New-York tribune., 1899-07-20
enlistment had expired. and who had already been
brought home
WORK WITH CONGRESS.

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WORK WITH CONGRESS.
From the hour when Congress assembled In De-
cember the President endeavored to draw It's at
tention TO the situation In which the Government
would be left upon the proclamation OF peace III
one message he delivered TO the Senate the peace
treaty. In another no warned Congress that as
soon as the treaty was ratified and the ratihca-
tons exchanged he would be compelled TO muster
out the troops at Manila. An Army bill, drawn IN
conformity with the Governments views. was al
ready prepared. and was urgently pressed hiip,n upon
opposition It encountered from the Democra,c &c
party. Democratic members who did not dare Re 10 10
assume the responsibility of defeating the Peace
Treaty. who would not even consent 10 tahe me me
Dl themseves with the rest of
their party against the Army bill The DemScrahuc h
wildering hardihood to declare that the increased
forces asked for were going TO be employed not III
nnt neced e in Manila ii those said and they
actually argued that the Administering Was using
a means OF extortng from Congress an enormous
regular army for the suppression OF liberty % no at
tSat this sort sort Of talk could be INDUCED in
the floors Of but there % wer
gathering an army of 10000 men, were gro"ins
me aS nS the IN with
SPAN % would be nn fnd m the s service Of any
single soldier at Manila.
PASSED THE ARMY BILL
TT was the second Of March before Congress
passed the Army bill. and the war In the Philip
pines had been go:ng on for four weeks. "heh
the country considers this fact and realizes that
the 80 OcO American troops then at Manila had peen
assembled there. not at all In anticipation OF
campaign against the Filipnos but wholly ana
solely for the purpose of defeating the Spaniards'
and that the President had been told By no less
authority than Admiral Dewey that Tor u1as hd
purpose 5000 men would be suihcient, surrey ms
foresign. and good Judgment Will be ang
owe hn I
thority he sought from Congress was cohi,erreu;;
not in the form he sought 1t. but IN the lasoH % %
was set before him. He had at once TO reduce an
army OF 35 900 regulars to an army OF 2ocO muster
ing out 5000 men: he had enlist an equal num-
ber Of regulars TO take the places OF those NUS
tered out; he had to organize the new, regulars,
to provide transportation for them to Manila. TO to
transport back the army then ana theIe ad ~ a, a o
This is what he has been doing during the last
four months The new Army bill was no. WA VIA.
10 raise a regular army OF s. 900 men, and also to
raise volunteer army OF SoOo men anu W h1p tni
them until July /, 1901. Under the terms OF .ns s
act 1900 regulars have already been enlisted ana
have taken places of an equai huinoeI ~, nn MI,
who have been formally mustered out Ten new
regiments of volunteers are now organizing Cen
eral Otis has been supplied aiready VIII VIII tbem
And all the while the fighting at Luz9n mas 6eer, m
maintained with the result c9I,d bs asked or ex
pected? What possible criticism can with 9f Which
these dificult and complicated affairs have eeen
conducted? What. indeed can be saip ps Adminis
tration AT home and OF the army abroadT
NOT LESS THAN FORTY THOUSAND MEN |
"Or June o. the transport Sheridan sailed from
San Francisco with eighteen hundred men; the |
Valencia sailed on June % with six hundred more
tho Pennsylvania sailed July with thirteen
hundred more; the Para sailed on July Il WITH one
thousand more, and the Tartar Is due 10 sall oh
Julv % with still another thousand. Three new
regiments of volunteer infantry are IN process Oh
organization at Manila and the ten home regiments |
will be ready by the middle OF August 30 thaI
by the end Of the rainy season and as soon aS
troops can be used General otis VIII nave lul'y
equipped and effective force of not less than foriy
bo,Ise nd men and ten thousand more will be ready
for departure in case they are required IT,, A..
may De ade aGe their first attack we had then
had properly dispersed through the Luzon H.
such an army Of occupation as will be there IN Inc
fa the rebellion might be now m9cn nearer birb '9
end than 1t seems to be- but me laSoS % p%esdept
nad no right in honor and good faith with spain,
to send to the Philippines one single man nan more ore
3eace protocol was signed last August nor until the
affiliations Of the treaty of wefe sands Be
,ame the property of the United States me % bafIs
pines assuming that the obstacles OF & gooo % la en
with Spain had been removed only ODug III io , ~
and whose dispatch out the country was
consequently of no avail The tb fac1s IpS TO- do So
as Ina. st nG existent an army much larger than his
military advisers thought necessary ana t., ia1gp @
,n9ItSon and greatly to extend our authority. And
he facts show fourth that since the proclamation
II peace with Spain and the os de 81 AN
,rn1v with two years OF service to run. amply COM
oetent as he and his advisers believe 10 Orhis
hout the modification Of the Islands
a5There IS nothing for which any American neeu
,pologze in this record 1t is record OF sagaclty
md competency. 1t is a record OF CONSISTENT & ana
UNPARALLELED success success that began with me
message to Dewey. Go and destroy the spanish
~ ,not i5 Manila Raw and that will not end until
he possessions which duty and fortune have con-
ided TO our care firmly advanced on the hsh-
Dad to peace and prosperity