Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-24
BRING BACK
THE TROOPS
Volunteers Will Soon All be
Out of Cuba.
TRANSPORTS ARE BUSY
In a Short Time Quarantine Regula-
tons Will Go Into Effect
at Southern Ports

New Yory., March PA dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington says: Ad-
iutant General Corbin has undertaken to
get all the volunteers out of Cuba by
April o5 and arrangements are now be-
ing projected with that end in view. rms
is fully two weeks within the limit of
May 10, set by the president before ne
left for the south. The proportions OF the
undertaking may be realized when 1t IS
remembered that twanty-three regiments
must be transported by sea to the United
States within a month. All the govern
ment transport now in the Atlantic will
be utilized. These will include the Dixie.
which has been secured from the navy
DEPARTMENT.; the Comal, the Crook, the
Fitzpatrick, the S~edgwick and Thomas,
besides such Ward and Plant line steam
ers vhich can be used. For the past
week every effort has been made to
bring home at least ten of the regiments
before April 1, when Surgeon General
Wyman Of the marine hospital service
insists that quarantine against West In
dian ports shall be established. Ine pan
! for this is outlined in the following re-
port:
"Quartermaster Generals Office, Wash
ington, March Is, 1S99.-To the Adjutant
General of the Army.-General: In Or
der that the troops of the seventh army
corps n others designated may be got
ten to the United States before April l,
the time set by the treasury department.
for close quarantine. [ have the honor to
furnish o with the following proposed
arrangements which are now being per-
fected as rapidly as possible: The troops
to be concentrated at Savannah, Ca, Tor
muster out will be brought there by
using the transports of the department.,
two vessels of the Ward line, the Flor
ida and those of the Plant Steamship
company running between Havana and
Port Tampa. The personal! effects of the
troops will be disinfected at the quaran-
tine station at Savannah, SaDelo and Mu-
let Key. The troops to be dlsinfected at
the Savannah quarantine station VIII be
disembarked on lighters, taken to Fort
Pulaski for temporary camp, from there
sent by companies to tt. quarantine sta
ton. about three bundled yards away.
for disinfection and hen taken to the city
and placed in the permanent camps for
, muster out. The ships a.Eo sent to Sape-
10 willtbe2disinfected, as Well as the ef-
fects of the troops ard the vessels VIII
then proceed direct to the wharf at
Savannah and the troops disembarked
and sent to the permanent camps at the
city for muster out. The troops going by
I Port Tampa viii be disinfected at Mu.let
Key and proceed by rail from Port Tam
pa direct to the mustaring out camps at
Savannah. The troops coming on the
! Ward line steamers viii be taken from
these steamers on lighters at the mOuth
Of the liver and carried to Fore Pulaski,
as indicated above for the troops from
transports.
The following is a proposed schedule
giving the ships to be used by the regl-
Inents, based upon bringing the regi-
ments from Cuba in the order indicated
by your cftice: Two hundred and Second
New York, transport Thomas; Second
louisiana, transport Havana; Third
Georgia, transport Logan; First Texas,
transport Fitzpatrick and Florida to Gal
weston; One Hundred and Sjxtieth IN
diana. transport Thomas; Third immunes
transport Sadgwick; Second South Caro-
lima, Plant line via Tampa; First North
Carolina, transport Nigilancia; Fourth
Tennessee, transport Havana 1t must
be understood, however, that if for any
reason the ship indicated for any regi-
n2ent does not arrive in time to carry out
this schedule the regiment will take the
first ship that comes in. In this manner
the regiments VIII be moved in the Sc
quence desired. Very respectfully
NJ. I. L~UDINGTON,
''Quarternaster General"
The scheme is being rapidly executed
With few notifications, the Two Hun.
dred and Second New York having al
ready been landed, while the Second
Louisiana is now in transit. The One
Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana has beer
assigned to ne Se6gwick instead OF
the Thomas, which has not had time tc
return to Cuba. Fly the time these ter
regiments return it is. expected that til.
close quarantine will be in force and the
remaining regiments will have to under.
so disinfectiCn and detention at Fort Pull
ask and Mullet Key.