The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-16
FAREWELL TALKS TO TROOPS.
OFFICERS OF THIRD KENTUCKY
COMPLIMENT THE MEN.

Col. smith Congratulated Them on
the Sacrifices They Have Made,
the suRerings They Have Patient
Iy Endured and the EnvtabIe Rec
ord to which They Can Point.
Regiment VIII Be Mustered Out
To-day-The Men Have Not Been
Paid for Three MOnths-Pay OF
Many of the Officers VIII Be Held
Tn Until They secure Certificates
of Non-Inde btedness-Fakirs Have
Been Ordered to Keep Outside
the Limits of the Camp and 1t Is
Thought VIII Obey the order.
Several Of the officers Of the Third Ken
lucky Regiment made farewell talks to the
men of the regiment yesterday afternoon.
The regiment was assembled in a hollow
square on the parade ground and for half
an hour listened to the warm words of
praise and congratulation of its officers.
Speeches we're made by Col. Smith,
Lieut.. Col. Henry and Capt. Howard. Col.
Smith thanked the men for the support
that they mad given him and the officers
in the effort that they had made 10 make
the regiment u CIeAll 10 t4iS SCI VIZ anu
the state and in which they had met with
such complete and decided success.
They were soon 10 return to their
homes, Col Smith said and they could
90 with the consciousness Of duty wen
performed and of hardships, sufferings
and privatlons uncompGainingly endured.
In after years they could look back upon
H..
with the feeling that their response to the
eountry's call to arms had been prompt
and spontaneous and that they had done
under all circumstances the full duty of
soldier. The talks Of the other officers
were on the same line.
The officers and men of the regiment
have not been paid since February, and ii
is probable for this reason that there will
be no presentations of swords or other
gifts to the officers. Those who have no
other resources than Their pay ore broke
and hard broke, and in no position to com
pliment their favorites If they desired TO
do so.
When the regiment returned from Cuba
the officers, OF some of them, thought 1t
would be better if the men received no pay
until they were to be finally mustered out
Of the service Their idea was that they
would in this event have more to take
home with them, and that there would be
less disorder in the regiment on the inter-
vening pay-days. Soon after it became ap-
parent that the men needed their money,
and efforts were made to have them re-
ceive their pay. 1t was too late then,
and the efforts were unsuccessful.
The captains of the companies will re-
ceive only their travel pay when the reg
&c of the service to-day
and the same thing will apply to the adj
iutant quartermaster and commissaIy
An officers who have handled government
funds of any kind, or have become respon-
sble for government stores or property,
win have their pay held up until they can
secure certificates Of non-lndeotedness
from the various departments from when
| these must be obtained. This Is an almost
iuterninable proceeding, and 1t Is safe 70
say that it will be several months before
All of the officers whose pay is thus re-
! tanned will receive It. They are not con-
| templating the prospect with any degree
of satisfaction.
The regiment will be mustered for pay
! and discharge at $50 o'clock, and WIN
| a paymaster for each battalion III Is not
/ expected chat it will require longer than
two hours to compete the pay and dis
| charge the entire regiment, The men arc
wild to receive their pay and to get out
! Of the service They have spent twelve
| months In securing their experience OF
| army life and are content that their edu-
cation on this line shah proceed no fur
Their. They think themselves quite sur
fciently learned in matters military, ana
are willing to resign the prospect OF more
advanced instruction in favor of others.
And ii has been so long since the. men
have received any pay that many of them
seriously need 1t.
There has been some talk anent the
| trouble that is supposed to await the
fakirs. who dispose of gaudy and general
ly useless trappings to the soldiers who
are mustered out, should any OF these
gentry attempt to enter the lines of the
regiment. They have been forbidden to
do so. and it is not thought that many
! of them, in the light of the order and the
| experience that the men of the Forty-ninth
| Iowa visited some day ago on their breth-
rem, will be likely to attempt it. The
officers do not believe that their men will
be guilty of any disorder, but they appre-
ciate the fact that when just mustered out
and after receiving pay for the first time
in three months they would be somewhat
inclined to visit their none TOO gentle
wrath upon those who have offended them
and whom they do not like. For this rea-
son of precaution the fakirs have been
instructed and warned to keep out of the
limits of abe camp, They will doubtless
do SO.
The section of the regiment coming
from the central part of the state will
leave on the Georgia and Alabama train
at o'clock to-day OF these men there
is one battalion and they hail from Lex
ngton and the towns and country in that
vicinity. They are commanded by Mai
Bryan and are an especially well put up
well drilled and disciplined body of men
law.
ment and though they will be glad, as are
ali of the men, to get out of the service
they will not regret the experience they
have gained in the volunteer army.
OFF FOR DIOCESAN CONVENTION.