The Mena star., 1899-07-06
Gen. Otis Informs the War Depart ment of the Exact Condition
 of the Regiments.
THE SITUATION AS SUMMED UP.
A Belief That the Transportation Service Has Been So Well Arranged That the Last of the Volunteers Wii Leave Ma nila Not Later Than September 10, and Probably by the list.

Washington, July 5.-The adiutant generals office yesterday gave out statement based on cable advices from Gen. Otis regarding the number of re- cruits required to fill the vacancies in the regular regiments now in the Philippines, the transports available for the return of volunteers and for the transportation of fresh troops to the Philippines and the estimated time it will take to complete the work of enlistment Gen. Otis dispatch to the department is as follows:
 Manila, July 2.-Adjutant General. Washing ton: Number of recruits required to fill com panies to l2s each regular regiment: Infantry Third, s35; Fourth S0f Sixth, l75: Ninth, yS; Twelfth, 300; Thirteenth, 253 Fourteenth, 739; Sixteenth, 27j; Seventeenth, 2Oi; Eighteenth, 8ss; Twentieth s3s; Twenty first ieo; Twenty i6); Twenty third, dSl First artillery, 8; Third, 256; Fourth, ?; Fifth, ?; Sixth, 05; Fourth cavalry, i93; en- gineers, z Volunteers yet to be returned, in- fantry: California. i8s; Colorado, l,ls4; Ida ho, b9S; North Dtkota 623; Wyoming 3)0 Minnesota, i,l65; South Dakota, Oi7; Montana, BOG; California artillery, 95s; Washington, ,00s; Tennessee, 946; Kansas, l,052; Nevada cavalry, ssi Wyoming artillery, s5; Iowa. o0i; signal corps, l06. California and Colorado preparing to take transports sherman and Warren leave shortly.-Otis.
 The department sums up the situa- tion as outlined by Gen. Otis. in the following statement:
 To meet the requirements of the returning volunteers, the quartermasters department re- ports that there are nov n NA sfiillis transports Sherman Warren and Grant with capacity Of ie9 officers and i,0,f enlisted men. That there are now on seq en route to Manila the Zealandia (due July e0) Sheridan due July 2D Valencia due July 26), and Pennsylvania (due July 2s) <, with capacity for i6l officers and i.20J enlisted men Tnere are now In San Francisco trans ports City of Para which will sail July F. and Tartar, to sail July %, with capacity for 52 ofl- cers and 2,S09 enlisted men.
 There are now en route to San Francisco the following transports with capacity of 2O9 officers and e9i enlisted men Ohio, Newport. Indiana, Hancock. Senator, Morgan City and Relief (hospitaD.
 The department confidently believes that the transportation has been so well arranged by the Quartermasters department that the last of the volunteers will leave Manila not later than the 10th of September, and it is expected that they will all be away by the lst.
 The recruits required for the regular regi- ments in the Philippines, are estimated at 6,3ss men.
 Tho number Of recruits now at sea are I,507; number of recruits now at San Francisco are 3gSi, total of 79l leaving i547 ye to be pro- vided for
 The large number of vacancies existing in the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third in- fantry IS due to the fact that these regiments went with Gen. Merritt's expedition to the Philippines and were not filled to the maxi mum also that the men in these regiments who enlisted for the war are just now being discharged. The men enlisting for the war in the other regiments were discharged before fhc regiments left this country, and the vacancies are due to the increase Of the companies from l06 to l26 men.
 At the rate of enlistments for the last few weeks the entire number will be enlisted by the close of the present we0z