The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-10
THEY CAN HAVE BURROUGHS.
TWENTY DAYS WILL BE GIVEN
VOLUNTEERS WHO RE-ENLIsT.

Men viii Receive All the Money
Coming to Them Under the Regu-
IatIons and Also the Extra Pay for
service Abroad and in This COun-
try-They May Then Choose ANY
Command They Like in the Regu-
lar Army-If They Have No Pref
eFence They May Go to the Bar
racks at Columbus, o., Where They
VIII BE Assigned to Regiments.
The FurIOugh Comes in Either
Case Unless Their Regiments Are
Ordered to the PhiIippines-Lieut.
Pritchard to BE I'm Charge of the
Recruiting Office.
A telegram was received yesterday by
Col. Laurence d. Tyson. commanding the
army post at Savannah, that will be of in
terest to many of the volunteer soldiers
who are about TO be mustered out of the
service. The privileges the war department
has decided TO extend the men win result
in many of them who would not other
wise do so. again enlisting and serving
another term in the army.
When a soldier is mustered out of the
service ne can ne-enlist at once. choosing
whatever command of the regular service
he may see fit that has vacancies exist
ing at the time As soon as he enlists he
can receive a furlough for twenty days
and spend it as he likes. He will have
plenty of money TO do almost anything
he wants TO during the twenty days, as the
government viii give him all that is COM
n he 10 Lao win
Col Tyson said a recruiting office is to
be established here al once and that Lieut.
G. B. Prltchard. Jr, of the Ninth Cavalry
who is on leave now, has been assigned
to the duty. He will be in charge of the
office and viii see that the men mustered
out of the volunteer commands. who may
desire it, are received into the regular
service. An experienced sergeant of the
Eighteenth Infantry has also been order
ed here from Fort Bliss, Tex, to assist
Lieut.. Pritchard in the recruiting office.
A few days ago a meeting of the mus
tering officers of the regular army who
are here looking after the discharge of
the Sixth Immunes and the Third Con-
necticut, was held to consider request
from the department at Washington for a
suggestion as to the best means 10 be fol-
lowed for raising recruits for the regu-
lars The mastering officers advised the
establishment of a recruiting Office and
that an experienced sergeant be assigned
to duty in connection with it. This recon-
mendation was sent on to Washington.
The discharged soldier will get the pay
that may be due him for service, the bah
ance on his clothing account and travel
pay to the point at which he was enrolled
in the service In addition he will get one
or two months extra pay, in accordance
with the provision of Congress- If his COM
mand has seen service out of the country
his extra pay will be for two months, but
if its service has not been abroad, he will
get but one months extra pay. All of il
will make a tidy sum, enough to more than
defray the expenses of a profligate liver
for the time the furloughs will be given.
If the discharged soldier knows of no
regiment in the regular service he would
prefer to enter, he may re-enlist receiving
everything that may be coming to him.
and be sent to the barracks at Columbus
o.. where his furlough win be given him
after he has been assigned to some COM
mand.
If any regiment for which the re-enlisted
men have expressed a preference or to
which they have been assigned al the bar
racks at Columbus is under orders for the
Philippines the furlough does not hold,
and the soldiers win have to join the
commands al once This being the case il
is scarcely likely that many such regi-
ments win be chosen 1t is said some of
the men are anxious to go to the Philip
pines, but they are not many, and service
in this country would be more satisfactory
to the majority of those who may re-en-
list in the service.
1t is understood that the enfistments the
mustered out soldiers will have to sign
for the regular army will be for three
years, but the periods of service through
which they have already passed in the
volunteer forces will be counted to their
credit. They win thus have to serve only
about two years longer, or the time for
which they enlisted under the cali that
was issued by the President at the ont
break of the war.
The number of immunes who would re-
enlist in the regular army has been va
riously estimated, the estimates running
from to IS per cent. These estimates were
made before the issuance of the order al
lowing the Burroughs. 1t was said nv the
officers of the Sixth some time ago that
there would be as many as one-half of
their men TO re-enlist in the regular army
IL they could only secure a furlougb frst
to visit their homes.
1t is not thought there will he very many,
recruits gained from the Third Connecti-
cut Regiment. The officers and men of
that command say they are anxious 10 get
out of the service, and the sooner thew
get their discharges the better thew will
like II. II is expected the regiment viii
be mustered out March 20, p or %. Which
ever of these days it may be win sim
give the regiment a long lead over anv
that has been discharged from the ser
vice in the time required for the arrange
ment of all the details of muster out II
is said the Third will lead all Others by
ten days. This celebrity may be taken az
an indication of the fact, says one of the
officers, that there is no great desire
among the officers or men to remain in
the service.
The Sixth Will get out next "Wednesday
Yesterday all the ordnance supplies of the
companies were turned in and talran
charge of by the proper officers The mus.
ter rolls OF all the companies have been
competed, and are waiting for eonnari-
son by the mastering officers.
BEST OF ALL