The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1898, Page 2

- The » VOLUME LXXXIIL.—NO. 145. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1898S—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. IS. i % The Cruiser New York, After a Lively Chase, Captures the Spanish Steamer Pedro. QUOTAS OF THE SEVERAL STATES ARE DETERMINED How the Army of the United States Will Be Put on a War Footing. * % GOVERNMENT SEIZES CABLE AND ESTABLISHES CENSORSHIP, KEY WEST, Fla., April 23.—The following notice was posted in the cable office here this afternoon: “Under instructions from Washington, su- pervision of the cable lines has been assumed by the Government. Government business will be given preference on all sides.”” It is said that al! dispatches filed at Key West hereafter will be subjected to censorship by a Government officer, and that all reference to the movements of vessels and other information about war plans will be rigorously excluded. IR R R R R I A HEREXEEFREEE LR XX L XX LR XXX R R R KRR KXRREER NEW YORK, April 23.—A Wash- MARTIAL LAW ington special to the Herald says: 2 rresident mcKinley’s proclamation AT PORTO RICO. ealling for 125,000 volunteers, with R the proposed increase of the regular army to 61,000 men, will give to the chief executive an arm+ of 186,000. Of this force 20,000 are now at . Chickamauga, New Orleans, Mobile and Tampa. These troops are regu- lars, available at a moment’s notice to be transferred to Cuba. ‘While it is the purpose of the War Department to secure only National PR % Copyright, 188, by James Gordon Bennett. ST. THOMAS, West Indies, April 22.—I am informed by the Herald's correspondent in San Juan, Porto Rico, that martial w has been proclaimed throughout the island. This step was made necessary by reason ¥ of revolutionary uprisings all over the island. These disor- ders assumed such proportions s * Is in the islands found Guardsmen as far as possible un- x* jt necessary to takeradical meas- der the first call ‘for volunteers, the * ures to prevent them spreading States where there are no national guards, or where the number falls below the quota sta‘ed in the call, will be expected to supply volunteers regardless of their lack of organiza- tion. In fact, this murt be done un- An open credit has been es- tablished at the Colonial Bank. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FEEER XL R R KRR XX L XX der the law. On the basis of to-day’s North Dakota 467 call for 125,000 men the various Ohio ..... 7,234 States and Territories, including the | Or 829 District of Columbia, will be called Pennsylvania . 10,76¢ upon to supply each the following Rhode Island 719 | number of volunteers: South Dakota . 1,850 Adabama . 02}, -7 SRR SR 2,500 South Carolina 747 Arkansas .. 2,750 Tennesse: 3,060 California . 2,238 | Texas 4,229 | Colorado .. 1,208 | Utah ... 425 Connecticut . 1,607 | Vermont 634 Delaware ... 341 | Virginia .. 2013 Tlorida ... 750 | \\‘ashmgm{] i 1178 Georgia . 3,174 | W est \’:_rgm:a 1,38 | 1daho ... 231 | Wisconsin .. 3274 | Illinois . 6.603 | Wyoming . 231 2 4,402 Arizona ..... 871 3,772 District of Columbia 449 | 2.778 | New Mexico .. 230 3,405 Oklahoma ..... o Yrag 1940 The bill for reorganization of the | 1,526 army, which passed the House to- | 1,042 day, and which will be considered in 4,721 | the Senate on Monday, will more 2,368 than double the strength of the regu- 2,874 lars. 2,257 The volunteer forces will for the 5,411 most part be ready for transporta- 524 tion to gulf ports within two weeks. 1,400 Requisition will bc made upon the 138 Governorr of States to supply their i 752 | quotas by the President through the New Jersey . 2,062 War Department on Monday morn- New York ... 12,513 ing. The quotas are determined oy North Carolina ., 2,564 | the relative population of the States, FREEXEF XXX XXX R RXXAXLRRRRRX R R 22 002 H R R E K K K KK THE PRESIDENT < ISSUES A CALI I § Y | FOR VOLUNTEERS One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Men Wanted to Up- hold Old Glory. ‘ | proclamation calling for 125,000 troops to serve for two years: | increasing of the military establishment of the United States in time of war, : | and for other purposes,”” approved April 22, 1898, the President was author- | ized in order to raise a volunteer army to issue his proclamation calling for | volunteers to serve in the army of the United States. | HNow, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by PRESIDENT CALLS FOR MEN, , THE GUNS OF MORRO OPEN FIRE, THE SPANISH SHIPS ARE COMING ADMIRAL a9 e (= SAMPSON SENDS HIS PRIZES INTO KEY WEST Torpedo-Boats From Cape Verde Will Head Off the Oregon or Attack American Cities. Government Has Seized Front, and A the Cable From the Il Messages to the Press Are Subjected to Strict Censorship. ON THE FLAGSHIP NEW YORK, OEF HAVANA, April 23, 2 p. m.—The castle guns opened on the fighting squadron at 11 o’clock last night. ships. None took effe About ten shots were fired in the direction of the ct, and none were returned. This is the first act of war on the part of Spain. L. ONDON, April 23.—It is reported here on reliable authority that a | portion of the Spanish fleet which has been anchored at St. Vincent, WASHINGTON, April 23.—The President to-day issued the following| Cape Verde Isiands, has sailed. {garded as possible that it may have started to intercept the battleship |BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES—A PROCLAMATION.| Qregon and the gunboat Marietta, which are now on their way to Key WHEREAS, By an Act of Congress entitled ““An act to provide for tlre} West from the Pacific Ocean. Its destiration is not known. It is re- Some persons at Cape Vincent believe that an attack on American |seaports is contemplate d. NEW YORK, April 23.—The Herald’s Washington correspondent tel- € graphs: No confirmation can be obtained in Washingten of the report | virtue of power vested in me by the Constitution and by-laws, and deem- | that the Spanish ShiDS hgve left St. Vincent. Fhat lt.lS true l'S COnS.ld‘ ng sufficient occasion to exist, have thought fit to call for, and hersty do| ered highly probable, in view of the fact that official information which | call for, volunteers to the aggregate number of 125,000 in order to carry has reached the authorities during the last few days is to the effect that jinta effect the purpose of the said resolution, the same to be apportioned as | the fires in the furnaces of the ships have been banked and that they have | far as practicable among the several States and Territories and the District | been ready to proceed fo sea the moment orders were received from | of Columbia according to population, and to serve for two years unless | sooner discharged. The details for this object will be immediately commu- | nicated to the proper authorities through the War Department. ; In witness whereof, | have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. . | dependence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. | WILLIAM McKINLEY. By the President: JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of State. 'nccording to the census of 1890. The | O % XX EXEEXFXLEREX*XO |largest allotment will be to New | x | York State, which will be required to| * SHERMAN | furnish 11,000 men. The Governors | ¥ are given power tfo designate the| : TO RESIGN | regiments of the present National | | Guards to be called out and the loca. ON_MONDAY' tion in which other organizations are | | £ to be recruited. Each uovernor will : WA SEINGLONy April 23— The ;. Post will say to-morrow that also have entire charge of enlisting | the resignation of Hon. John and recruiting his quota. % Sherman as Secretary of State As soon as recruits are mustered * will be placed in the hands of into the national service they will be * the President Monday. | sent to a rendezvous which has been | * selected in each State and will be or- | ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ % % % % % % % % %6 | ganized and their company and regi- would be about 35,000 men. The EEE T o crnor, and will then be turned over | the rank of major-general of volun- to the Secretary of War. He will, un- teers or of regulars. There are at der the supervision of the President, | 5 & ¥ :c:;lbine t‘.ll)em into brigades and di: present, besides Major-General Miles, visions and select their general and WhO commands the army, two officers | staff officers. In many States volun- | Who hold major - generals’ commis- mental officers appointed by the Gov- commanders of these corps will nave | teer troops will be at their rendez- vous and ready to be assigned to their ultimate destination within a week from the time they are called |out. In other States, where dis- tances are greater and methods of traveling slower, it may be a month before the Governors report their al- | lotments ready for the front. The volunteer and regular troops | will be assembled together in the | South when the regular army shall |have been recruited up to its full lawful strength and the militia shall have been completely organized and equipped. Four army corps will then | sions in the regular army establish- | ment. These are General Westley | Merritt, commanding the Depart- | ment of the East, who will not be re- | lieved, as it is thought his present | command is the most important one | to which he could be assigned, and General John H. Brooke, now com- | mander of the regular division in | campat Chickamauga. General Brooke | will probably be assigned to the | command of the First Volunteer Army Corps. The senior brigadiers |of the regular army, who will be given the rank of major-general of | volunteers, are Generals Coppinger, be formed, and these corps will be| Wade and Shafter, commandinc di- divided into divisions and brigades formed of regular and volunteer regi- ments. | It is understood that there will be one reguiar and two volunteer regi- |ments to a brigade. The maximum |strength of an army corps so formed | visions of the regular army at points | of concentration on the field. Briga- dier-General Otis will be given a command with a provisional es:ab- lishment when ke completer his tour of court-martialduty. Severalcolonels Continued ‘on Becond Paze. 'Madrid. ;i In the absence of official information the authorities will not say what action they will take, but it was suggested that the departure of |the cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia from Hampton Roads might be Done at Waskington, this twenty-third day of April, 1898, and of the in-| fOT the purpose of obtaining accurate information concerning the where- abouts of the Spanish nothing. vessels. As to why these two cruisers were |sent to sea to-night, or as to their destination, the officials will say R R R R R TR X * * KEY WEST, April 23.— * f The Spanish schooner Ma- “ * thilde, captured by the torpe- * l: do-boat Porter, was towed : :into port by the steamer: « Dauntless this afternoon. * * * PR R R R R R R ) 'THREE PRIZES ARE TAKEN IN A SINGLE DAY | The Fleet Off the Coast of Cuba Is Making the Block- ade an Actuality. | Copyrightea, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. | KEY WEST, April 23.—Two more prizes have been taken by Captain Sampson’s fleet under the guns of Morro Castle. The Spanish steamship Pedro, loaded with rice, iron and beer, was the vessel captured last night, just as she was leaving Havana har- bor to go to Santiago de Cuba. iShe was loading when Captain Bonet learned that the fleet had been sighted. He feared that Havana was to be bombarded, and started out to sea. He was not quick enough. The men on the flagship INew York sighted him REVENUE CUTTER CHASING A SPANISH SHIP IN THE GULF NEW YORK, April 23.—A Washington dispatch to the Herald says: Administration officials are hopeful to-night that another prize has been taken by the naval forces of the United S:ates. Secretary Gage received to-night a telegram from the Collector of Customs in Mobile, Ala., stating that the revenue cutter Winona was, at the time the dis- patch was sent, in charge of the Spanish steamer Sacumina. The Sacumina entered Mobile this afternoon, but learning of the condition of affairs between the United States and Spain suddenly put to sea, with the Winona steaming after her. The Winona is not a very fast vessel, and while authorities have not, up to a late hour to-night, learned that she has succeeded in captur- ing the Spanish steamer, they believe she will finally bring her to. jof stopping and the New York |sent several shots after her. These were from the ship’s lighter The Spaniard showed no signs|guns, They were ineffective going . at full speed and gave chase. :