Evening star., 1903-11-27
WHEN MUSTERED IN
Militia Under Control of the
President.
LATE GENERAL ORDERS
PROCEDURE UNDER PROVISIONS
OF THE DICK LAW.
Requisitions on States in Time of
Emergency-Furnishing Subsist-
ence and Equipment.

General orders of considerable interest
| to the citizen soldiery of the United States
have been issued by Lieutenant General
Young, chief of staff. These orders were
issued at the instance of General Oliver,
| assistant secretary of war. and are designed
to show how and when the organized mill
tia of the country which has been aided by
the government under the provisions of the
Dick bill, may be called into service by the
President to suppress instructions and to
| repel invasions." This official statement Of
the governments policy with regard to the
use of militia in the suppression of insur-
| rection is regarded specially significant
at this time in view of the appeal of the
governor of Colorado for federal assistance
in preserving peace and good order in that
state.
Powers of the President.
1t is explained at the War Department
that the main purpose of the PRONUNCIATION
of these orders is to clear up ansapparent
misapprehenson as to the President con-
troll over the National Guard in times of in
surrection, and also to take advantage of
our experience at the outbreak of the Span
ish war to the extent that the state troops
will always be in a state of preparedness for
active service in the field whenever their
services are required by the governmnt.
The provisions of the Constitution relating
to the of militia in suppressng insur-
rections and repeling invasions are quoted,
together with the statutes subsequently en-
acIed to carry the provisions into effect. 1t
is then announced that the following regu-
lations have been adopted to accomplish the
purpose of the legislation referred to:
THE Presidents aut tilority over the mill
tia IS derived from this legislation. He can
call them out only in those cases in which
Congress shall have specifically provided for
his SO doing, and recent legislation has es
tablished no new emergency for the exer
else of this power on his part. When the
call is complied with the militia becomes ma
tional in character and the President their
commander in chief.
1.-The President is the exclusive ge of
the existence of an exigency justifying the
calling out of the militia and the eXecu-
tive measures necessary fer giving effect to
the call are ministerial acts which the Sec
retary of War may perform as the repre-
sentative of the President.
Requisitions on States.
Whenever the militia is called ino the
service of the United States the organized
militia will be first designated and in ap-
portioning quotas according to representa-
tive population they will, to the extent prac-
ticable, be so adjusted as not to leave any
state or territory unprovided with reserve
force sufficient to meet any emergency then
existing or imminent within such state or
territory. RequiSition will be made by the
War Department upon governors of states
and territories and the arm of the service
and the number of organizations thereof
required will be stated in the acquisitions.
Militia called into the service of the
United States will be mustered in by officers
of the army detailed by the War Depart
ment for this purpose. No organization will
be accepted into the service of the United
States which in number of officers and en-
listed men is below the minimum prescribed
by the President or above the maximum
strength fixed by law for such organiza-
tions. The extent of the physical eXamna-
ton upon muster in will be in accordance
with the length and character of service for
which the organizations are called and will
be prescribed in orders from the War De-
partment.
May Be Mustered in at Once.
provided, That in such states shall
have adopted standard of physical ex-
amipation for enlistment and re-enlistment
of the organized militia prescribed by the
Secretary of War, such militia may be