The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-18
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Nearly All the Volunteers Au-
thorized bye Congress Called.
THEWEST IS TO CONTRIBUTE THEN.
No Time to Be Lost In Getting the Fifteen
New Regiments to the PhilippinesvOtis
to Get All the Men and Supplies Needed
for the Fall Campaign.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The expected
order for regiments has been issued
directing 10 additional regiments of in
fantry volunteers be organized for serv-
9 Elm the Philippines. The regiments
will be numbered from So to AZ and will
be organized at Fort Smelling, Mimi;
Fort Crook, Neb.; Fort Riley, Kan;
Camp Meade, Pa; Fort Ethan Allen,
Vt; Fort Leavenworth. Kan; Jefferson
Barracks, Mo-, South birmingham,
Mass.
1t appears from the orders that the
ten new regiments are to be mainly re-
cruited in New England and the .middle
and central western states. Kansas and
Pennsylvania have apparently been
selected as the best fields for recruits. It
is said that no special effort is to be
made to secur recruits in the southern
states. This is due, it is said, to the ex-
perienca of the recruiting officers. The
only places where difficulty was ex-
pected in securing men was in Georgia,
Alabama and the Carolinas and the two
northwestern states.
Nearly a Hundred Thousand.
Yesterdays action will add 1s, 600
men to the enlisted strength of the army
and increase the total strength to 95,-
O45 men The total number of volun-
tears called into service is 80, ITO men,
being only A 1893 men short Of the total
authorized volunteer establishment of
$4,000. 1t is stated at the department
that the number of volunteers now
called into service is regarded as amply
sufficient to meet a deficiency, and there
is no possibility that the remaining
1888 volunteers will be called for.
Yesterdays recruiting for the volun-
teer army amounted to 289 men, max
ing the total recruitment to date IL, 222,
or l,O32 in xcess of the number re-
quired to complete the 10 regiments or
ganized under the orders Of July 5. All
Of these regiments have secured their
full: quota except the Twenty-ninth reg
iment, ct Fort McPhersoM Ga; the
Thirty-third, at Fort Houston.
Eek, and the Thrty.fftE Sgiment at
Vancouver barracks. These three regi-
ments will be filed by the use Of the
overflow from the more successful regi-
ments. The remainder of the excess
will be used in filling the volunteer reg
iments being slowly organized in the
Philippines, which are about 1900 men
short.
"The policy Of the war department.
said Secretary Root yesterday, sis to
furnish General Otis with all the troops
and supplies that he can use and which
are necessary to wind up the insurrec-
ton in the Philippines in the shortest
possible time" He said no delay
would be allowed in enlisting, equip
ping and supplying the new regiments,
nor i'll transporting them as we'll as the
other regiments already organized to
the Philippines as o o as they were
needed for active operations.
Equipments Have Been Ordered.
Within half an hour the ordnance bu-
reau had sent orders to the different ar
senals directing that complete outfits of
arms and ordnance supplies for each
regiment be sent to the rendezvous
where they are to be organized. The
qu~artermaster's department. gave orders
for supplying tents, clothing and other
equipments furnished by that depart
ment, while the commissary department
ordered a sufficient supply Of rations to
be on hand to feed the troops as fast as
they arrive.
The districts which We're not thor
oughly covered in the recruiting Of the
first ten regiments Will be visited. 1t is
the intention to have the regiments give
more attention to firing than to any
other feature of the drill. Themen will
w dIll1Cu dS 0lC ClC lcSuluI IllbilVfY
regiments with the magazine army
rife.
The majors and company officers for
the regiments are being chosen from
among the volunteers who were called
out in the Spanish war. The officers
will be distributed as equitably as pos
sible among the different states, but the
efficiency records of che men will gov
.ern to a great extent in their election.
Almanac Of the bay.
Friday-Sun rises at 5:13; sets q.
6:55. Moon sets at 1854 a. m.
The weather-Iowa and Nebraska
Generally fair; continued warm Friday
and Saturday; sout herIy winds.