Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-22
PRESIDENT CALLS MILITIA
SENDS TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR
OF EACH STATE.
Organizations to be Accepted Into Fed.
srai Service viii Have full
Peace Strength.

Washington, June 20. 1880 The Presi-
dents order calling the National
Guard into the federal service went
to the governor of each state In the
form of the following telegram signed
by Secretary Baker:
Having in view the possibility OF
aggression upon tns territory OF tho
essity for the proper protection OF that
frontier the President has thought
proper to exercise the anthority vested
call out the organized militia and the
national guard necessary for that pur-
pose. | am In consequence instructed
by the President to call into the SER
vice OF the United States forthwith.
through you, the following units OF
the organized militia and the national
guard OF the state of which
the President directs shall be assembled
at the state mobilization point state
camp ground, COR at the places to be
general ------- Department., for mus
ter into the service OF the United
States. (Here follows a list OF the or
signated state).
Maximum Strength Required.
federal service should have the mini
organized militia. The maximum
strength at which organizations will be
accepted and to which they should be
raised as soon as possible, is prescribed
In section two. tables OF organization.
United states army. In case any regi-
ment battalion. or squadron, now rec
ogntzed as such contains an insufficient
number of organizations to enable it to
conform at muster to regular army or
ganization tables. the organizations
necessary to complete such units may
be maved to mobilization camps and
there inspected under orders OF the de-
psrtment commander to determine At
tia by the War Department.
Circular 10. Division OF Militia At
fairs, 1914, prescribes the organizations
desired from states as part of the local
tactical division and only these .. gani-
nations W Ill be accepted into service.
stan Omcers Ordered Out.
~ Is requested that all officers OF tho
adtutant generals department, quarter
masters corps and medical corps, duly
recognized as pertaining to state head
quarters under table one. tables OF or
elsewhere required for duty I'm state
administration. be ordered to camp for
duty as camp stan officers. Such mum
bers of these stan officers as the de-
partment commander may determine
may be mastered into the service of the
United States for the purpose of proper
cred out when their services ara no
longer required.
Where recognized brigade or d,v,-
sions are called into service from a
state. stan officers pertaining to these
units under tables Of organization, Uni
ted states army, will be mustered into
service and also the authorized sectors
OF small arms practice pertaining there
to.
Regulars OMcers 10 Command
Except for these two purposes of
mobilization camp service and OF thu
prescribed camp service with tactical
units. officers OF state headquarters un-
der table one. above mentioned will
not be mustered into service at this
time. If tactical divisions are Iatar
organized the requisite official number
or staG officers with rank as prescribed
TOR division stan will. as far as practice
ahie. % called into servic. from thoss
states which have furnished troops to
such divisions,
tStgnsdl NEWTON D. BAKER"