Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-08-18
W ashiDgtOn Opinion That the
End Is Near.
MORE REGIMENTS ORDERED
Complete Plans for Suppression of
The RebeIIion-NO More Troops
Likely TO Be Required Difficulty
of Transporting Them Official
Figures on fhe norfa'ity Among
Our fffn.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE admin
istration is confident that the war il
the T1il.pines will be over by the
first of the year. Not the slightest at
tention is paid to the croaking of NAL
contents or the wild statements of
sensational newspapers. The admin
fstrationh has the Philippine problem
weN in hand, and just as soon as ac-
tive operations are resumed in the fall
it is believed that the way to COM
plete pacification CT the island VIII be
opened. A clearly defined plan OF
campaign has been adopted and an
organization superior to anything
which has hitherto prevailed will
soon be in active working order. The
American forces in the Philippines
will be divided into several commands
under a central authority much after
the manner CT the system which has
shown such favorable results n Cuba
1t is not proposed to seEd any more
troops TO the Philippines than are
already provided fer by the
order of today GensIa1 Otis
will have $1,000 men by the time the
fal campaign is IN full swing, and no
more. There has been some criticism
of the administration for not sending
a much greater force. 1t has been
thrown up at the president and the
war department that if $4,000 or 1O0,-
OOO men were sent oUt of the rebellion
could he crushed in short order and
that neglect to give Otis as many
men as this was an evidence Of execu-
Ave feebleness. Those who have
talked in this way have spoken in ig-
norance. Even if the admin istration
had 100000 men at its disposal :.
would be a physical impossibility to
set that number of troops to the
Philippines in time 10 be Of any service
to CHS. If $4,000 troops were waiting
row at San Francisco they could not
be transported in m0nths-rot before
the rainy season is on next summer
It takes forty days for troops to BE-
sent to Manila from .he Atlantic coast.
and this is wonderfully speedy passage.
Il equals the record of Phileas Fogg,
Around the World in Eighty Days"
for the distance TO Manila is almost |
exactly half the circumfe. ence of the |
globe. L cannot be hoped. therefore,
thu any better time can be made. /
Every transport in the government !
service must have at least eighty days |
or three months to complete a single |
trip. No more than three trips could !
be made by d transport before the |
beginning of the next 9siny season. /
The government now has seventeen |
transports with a carrying capacity of /
1880 men. beside those chartered
yesterday If these were to be kept /
constantly employed until next sum- /
mer, making the speediest possible /
trips, with no delays of any kind. it |
might be that they could transport !
$1,000 troops. Men already IN the |
Philippines will have to be returned |
in attachments, so that there is no |
imaginable way in which a larger force
than has now been provided for can
be thrown into The PHILIPPINES before
the rainy season begins. The men
would simply be landed in Manila to
swelter through an idle summer.
The government cannot buy more
transports at present Nothing but
the stoutest and bes.. ships can be
used in the long voyage. and none q
these are available. If less seaworthv
vessels were to be used there would be
a repetition of the scandals that arose
cut OF the rotten t-ranspcEt- system DUR
ing the war with Spain. The sending
Of troops to Cuba and Porto Rico YVES
child's play compared with the send
ing OF troops TO Mania The United
States Is today carrying Cn the no.
extensive transport service of which
history gives any record. and it IS
carrying the service On with an eff
fectiveness never before known. Spain
had over 100000 men in Cuba. but
they were sent there through many
years, and ii was notorious that thou
sands were lost on the way. IN fifteen
months the United States had Sent
10000 troops to the Philippines. dis
been such care and th0r0uglness that
only three men have been lost Ell
-oute-two by drowning and only one
by an accident for which he alone was
responsible When it is known that
,nly 1880 men can be sent to Manila
n the next four months it will be evil t
lent how unreasonable is the cry for l
greatly enlarged force.
Lieutenant-CQ Commander ST. John OF
he British navy is credited in an in T