Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-18
Army NEAR NE lint
Organization Of Ten New Regiments
Will Nearly Exhaust Previs.
ional Army Power.
Comes Within Few Thousand Of the
Limit Established by Act
Creating 1t.
Iowa to Get Eight Officers in the
New Organizations Failure
in Alaska.

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were selected by the secretary OF war
with the approval OF the president from
the officers Of the regular army. All the
field and company officers, such
as majors. captains and lieutenants,
will be appointed on the recommends
ton of the governors of the respective
states from the men who saw service
last year. These appointments will be
distributed among the states in propor-
ton to the response received last year
| to the first call to arms, on the basis of
1.-TWO appointments to each regiment
provided then. Thus Illinois had nine
infantry regiments in the field during
| the war with Spain and will get eigh-
| teen appointments, Indiana and Michi-
gan each had five regiments and Will
lget ten appointments; Iowa, Wisconsin
and Minnesota each had four regiments
and will get eight appointments and
Missouri had six regiments and Will get
twelve appointments.
The enlistment of the ten new regi-
ments added to the thirteen regiments
now being organized, will bring the vol
three regiments, Of which twenty-five
are Infantry and one cavalry. consisting
of 80 900 men. This is within 5000 of the
| total number of volunteers authorized
L by congress. When these twenty three
volunteer regiments are fully organ
lized the total strength of the army will
amount to $4,000 men, distributed IN this
country, in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. The official order calling
for the new regiments is as follows:
Pursuant to the instructions OF the
president, the secretary of war directs
that ten additional regiments OF infant
ry be organized under the provisions
| of the act of congress approved March
| 8. 1899 General order No. ~. head
quarters of the army. A. G. o., July D.,
1899, will apply to these regiments ex
lcept that the ordnance and quartermas-
ters' supplies will be provided under
| the direction of the chief of ordnance
and auarternaster general. The regi-
ments will be organized as follows:
"Thirty-eighth, Col. j. H. Dorst,
| Captain Fourth cavalry), Jefferson
barracks. Missouri.
"Thirty-nlnth, Col. r. Billiard.
| (captain subsistence Department., Fort
Crook, Nebraska.
..Fortieth, Col. E. A. Goodwin. (cap-
tain Eighth cavalry. Fort Riley, Kan
sas.
"Forty-frst, Col. e. T. c. Richmond,
captain Second artillery, Camp
Meade, Pennsylvania.
"Forty-second, Col j. n. Thompson,
/ (major Twenty-fourth Infantry, Fort
Niagara, New York.
.Forty-third, Col. Arthur Murray
captain First artillery. Fort Ethan
Allen, Vermont.
Forty fourth. Col. E. ]. McClernand
/ captain Second cavalry, Fort Leaven'
worth. Kansas.
"Forty-ffth, Col. George S. Hender-
son (major Sixth cavalry. Fort Shell
| ing, Minnesota.
aForty-sixth, Col. w. S. Schuyler
captain Fifth cavalry, South Fran
/ inghanl, Massachusetts.
Forty seventh. Col. Walter Howe
\ Captain Fourth artillery. Camp Meade
Pennsylvania.
THE following to be lieutenant colon
5lels: E. y. Pratt, Twenty third Infantry
A C. j. Crane. captain Twenty-fourth in.
4 fantry; p. A Byrne, captain Sixth in
/ fantry: j. r. Mallory, captain Secont
infantry: E. H. Crowder major. judge
4 advocate; James Parker captain
Fourth cavalry; Francis Michler, cap
tain Fifth cavalry; w. f. Wilder, cap
4 tain Fourth cavalry; j. I'll. Beacon
captain Sixth infantry: John Bigelow
:. Jr.. ca plain Tenth cavalry"
THE policy of the war department
said Secretary Root today, is to fur
Bnish General Otis with all the troops
and supplies that he can use and which
are necessary to wind up the insurrec
tion in the Philippines in the shortes
possible time"
He said that no delay would be al
} lowed in enlisting, eauippng and sup
J plying the new regiments, nor In trans
/. porting them as well as the other regi
! Iments already organized to the Philip
pines as soon as they We're needed 70
: active operations. II the present mum
| Der of transports is insufficient, NOR
: will be procured. The men already en-
! listed for the Philippine service will b
] sent at once and the new regiments vii
4 be forwarded as fast as they are organ
g lied and needed. While there has bee
4 some suggestion that the new regiment
: will be used as reserve force, 1t ma
8 be stated positively that these regi
: ments, as We'd as more If they can
e used, will be sent to reinforce Gen. Otis
t A STORY OF HARDSHIP.
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