The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-29
TEN THOUSANDMEN.
Will be Wanted to Reinforce Gen.
cral Otis.
.ENLISTMEN7S WILL BEGIN
Mt Once for the Volunteer Service.
Regular Army Is now up 10 It's Full
4 Authorized Strength-otis to Hayc
10000 Men When the Rainy Season
Closes in the Philippines.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 2s.-sec-
rotary Alger. AdJutant General Corbln
and Colonel Bird, assistant quarter
master general in charge OF Transport
tation, had an hours consultation with
the President to-day, relating to the
question for reinforcements for Gener-
nj Otis. A definite decision has been
reached to continue recruiting men at
nll the recruiting stations for service In
the Philippines and Secretary Alger
said when he left the white house, after
the conference that General Otis would
have 10000 men when the rainy season
closed for resumption OF active opera
lions.
There are seventy recruiting sta
lions in the; United States. and enlist
( ments are to be taken ut oil OF these
stations. The enllstments are to be for
service In the regular army and recruits
are TO be organized into regiments or
Z assigned to regiments already formed
after enlistment No organizations az
such are to be accepted II sufficient re-
acruits can be Obtained by regular en-
listment. General Corbn said the en-
llstments would be for three years, al
though the law for the creation of the
provisional army Of $4,000 In excess of
the regular army OF 65, 00C provides only
for such force until 1901. Arrange
ments are to be made at once for in
creasing the transportation necessary
to get these additional troops to the
Philippines.
The decision to reinforce General Otis
by the end OF the rainy season is inter-
preted to mean that aggressive cam
paigning will cease until the bad wea-
Their ends. Until that time our opera
tons will probably be confined to &C.
casional excursions to places in close
vicinity to our lines where the insur-
gents may have congregated In force.
By remaining Huiescent under good
shelter during the rainy season 1t Is
hoped the health OF our troops will be
conserved and the danger from clinat-
&c fevers reduced to n minimum.
General Otis has cabled the war de-
partment that he has the skeleton or
CARNATIONS of two or three regiments
which 1t is proposed to raise in the
Philippines. At the war department
this is said to mean that General Otis
has the officers for these regiments Sc
lected and that they are ready to be
filled with enlisted men. How many of
these can be secured from the volunteer
regiments now in the Philippines is not
known.
1t is stated ut the war department
that the recruits now being enlisted ut
the rate Of 1000 week, cannot be used
for the volunteer army provided for in
the act OF March .. authorizing $4,000
men, although IL would be an easy mat
ter TO transfer these men With their
own consent to the volunteer service II
1t should be determined to raise addi-
tionnl troops.
Later In the day it was definitely de-
cided to begin the enlistments for the
volunteer service under the net OF the
last Congress. The reports to the adj
jutant general based on the reports of
the recruiting officers and on close es-
{ Inmates as TO the number Of soldiers In
the Philippines and In each commani
In Cuba and Porto Rico show that the
regular army is up 10 Its full author
ized strength
The additional soldiers needed must be
obtained under that section OF the uctof
Congress authorizing the enlistment Of
volunteers The only exception will be
in the case of the few enlistments that
Will be made from time to time to fill
gaps In the regular army caused by
casualties and by the expiration OF en-
listments The officers scattered among
the principal cities OF the country who
have been enlIsting regulars only will
be instructed Immediately to prepare
to enlist volunteers. The present indi-
cations are that about 10000 men Will
be wanted.