The Advocate and news., 1898-09-14


tion.
The worst feature of Secretary Alger's
trouble is that Hanna stands by him.
Hanna knows nothing but business and
politics and his interest in Alger Is
prompted by one Of these considerations
General Shafter says that the fatalities
in his army were attributes Of a sum-
mer campaign and could not be avoided
Enough physicians had not been pro-
vided and food was scarce at times be-
cause traffic was impossible.
A general order has been issued by the
War department directing that the Ad-
jutant Generals of the various States
take charge of sick soldiers in the SER
vice from their States, place them In hos
pitals and that the expense Of the same
will be borne by the general government
Camp Wykoff, at Montauk Point, is to
be abandoned Most of the volunteer
soldiers now there are to be mustered
out and the regulars are to be sent to
their old posts throughout the country
All Of the boys at this camp came from
Santiago, where they had active service.
General BoyntOn has made his report
on conditions at Chickamauga He
thinks that the camp is all right and that
the soldiers have little reason to COM
plain, but in the face Of his rOseate
report the. sick list increases and the
War department is hustling the soldiers
to other camps as fast as possible.
Gen. ]. X. Hudson's command is at
Hamilton, near Tampa. He writes that
the health of his command is excellent
but that his men are much discouraged
over their failure to get to the front.
He had his command loaded on trans
ports twice and was ready to go but be-
fore he could leave the order was coun-
fernandez.
Surgeon Duncan Of the Twenty-second
Kansas has been convicted by the court
martial which tried him and sentenced
to five years Imprisonment. He was
charged with desecrating the grave of
Maj. T. ]. Duke, of an Alabama Con-
federate regiment. The sentence has to
be approved by the President before it
becomes effective.
The Kansas City Gazette (Rep.) re-
fers in disgusting terms to Mrs. John
A. Logan because she has seen fit to
suggest that disease is making unnec-
essaTy inroads into our army. Mrs. LO-
gan is the widow of soldier whose rec
ord entities him and his family to re-
spectful treatment even at the hands
of Republican papers.
Colonel Woodward of the Sixth Mas
sachusetts, resigned after arriving at
Porto Rico. General Miles has stated
that he refused to respond when or
dered to land and that his sickness,
which was given as an excuse, was
feigned, as was shown by the surgeons
examination Colonel Woodward claims
that he was very sick and resigned rath-
er than be compelled to serve when un-
able to do so.
Colonel Studebaker's 157th Indiana
has returned to Indianapolis. The men
were in bad condition. Colonel Stude-
baker says that the men he brought back
were not the men who had been taken
away. They now have fever in their
very bones, they are hungry, and their
strength is wasted. He also said that
men who were appointed to investigate
and who reported that there had not
been actual need Of food and medical
assistance at Fernandina did not know
what they were talking about.
Judging from dispatches and from in
terviews with soldiers who have re-
turned from San Francisco, all has not
been harmonious in the Twentieth Kan
sas. Apparently the difficulty is caused |
by disagreement between Colonel Fun,
ston and Lieutenant Colonel Little. The
occasion for the affair getting into the
papers was the recommendation Of list |
of promotions by Colonel Little after
Colonel Funston had made his recon"
mendations, which the dispatches init
mate may result in the lodging Of
charge of insubordination against Colo
mel Little.