Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-29

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Secretary
Alger, Adjutant General Corbin and
Colonel Bird, assistant quartermaster
general in charge of transportation, had
an hours consultation with the Presi-
dent to-day relating to the question for
definite decision has been reached to
continue recruiting men at all the re-
cruiting stations for service in the Phil
ippines, and Secretary Alger said when
he left the White House, after the con-
ference that General Otis would lave
10000 men when the rainy season clos
ed for a resumption of active opera
lions.
There are seventy recruiting stations
in the United States, and enlistments
are to be taken at all of these stations.
The enlistments are to be for service
in the regular army and recruits are
to be organized into regiments or as
signed to regiments already formed af-
ter enlistments. No organizations as
bSA
such are to be accepted if sufficient re-
cruits can be obtained by regular en-
listment. General Corbin said the en-
listments would be for three years, al
though the law for the creation or the
provisional army of $4,000 in excess of
the regular army of $1,000 provides
only for such a force until 1901. Ar
rangements are to be made at once for
increasing the transportation necessary
to get these additional troops to the
Philippines.
The decision to reinforce Gen. OTIS
by the end of the rainy season is IN
~terpreted to mean that aggressive cam
imagining will cease until the bad wealth
er ends. Until that time our operations
will probably be confined to occasional
excursions to places in close vicinity
to our lines, where the insurgents may
have congregated in force. By remain
ing quiescent under good shelter during
the rainy season it is hoped the health
Oh our lIOODS Will DO 1OioSA ~ o1N
the danger from climatic fe~versSreduc-
ed to a minimum.
Gen. Otis has cabled the Wal Depart
ment that he has the skeleton organl-
cation OF two or three regiments, which
it is proposed to raise in the Philip
pines. At the War Department this is
- - -o~. tLa4 Gnn nriG hoe tho
officers of these regiments selected and
that they are ready to be filled with
enlisted men. How many of these can
be secured from the volunteer regi-
ments now in the Philippines is not
known. 1t is stated at the VA Depart
ment that the recruits now being en-
listed at the rate of LOCO a week cannot
be used for the volunteer army provid-
ed for in the act of March 2, authoriz-
ing 8 5000 men, although it would be an
easy matter to transfer these men with
their own consent to the volunteer SER
vice if it should be determined to raise
additional troops.
Later in the day it was definitely
decided to begin the enlistments for
the volunteer service under the act of
Adjutant General, based on the reports
of the recruiting officers and on close
estimates as to the number of soldiers
in the Philippines, and in each COM
mand in Cuba and Porto Rico, show
that the regular army is up to its full
authorized strength. The additional
soldiers needed must be obtained I'M
der that section of the act of Congress
authorizing the enlistment of volun-
teers. 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 coun-
try who have been enlisting regulars
to prepare to enlist volunteers. The
present indications are that about
10000 men will be wanted.
Volunteers will not be accepted in
organizations: Secretary Aiger is de-
termined to adhere to that rule. Look
ing owe the act of Congress, he has
concluded that the authorization to
raise the volunteer troops "at large in
dicates a. purpose on the part of Con-
gress to follow out the plan success
fully operated in the case of the i'm
regiments. 1t is the present pur-
pose to disregard State and local lines
in securing the recruits and welding
them into organizations. Regiments
will be designated the first, second,
third. ETC., volunteers, infantry or cav
airy. No difficulty Isl icipated in Sc
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