The St. Johns herald., 1898-07-02
Some News %o5cs From sIse Na-
 aionai Capital

| From Our Regular Correspondent
 WAsmI>GTON, June 20, 1898. At last General Shafter's army ia in 1 Cnba. and unless sOmehOdy at the Washington end gets rattlPd over the
 reported sailing Of d Spanish fleet fLom
 Cadiz, bound in the direction of Cuba.
 and issues orders that will prevent, this
 is likely to be hot week in the vicinity
 of Santiago. The first fleet of trans | ports is due at Manila 10 day, and Dewey
 IS not likely to wait for General Merritt
 who is just about ready 10 start from 5 ,n Francisco with the third and last
 fleet of transpo.ts, before taking Man
 Ila.
 II is semi-oficially announced that at
 the last cabinet meeting it was decided
 that more troops would he needed, and that another call for volunteers would
 be issued shortly, probably his week.
 It would seem that more use should be made of the troops we already have before asking more men to volunteer.
 Although secretary Alger has posi- tIvely denied the story that owing to quarlels between hin self and General Miles, who IS now in WaShin- ton, the latter has | cen virtually deposed from the command of the arm y.the talk Ui friction between them continues, and even goes SD far as 10 say that Mir. Me Kinley intends directing the movements of the army himself. The change pl plan by which General Miles is 10 go t" Porto Rico in command 0f tlIc invading ! army HOW being prepared for that pXpe . dilIun is sald Co have been caused hN !. tai, disagreement, and 10 have been the ! D opo-ltiun of General Miles mmSei . wh0 preferred being fpsVunS,ai 'rr Du,. ! amy over aH'eh Hu Wnuhj have J so- 1 luIe cuutr). Co being held .tSpJu~ihir ! f0, the movements uI all Hlfr.r.n~ ault l he ng hampe,ed by civilian control. l 1 iS announced that the invasion Cf Porto | Rico is to take place before the Spanish | fleet alleged to have sailed from Cadiz | can get 10 PortoRich. the reported | stat ng of this Spanish fleet results in hurving up things a little, it will bean | aim ghtv good thing. Similar reports in hr past have resulted in hanging up 1 things.
 A democratic caucus of inc house k to he held this week to dete mine whether the party shall return to the old method. suSpe ded since the civil 1 War, of compelling all participants in :, party .:aucus 10 abide the decision of the Caurhs.
 While members of the administration profess to bel. that the insurgents lI' the Philippines are acting in accordance with an agreement made with AdmraI | Dewey. il is we'll known that they are more or less worried over the news an- the declaiaii' n of au indepen- dent government ny the Philippine in- surgents No official will say what are Io be the relations of Gene.al Merritt, who is is command the ai my sent tn the as well as be military gov ernor of the islands, with the ln~ur- gents. It begins to look as though there might be more serious trouble in those islands than whipping the Spaniards who are there. The administration was certainly not eX0"rting the insurgents to set up an il dependent government WIcH lllSll HClIOll> "eIe l'ltpdIttl TOT tue government, to he established hv Genera! Merritt, to collect ta,iif du- e, on importatinns to the islands
 Although there are about thirty sena- tors who a'e opposed 10 the adoption Oi the Hawaiian annexation res 'lutiOn, which went thI ough the house last wee, by so large d vote that the ear Was 10 keep his room, undpr plea )I sickness, for several days and which k now lhe unfinished busjneSs' oi rhp enute, II k hat believed even by hem elves, that they can pleyenta vute ue- u- cached aad the lr-n,nli.a .... .alra