The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-06-30
MANY WANT
TO ENLIST
Offers to War Department of
100000 Men.
A Great Many Officers VIII be
Needed-President VIII Have Fill
ing of 47O PIaces-Men Who
Served in Porto Rico and Cuba
VIII be Favored.

Washington, June 30.-The war de-
partment has had offers of regiments and
applications by the acceptance of which
100000 men could be enrolled immediate
ly for service in the Philippines but the
officials have definitely decided to accept
no military organizations as a whole and
will raise by individual enlistments the
ten additional regiments which -e to re-
enforce General Otis.
With the addition of these regiments
to the troops now in the Philippines or on
the way Otis will have an army of about
$4,000 men. The ten regiments will in
clude the three that General Otis was au-
thorized to form in the Philippines. Up
to this time he has been able to secure
skeleton organizations for only two regi-
ments. If only two are organized there.
the other eight will be organized in the
United States.
Instructions are now being prepared
for recruiting officers for the enlistment
Of the new men. There are now 20 re-
cruiting stations throughout the country,
but it is probable that new ones will be
opened so as to facilitate the early rails
ing of the large force required.
No colored regiments will be organized.
Any colored men enlisted will be assign
ed to vacancies in the present colored
regiments of the regular army. The ex-
pertinent of the war department with
colored volunteers during the Spanish
war was not happy one, and, in spite of
reports which come from the Philippines
to the effect that the colored man is
greatly feared by the Filipinos, the au-
thorities are averse to running the risk of
repetition of the trouble of last year.
VIII Need 47O Officers.
The selection of officers for the ten
additional regiments is now being made.
General Otis has selected officers for the
regiments to be organized under his SUI
pervision, and the war department Off
cials are going over the efficiency re-
ports of officers who served during the
Spanish war for the purpose of secur-
ing leaders for the regiments to be or
ganized at home. The president will
have the appointment Of 40 officers, AT
to each regiment, as follows: One colo
mel, / lieutenant colonel, majors, IA
captains, II first lieutenants, II second
ieutenants, medical officers and
chaplain.
No general officers will be appointed,
Tor the reason that there will be a sur.
plus of major generals and brigadier
generals after the old volunteer officers
are mustered out.
The war department has authorized
the statement that in making selections
of new officers the preference will be as
follows:
First.-Officers of the volunteers who
distinguished themselves in action during
the Spanish war.
Second.-Officers of the regular army
who have earned but have not yet re-
ceived promotion for conspicuous service
at the front during the Spanish war.
Third.-Volunteers of the Spanish war
who did not get to the front, but whose
efficiency reports while in camp show
them to be competent to command
troops.
Only a very small percentage of Off
GERS of the regular army, it is stated,
will be appointed, for the reason that
there is already shortage of officers in
the regular establishment on account of
illness.
The United States steamer Valencia
has sailed for Manila, bearing the head
quarters, band and Troops b and NJ,
Fourth cavalry, and Companies II and E
of the Twenty infantry