The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-26


War with Spain.
Gov. Lind will sign his first batch Of
military commissions today. Since Gov.
Clough went out of office quite num-
Der of vacancies have occurred in the
Third regiment of national guard, and
the commissions will be issued upon
the recommendation of Col. Van Duzee,
of the Third regiment, and in the case
of the Fourth regiment, where two
company vacancies are to be filled, the
commissions are issued according to
the result of company elections.
When the volunteer regiments were
mustered out of the service they i'm
mediately assumed the old national
guard organization, although no drills
have been held, and probably will not
be for some time. Many of the officers
and men feel that they have had
enough of soldering, and their places
will be filed by others, but some of
the more enthusiastic ones, who con-
Stitute not a small proportion of the
guard will continue in the service, with
view 10 earning the meritorious
medal which the state gives to every
private and officer upon the completion
of five, ten, fifteen and twenty years
continuous service in the guard. For
five years service a bronze medal Is
awarded, for ten years the same medal
Is awarded in silver, and a gold medal
OF very nearly the same model rewards
fifteen years in the service. For TWEEN
ty years service in the national guard
q special medal is awarded by the gov
error, who is the chief
of the military forces of the state at
the annual review in the summer at
Lake City.
From present indications but little
1 IL.
until camp at Lake City next summer
As Gen. Lambert expressed it yester-
day. the boys are resting up"
The Fourth regiment nominally takes
the place of the Thirteenth but 1t is
expected that the legislature will be-
fore it adjourns authorize an additional
regiment. as it thought that the Thir-
teenth will want to retain its national
guard organization, which would freeze
out the Fourth unless some such legis-
latiVe provision was made.
Gen. Lambert yesterday made out
commissions for the following. They
will be signed today by the governor:
W. j. Murphy St. Paul, captain and ad-
1utant OF the First battalion OF artillery, vice
George G Lambert, promoted.
A. B. Coke st. Paul, captain and adjutant
Third infantry, vice R. L. Whine, resigned.
Edward R. Stivers. regimental quartermas-
ter Third infantry. vice Coke, promoted.
R. R. Sigmond. commissary subsistence Of
the Third regiment, vice Stearns, promoted
major Of the Fourth infantry.
Richard D. O'Brien, judge advocate Third
regiment. vice Nutting, resigned.
J. Robert Delahunt, captain Company I
Qlorris) Fourth infantry, vice Grant Van
SAINT, resigned
Charles Henry Leaman, first lieutenant
Company l. vice Delahun, promoted Lea
man was first sergeant of the company.
Col Condo Hamlin, of the Fourth
regiment, will soon have his list of
regimental officers completed 1t is I'M
derstood that c. E. n. Howard will be
made adjutant. The commissions will
be issued by Gov. Lind some time next
week
1t is expected that an inspector gen
eral for the national guard will soon
be appointed to succeed Lieut.. Mccoy,
who has been ordered to his regiment
in the South.
Gen. Lambert said yesterday that it
was his intention to get back from the
government as soon as possible the
equipment which was taken out of the
state by the volunteers. Both the
First and Third viii need a complete
new outfit. Their guns We're turned
over TO the war department when the
regiments were mustered out.
1t is quite likely that the legislature
will pass a bill completely reorganz-
Ing the national guard. In any event,
however. the three Minnesota regi-
ments will be in shape for duty at the
next annual review at Lake City.
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