The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-15
MEN FOR MANILA
Waiting for Word From General
Merritt
Volunteers at the Bay Are Still Hopping for Orders
TO Proceed to the Philippine Islands.
The Bl0ckading Squadron

The BlOckading Squadron
BY THE ASSOCIATED SPECIAL WIRE
SAN FRANCISCO August 4The following dispatch has been
eved b Major General Merriam his inquiry to tho
ropriety Of permitting
Scandia, pending the peace negotiations:
WASHINGTON August 14-Mar General Merriam San Fancisco
The secretary Of war has caused inquiry be made Of General Merritt
his needs for further
era Kings troops ordered
will advise possible By order of the secretary Of
Il. C. C0RBIN, Adutant General.
The order has caused much dpeu1e among troops they
continue hopeful that the establishment Of garons in Hawaii and
Manila and the seeming probability difficulty Philippine
insurgents will mako their early departure necessary
THE BLoCKAD1NG SQUADRON.
KEY WEST August 141n accordance with orders from the navy
department. following the presidents proclamation Of
hoi Commodore Powell the North Cuban blockade squad
ro rapidly assembling his ships at Key West Many arrived y
day and still today The flagship Francisco
dore aboard arrived this morning She
pence of Havana early Friday morning The hole her
the 12inch shell from neatly patched the
damage the ship nconsderab larger gunboats
pedo boat dyers have not received ORDERS but the torpedo boats
Hudson and Morrill, left for Norfolk today They will be followed
by the cutters Woodbury. and Window which from
Havana and the lighthouse tender Maple from the Isle Of Pines
The other ships the today the Bancroft Marietta
Castne Newport Mantonomah Apache PEORIA Hornet Oneida Hawk
Doroth Bucoan sylv en Ranger Rscataqua and Uncas The
Tecumseh and the smaller unmd Sioux Calumet Cheyenne
left today for Tampa
Naval expression qualification that
the war and anxiouy looking for orders that will take them
north.
TROOPS UNDER sHAFTER.
WASHINGTON August 14-By Wednesday Thursday
week it expected by department officials that all of General sha
es command will have left Santiago In dispatch the depart
men tonight General Shafter early departure
depends entirely the transports which daily expected
arrive All but 5000 men Of General Skaters have already
sailed for this country.
General Skaters report the department concerning
SANTIAGO DE CUBA August a. 315 m-Al cavalry DIVISION
Kents division Lawon division except Seventh and First infantry
sick and suspects Of those commands have already sailed leaving
division Eighth
battery Of heavy artillery four Second cavalry and
panes engineers co. ships expected with get here az
they ought today tomorrow will get command
within the next two three days All depends the
ports they arrived cannot closely time
PRAISE FOR MK1NLEY.
The Times this morning edtoy upon generous
universal recognition Of the part which President Mckinley played
throughout spain says:
foreign might presume opinion upon his con-
probably Mckinley kept his finger
constantly the national pulse and has known stimulate
thought markedly outrunning its move
ment
Everything open every been dis
evocaby committed the other and the
cautious tentative policy that where he stands this
president the whole American people his
not know that there be higher statesmanshp
president governing under the constitution Of the United States
KEEN DISAPPOINTMENT -
MADRID August H. pmThe city patrolled by police
night perfect tranquility prevailed The publication protocol
produced Disappointment Philippines where
had been hoped Spain would her sovereignty intact
of the protocol dispels this illusion
Echong public feeling the Independent and opposition papers bitterly
c the clause afording text for cuing Spanish
eighty archipelago where interference foreign power
would make the natives ungovern be
Ell Heraldo wants to know hw America proposes
and Philippine insurgents suspension of
them leash until the evacuation of the islands by spanards
completed Ell Naciona I'VE would rather loose Philippines
altogether than submit to American tueage."
The other discuss the probability the abolition Of the
lonial Offices declaring that total loss Of the Philippines would
ferabe to American partnership control.
All the adver Of the cabinet find fault
col because the fifth clause allows until October for the meeting
peace commissioner and when definite treaty
cudd shall ratified according exant rules
furnishing Sagaa with plausible pretext for adjounng
cation Of the cortes until he has treaty peace
The French conduct Of henegoatons for regarded
Of French diplomacy uudrood