Show MKINt O S D COVERY Doe Not Aed An Army of One Hundred T ausand lIen t NO PROVISION ARMY ARIY REGULARS SUFFICIENT FOR ALL RET NEEDS President Decides That It Will Note Not-e Necessary to Enlist the 35000 Volunteers Provided For By A my iVoluteer Now I Service Ser-vice Will Be Muted Out Chicago March 7A special to the TimesHerald from Vahlngon says President McKinley has decided not to avail himself of the authority grated by the compromise army bill to organize organ-ize a provisional army of 35000 volunteers volun-teers After consulting with officials of the I wttr department the president has decided de-cided that in view of the present favorable I favor-able outlook in Cuba and the prospect of the complete suppression of the Phil ipjlne insurrecton at an early day it will not be necessary after the present volunteer forces have been mustered out to have more than tha 65000 men allowed for the regular army until July I 1901 I is also his purpose to expedIte the withdrawal of volUnteers from Cuba and the Philippines as rapidly IS possible possi-ble and muster them out of the service AU the volunteers are to be brought home from Cuba without delay and those in the Philippines will be brought home a soon a enough regulars can be sent out to take their places he president will have authority under un-der the law to appoint volunteer general gen-eral officers and volunteer staff officers in ufficlent number for the 65000 regulars regu-lars I subsequent developments sheathe shea-the necessIty for more men the president presi-dent will then exercise his power to enlist list all or part of the 35000 |