The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-05
MINNESOTA MEN WILL SAIL FROM
MANILA IN THEIR REGULAR
TURN
ILL Duh TO CABLE ERROR
GEN. OTIS EXPLAINS HIS APPAR-
ENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
THE THIRTEENTH
MEN ARE NOW AT MANILA

They VIII Sail for San Francisco
Next Tuesday in Company With
the South Dakota VOIunteers-NO
Time Wasted by the War Depart
mcnt in Having the BIunder
Cleared Up-omciaI Messages.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-(Special.)-
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment will
sail from Manila on the transport Sheri-
Edan in its regular order. Early today the
WAR department, in response to an urgent
IN, usage to Gen. Otis asking his reason
lor holding back the Thirteenth Mime
Isota and ordering the departure of the
montana volunteers on the Sheridan, re-
tceived the following message:
ManiIa. Aug. 4.-Adiutant General,
Washington; Error cable yeSter-
day. Minnesota and South Dakota
take transport, not Montana.
Otis.
Immediately upon the receipt of this
cablegram Adjt Gen. Corbin sent the fol-
flowing telegram to Gov. Lind, at St
Paul:
Washington, Aug. 4.-Lind, st.PauI:
Gen. Otis cables that Minnesota reg
iment will leave Manila Aug. s. Re
port yesterday that Montana regi-
ment would sail was an error.
-COrbin. Adiutant General.
1t has been a long time since the war
department powers that be have received
such a jar as that which followed the
publication of the. message from Gen.
lOus indicating discrimination against the
minnesota regiment. Secretary Root was
out of the city before the storm broke,
but his assistants felt the force of it early
and made haste TO get out from under. A
cablegram was hurried to Otis, calling for
his explanation of the supposed delay,
and, in view Of the temper displayed in
Minnesota, it may have been privately
intimated to him that his reasons, when
they arrived, would better be effective
ones.
At any rate, no time was lost today in
explaining that it was all a mistake and
that the Minnesota regiment would get
away next Tuesday with the South Da-
kota volunteers.
Il Just how the error occurred and the re-
responsibility for it are not yet clearly
Established. Minnesota and Montana.
while they may be more or less similar in
print are not very much alike by cable
Hand the presumption is that carelessness
lat Manila caused the break which aroused
1.-THE people of Minnesota
4 There are those who smile and say that
possibly the pressure brought to bear was
sufficient to cause some one to see clear
sly that any substitution of the Mon
8tana for the Minnesota men would be d
serious mistake requiring immediate cor
rection. In justice to all concerned. how
ever, it should be stated that there is no
IeVidence to show that the $lole trouble
gas not the result simply of a bIunder. as
explained by the adjutant general.
An official of the war department said
today; Il think it can safely be asserted
that there will be no further trouble. and
that the Minnesota regiment will sail
next Tuesday in its regular order The
people of Minnesota and the congression-
al delegation seem to have very strong
convictions on the subject"
n No answers were sent to the kilograms
3of protest received from Minnesota. The
sfact that there had been blunder was
given out for publication, and that was
.Tegarded as sufficient.
The war department is without specific
Information on the subject, but it is I'M
derstood that the Thirteenth Minnesota
|regiment is now at Manila. waiting to
embark.