Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-19
TWENTIETH KANSAS TO REACH TO-
PEkA NOVEMBER ..
MUSTER OUT DATE CHANGED
SECRETARY OF WAR ROOT AD-
yASCEs 1T FIVE DAYS.
Advocates of Daylight Trip ThrouG h
Kansas Would Sidetrnck the
Trains Near Newton over
Night-Report the
Hong Kong Delay.

TOPEKA. oct 1S-tspcclalD \ message
from Secretary Of War Root 10 the Repub-
Lean leaders here Tonight announces that
the Twentieth Kansas will be mustered
ou; on October 2s. This Will land the regt-
In-nt IN Topeka two weeks from JO-mor-
VOW. November =. or i've days before the
election.
This will give the people Of the state an
opportunity TO attend the reception and
Get home IN time TO vote. II will also give
The returning Kansas volunteers who live
IN country precincts where registration Is
unnecessary a chance 10 vote.
Those pushing the plan 10 have the sol
diers come through Kansas in daylight
say it IS not the intention to land the boys
here at night. they say the plan is TO let
the trains stay on sidings somewhere near
Newton all night and then arrive here
about 10 o'clock. the time TOpekans pro-
1ess 10 want them to land. The boys. they
say. would prefer TO have the trains side
tracked that they could get a good
nights rest before the day of the recep-
zion.
1t IS given out at the Santa Fe general
offices that the schedule of the troop
trains will not be changed so as to bring
the kansans through the state in daylight.
Topeka is opposing the scheme bitterly.
SO are Kansas City, kas.. Lawrence and
other Eastern Kansas towns. They claim
II will break into their arrangements for
the various receptions now being planned.
The Western Kansas people. however.
ere standing pat. They declare that the
trains must run through that section of
the state in the daytime. so as to give the
people out there who are unable TO az
tend the Topeka reception an opportunity
. II
to-day that IL the boys wanted 10 come
through the state in daylight they would
arrange that little affair themselves by
simply taking charge of the trains and
holding them on sidetracks out West unit ]
they got ready to move through the state.
Brisadier General Hughes. of the Kan
sas National guard. is endeavoring to ar
range 20 bring the entire guard here for
the Twentieth Kansas reception. He says
that the boys viii all waive the right to
draw per diem II the state Will paw for
their transportation and subsistence He
wants the governor to issue an order call
ing out the guard. This will then make il
active service" and the bills can be paid
out Of the state treasury. Governor Stan
ley has so far declined to issue such an
order. He doesn't think the state should
pay any Kansan's way TO Topeka to take
in the reception.
The cavalry troops at Fort Riley Will
probably not be able to come to the re-
ception mounted. Chambers has broken out
among the horses at the fort. and even if
the cdyalrymen desired to come with their
horses the live stock sanitary commission
would probably not permit it.
The railroads running into Topeka have
decided to make / cent a mile rate for all
uniformed organizations desiring TO attend
9 tn, --.ff
be put II for all other people.
WASHINGTON. Oct. lR-Tbe secretary
of war recently instructed General Shat
ter at san Francisco to call on the corn
Inanding officer OF the troops on the Tartar
for full statement OF facts concerning
the delay Of that transport in the harhar Of
Hong Kong. Under date Of san Francisco.
October 16. General Shafter forwarded the
report Of the commanding iGicer of .re
twentieth Kansas to the department. as
follows:
The chartered transport Tartar is :
British shin. and As such the British law
was deemed 10 apply. Under the British
law. the Tartar was licensed to carry al
passengers. The harbor master NJ Hong
Kong refused To give the ship clcaranc.
because she carried 1l4O troops | wired To-
the department at Washington and to the
adtutant general AZ Manila that clearance
was refused because OF over-crowdiuc, The
reply was had from AdIutant Genera Cor
bin, asking 81, IN my opinion. the shin was
o.er-crGwded and II there was cause co-
complaint from the soldiers regarding. food
replied that the snip was no more crowd
ed than other transports had brca and
that there was no ground for comrIaiut re-
Earding food. Before communication could
De had. ] wired clearance allowed: sailed
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