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Show ' INSPECTS THE , , STATETRODPS quests for Release From -he Service Coming in by Hundreds; Many Men : Have Defects. C'' - ;: AX AXTOXIO, Texas, July H ' neral Tasker 31. Bliss looked over ' -.e big camp of national guardsmen here todav. Accompanied by General I'uuston, the resistant chief of staff, who has been sent to the border to prepare pre-pare a detailed report of the federalized federal-ized state troops for the secretary of war, visited the headquarters of the Illi-tois Illi-tois forces. Jt is improbable that General Bliss 111 ask for the men to be paraded at r ly point on the border. Tho infor-ition infor-ition he wants will be contained in 'tne answers to questions regarding tho health of the men, the sanitary conditions condi-tions under which they arc living and the general fitness of the individual and of the organizations for active field service. General Bliss expects to leave Men-v Men-v for Brownsville and there begin an ' ' -estimation of militia camps that will d him westward a brig the border as r as Arizona. It nay bo several '. ecks before his work is completed. Many Ask Release. The number of men asking release from service on th 3 plea that they have dependent relatives has not been made public, but it was said today the requests were coming in hundreds. From the ; tat-.' organizations many are yet being dropped because of physical 'defects and in some cases -the disposition disposi-tion of those failing to qualify is proving prov-ing puzzling. Held at the hospital here tnerc are eight negroes. Thev canid here as members of the Eighth Illinois, a negro ne-gro regiment. They were not mustered in at Springfield and the medical examiner ex-aminer here examined them. Army officers of-ficers are studying military law and precedent for some indication as to who shall pay their board and their trans-, trans-, portation back to Chicago and meanwhile mean-while the rejected negroes are entertaining enter-taining convalescent patients with their .banjo playing. Reports received at General Funston 's dquarters indicated quiet all along e border today. |