The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-06

under a strict construction Of the
terms of the protocol, which still holds
good in the absence of the ratification
of the treaty, he lacked authority to
extend the field of occupation of the
Americans. The fact that the insurg-
ents themselves have been the first To
break the truce-practically zeleases
the United States from further obli-
CATION in this respect. so that General
Otis was unqueStiOnablNw warranted, in
the opinion of the administration of
ficials. in extending his lines. as Dewey
reports ne has done.
DIPLOMATIC COMPLICATIONS
The situation is regarded here as
rather anomalous from a diplomatic
standpoint. Legally the FilipinoS are
still Spanish subjects. Therefore, if
operations continue outside of the
limits Of Manila. as laid down by the
protocol, it Will amount to a resump-
ton Of the war with Spain, at least
technically.
Officials noted one little flaw in
Deweys dispatch, in which he spoke
of the American army and navy as
generally successful" conveying Just
the least intimatiOn that at some
points the results were not as salts
factory as at others. 1t is inferred
here that this might mean the develop
exposed points on the American lines,
which might be easily explained by
the fact that the attack was made at
night, perhaps in places where the in
surgents could creep closer up to the
shelter of the tropical jungle that
grows nearly up into the town Of
Manila. Every confidence, however, is
felt that General Otis is master of the
situation. This confidence is based not
only on this mornings cablegram but
from repeated assurances to that effect
conveyed by General Otis to Washing
ton from time 10 time during the past
few months. The forces under his
command, as shown by the records of
the adjutant generals office Dec 10.
the date of the last report, were q, $40
troops, and of these there were present
for duty 1856 men.
GENERAL OTIS FORCES.
This command is composed of the
following organizations: Company A,
United States engineer battalion;
troops c, L, G, I, X and L, Fourth
United States cavalry; troop of Ne
vada cavalry: batteries G.. II, X, and
l. of the Third, and D and c, of the
Sixth United States artillery; battrieS
A and D of the California artillery.
and 4 and 3, of the Utah artillery,
and the First Wyoming battery; the
Third and Fourth United States in
fantry; the Fourteenth and head
quarters. and companies B. D. F. H. I.
K, L, and NJ, OF the Seventeenth
United States infantry; the Eighteenth,
Twentieth and Twenty-third United
States infantry: the First California,
the First Colorado. the First idaho, the
Fifty-first Iowa. the Twentieth
Kansas. the Thirteenth Minnesota; the
First Montana the First Nebraska the
First North Dakota, the Second oregon,
the Tenth Pennsylvania: the First
South Dakota, the First Tennessee; the
First Washington and the First
Wyoming regiments of volunteer in
fantry.
A portion of this force, the Eighteenth
infantry and a battery of artillery, are
at uoiIo, where General Miller was sent
a month or more ago.
Approximately 5000 men are on their
way to Join General Otis in separate eX-
peditions. though mons is expected to
reach Manila for three weeks or a
month. There are the Fourth and four
companies Of the Seventeenth infantry,
LIS mer. under General LawtOn. which
sailed from Gibraltar last Friday; the
Twentieth infantry, comprising thirty
seven officers and 26S men. under Gen
esral Wheaton. which left San Francisco
Jan. 81: the Twenty-secOnd infantry, in
command of Colonel Egbert, which left
San Francisco early in the present
month. and 1000 men and officers of the
Third and Seventeenth United States
regiments of infantry, which left New
York Friday on the Sherman.
There is a big transport, the Sheridan,
now making ready in New York to car
ry the Twelfth infantry and a battalion
of the Seventeenth infantry, 1.S00 men
in ALL and she will start not later than