Arizona republican., 1898-03-16
An Interpretation Of Recent
 Military Orders
CALLING FOR CAVALRY
Probable Time of the Court of
 Inquiry's Report.
Members of the Cabinet Continue to
 Deny That Any Information has Been Received Indicating the Re-
 suIt Of the Investigation.

Washington, March 15.-This was another busy day in the war and navy departments. Secretary Alger was enabled to make an allotment of funds from the appropriation of s5O00O,OOO which will greatly facilitate the work of the bureaus. These bureaus had not been able to conclude any con- tracts for the procurement Of war supplies because no allotment had nance bureau was given $25000 and business went forward with rush. It is true that this sum is already mort gagged under the provisional arrange ments made during the past week, but with the assurance of more funds to moving rapidly.
 Secretary Long spent good deal of time at intervals during the day in consulting by telephone with naval of ficers in New York and it is believed much of this consultation concerned the procurement of suitable vessels from among the auxiliary navy for war purposes.
 MT. Malster of the Columbian Iron works at Baltimore, has notified the de- partment that he will be able to turn over the torpedo boat Rodgers next Saturday. Without doubt the Anna zonas will be gotten across the ocean as soon as possible and it is expected that the San Francisco will convey her
 The torpedo boat Foote arrived at Jacksonville this afternoon. The Machias sailed from Norfolk to Bos- ton, where she will undergo some re- pairs made necessary by her long cruise. The Brooklyn went to New port News for coal. The Marblehead. which is taking on stores at Tampa, sailed for the Tortugas.
 The meeting of the cabinet at an earlier hour than usual today had the effect of suspending most of the active operations in the war and navy de- partments during the forenoon.
 The agent in this country of the Thorngraft Torpedo Boat company of England, MT. Platt, has submitted to Secretary Long a proposition for the sale to the government of the designs and complete working drawings of the magnificent torpedo boat destroy CTS built by his firm. Predicting that the department would find it abso- lutely impossible to buy any of these craft in Europe at th1s juncture, MT. Platt has urged the government here to start immediately a number of our ship building firms to work on the construction of these boats
 The Notifications board began it's sessions today in the war department The proceedings are guarded zealously against publication. A representative of the Winchester Arms company was in conference today with General Miles and General Flagler at the office of the bureau of ordnance of the army with view to examining various pat terms of rifles made by this concern and of ascertaining how speedily these could be furnished in large quantities in case Of an emergency. No con- tracts were made, but the conference led to full understanding.
 "The general expectation of the members of the cabinet" said one of them after the meeting today, "is that some report will be received during the present week from the court of in quiry examining into the cause of the Maine explosion. Yet" he added, it would not be surprising to us if the report should be delayed for a longer time. We have nothing on which to base this hope that I know of, only the feeling that what I have said will be the case. There is nothing at hand to indicate what will be the nature of the findings of the court''
 THE COURT COMING BACK.
 Havana March 15.-The court of in- quiry sailed for Key West on the Man grove tonight.
 THE INVASION OF CUBA.