The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-23
A SERIOUS AFFAIR.
War Department Won't Inform People
of The Facts.
NO PROGRESS is BEING MADE
And the President will Have to Do
Something.
SENATOR G0RMAN Is A SICK MAN.
Has Been Confined TO His House for Some
Days.
WELL lNGT0N ON THE FIGHT ON SCHIEY.
IL II Is Kept Up He Says the Rcpub-
Leans Are Sure TO Lose
Maryland.
SENATOR GORMAN is A SICK MAN.
Has Been Confined to His House for Some
Days.
WELLINGTON ON THE FIGHT ON SCHLEY.
III II Is Kept Up He Says the Repub-
licnns Are Sure TO Lose
Maryland.

Washington June 22.--The situation in
rious than the war department wants to
acknowledge. The reports say that the
hardest kind OF fighting has been going on,
and yet the official bulletins say that only
a handful Of our men have been injured
The war department has way of trying
to make light of serious matters when the
scene Of action is a long way of While
official expressions of satisfaction are
given to the public, the fe cling is not be-
bind the expression. The department is
clearly afraid Of the expansionists and
the effect or the country. AS telegraphed
the other night, the president has a hard
proposition to deal with and must do some
thing quickly. He has already told Gen
eral Otis to organize three regiments Of
volunteers over there from among the vol
rrteers who have been ordered home. and
is offering $500 bounty to each one OF
them who will re-enlst. He will IN
dot btedly call for more men as soon as he
returns from his trip to the New England
States and as soon as Alger returns from
his trip where he is now inspecting his
timber lands. Our men must he killed
and scken and die over in the Philippines
and gain no advantage for all the fighting
in order that Alger may go on a visit to
his timber holdings and Mckinley may
visit a few female schools up in the New
England States.
Corhin has been resisting the call for
mere men all this time. and as he has been
practically the whole thing, II accounts for
the hesitancy Of Mckinley to call out the
volunteers. But it is evident now that
something must be done to relieve the sit
uation over there. 1t is painfully evident
that our army in the Philippines is operat-
ing under the greatest disadvantage on nc
count of the lack Of men for garrison duty.
When they capture town they can't hold
it, What's the use capturing it and losing
the lives Of ten or dozen men each time?
If it had not been for the presence of our
navy off the coast, where 1t could shell the
position of the Filipinos, in the fight the
other day we would have been licked to a
finish. and this was acknowledged by Cen
eral Lawton in dispatch to Secretary
Long. We are simply in tight hole and
/ If it is the intention of this administration
TO 90 ahead and finally whip the Filipinos,
then it will have to provide enough men
/ to do it and it is going to 7ke every one
/ the law allows.
Ii is going to prove to be a very valua
| BILE object lesson TO the people fof this
country. The only thing we are doing over
there now is like digging in quicksand,
only to find the holes filled up In the morn
| ing, and the worst of ii is every hole con-
tains the body of good American citizen
who did not go over there to find death
| fighting the natives of those islands. The
farce is rapidly becoming a tragedy.
1t is authoritatively denied that the
president has any intention of sending
| Major General Miles to the Philippines.
Major General Otis is conducting the cam
paign satisfactorily and the president does
not propose to reflect upon him by dis
patching his senior to relieve him. Gen
era Miles has not applied foE service in
Manila.
Reports from the home OF Senator Cor
man say he is a very sick man. He is
suffering from an intestinal trouble. Since
his retirement from the senate he has beer
aiing, and az that time was advised to &c
TO some health resort Instead OF this hi
plunged into business and took a deeper
interest in politics than heretofore, Al
of he time spent In New York was gver
80 3D. National nOiitics and he had littIi
or no rest. Upon his return home. abou
a month ago. he felt worse than ever. anc
was obliged 10 go 10 bed
DR.. Johnson Of Washington, who is at
! lending him. has visited the senator ever!
dav. and on last Saturday the patient fel
much improved. But on Monday he had
relapse. and at this time, while not con
fned to his he'd. he is unable to get gu
Of the house 1t was his intention TO 90 t.