Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-07
Nay LOOK FOR CAMARA.
,...blIi,y that United States Squadron Will
Go to Cadlz.
o,r IT WILL NOT BE FOR SOME TIME.
,d Porto Rico to be Occupied First
psl,ys in the War Depertment-war
TO End Before Winter.

Now York, June 7.-Summer has set
earnest, with more fervent heat
,,.r,d, and cuba than in Washing
Nh, summer weather Is not to be
odmlnistration in slestas. says the
bennington correspondent of the
Times.
,.,rd IL comfortable and consistent
,L,b the policy of prolonglng the war
=, drop war when summer came on.
"a they may be inclined to continue
,sgir old habit, but II they expect to
A., the COMMUNICATION will create
~, different impression before the
,ammer is over.
,fetr brief experience of summer
amplng, with men hoping for active
.,.otions only to remain in hot
camps, to think over rumors of ac>
,rlties soon to come, the President
thinks there will be less danger To thc
,rnnns with occupation, even though IL
10 in cuba or Porto Rico. than there
vould be in camps remote from the
some of war and in mere schools for
drilling.
cal men of some experience and tudg-
ment of climatic risks that the army
will he quite as well Off during the
summer where they can reach the enc
mn and keep him from going to sleep
loo frequently is they would be fry
inr on the sands of Tampa bay or
wasting away with ennui in the camps.
The determination to make the cam
paign on land and sea an active one
from the beginning to the end is be-
Ing carried out as well as possible
There are some drawbacks, among
them being the sluggish response of
some OF the bureaus of the war de.
partment. Some of the old men In the
euartermaster- generals office. the COM
mlssary- generals department and in
other branches, have been running
business as II has been run for 80 years
Insisting that the red tape that an
swered wen enough in time of peace
must be made to work in time of wal,
Under vigorous direction this red tape
could be dispensed with or stretched
10 answer, but that vigor can never be
developed in subordinates while there
Is lack of IL at the head. No one
knows this better than the President,
and he ought to be able to find 1t out
Il be does not know 1t now, and also
70 md "a remedy Tor IL.
All plans for the occupation of Porto
Rico are kept very secret in the war
ddItment. lust who has made them
hra ascertained, but the assumption
hat the best suggestions have been
S1A by the careful mind of General
SAoield, General Miles being &C.
Upied very fully with the direction of
rltlne business and only having time
. consider plans, with the purpose of
| orTNinn them nfA Whan IL M
DE details of business at Porto Rico
santiago or In the Philippines, It is un-
derstood that the President viii insist
that the Office command of the ex-
petition, be he Merritt, Shafter OF
Miles himself, shall be permitted to
work out each for himself. as complete
" as may be with cooperation with the
navy, his own plan of campaign.
Hot as 1t is In Santiago, considered
one of the summer towns In Cuba, II
Is not hotter for the Spaniards than
Il will be for the United States army
and navy and the forces of the United
States, as 1t appears to the administra-
ton will be much better off in the mat
ter Of clothes, food "-1 discipline than
the Spanish army. At all events. 1t Is
war and not matter of pleasure that
the country is embarked in and some
men are sure to lose their lives on the
Held OF In hospital as the result of the
war lne administration does not de-
sire to prolong 1t, even II contractors
for the army take the other and heart
less view that war now and then
IS a good thing, particularly for the
| contractors.
These are some of the ideas that are
being discussed by the administration
at the beginning of June, with the hot
test weather of the year coming on
u is the opinion of some of the
Presidents advisers that the war car
be terminated before winter, II the
summer Is employed to good advantage
Movements upon Porto Rico and San
uago, followed by successes and proba.
ply by season of camping on &c.
CURED territory that Is not unhealthful
even for northern men, will maintain
me spirits of the troops not yet ready
wv preparing to be ready by and by.
The navy and the army will both bt
occupied In the operations of the army
and possibly before the summer i,
ended 1t may be that the navy woult
ne called upon to go to Cadiz to lool
llr the lost fleet of Spanish reserv,
vessels. That has been thought OF
several times, and with Porto Rice
coupled, Santiago taken Havana In
,n.esed and the Cadiz fleet not yet or
'Hs side, 1t win be possible to spare
squadron of half dozen or NOR,
slps to run across the ocean and Sc,
Hhat mas become of Admiral Camarf
anu ms much talked of fighting ships