The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
IMMUNES FOR TIE ARMY
Negro Regiments May Be Sent to
the Philippines.
THEY ARE WELL DRILLED
The Mountain Regiments Will All Be
Brought Home Soon-Two Thou
sand of the Volunteers Have
Rs-EnIisted.
Washington Bureau of the Standard, !
No. 1145 G. street n. w.

Washington, June 2S.--As for the enlist.
ment of men for service in the Philippines
campaign. it is the desire of those in au-
thority to obtain the new recruits in the
manner that will cause the least excite
ment and discussion in the country The
most feasible plan appears to be that Of
organizing regiments at large. as in the
Grtgsby and Torrey regiments last year.
and placing the work Of raising these reg
fments in charge of officers and men from
volunteer regiments recently or soon to be
mustered out The presence in the city
OF a number of the officers and men OF
several of the immune regiments thar
lately left the service lends color to the
report frequently repeated, that many
of these husky fellows are to be utilized
in the new enlistment 1t is certain that
nearly all the officers and a very large
proportion of the men of the colored i'm
mune organizations would be delighted at
the opportunity to take part in the Phil
ippine war.
The 9Th immune regiment was certainly
one of the most thoroughly drilled organ
izations in the volunteer service. 1t took
part in several military pageants here
prior to mastering out, and the great.
rugged. woll-discplined men created much
favorable comment. The 9th immune reg
iment, also recently mustered out mas
also considerable number of its officers
and men here yet. This regiment suffered
heavy losses i'm Cuba from sickness and
disease, and had several men murdered in
the work of suppressng Santiago prov
iECe brigandage, to which 1t was assigned
during it's life in Cuba
The representatives of all these regi-
ments who are here have caused much in
terest, and their presence is said to have
had much to do with the determine ton.
hell lou nod IN hlNy haa
many blacks in the new enlistment.
There seems to be no reason longer 10
fear that any contingency may arise pre-
venting the early return of the Rocky
mountain regiments now in the islands
and there is no reason TO believe that a
considerable portion of the new volunteers
will come from that section The order
issued for the holding of mountain SOL
diers mail at Frisco was a distinct dem
onstration of the purpose of the war de-
partment to bring them all home. The
fact that all these states all far exceeded
their quotas in the first enlistment, cou-
pied with the unexpectedly severe service
which all their men have SEEN will opc-
rate to largely diminish their representa-
ton in any new enlistment. The whole
$1,000 provided by the army bill might be
called for by states without bringing any
of the mountain states below their quotas,
considering the old and new calls to-
gether. IT is we'll known that all these
states went far beyond their old quotas.
and one of them, Wyoming, led all the
states of the union in this respect. OF
course, it is possible that the final action
of the department may be along different
lines than those stated. There have been
many unexpected changes in the past, and
there are likely to be many more; but ar
this writing it seems very sure that the
president will call out at least the add
tional volunteers provided by the army
bill, and that negroes will be very ia
vorably considered when they offer for the
new army
The latest reports are that about 1000
of the volunteers now in the islands have
expressed willingness to re-enlist, but
there is no statement as to how they are
distributed among the various regiments.
HOSFORD.