Show REQUEST fOR ADEQUATE L IE DEfENSE i L L I Japanese Japan se Situation Has ilas as Nothing to Do With Pre Present Present Present sent Activities I Sacramento Feb Fob C Adjutant Gene oral eral Lauck was emphatic In making I the statement today that the renewed activities in his bis department at the tho request of the war department at Washington for the organization of or sixteen companies of artillery for coast defense were ere not tho the result of ot orthe the passage by bj the tho assembly of the Ute school bill General t Lauck declared that neither tho the gov governor go governor nor himself had the Japanese I situation In mind when It was decided I to accede If possible to the request of f the tho fedral officials and establish an adequate coast defense When Lauck Lauc submitted recently recent to State Controller Nye Nyc his estimate of or 5 for the expenses o or of national guard during the next two to years jears the controller cut It down Iowa by b which sum the adjutant general states In elud dud eluded eluded ed for or tho maintenance o othe of the sixteen additional companies ask asked asked askel ed el for by bj the national government Unless the time finance and ways was and means eans m committees o of oC the senate and assembly respectively respective disregarded the tho controllers recommendation and put back hack tho the deemed necessary said Lauck It would be useless to at empt to accede to tho war depart dopart departments ments monts request months ago the adjutant general declined to assign tho sixteen companies for the tho purpose of ot manning the th guns along the coast on the ground that It Jt would he unfair to tike take that number from time the three regiments of or state militia loft left after the reorganization reorganisation a tion that had Just boon been effected On January 9 the war department appealed to Governor Gillett to organ organize organize ize the now no companies but it was not two weeks later that the chief executive tive tivo and his adjutant decided to act The governor agreed with Lauck that by h securing the services of business businessmen men and men mon of family who did not desire to leave the communities In which they thy resided in tho the event of hos hostilities hostilities such companies might he be or organized organized organized with good results Following 1 this policy an effort is being made to raise fourteen companies in San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco and two in San Diego the tho prin principal principal principal cipal points on the California coast The legislature Is expected by bythe b bythe the adjutant general to furnish the means of support for these organizations organizations organizations on the tho basis of a month for each company According to tho the commanding officer of the state slate mill mili militia tin tia there are available at this time not more than of the tho number of men required to man the guns uns protect protecting protecting ing ins San Francisco harbor Washington Feb Fob 6 GRobert Robert Shaw Oliver assistant secretary of war said tonight that the tho war departments re request request request quest of Governor to organize sixteen militia companies of artillery Is merely part of oC the general scheme for national defens California he said is ono one of o a few rew states that have haye not their full complement of militia the idea Iden being to organize a twin ml mi militia litia company compan for every company or ot regulars located at the artillery posts It has hag been a feature of or the tho depart department department department ment policy to utilize tho the service of the militia on several occasions In conjunction with tho regular n s army urmy force This has been the time case caso In the tile eastern part of the United States |