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I ingtun. Will Not
Be governor general,
L u t will be Military Commander
I o f Havana Province.
I Special Staff Correspondent
Bl B. Cramer says in the Atlan-
Ea Constitution this morning
limlor a Jacksonville date line :
I The military occupation oi
■Cuba will be begun on October
|2otl).
This decision has been reach
led by the president and his cab
ling, and was today communi-
I rated to Major General Fitzhugh
I Lee, commanding the Seventh
■ army corps, which has been in
I camp here since the early part
lof last May. Gen. Lee has been
I ordered to Washington to report
lat once in person to Pres.dent
McKinley, and he will leave for
the national capital tomorrow
night. Not even his personal
Stull knows why he has been
summonsed, and the report is
given out officially that he is not
well and is to be given a short
sick leave.
As a nutter of fact, the gen
eral was never in better health
in his life, and is tonight putting
up his belongings and dispatch
ins business at a rate that would
wear out a professional athlete.
The fixing of the date for the
commencement of the peaceful
invasion of Cuba was made
known to Gen. Lee in an order
to be in readiness to start on the
20th, but it is not likely that he
will get off then.
A large number of regular
troops are io precede him, and
these are now being put in
shape. Just what regiments they
are I do not know, but it is cer
tain that the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth infantry and the
Ninth and Tenth cavalry will go
first.
These are all colored com
mands, and they saw a whole lot
of hard and fast service in Cu
ba. Other regiments on the list
for garrison duty on the island
are the Second, Third, Fourth,
Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh,
Sixteenth Seventeenth, and
Iwenty-third infantry, and the
first, Second and Sixth cavalry.
AH these wore in the Santiago
campaign.
No exact information as to the
artillery is available, but it is
significant that Grimes’s battery
of El Poya fame, has been or
dered to Huntsville, Ala., and
that other batteries are to be lo
cated at extreme southern
points. They may not be sent to
Cuba right away, but it is plain
that the president wants them
in readiness to go there in event
that they are needed.
Gen, Lee’s call to Washington
has little to do with his imme
diate command, for the Seventh
corps is in shape to pull up
stakes and start for Havana to
morrow if ordered to do so. It is
by long odds the finest camp in
the country, and reflects all sorts
of credit on Gen. Lee, who has
been working like a hero ever
since he came here, to make sol
diers out of the raw recruits as-
iiii: noMi: hustler-comme di ai
ifiitd to him ard to preserve
stheir health.
He knew what a Cuban cam
paign meant, and so he impress
ed his men with the necessity of
cleanliness and good behavior
that the condition Camp Cuba
Libre is the very model which
the whole military could study
with profit. He will tell Mr. Mc-
Kinley that he has no prepara
tions to make for a transfer of
his command to Cuban soil, and
he will say that his corps is
reauy now, as it always has been,
to break camp at a moment’s
notice.
What McKinley wants with
Gen. Lee is a good, long talk
about existing conditions in
Cuba, now that lie has determin
ed to send 60,000 troops there,
the first news concerning which
was printed in The Constitution
two weeks ago, and the decision
has been reported as to the date
of embarking. The president
wants to consult with the former
consul general as to ways and
means.
The war department has pre
pared seme what elaborate esti
mate of the number of men need
ed at certain points in the island,
and in a general way McKinley
approved it.
But this military occupation
will have to be supplemented
by an army of civil officials and
it is as to their relations with
Spain and the insurgents that
McKinley seeks advice from
Lee.
He has the officials on tap, for
there are still some republican
voters left in Ohio and Michigan,
but it is a somewhat delicate
problem as to just what sort of
an administration the United
Stales is to give to Cuba and
how it is to be divided between
the military and civil authori
ties.
McKinley’s sending for Lee
under these circumstances seems
to show that he has some sort
of a mixed official post for the
commander of the Seventh
corps, but I can say, on the very
highest authority, that Lee is
not to be governor general of
Cuba.
That office, if it be created at
all, will not be filled by an army
officer, but by seme man like
Benjamin F. Tracy, of New
Nork, or Attorney General
Griggs, of the McKinley cabi
net. Both of these names are
being whispered about in army
circles, but I do not know where
the reports started. Lee is to bt
the military commander of the
province and city of Havana,
and, as the President knows, he
is going to have,his hands full,
for Havana will be the storm
center in the troublous times
ahead on the little island.
I had a talk with Gen. Lee
last night on the point and he
spoke very frankly about it.
“I have no desire to give up
my commission in the army,
he said, “for any political office,
no mutter how high. I don’t
know what the President is go
ing to do with me, except that I
am going to take my corps to
Cuba—and lam very well sat
isfied not to know. A good sol
dier don’t ask questions.”
“As the corps commander,
will you be governor of Havana
province?’ ’
“I don’t know just what my
functions will be. I may have
civil and military authority
both, or it may be divided.” .
“Which do you think ough
ROME GEORGIA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1898.
THE DM SAVED
By “Fighting” Joe Wheeler,
After Shaffer Had
ORDERED A RETREAT
Orderly who Carried the Mes
sage Heard From.
St Louis, Sept, 27 —Among the
small crowd of soldiers who pas
sed through Union Station yes
terday on their wuy home, some
on furloughs otherr on discharges
was Private Williams, en route to
Kansas City. He was an orderly to
General Shafter, and carried mes
sages hack and forth from tie
General, five miles in the rear, to
the firing line.
“During the time the firing
was the hottest,’’ he said, “the
General was the farthest in the
rjar, and someti mes was utterly
unable to see his forces. Still he
stood back and gave orders. Some
times the orderlies brought back
reports which much excited the
Geueral, and he often sent verbal
messages in return. Once there
came word that our forces were
getting the worst of the fight, and
immediately General Sha'ter sent
me forward with a mess ge to
Whe-ler to withdraw and retrea< .
“Wheeler called in Generals
Bates and Kent, an,d after a brief
consultation it was d cided not to
heed General Shafter’s orders.
They touk the matter in their own
hands and ordered a charge to the
front Id a short while the tide of
battle was changed and the day
was won for the Americans, all be
cause the General’s command was
no* heeded.
“At the conclusion of the battle
General Shatter called up the of
ficers, and they denied receiving
the order. Then the orderly was
called up, and would have been
court-martialed had it not been
for the interfarence of the three
under Generals.”
to be the case?”
“I think a military govern
ment for the time being is the
best for Cuba, out it should be
modified steadily and as condi
tions make possible, because the
sooner war is forgotten and the
semblance of war disappears on
the island, the better it will be
for all concerned. Just now
there is need far the American
soldier and plenty of him over
there, in my judgement. Bead
tho papers. You can get all the
information out of them that I
can.”
This was a most unsatisfacto
ry answer, but it was the best I
could get from the general.
“We need troops in Cuba,”
he said, “and I don’t think 60,-
000 a bit too many.”
When I started to leave him
he was still packing papers and
official documents to take to
Washington and I asked him
why he was going off on sick
leave, as the evening journals
here stated, he was taking so
much literature with him.
“I’m not going off on sick
leave,” he replied bluntly. “I
am summoned to report in per
son at the war department, and
you can say so. I am not sick a
little bit.”
The general will reach Wash
ington on Wednesday and will
be there 20 days, returning here
on the eve of the beginning of
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