The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-19
Administration Has No Thought Of
Calling Him Home.
viii Remain at Manila as Governor Sen
eral Of the Islands,
Even Though the Active Military
Operations May Be Placed I'm
{: der Command Of Gen. Wheaton
Gen. Corbin Greatly Worked
Up Over the Protests OF News
paper Correspondents.

paper Correspondents.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Contrary
to expectations, no action was taken
at the Cabinet meeting to-day regard
ing the Manila newspaper correspond
ents protest against the press censor
ship over PHILIPPINE news. All the
members of the Cabinet who attended
to-day's meeting said the subject was
not formally discussed in any way
and that no official notice would De
taken of it. 1t seemed TO be the opin-
ion of the Cabinet members that the
matter was too small to be dignifled
by any notice.
General Otis removal from COM
mand in the Philippines, which has
been predicted with considerable fire.
quency lately, is not near at hand.
For fully three months from now no
active military operations are expect
ed on account of the rainy season. AL
ter that there is likely to be change
in commanders, though General GUS
will remain at Manila as Governor
General Probably Wheaton will take
command of the active operations
against the insurgents.
General Corbin. speaking presumably
for the War Department, got himsel1
into a rage this morning over the cor
respondents protest. He said every
one of them ought to be shot or de-
ported, at least, which seemed TO De
fairly strong language. 1t might De
well to mention right here that when
Corbin said last evening that every
newspaper correspondent in Washing
ton knows that all the information
from the Philippines is given out
promptly, he did not state the case cor
rectly. Every newspaper correspond
ent knows that news is not given out,
and more, they all know that some al
legged news given out by the Depart
ment and signed by Otis never came
from Otis at all.
CRITICISM OF CONDUCT OF WAR.
NEW YORK, July 1S.-A special TO
the Tribune from Washington says.
What every army officer in Washing
ton has long feared, but has, for Cd
vlous reasons, declined to discuss IN
public, and what civilians We're Begin
ming, unwillingly in most instances, 10
believe, is precisely confirmed by the
remarkable cable dispatch from hong
kong, which will rank as war paper
with the celebrated Santiago Round
Robin of last summer. In the war
Department for more than month
the feeling existing among the higher
officials that General Otis was mis-
placed in command at Manila has
been growing irrepresssible. His con-
iaia
be non-corroborative, and even the
President was no longer unaware Oh
the distrustful sentiment affecting SOL
diers in Manila or on duty here, OF
passing through Washington to JOIN
commands elsewhere.
The Government was compelled to de-
pend for later news of the Philippine
situation wholly on the brief cabled
reports from the General, it having
been noticeable that the press dis
patches. which had been so full ana
satisfactory to the authorities carrier
in the campaign, had practically ceased
to come since the early part of june
the inference being that the CORE
spondents had been driven from the
field by the rainy season. The anxiety
was increased by the apparent reluct-
ance of General Otis to give desired
information, his grudging replies 10
queries about the men he would need
in the fall. and his stubborn reitera-
ton that 10000 men would be enough
for all purposes. This was his esti-
mate six months ago; yet for four
months his force aggregated 4o,ooo'
and hardly an inch of ground was
gained from the insurgents after May
1st For four months official kilograms
had come from General Otis, VINO
seemed to be still clinging to his belief
that the rebellion was over, and only
now, when events have justified none
of his series of rosy predictions, 1t Is
beginning to be openly admitted that
General Otis has not known what was
going on in the country under his con-
troll and that he had failed to form
any adequate idea of the Filipino char
acter. At last it is beginning to be
realized among the civil authorities
SIS it had already become profound
conviction among military men, ex
perienced in Indian control in the
West. that the war in LuZon might not
have begun. and in any event would
have been quickly ended, had General
Merritt remained in command or mad
General Otis come home last summer
There is no disposition in the army
70 declare unqualifiedly that General
.Otis is incapable of doing some things
In Manila better than many other ofil-
GERS near the top of the list. He Is
ability as an administrator is widely
recognized. He is unusually systematic
about his office affairs and has enjoyed
an enviable reputation for discretion,
particularly in his dealings with trans
pressors of civil and military law. He
has long been an authority on drill
REGULATIONS and his interest in the
efficiency of the army organization was
shown In his estimate of the cavalry
school But since the civil war his
field service was never noticeable, and
his friends are reticent about it. For
that reason Generals Lawton, Young,
wheeler and Schwan, as well as others,
have been sent to him, as expressly
stated by the War Department, sin
order that General Otis might be re-
lieved of the responsibility in the ac
tual campaign. to devote more time in