The evening times., 1898-10-12
ALGER ATTACKING Miles
Ignores the General in Pro-
mitigating Army Orders.
A SIX MONTHS QUARREL
Differences Became Intensified
Was Kept i'm a State of Uncertain
~ Concerning His Departure for
Santiago.

There is a welI-defined impression of no
slight area that the differences between
the general commanding the army and
the Secretary of War are rapidly widen
ing. Alger is said TO be prepared to give
Gen Miles all the trouble he can. and is
openly resentful. Miles has been con-
ceaIing his grievances, but it is admitted
that he has many.
General order No. l63 reorgdnizing the
Sixth Corps of the army, was promuigst
ed on October from the adju,ant Eener-
ais office. In this order Maj. Ger. Dreck-
inridge had been assigned TO the comm and
of the First Army Corps. In general or
der 162 under the same date, d list was
given out of the general officers to be
mustered out. This list was given to ihe
press and was printed in the papers uf
October s. In this list these ma3or gener-
ais appear as having been mustered out:
John T. Coppinger, October 81; Hamilton
S. Hawkins, November 30: JACOB +. Kent,
November 80.
Entering Wedge of Difficulties.
Now comes the official text of order No.
I62, mentioning at the top Of the list as
being mustered out Joseph {. Breckin-
ridge. November 30, 1895 Gen. Breck-
inridge was an afterthought.
II is recalled that as inspector general
he had made structures in his report up
on the Santiago campaign; that later he
had criticised severely the camp manage
ment at Chickamauga. So Gen. Breck-
inridge had TO 90. and the means Of his
going have been stated.
He appeared as 4 result of these orders
as a mustered out officer In command OF
the First Army Corps. a paradox that
led yesterday TO a tardy correction by
the assignment of Major Gen. J. II. Will
son to command that corps.
Both order No. l62 and order No. l63
are signed. "By command Of Major
General Miles" though Gen. Miles never
saw the order in which appeared the
name Of Cen. Breckenridge. The other
order issued in his name was not seen
by Gen. Miles. nor had Col. Michler
Gen. Gilmore or Capt Whitney, all on
Gen. Miles staff. ever seen the order un-
Ill they saw il in print.
Gen. Corbin has since the departure
yesterday morning Of Gen. Miles, scored
another point. He has ordered the corps
of Gen Lee not to move from Jackson
willie TO Savannah until the Commission
arrives there next week Gen. Gilmore,
Miles knew nothing of this order. though
advices from Jacksonville indicate that
the order purported 10 have come from
Gen. Miles.
The Campaign i'm Santiago.
The tacit quarrel began when Secreta-
ry Alger kept Gen. Miles guessing as to
whether OF not he would go TO Santiago.
Permissions and refusals alternated from
no pF ha pT "a rrrofg1
the staff officers of Gen Miles, who had
packed their trunks to go a certain day,
were told they would not go that day.
Gen Miles finally went but il was well
known in Washington that the immedi-
ate cause of his going was published in
a dispatch detailing the alleged failure
of the campaign of Shafter The day be-
fore it had been forbidden to Gen. Miles
20 go. The day following. when the sto-
ry was read, hurried permission Civ
en- TO Gen. Miles, and that night he pro-
ceeded TO Santiago.
The whole story of Gen. Miles connec-
tion with the Santiago campaign has not
yet been published Gen. Miles will, in
due time, insist that it was his threat to
land the Sixth Illinois and the Sixth
Massachusetts on the west of Santiago
that caused Gen. Toral TO come to terms
SO promptly on July IA
Gen. Miles, according to his statement
had arrived in Santiago on July II and
had communicated with Admiral Samp-
son with reference to landing his troops
on the morning of July IA under cover of
the feet Admiral Sampson. pursuant TO
a conference with Gen. Miles on the Yale
had his fleet drawn up in semi-CirCular
shape and had given orders on the night
OF July l3 for storming the forts and the
landing of the troops before moon on
July IA.
The Porto Rican campaign of Gen
Miles was later watched from the Alger-
Corbin suite with feelings of unrest
Then came the statement in New York
from Gen. Miles. Secretary Alger and
Ad1t. Gen. COrbin now became silent
Alger left Washington at night. Gen.
Miles had arrived from New York that
afternoon. Gen. Miles was now a busy
and important figure in the northeast
corner OF the War Department Building.
II was thought that he had returned 10
be in reality the commanding general of
the army. In the absence Of Secretary
Alger he was making progress, and the
atmosphere was military in the offices of
the headquarters of the army.
His Purposes Set Aside
Then IL was that Gen Miles walked over
TO the White House and asked for a pa
rade in New York of the Porto Rican and
Santiago troops. His request had been
= granted by the President and he returned
TO his Office in a happy mood After n
visit TO the White House by Gen. Ccrbin
the parade program vanished. The new
decision was based upon the health of the
troops. though Major Miley stated that
perhaps half of the men Al Montauk were
physically in condition TO march
Gen. Miles had said that he expected
only about half of the Santiago troOns
20 parade, together with LOO which were
arriving from Porto Rico. The other
troops from Porto Rico had been 2pirlted
away al the time Of their landiag. Gen.
Miles had said that he would not be pres
ent at the parade, but this was thought
by the opposing faction to be a studicd
play.