The San Francisco call., 1899-07-07
Men to Garry on the Present
War in the Philip
pines.
FEW OFFICERS NAMED
It Is Proposed to Enlist the
Soldiers From the Entire
Country.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELL
INGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON,
July 6.-The order for the enlistment Of
volunteers for the service in the Phil
ippines was published to-day and seven
more colonies to command the regi-
ments were appointed. They are yet
two colonies TO be designated. Eight
majors also were named.
The colonels appointed under the or
der were: Major James w. Bell, First
Cavalry; Captain James S. Petit First
Infantry, better known as colonel of
the Fourth Immunes; Edward E. Har-
din, who was colonel Of the Second New
York Volunteers in the war with Spain;
CAPTAIN L. A Craig, Sixth Cavalry;
CAPTAIN Luther r. Hart, Seventh Cav
airy; Major William A. Kobbe, Captain
Cornelius Gardner, Nineteenth Infan-
try.
The assignment of the volunteer colo
nels TO regiments will be as follows:
Twenty-sixth, Rice; Twenty-seventh.
Bell; Twenty eighth, Petit; Twenty
ninth. Hardin; Thirtieth, Gardner;
Thirty second, Craig; Thirtythird,
Hare. Thirty fifth. Kobbe.
The man designated for lieutenant
colonel of the Thirty-flfth Regiment
will organize ii and take it to the Phil
ippines, when Colonel kobbe VIII as
sumo command.
The recruiting will not be begun un-
Ill some time next week, the exact date
not having been fixed yet. Recruiting
stations will be open in every State and
Territory, and as fast as the men are
enlisted they will be sent to the regl-
ments to be assigned to companies.
State lines are obliterated, and the
men first enlisting will be first to be
mustered in. The assignment to com
panies viii be by the officer command
ing, and he will be at liberty to organ
ize company comprised Of men from
one State if he finds it convenient and
practicable.
The organization of the ten regi-
ments in this country will not make
any difference in the organization of
regiments in the Philippines by General
otis. His regiments Will be in addition
to those hereafter TO be known as the
Twenty sixth TO Thirty-fifth inclusive,
and will be numbered from the Thirty
sixth upward.
1t is expected that three regiments
viii be organized in the Philippines.
The regiments organized in the United
States and the Philippines will increase
the army $50 officers and l., $50 men II
there should be three full regiments
formed by General Otis.
The cOlonels appointed to-day are un-
der orders to proceed at once with the
organization of regiments. Some of the
officers are now in the city and have
been consulting the different bureau Of
fiCials with regard to equipment and
supplies for the men as they Join the
regiments.
The order for the enlistment of ten
new regiments of infantry is as fol-
lows:
WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON July >. 1899.
direction of he
ing general rules are prescribed for recruiting
from the country al large United States volun-
teers as nrnyiJec for 6v The act of tVongress
orders No. 3S Of 1899 headGuarters Of the army
adJutant generals office, and organizing the
same into regiments:
The strength OF regiments. officers and en-
listed men viii be provided for by sections
and Z of the act of Congress approved March
The regiments to be recruited in the United
States VIII be designated, Twenty sixth Twen-
ty-seveath. TWenty-eighth, Twenty ninth Thir-
Jieth. Thirty first, Thirty-second Thirty-third,
Thirty-four1h and Thirty-hfth regiments Of
officers 20 be appointed for each Of these regi-
ments the field and staff officers, including
medical officers and captains of companies,
will be assembled at regimental rendezvous. as
theoretical and practical instruction in or
ganizatton, military administration drill regu-
latCns, discipline, hygiene, camp sanitation,
etc. Daily instruction in the nomenclature,
target practice, VIII he a special feature Of in
struction iIil Of both officers and men.
Of the regular army. will be required TO pass
satisfactory examination 10 age moral,
mental and physical capacity to command
troops ana must have had service during the
SVauish-American war. The recruiting service
OF the regular army will be charged with re-
cTuitnE from the country at large men for ser
vice IN these volunteer regiments, whose
nstments will he made for the period ending
June 80, 1901. unless sooner discharged and
without restrictions TO citizenship or educa-
Uoual qualifications, but in all other respects
under the same rules and regulations as are
prescribed for recruiting the regular service
Except in special cases only unmarried men
viii be enlisted for these regiments
In view OF the probable severe service of thesa
regiments and the climatic conditions to which
they may be subjected the physical ouaIifca-
tion Of both officers and enlisted men is of the
first Importance. Only those fully qualified will
be appointed enlisted. The lieutenants and
two of the medical officers of each regiment
viii, far as practicable. be assigned to duty
assistants TO recruiting officers OF the regl-
lar army.
Upon arrival of recruits at the reginental
rendezvous the commanding officers of regi-
nents will assign them 10 companies, and the
appointment and reduction of regimental and
battalion, nOn-c commissioned staff and company
non-commissioned officers and other enlisted
grades VIII be governed t'y the law and army
regulations. Each regiment organized will
for the purposes Of discipline and supply he
subject to the orders Of the commanding gen
era OF the department in which the rendezvous