The herald., 1898-08-03
THE STANDING ARMY
Will Be More Than Skeleton in Flu.
ture-Considering the Expense

ture-Considering the Expense
NEW YORK, Aug IA special to the
Times from Washington says:
1t Is we'll understood at the Department
Of State that as soon as the preliminaries
are settled, Ambassador Cambon's mission
for Spain will end and the further nego-
tiations" that are to follow agreement to the
first conditions of the United States will be
taken up by chosen commissioners of the
United States and Spain, probably in Lon
don.
With confidence that these expectations
will be realized the administration is turning
it's attention to shrinking the great war or
ganization that has been created since the
prospect of war began to be alarming.
The work of expansion and shrinkage
may seem for awhile to be going on at the
same time, but already arrangements are
being made to cut down public expenses by
releasing many vessels chartered along the
coast for services supplementary to the
navy. With peace negotiations in sight that
task will be urged with vigor.
The administration will have Its hands
full of work that will be expensive, but
promises to be profitable by and by. The
President Is already interested in the evil
dences Of friendliness manifested toward the
United States in Porto Rico, and members
of the administration are inclined to be-
lieve that annexation will be accomplished
at an early day, with the approval Of the
people, who are about to be released from
their allegiance to Spain.
The administration does not see its way
to large sudden reduction of the army
Should any arrangements be made for the
withdrawal Of troops from the Philippines.
it is not believed that this will be effected
before next spring, If as early. large
army, It Is feared, will have to be maintained
in Cuba until that stable government"
which the United States has promised shall
be provided In place of the unstable govern
ment of Spain, has been set up and been
recognized also by the whole world.
The administration is inclined to believe
that with the Spanish troops withdrawn from
Cuba and opportunity afforded for the
United States to assist the people In provid-
Ing a government for themselves, rapid
progress Will be made toward real pacifl-
cation between tho Cubans and those Span
iards who are not 30 attached to the mother
country that they will feel impelled to aban-
don Cuba and return to the peninsula.
IF we can get chance" said a men,
her of the Cabinet, ito assure the people Of
Cuba, Cuban or Spanish, that all we desire
to do is to provide all classes chance to
live without being robbed and prosecuted
and ground down; that we hope to see them
successful beyond any dream they have
ever had of progress and prosperity; that
they shall not continue to slaughter and
Kill each other because of relations and
conditions incidental to the system OF mis-
government imposed upon them by Spain.
there can be no doubt about the eventual
acceptance by the people of our good Off
ces toward them.
III they succeed in setting up govern
ment for themselves, or find that they are
not able to do so without further help, we
shall be delighted in the one case, and re-
signed, perhaps, to the other and its sig
nificance, should the Cubans indicate plain
desire to be associated as a nation with the
United States. We have disavowed all de-
sire to conquer and hold them We may not
be positive when Cuba expresses desire to
be annexed"