The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-08-22
NEW REGIMENTS.
No Delay Will Be Allowed in Enlistino
and Equipping Them.
Inc New Reg meuts Will Increase tn.
strength of the Army to %, O45 Men.
Being Only 4, 1898 Short of Au-
thOrized Number.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1S.-'The policy
OF the war department" said Secretary
Root Thursday lis to furnish Gen.
otls with all the troops and supplies
That he can use and which are neces-
Hary to wind up the instruction in the
Phlllppines in shortest possible time ,.
1he secretary was speaking of the
~ regiments which were called out
Thursday by order of the president
lie said that no delay would be allow
ed IN enlisting, equipping and supply
ing the new regiments, nor in trans
porting them as well as the other regi.
ments already organized to the Philip
pines as soon as they were needed for
active operations. If the present
number of transports are insufficient
more will be procured.
The men already enlisted for the
Philippine service will be sent at once
and the new regiments will be for
warded as fast as they are organized
and needed. While there has been
some suggestion that the new regi.
ments will be used as a reserve force,
1t may be stated positively that these
regiments as we'll as more if they can
be used will be sent to reinforce Gen.
Otis.
Secretary Root sent a copy of the or
der of Thursday to the various depart
ments of the army, and they at once
began preparations for supplying the
new organizations.
Within half an hour the ordnance
bureau had sent orders to the differ
ent arsenals directing that complete
outfits of arms and ordnance supplies
for each regiment be sent to rendez-
vous where they are to be organized.
The quartermaster's department gave
orders for supplying tents, clothing and
other equipments furnished By that
department, while the commissary de-
partment ordered a sufficient supply
OF rations to be on hand to feed the
troops as fast as they arrive. The med
ical department was also directed to
see that supplies were sent. The reg
imerts will be recruited with the same
care exercised in enlisting the first ten
regiments.
The districts which were not very
thoroughly covered Ia recruiting for
the first regiments will be visited by
the officers in the new organizations.
1t is the intention of the department
TO have the regiments give more atten.
ton to firing than any other feature
of the drill. The men will be armed
as are the regular infantry regiments,
with the magazine army rife.
The selection of the majors and COM
pany officers for the regiments is now
occupying the attention of the secre-
tary and the men are being chosen
from among the volunteers who were
called out in the Spanish war. The
officers will be distributed as equitablv
as possible among the different states,
but the efficiency and records of the
men will govern to great extent in
their selection.
1t appears from Thursdays orders
that the ten new regiments are to be
mainly recruited in New England and
the middle and central western states.
Kansas and Pennsylvania have APP
parentlv been selected as the best
field for recruits 1t is said that no
special effort is TO be made to secure
recruits in the southern states.
Thursdays action will add 10, 900
Inen to the enlisted strength of the
army and increases the total strength
of the army to 95, O45 men, being only
4. S93 men short of the total authorized
volunteer esta blishment of 80, 600. 1t
as stated at the department that the
number of volunteers already called
into service is regared as amply suffi-
Gent to meet all possible needs of the |
army, and that there is no possibility
that the remaining 1898 volunteers
will be called for.