The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-08
SIESTAS NOT FOR SOLDIERS.
UNCLE SAM WILL NOT FOLLOW EN-
AMPLE SET BY SPAIN.

weather May De Hot. but the Cam
pniGn VIII De HOtter-Spaniards TO
BE Kept Awake-Our Army VIII
Not he Allowed 10 suffer From
Ennui-Activity More Acceptable
Than Innction-Lnter We May Take
a Flyer at Cadiz.
New York. June 7.-Summer has set in
earnestly, with more fervor in Florida
and cuba than in Washington, but sum
mer weather is not to be wasted by the
administration in siestas. says the Wash
iBgton correspondent of the Times.
The Spanish forces in Cuba may have
found it comfortable or consistent with
the policy of prolonging the war TO drop
war when summer came on, and they
may be inclined to continue their Old
habit. but if they expect to do so the
administration win create a very different
impression before the summer is over.
After a brief experience of summer
camping, with the men hoping for active
operations, only TO linger unoceupied in hot
camps. worried by false reports of activi-
ties soon 10 come, they are convinced
there will be less danger 20 the troops
with occupation. even though it be in
Cuba or Porto Rico, than there would be
in camps remote from the scene of war
and in the mere schools for drilling.
1t has come to be the opinion of medi-
cal men of some experience that the army
will be quite as well off during the sum
mer where they can reach the enemy and
keep him from going to sleep frequently,
as they would be frying on the sands Of
Tampa bay or wasting away with ennui
in other camps of concentration.
The determination to make the cam
paign on land and sea an active one from
beginning TO end is being carried out as
well as possible.
There are some drawbacks, among them
being the sluggish response of some OF the
bureaus of the war department Some OF
the old men in the quartermaster gener-
ais Office, the commissary generals de-
partment and in other branches, have
been running business as it has been run
for thirty years, insisting that the red
tape that answered well enough in time
of peace must be made to work in time
of war. Under vigorous direction TINS red
tape could be dispensed with or stretched
to answer, but that vigor can never be
developed in subordinates while there is a
lack oe il al the head.
No one knows this better than the Pres
ident, and he ought TO be able to find it
out if he does not know it now, and also
to find a remedy for it.
Ali plans for the occupation of Porto
Rico are kept very secret in the war de-
partment Just who has made them is
not ascertained, but the assumption is that
the best suggestions have been made by
the careful mind of Gen. Schofeld, Gen.
Miles being occupied very fully with the
-s,,s.e. 4 Ylxr
having time TO consider plans, with the
purpose of carrying them out.
When il comes 10 the details of bust
ness at Porto Rico, Santiago or in the
Philippines, ii Is understood that the Pres
ident will insist that the officer in com
mand of the expedition who will be either
Merritt Shafter, or Miles, himself, shall
be permitted TO work out, each for him
self as completely as may be, with coop
Grafton of the navy, his own plan OF cam
paign.
Hot as it is in Santiago, considered one
of the hottest summer towns in Cuba, it is
not hotter for the Spaniards than it will
| be for the United States army and navy,
| and the forces of the United States, as it
| appears to the administration, viii be
| much better off in the matter of clothes,
| food and discipline than the Spanish army.
| At all events, il is war, and not a matter
| for pleasure, that the country is embarked
| In, ana some men are sure 10 lose tneT
| lives on the field or in hospitals as the
| result of the war
The administration does not desire to
prolong, even if contractors for the army
take the other and heartiess view, that a
war now and then is a good thing, par
ticularly for contractors.
These are some of the ideas that are
being discussed by the administration al
| the beginning of June, with the hottest
weather of the year coming on. II is the
| opinion of some of the Presidents advisers
| that the war can be terminated before
| winter, if the summer is employed to good
| advantage
| Movements upon Porto Rico and San
| tiago, followed by success and probably
| by a season of camping on acquired terri
| tory that is not unhealthful, even fol-
| Northern men, win maintain the spirit OF
the troops not yet ready, but preparing tc
| be ready bye and bye.
The navy and army viii both be occu-
| pied in the operations of the summer
| and possibly, before the summer is ended
| il may be that the navy will be called
| upon to go TO Cadiz to look for the lost
| fleet of Spanish reserves. That has beer
| thought of several times, and with Porte
| Rico occupied, Santiago taken Havana
| invested and the Cadiz feet not yet on this
side, it will be possible to spare a squad
ron OF half a dozen or more ships to rur
| across the ocean and see what has become
| of Admiral Camara and his much talked
of fighting ships.