The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-28
PRESIDENT IS ADR|F 7
American Generals Complain That
He Has No Policy.
CONDITIONS IN CUBA
!, in CUBA
MILITARY AUTHORITIES WORK
ING IN THE DARK.
Commanders Suggest to
Secretary Alger That the Presi-
dent Announce Some Kind of a
Poicy-McKinley's Indecision
Causes Discomfort Among Cubans.

| Havana, March 27.-Secretary of
| War Alger conferred with the Ameri-
can generals at Governor General
Brooke's headquarters this morning.
Secretary Alger says his rather hur
ried visit to Cuba need not be consid-
cred as having special import. He
wishes to get in personal touch with
the current business of the islands
government and talk with the generals
who control the various military de-
partments. In this way ne expects to
gain more vivid impressions than would
be possible from any official CORE
spondence. Moreover. he will be able
to get some rest and to enlarge his no
tons OF West Indian geography.
Thus far his expedition has been
busy. Instructive and entertaining. He
received callers on board the ingalls,
before 6 clock this morning. and at 3
he met the department commanders i'll
Governor General Brooka's drawing
room at Ell Vedado. A conference last
ing three hours followed, and after
lunch the secretary drove with General
Brooke to Camp Quemados, where lie
reviewed the Seventh army corps. This
evening he was present at a reception
given in his honor at the residence Of
the governor general.
AT the morning conference, which
was of a somewhat rambling character,
two of the department commanders
said il would materially aid their Ia
bors if they knew President Mckinley's
exact policy with respect to Cuba
whether the American occupation was
to be long or short. Both described
themselves as working little in the
dark with respect to the ultimate pur-
poses of the United States government.
This uncertainty as to the length of the
occupation, they declared, tended to
promote reStlesSnesS among the Gu
bans.
These observations, which We're de-
velopeti in a conversational Wav, did
net elicit from the secretary of war any
expression of opinion as 10 Washing
tons policy, ether than that the work
ahead was to restore civil control and
to modify the Spanish system wher-
ever the governor general found II de-
fective.
Those present at the conference with
the secretary of war were Governor
General Brooke and Generals Chaffee.
Wilson Bates, Lee, Ludlov and Has
brouck.
General Alger thinks oe going to
Finar del Rio tomorrow. bur has not
deciued as yet. He will go to Glen
fuegos, stopping at Matanzas en- route.
The question OF, reducing the number of
military departments he leaves to Gov
ernor General Brooke.
To witness the review of the Seventh
army corps this afternoon at Quema-
dos, General Alger rode with General
Brooke, General Wilson and General
Hasbrouck from FL Vedado to General
Lees headquarters, where he was re-
ceived. All then proceeded to the parade
ground. The review commenced at
and ended at $50. General Alger rode
over the field with Generals Lee, Will
son, Brooke and Chaffee.
The Fourth, Ninth and Second Hi
nois regiments, the Third Nebraska,
the One Hundred and SiXty-first Indi-
ana, the Sixth Missouri, the Second reg
ular artillery and the Seventh cavalry
passed in review before the secretary
General Gomez was invited to attend,
but could not accept.
AT 8 o'clock this afternoon the tenn
perature in Havana was 81 degrees.
ACTIVITY OF BANDITS.
The bandits near Guanajay, province
of Pinar del Rio, are still active, and
General Diaz, the Cuban commander in
that district, has published a. proclama-
ton to the Sixth army corps, asking the
troops to make every effort to effect a
speedy termination of the disorder in
that province, and it is said the bandits
will be energetically pursued.
The bandit leader was formerly, dur
ing the war; the guide of Colonel Pen
dro Delgado Of the Cuban army.
1t is said that the bandits of GUIANA
jay are probably part offa larger con-
templated uprising of bandits in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio and Ha-
vana. The uprising in Havana prov
ince, it is added, was prevented by the
ropart S11d6aD death al of tboiY.
leader. The bandits across the border
of the two provinces Yesterday stole