is offered. 1t is to give the Utah boys
who enlisted as regulars in the late war
and saw service at Manila the amount
received by each battery member as
/ travel pay, and a concerted movement
! to this end is being made by the parties
interested. When the batteries returned
they were brought home on special
train from San Francisco, paid for out
of the general fund and in this way 1t
was possible fer them to keep the $1S.25
allowed each man by the government
to cover the distance from the coast
home. On the contrary, the strag-
glers," as they term themselves. mean
ing those who enlisted in the regular
army and are coming home one or two
at time, have to pay out this amount
and haven't the consoling remembrance
of a public reception. either. Again the
regulars were mustered out at Manila
and ceased to draw pay, while the bat
terry member drew his S13 CT
SIS per month until the time
of muster out at the Preside,
a decided advantage. In behalf
of the regular it is pointed out
that all are Utah boys and that one did
his work just as honorabiy and as well
as another. and since there is a healthy
amount left over from the battery re-
ception fund, it is regarded only fair
that the course outlined should be fol-
lowed.
Movement On Foot.
Privates Heber c. Sorensons j. w.
Bouton, George H. Rands and Frank
B. Duboce, the latter. by the way, be-
ing a son of Colonel Duboce of the
- w
the Fourth cavalry at Fort Douglas,
are working up the proposition. Since
returning from Manila two weeks ago,
the boys have interviewed Governor
Wells and members of the volunteer
committee with encouraging success.
The Fourth cavalry contained more
Utah boys than any other regular or
ganization and quite a number of them
have recently returned. It's members
were very appropriately the chief sup
port of batteries A and B. upon sew
eral battle fields, notably at Bag-bag
and Calumpit on the Rio Grande. The
Fourth was divided during the war,
some of the companies going south and
others north. Company e, in which
the above-named Salt Lakers were en-
rolled, was with General Macarthur on
his famous expedition north. Ther
were almost continually under fire up
to the time Of their discharge.
Tribute to Major Young.
Private Sorenson was surprised to
near of the mud-slingfng carried on
with Major Young a target. why" |
said he, there wasn't a brewer, more /
efficient and liked man in the |
Philippines We were with the batter /
les long enough to find this out our !
selves and l can tell you that both he /
and Major Grant were popular with !
every organization in the archipelago"
The other soldiers expressed them
selves similarly, While all are anti in |
saying Otis is making a ''consummate
ass of himself"
why doesn't the war end?" they
exclaimed, in answer to a query. why !
it will last five years unless they get {
a man over there. Aguinaldo has a
snap. Otis takes a. town and .Aggie'
leaves. Then 'Aggie' changes his uni
form to white and is allowed to come
back through our lines under a white
hag in little groups When they are
zoo or 300 strong they pick up the arms
they hid when they left and are right
On our rear gain pegging away from
trees of shacks, and that's the way it
goes on"
Cant that be stopped?" was asked.
Certainly it could, but all niggers
ook alike to Otis. and he thinks they
are our friends when they wear white
If he wanted to say so, they could be
Kept out of our lines altogether. It is
'or this very reason that fighting is
now going on at Laloma church. The
liggers were driven out of there March
%, but they are back again and scrap
ping. You see Otis won't take the
rouble to hold town when he gets
(. He is anything but a success"