The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-19
THEY WANT A REST.
Nebraska Volunteers Declare They
Are Exhausted by the Campaign.
A MEMORIAL TO GEN. MACARTHUR.
The News Received with Deep Interest at
the War Department the Fill
Pine Congress stands In Regard
to Making Peace.

!
to Making Peace.
Manila. MAY 13.-The First Nebraska
volunteer infantry is taking the unu-
sual step of respectfully petitioning the
division commander, Maj. Gen. MacAr-
thur, to temporarily relieve them from
duty at the front. The regiment is
badly exhausted by their campaign. in
which it has taken an active part, and
not many more than 800 men of the or
+ ganization are at present fit for duty.
Sunday 100 men of this regiment re-
sponded to the sick call. In view of
these facts, the men have prepared re
spectful memorial to Gen. Macarthur
asking that their regiment be with
drawn for short time from the
fighting line, in order that they
may recuperate. The memorial
states that the men are willing to
| fight, but are in no condition to do so
owing to the strain of long marching,
continual fighting and outpost duty in
which they have been engaged. 1t is
added that many of the men have been
unable to have their clothing washed
for months. having been compelled dur
ing an that time To sleep in their uni
forms TO be in readiness for fighting.
The memorial adds that since February
.. the regiment has lost 22j men in
/ killed and wounded. and 80 since the
| battle of Malolos. The officers of the
regiment purpose to present Il similar
memorial on behalf of the men.
Five volunteer regiments and the
Utah battery of artillery are at San
/ Fernando. They muster in all about
! 900 men. whereas their normal
Str,.Sth shoUld exceed &. 600 Many of
the solO.e"s are in the hospital here
suffering iron neat or other causes.
The wounded were all suffering acutely
and showed the effects of exposure to
the sun when they arrived. Three
. days rest has already worked wonders
Since the army entered Malolos the
soldiers have had little water to drink
except that which was brought on rail
way trains from Manila and that was
of poor quality. Now the artesan
wells AZ San Fernando are doing much
toward, making the men contented.
Fresh troops are going to the front.
Two hattalions of the Seventeenth
| United States infantry that had been
I holding the lines about the city OF Ma
Mia VIII Join Mai. Gen. MacArthur's
division at San Fernando tomorrow,
and one battalion of the same regiment
will reinforce Mai Gen. Lawton 5 divi-
sion near Baculor. These troops will
be replaced here by the Twenty-frst
infantry regiment, which arrived from
the United states on board the trans
port Hancock Thursday.
COMMENTS AT WASHINGTON.
Washington. May IL. No dispatch
received recently from Manila has been
read with deeper interest at the war de-
pariment than that which was sent by
the Associated press via Hong Kong.
War department officials and army
officers did not care to be quoted upon
the subject, but the comment generally
among army officers was that the troops
which had been fighting SO. long and
continuously are exhausted and were
really in need of rest. II wa, explained
that the men did not fear fighting. but
after fighting and marching and con
slant picket Guty, they We're no doubt
much exhausted. Some army officers
suggested that the action of the Ne
braska regiment was like a town meet
ing and that the army could not he
conducted upon such lines. Comment
was made to tine effect that the dis
patches Indicated that the various reg
imentS were on duty constantly and
that there was no reserve to relieve
: them when they reached the limit
of endurance. II was stated by an
officer of the department that one
reason why il had been impossible TO
relieve the volunteers with the regu-
lar, now AZ Manila was because the
regulars recently sent to the Philip
pines were AZ least two-thirds recruits
and We're necessarily unframed and
lacked the discipline of the volunteers
who are now veterans. 1t is believed
that Gen. Otis does not care to risk the
hard fighting TO untried men and that
he desires the volunteers to remain AT
the front because he is sure of them in
any emergency.
HOW TuE FILIPINO CONGRESS STANDS
London, May IA dispatch received
here from Manila says that tn,
Filipino congress now sitting at San
lsidru is composed of 56 members oi
whom 20 favor peace and an equa
f number are iIrecoucilables. The others
, holding the balance of power, are ready
! TO admit that absolute independence il
? hopeless Of attainment, but demand
} better terms at the hands of the Unitec
States.
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