Show OfflCfRS WISH TO CONTINUE BUT TH ROUGH RIER A TIRED OF PEACE SERVICE Privates Requesting Permission t G Home But Their Petitions Are Pigeonholed By the Authorities Washington Office of The Herald 1415 G Street N W Washington Sept 25I is still an open question a to whether the Second United States volunteer cavalry will be retained in service and if so whether it will be assigned to duty in the United States or Cuba The regiment was some time ago included by the war department de-partment oflicials among those to be mustered ofcas service Influential I I friendsof officers and men of the regiment regi-ment who desired to see service have since that time been active in insisting that it be given employment There is I no doubt that there Is an usually large number of ofcer of this regiment who desire to be retained in service I has been contended by prominent pub lie men interested in the welfare of the regiment that it was by all odds the best of the three cavalry regiments raised In the United States at large This has been used as an argument in favor of the continued empboymeat of the Second U S V It has been urged that Torreys stalwart riders do not want to be tin soldiers particularly t reputation which in view of the great reputaton has been acquied by the members of the Roosevelt regiment inthe war A strong efort has bee made thls week to secure the retention of the Torey in service volunteers serice Senator Soup of Idaho has been active tie in this effort Three senators from the mountain states have been In the city during the week and it Is said durng that the representations which have been madeJ them are likely to result in Torreys boys continuing in the volunteer vol-unteer army It cannot be said that Colonel Tor I reys I troopers are by any means unanimous unani-mous in their desire to take part in the garrisoning of Cuba Some of the senators and representatives from the Rock mountain states in which the I regiment was raised have been working work-ing at cross purposes Governor Os borne of Wyoming ha protested to the president against the continued service of the regiment pointing out the deaths that have occuxred and the present condition of these veterans Senator Rawlins of Utah has forwarded for-warded to the war department a petition pe-tition slgted by many promlnentpeo pIe In Salt Lake City and the state who desire to have the regiment mustered mus-tered out of service 1 is claimed that this petition represents the actual sentiment sen-timent of a large majority of the troopers I troop-ers who aewear of the unbearable I xoutine of camp life in a notoriously I unhealthy country The ivar beln over and there being no likelihood of re newai of hostilities anywhere they believe be-lieve they are entitled to an honorable discharge like the other voluntee cay aIr regiment I Is yet undetermined I whether they will pay in or be ds I charged II Keen interest is displayed in political circles here in the campaigns in the mountain stales notably in Wyinng The president himself ha expresed his concern in the election in that state and during this week the Repub lean congre onal committee has com I I Ican I pleted its arrangement for promoting I the chances of the party in that state In the good oldfashioned Hanna way The Wyoming campaign begins on Monday in true earnest Senator Clark I and Assistant Land CommissIoner Ilondel both left this week to open the campaign and each of them expects campaig pects to be on the stump continuously unt the night befpre election Viee Cha1ta Osborr of the Demo cratc congressional < committee a been paying close attention to the campaig In many states but by no means ha neglected that of his own and rO2nhAs poi t 0 view there is ven ihdlcation of a clan svh p of I the Democratic ticket in Wyoming R e Senator Heifeld of Idaho expresses great confidence in the success of the Populstc ticket in tat state although he admits that the prospects are not a god a they would be were it not I for the division in the Populist part He says there is no chances whatever for the electing of the straight McKln ley Republican ticket During 115 visit to Washington Senator Sena-tor Clark tixk up the matter of the establishment of an army post at Sheridan Sher-idan He presented petitions from a great many residents in the region that would be protected by such a post and presented very forcible argu meats in favor of a new fort at that point There seems to be no doubt that as soon as the war department corn pletes its distribution of the regular troops that a cantonment will be established es-tablished at Sheridan The first troops to be sent there will be two companies of cavalry now In the LittleBig Horn country Pending the erection of a fort and permanent quarters for the troops the war department uIll issue orders for the constructions of temporary tempo-rary barracks at Sheridan Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Spaulding has advised all collectors of an important decision rendered by the department concerning the stamping of transportation bonds conveying goods shipped through the United States to and from points In Canada and British Columbia General Spauld ing recently received a letter from the general manager of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific Express company complaining of the action of the treasury department in exacting a separate transportation and exportation bond for such shipment ship-ment and a stamp tax of Si cents oa all such bonds covering articles of merchandise mer-chandise shipped by express through the United States to and from the points referred to In reply General Spaulding wrote as follows I have to inform you that your letter let-ter was referred to the collector of customs at Port Townsend and that officer reporting thereon states that consignees are permitted to include Ia one entry and bond all consignments of various marks arriving on the same vessel or other conveyance in transit through the United States when des dined to the same part or place in Can J ada Bonds of the above description are those required of the consignee or agent in accordance with the provisions provis-ions of article 432 customs regulations 1Sb2 and are separate and distinct from the class of bonds required of corn mon carriers under the act of June 10 1SSO so that your bond of cornmoa carrier cannot be substituted for the bond required of you as consignee or agent of transit goods in order to avoid payment of the stamp tan on the latter class of bonds under the act of June 13 1898 Inasmuch as the action of the eel lector in this ease is sustained by a ruling of the department under date of June 20 last prescribiflg a stamp tax of 50 cents for each bond on all bonds with sureties taken by the collector in the transaction of customs business no relief can be afforded you in the premises |