Arizona republican., 1899-02-07
OUR NEW PROVINCES
System of Military Government
 Ina. is Now In Force.

Washington, Feb. 6.-Uncle Sam is
 making some very Interesting ezperi-
 nents in the art of governing just at
 present. Nobody knows as yea just how they are going t9 p4n out, but it is to he presumed that satisfactory re-
 suits will be reached in the end after
 more or less shutfling of the cards of the administrativ control. So far aS
 present management is concerned, Porto Rico is to be regarded merely a5
 q smaller edition Of Cuba, and the same nay be said Of the Hawaiian is-
 lands. The Philippines, Of course, are in 9 chaotic state nov, possessing no government worthy Of the name. When q condition of law and order arrives in
 that archipelago, some general officer
 of the army will be appointed gov ernor-general and the islands will ba
 divided up into provinces probably, each with it's own military governor.
 This arrangement of affairs will precede the establishment, of a peTma- ment government of 3 non-military character, in which, according to the premise made by President Mckinley and lately renewed by Senator For aker, the Filipinos are to have as large share as is deemed consistent with the safety of the new commonwealth. It is a very curious thing to observe that the temporary government for Uncle Sans newly acquired islands in
 both hemisphereS is modelled closely upon the lines of Spanish administra- tiOn in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil ippineS. For example in Cuba Maj0r General John R Brooke has been made governOT-genera with all the powers that formerly belonged to the Spanish captain-generals. Under him are the governors of the seven provinces in Cuba, as well as all other officials, civil and military. In fact, the government Of Cuba today is nothing more nor less than a limited dictatorship, the acts Oi the gOvernor-general being subject tG veto by Mr Mckinley.
 Now, the spectacle of g purely mili- tary government under the flag of the United States does not seem very strange. However, it is only . tempe rary arrangement. The purpose of this dictatorship. under which martial law exists without being formally declared is to keep affairs floating along until something definite is accomplished in the way of esta tablishing a civil admin istratiOn for the island. Radical de- partuTes, requiring the exhibition of mailed authority, are avoided. So far rt0 Is i}fGCJlCdE19. things dIC Ii1dlittSSGti in such way as to initiate civil con trOI. With this idea in view, Gov ernor-General Brooke a few days ago assigned certain definite duties of a civil character 10 each member of his military staff. For example, he put Col. Taskar H Bliss of the commis- sary department in the place Of chief Of customs, and Chief Surgeon R. M. | O'Reilly was directed to look out for the sanitation of the city of Havana. ! while Judge Advocate Edgar s. Dudley received orders to exercise supervision over all the d0ings of the civil courts.
 G0vernor-General Brooke, then, is q military dictator, his authority and power being limited only by string that is held on him from Washington. ! Under his direct control are the gov eEnOTs of the seven provinces Of Cuba. ! of whom only two have been appointed i as yet. One of these is Major-General ! Ludlow, governor of Havana province, ! and the ether is hajOr-G General Leon i ard Wood, governor of Santiago prov 1 ince. The staff of General Brooke is headed by Major-General A. R. Chaf- l fee, with Col ". V. Richards as ad- ! IL constitutes a sort Of ] ca binet. but this is not for long. inas- i much as President Mckinley has ai- i ready decided to provide for the gov ernOr- r-Seneral something like q civil | cabinet, though the members com posing it may be army officers. This