Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-05-12

critics - Lieutenant Rowan Expected
Soon to Report.
WASHINGTON, May 12.-The army
movement ON Cuba is now fairly
launched, and there has developed a
concerted effort all along the line to be-
gin aggressive operations on big scale
for the ejectment of the Spanish troops
and government from the pearl of the
Antilles. An order given by the war de-
partment fer the purchase of 100000
rations is an earnest of the scale on
which preparations are making for in
yasion of Spain's territory. OF this
vast quantity one-fourth is to go to the
Philippines by way of San Francisco
and the balance to Cuba. For some
reason that was not discoyerable there
appeared to be temporary check in the
practical working out of the plans of the
war department for this Cuban move
ment
1t is announced that General Miles
with a numerous staff will leave Wash
ington tonight directly for Tampa. The
department. has made great many
changes i'll the original program lald
down for the concentration of troops,
and many bodies of volunteers that were
originally slated for one of the great
concentration camps have found them
selves suddenly under orders to proceed
direct to southern points, so that soon
volunteers from the east and middle
west will be moving swiftly to Florida
and the gulf, while from the far west
the cars will be carrying troops to San
Francisco. The news in connection
with the renewal of General Miles or
ders to Tampa is pretty substantial evil
dence of very early movement of
troops in strong force to Cuba, while
the Philippine progress of course has
been definitely fixed for some days.
the special orders on this subject
have been issued and provide that the
general and his staff and other officers
who accompany him shall proceed to
Tampa and other points that may be
designated 'for temporary duty The
following named officers will accom-
pany the general; Captain Francis
Michler, Captain M. P. Morse, Leuten-
ant Colonel J. G. Gilmore, Major Gen
eral Joseph O. Breckenridge and Briga-
der General John I. Rodgers of the
volunteer army, Colonel Charles r.
Greenleaf, Lieutenant Colonel A. l..
Wagner, chief of the military informa-
ton division of the war department.;
Major Henry B. Osgood, commissary,
Major Eli L. Higgins, Captain S. Y
Seyburn, Captain Hugh L. Scott and
First Lieutenant Edward Anderson.
Colonel Wagner will have charge of
the bureau of military intelligence,
while the army is in the field. He will
be assisted in his work by Lieutenant
Anderson, who is at present in his
Office, and other officers in the field will
be detailed as the work of the bureauin-
creases. General Miles will have his head
quarters in the field and great mass of
papers, charts and other data of a mill
tary character have been packed in
trunks ready for shipment to Tampa.
Several of the clerks and messengers in
the department have been ordered to be
ready to accompany General Miles and
his staff.
Brigadier General John L. Rodgers.
the senior officer of the artillery branch
of the army, has been appointed chief
of artillery OF the army and placed in
charge OF the heavy artillery of all the
coast defenses. Until recently he was
in command of the Fifth artillery. sta
toned at Governors Island, New York
city, and arrived in this city under tele-
graphic orders from the war depart
ment and was officially notified Of his
assignment to the position indicated.
The office of chief of artillery was
created during the Civil war, but was
abolished at it's conclusion. 1t was so
successful in operation, however, dur
ing that crisis that it has been deemed
advisable to recreate it for the present
war. As such officer, General Rodgers
will have immediate supervision of all
the land defenses along the coast.
The courier who is on his way here
with letters from General Gomez to
President Palma of the Cuban delega-
ton has stopped at Tampa and will not
reach here for a day or two. General
Nunez of the Cuban army, after con-
ferring with the Cuban authorities here
and with General Miles, has left for
Tampa. Although the courier will
bring detailed advices from Gomez, the
Cuban officials here are well informed
on the general status of the Cuban
forces in the field, and this subject has
been gone over fully with the war de-
partment officials. In a general way it
is stated that entire harmony exists be-
tween the Cuban authorities and the
war department as to the resources and