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Show VOLUNTEERS CALLED FOR. rrMldenl .tiki lor I1S.OIIO Sim la llslen.1 Hie HUrs and airlift. Washington April J Tho president presi-dent today Ittued the following proclamation, proc-lamation, calling for 111,000 troopt to tcrvo two yean lly the president of the United State: a i-hoolauatioi: Whereat. Ily an act of congress, entitled en-titled "An act to provide for tha In-creating In-creating of the military establishment of the United State In time of war and for other purpose," approved April St, IttH1!, the president wa authorized, In order to ralc a volunteer nrmy, toltauo lit proclamation colling for volunteer to terre In Ilia army of tho United State; Now, therefore, I, W llllam McKln-ley. McKln-ley. president of the United States, by virtue of the power vetted In mo by the constitution nnd bylaw t, and deeming tufllclent occasion to cxltt, have thought fit to call for, and do hereby call for, voluntcera to tho aggregate aggre-gate numlicr of Ifl.'KK), in order to carry Into effect the purpoia of said resolution, tho snme to bo apportioned, a far at practicable, among the several tatct and territories and the District of Columbia, according to population, and to serve for two year, unlet sooner discharged The dctallt for thlt object will be Immediately communicated to tha proper authorise through the war department de-partment In witness whereof, I have hereunto tel my hand and rautcd the teal of tho United State to bo fllxed. Done at Washington thlt twenty, third day of April, 198, and of tho Independence In-dependence of tho United State the one hundred and twenty-tccond (Signed.) lly tho President: WllltAU McKtxirr. J0111 Hiikiiuax, Secretary of State |